Dumb Blonde - Priscilla Block: Lows, Highs, and Thick Thighs

Episode Date: April 26, 2023

A crazy cowboy Jewish dad and Mormon mom had a baby, and now we have the gorgeous and fearless Priscilla Block taking over the world of country music and beyond. Priscilla joins Bunnie to talk about writing music to escape the tough parts of love and life, the inspiration behind "Just About Over You", the moment she almost quit music, and how a chance encounter with Taylor Swift got her back on track. She opens up about creating her own lane in the music industry, climbing the charts, and building a fan base from the ground up, using social media to connect with her fans. She is an inspiration for having full confidence in your body and showing up as your full self. Listen up before you catch Priscilla on tour with the iconic Shania Twain this summer! Priscilla Block: Website | TikTok | IG  Watch Full Episodes & More: www.dumbblondeunrated.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Finally. We've been trying to make this happen. And life's busy. No, house, baby. Finally. I know. Finally. We've been like trying to make this happen. And, you know, life's busy. No, bitch, you are busy. OK, like I thought my husband was busy. You're always busy. Like, are you touring right now? Like, what is I'm kind of doing it all.

Today is like my off day. And I've written today. I'm doing this podcast. Doing two podcasts today. Doing two podcasts today. It's weird. Like my off days are just trying to stay in the Nashville thing, you know? It's been wild.

Yeah, we're going to talk about it. When's your birthday? August 10th. Oh, you're a Leo. No wonder you and Dems get along. Wait, what are you? Two of you Leos. Capricorn Aquarius.

I'm on the cusp. January 22nd. My husband is a Sag. So let's take it all the way back because somebody told me, I forget who it was. I think it was Krista, our stylist. Yes. We do share a stylist. Um, she was telling me that you have a huge family. Yes. So let's bring it all the way back. Where did you grow up? So I grew up in North Carolina and, uh, yeah, a huge family. Um, just like a very like dysfunctional functioning family the fun

and functional yes it's like chaos all the time um it's kind of crazy like my parents I feel like they were never supposed to be together but they were in a way you know like my dad my dad grew up Jewish and he was this cowboy from Kansas used to ride the rodeo just like what a crazy fucking combination yes crazy crazy cowboy Jew crazy cowboy Jew and my mom grew up Mormon wow and so like two totally different people and then um you know my dad ended up like trying to get his life back together and him and my mom um when you say try to get his life back together was he like a rodeo guy yeah he was just like just like he's a rodeo you know just wild yeah you have to be in a certain frame of mind to be a rodeo man yeah like was he riding bulls like okay yeah crazy crazy yeah you gotta be a crazy motherfucker to want to get on the back

of a bull every day yeah hey i thought it was in my blood and then once I decided to ride a bull it's somewhere out on the internet and it failed epically so I was like it's not in the blood I'm gonna go google and find it um but yeah so they met my dad and ended up going to bible college and yeah and he he met my mom and the second time he saw her he proposed so did he go to a mormon bible college no like christian bible college like was that a christian bible college so my mom yeah her family um ended up kind of leaving the mormon church um when she was 18 and um she kind of like found god and all of that and then my parents met yeah so kind of crazy again like two people that probably

would have never ended up being together were and um so they got married and my parents were truck drivers for a while oh yeah like crazy how many brothers and sisters do you have i am one of five kids okay so yeah so big family sisters brothers so i've got three sisters and one brother oh gosh that poor little baby. I know. Is he older or younger? Smack dab in the middle. Wow.

So he always had like two older girls telling him what to do and two younger girls. He's going to grow up and make some woman very happy. Yes, yeah. But anyway, I mean, we just had a crazy life, you know. My parents, I don't even know if they planned on having kids and then they ended up with five. Um, that's love, but yeah, it really, it really was. And, um, were you always a musical family? Like how did you get into music? Did you just come out of the womb singing? I like came out of them was super loud. I was loud from the start. Yeah. I found like with

musicians, it's either you, you acquired it from like depression or addiction or something like that or you came out of the womb just fucking ready to rock you know so and my parents like you know them like finding God and you know figuring out what their faith was my dad ended up starting a church wow and um he we I mean it was super small. Like we literally used to meet in a retirement home and there was no one to do music. So he made me and my mom do music. So no band. I mean, we were karaoke-ing it at church. Like it was great. And so it kind of like became this thing like I never wanted to do it.

