This is New Wisco Weekend. I'm Lisa Hale. Lily Collins is an apple-to-native who now
makes her home in Nashville and is a singer-songwriter. Lily stopped by the
minor in the mayor show recently to talk with Nikki Zee and Dennis Peters
about her journey and her music. I go to school up I'm on university in Nashville.
Okay and a little bit of a music capital in Nashville. It really is yeah and
I'm majoring in songwriting there so everything there's music. What brought you
from Appleton besides your car I mean to Nashville. What was the what was the
draw? Definitely being in music city and I love Appleton and and Green Bay and
like the the music scene in the Fox cities but obviously Nashville's a great
music scene and I wanted to get a college education so Belmont was
perfect place for me to do music and go to school at the same time. Yeah yeah so
majoring in songwriting at Belmont and yeah it's like a music business major
so I take a lot of music business classes audio engineering classes and then
a couple of songwriting classes and I get to co-write with a lot of my
classmates which is really really fun. Gee whiz. So classmates that will
probably also hear of up and coming here for sure yeah I have a lot of
super talented classmates. So walk us through a typical day what's a
cloud what's your favorite class and I've got a music business like a survey
music business class which is really cool learned a lot about publishing
companies and record labels and all the ins and outs of the industry. Okay just
an overview of it and then I also had an intro to commercial songwriting class
and that was you just got to share songs with each other. I had like 19
other people in my class so it was great and and then I'm also on the cross
country team at Belmont. You are? Yes so every morning I start my day with a
run. Where have you played in Nashville? Just kind of dabble in. Yeah I've played
at the end which is a really awesome venue. A lot of other people have played
there. Wait a minute. When you start at the beginning? That's what one would
think. If you don't know where to go. My first show was at the end. Yeah and I'm
playing there again on January 7th. No so yeah I'm opening for Trip Todd and
the Slyly Odd. So it should be a fun show. Slyly Odd? Yes. I heard that name
before. Trip Todd and Slyly Odd. Yeah yeah I've heard of that before. I don't
get out much but I've heard of the name. So they're so they're taking you
under their wing. Yeah they're the the whole bill is all freshmen so we're all
friends and it's going to be a lot of fun and then I've also played at the
Bluebird Cafe. Oh that's cool. And then I'm playing at the Commodore Grill
which is a big writers' round spot in Nashville and New Heights
spirit company. Just a lot of writers. Talk to us about what you like to play.
I'm gonna I just release an album in August so I'm gonna play a song off my
album and I like to do a lot of I'm still trying to figure out my genre but I
like to do a lot of folk folk pop and some fun stuff but this song is definitely
like more leaning more towards pop and it's called rewind. Nice. Yeah from Lily
Collins. Singer's songwriter. Nashville recording artist and cross-country.
Extraordinary. Thank you.
All the moments I close my eyes and then the moment dies. I wish it I couldn't make it
stay. It all slips away. Trying to make the good times last as long as I
can. The love on pause then rewind. But it don't work like that. But it don't
work like that. If only time were a circle. But then we'd all be immortal. The
only thing that is constant. There's nothing ever is. Trying to make the good times last.
For as long as I can. The love on pause then rewind. But it don't work like that.
But it don't work like that.
But if I let go. Things will never be the same. But if I hold on. The new good days will
never come. Trying to make the good times last. For as long as I can. The love on pause then
rewind. But it don't work like that. But it don't work like that.
Oh, I'm on Instagram, Facebook, Lili Collins music. And then I'm also on Spotify, Apple Music,
at Lili Collins. I've got an album that's called Pretend to Be Brave. And more music coming out
very soon. One of them is going to be this song. Thank you so much for having me.
Thank you for being a part of New Wisco Weekend. Your look at the stories and issues facing Northeast
Wisconsin. New Wisco Weekend is produced written and directed by Lisa Hale. Our executive producer
is Todd Michaels. Correspondence, Brittany Marlowe, Melissa Kaye and Pete Schwabba help us out.
And our commentator is Amanda Nimmer. This week we had special appearances by Nikki Ze and Dennis
Peters. If you have a story you'd like to hear covered, feel free to drop us a line any time.
Lisa.Hale at civicmedia.us. I'm civic media Northeast Wisconsin bureau chief Lisa Hale for WISS
and WGBW news. Be unstoppable.