Didn't want to get up and sing at church, but I I did and my mom had me in piano when I was young and um I was just I never practiced I was a terrible piano student and she never like got mad at me about it like she was just like Priscilla like that's fine like maybe you should pick up guitar and so we quit piano and I found a guitar in my attic and picked it up and started watching YouTube videos and learning how to play yeah crazy that is crazy crazy I don't have the self-discipline to do that or the ear I don't know if it was just like I think it was just in my blood like meant to be yeah to to do music and my mom she can sing amazing um but yeah I picked it up super easy and I was playing like just a bunch of Taylor Swift songs you know and then um when I was 15 that's kind of when I started writing and I was like oh my gosh

like this is so cool like therapeutic yeah like I can write my life. And at that time, like I was experienced heartbreak for the first time. My family was just going through it. And that was my escape. What was going on with the family? You know, so my parents were married for 32 years. And you kind of just see like they lived their life for us kids. Right. life for us kids right and like you slowly just kind of started seeing like dang like they've been married for so long and they've kind of lost their relationship because we were the focus you know mom she homeschooled us and yeah did everything my dad worked any job to pay the bills you know it was just kind of like I was almost out of high school and I think the road was kind of ending for them so music was my piece and my diary and yeah it was hurtful watching yeah are they so did they end

up splitting they ended up splitting but they have a really good relationship it's weird like people are like are your parents together or not? Because, you know, we still do family holidays together. I love that. I think that like it's weird. They still call each other honey. Like I want to write a song about that one day. Just like and they still call each other honey. Yeah.

And, you know, when it all happened, I just moved out to Nashville and I had my mindset like I was going to move out here after high school. Yeah. And you just you're you just had a yearning. You're like Nashville's calling me. I knew like when I started writing songs, I was like a big Taylor Swift fan. And I'm like, what did she do? Like, how do I do this? I mean, at that time I was trying out for every show, just like anything, trying to make it, and I knew I needed to move to Nashville, and so when I did, that was kind of when my parents, it all kind of went downhill, and you know, it's weird, like every family, family dynamics different, but for them, it was, you know, I think having all of us kids, we were like, listen, we're not doing

the whole splitting up holidays we can't and my parents really like just put their differences aside and came together for us kids like they always have you know I love that that is like so cool to see people be able to co-parent because there's so much opposite of that in the world that I just love hearing a cool co-parenting story because it's so rare it's cool and like they've shown me that like love is so it's there's just so much to it and you can either choose to love or hate and I like I get that from my parents and they are like amazing and my whole family they're just awesome I love that where's the name Priscilla come well Priscilla Presley oh okay so were you born with Priscilla was that yes okay yeah no no it's no it's no fake name yeah yeah yeah um yeah my mom um you know they loved Elvis and it's just

so funny that I happen to do music yeah no it was was just embedded in you. Yeah. From the start. Yeah. So let's talk about it. So you your parents were going through a divorce. You're going through your first heartbreak with that whole situation. You come to Nashville, the Taylor Swift way. Yes. What is how old were you? I was 18. So I had my 18th birthday in Nashville. Wow. Yeah. You were like, fuck this. I'm leaving fresh out of high school wow like packed everything and moved take me on that journey yeah so I moved out here um I had like a little Chevy Malibu that was like I literally had like junk tape around my car dude they last forever you know that that thing lasted me for a good while. And so I moved out to Nashville, and I found some Craigslist roommates. And I moved.

Oh, brave. Yeah. Very brave. I mean, hey, I was just doing it. You're still alive. I am. This is a different time, though, right? Like, how long ago was this?

How old are you? I am 27. OK, yeah. So it was before the world got real weird. Yeah. Like, the world was already getting weird, but it was before like it was cut your skin off and wear it kind of weird. It was definitely still weird.

Yeah. So anyways, I went on Craigslist. I found some roommates and ended up moving to, I was living like near Sylvan Park. So very nice area in Nashville now. Yeah. No, I know. But it wasn't that when I moved there. Jay and I used to live in West 46. Yeah. That was our first apartment. now. Yeah, no, I know. But it wasn't that when I moved there. Jay and I used to

live in West 46. That was our first apartment. Oh, yeah. I love that. Yeah. So, you know, I just moved wherever I could afford. I think I was paying $500 a month for my one bedroom. And that's great. And Nashville. Now I don't think you could even find anything like that no yeah no um so moved here and I you know like when I moved to Nashville I didn't know anyone I just took a leap of faith and I was like I I believe in myself and I believe that I can do this as a career yeah so I came out here and just started working like every odd in job. Um, I was nannying. I was like the dog Walker in the neighborhood, you know, like all the things. I love that you had work ethic instilled in you though. Yeah. Well I had to, you know, I didn't,

um, I didn't have financial support from anybody. So it was like, all right, get to going. And I do think like I learned that from my parents and they're like you know what whatever you want go get it um so I just I started doing it all and um I just kind of found myself like just lost in it all like I'm this young 18 year old girl I couldn't get into the bar like where do you start right like go to coffee shops go to church I'm like I'm doing all the things like where can I meet people um yeah like I remember I called my parents I was like I'm going to church today and they're like oh amazing I was like yeah I'm gonna go try to meet some people um but anyway I started just

working and I was also going to community college at Nashville State I love it I love the drive yeah and I think that like for whatever reason like at that point I didn't fully believe in myself like I was like halfway in right so I was like you know and a lot of people kind of was like hey make sure like you have a backup plan you know and so I hate people like that yeah like just go for the gusto kid that's what I said that's what we tell our kid yeah like go for whatever you want to do wholeheartedly go be the best at it yeah like if you want to be a mailman be the best damn mailman out there do it yeah yeah I agree so I um I just I started so I'd work I worked at this

yogurt shop in Hillsborough Village Sweet Cece's and so I'd work there from nine to five and then I would go to class from six to nine. And, um, I'm about a year into Nashville. It is just like not what I thought it was going to be. And so I called my sister that day and I was just crying. And, was like dude what am I doing out here like this is hell like I came out here to write songs and be a musician I don't even know how to start I'm drowning in work and school and she was like Priscilla you know if you come home like you didn't you didn't fail. Come back. And I kid you not, I cannot make up a story. I was leaving the yogurt shop and I happened to be wearing a Taylor Swift t-shirt. Swear to God. T-Swift is very inspirational in your journey.

Insane. I was leaving work that day that I talked to my sister and she was driving by and saw me and I'm standing on the street corner Taylor Swift was driving Taylor Swift oh wow yeah okay yeah so like my meltdown day I'm leaving Nashville what is this life um I'm walking out of work that day and happened to be wearing just one of her tour shirts. And she was driving by and saw me and pulled her car over. Oh, yeah. And was like, hey, like, thanks for wearing my shirt. Like, I love that.

And I'm just standing there like this. I'm like, oh, my gosh. And she was like, come over here. So we talked for a second. I did not even tell her that I did music. I was just like, thank you, God. For the sign. For the sign. For the sign.

And that day I went to class and I was like, I am quitting my job. I am quitting school and I'm going to go figure out how to do this. Fuck yeah. You got that fire. Yeah, it was the fire and it was everything that I needed. And I'm like not a super religious person, but I'm like really spiritual. And I think that like that was everything that I needed. And I and that was eight years ago.

Yeah. And I just we're just like, whatever I got to do. I mean, I was fighting shit on the side of the road, selling it on Craigslist. I mean, we were really counting the dollars out every month. And so you quit school and you just decided to do music full-time okay so take me on that journey well I wouldn't say like I mean I was trying to do it full-time again I was working like whatever I could but I mean I had a fake ID I was going in any bar introducing myself to anybody that I could and would listen yeah anyone that would listen

and I would I'd listen to a bunch of podcasts and like people that started out in Nashville and I heard someone say like do not be afraid of walking up to anybody you know and I I was fearless like truly I mean whether it was the sound guy like hey I would love to get a gig here or you know I'd sit down at writers rounds in Nashville. And the first time I would watch and then I'd figure out when they were playing somewhere else. And I'd be like, hey, I saw your show last week and I'm a new songwriter in Nashville. Like, I would love to write with you. Yeah.

And so it kind of just started that way. And I, Sarah Jones, she is, she's been my room had been my roommate for a long time and she's also from North Carolina and it's just crazy like our brothers grew up as friends she's my guitar player now and um her brother had called me and was like hey my sister's moving to Nashville to do music like y'all should connect and at that time I needed a roommate I was trying to get out of the Craigslist roommates you know what I mean how was it living with the Craigslist oh my gosh like I it was crazy like the first weekend I moved to Nashville my house got broken into like it was just like yeah it was kind of crazy yeah so me and Sarah Jones started writing together and we lived out in Hermitage and it was really like

an empty apartment and we would just sit down on the floor with our guitars and write. And so it really started small. And then it grew to, she was like, Hey, like, what do you want? Like, what's your goal here? And I was like, I want to be an artist be an artist yeah like I I want to do that and she was like well Priscilla she was like if you want to be an artist you need to learn how to perform I love that and yeah it was so it was like so perfect you know and I was like really and she goes she pushed you like that she did because most people would be scared to say something like that you know that's a real friend well and I think that she wanted to know like she said she was like let me she goes put down your guitar and let me play guitar for you and she really like wanted to see where I was at

mentally like okay can I is it smart for me to put more time into this right she doesn't really see it kind of going anywhere right and I put my guitar down for a year and I just started learning how to perform she would play guitar for me and um then we just started growing my band like one by one by one were you performing in bars by now and like you know on Broadway so it started like a lot of writers around so we me and her would start singing the songs that we wrote right and then we got our drummer and we were doing like the songs that we wrote right and then we got our drummer and we were doing like the three-piece thing and I was like oh this is amazing like now we can hold our own in a bar so we started kind of playing around I actually like stayed

tried to stay off Broadway yeah um just because I know like it's kind of gimmicky it's not not even that I just didn't want to get comfortable singing cover songs gotcha you know what I mean um not that everyone on Broadway sings cover songs but I think it is easy to because the money's really good down there singing covers that people want to hear yeah um so I was just doing a lot around town um we used to play at the bar outside of Bridgestone Arena every Friday night. Which one is that? That's the Jack Daniels bar. Yeah. OK. So we play out there and it was really cool because that became our favorite gig. Right. And we'd play there. They like started calling us to play before

the people that were playing in Bridgestone. Right. And so like I, it was... So you started building, like, a fan base there. Yeah. Okay, awesome. Yeah, like, I still have people that come out to the shows. They're like, we saw you at the Jack Daniels bar years ago. Aww. So our band started, you know, being created. And then it was, like, just all of us, like, we wanted it so bad.

Like, we started, like, rewriting my bio. And it's so funny to look back like anything to make me sound cooler and like a bigger deal like we were doing hold on I just want to tell everybody we have all had to fake it till we make it and I consider I don't consider it being fake I consider it manifesting because when you really believe in yourself and you put something like I even before the podcast was doing as amazing as it was I would tell people I get a million downloads a month and yes you do you know what I do now but when I was saying it back then it was it wasn't happening but I knew it was going to happen so you know you doing that in your bio was a way of manifesting yeah no and I I'm all about that like we were like she's been the pre

entertainment opening act for Luke Bryan like Jason Aldean and anybody that we played before we put that in there and I love that and I you know we made a fake booking company and like I mean I was Melanie Johnston reaching out on behalf of my artist Priscilla Block and would love love to book her at your Georgia venue we've done all this shit yeah you just got to do it you have to man the the only person that's gonna believe in you as much as you believe is yourself yeah like in or a friend that you happen to find you're she's my sarah jones so i totally understand that yeah totally so when did you when was like the pinnacle of like you were like holy shit the fucking snowball is rolling and this shit's really happening so right before the pandemic

I was just about paying all my bills by by singing yay and I was like yay like oh my gosh I had just moved to this apartment downtown I'm like you know what I'm gonna do it like I've always like had the Craigslist roommates outside of town like I'm going I'm going in yeah I'm going uptown baby yes so I was still um cleaning a lady's house and I was doing music and then the pandemic hit so like this was the point where I was like I am crushing like for me like if I can pay my bills doing what i love like yes yeah so anyways the pandemic hit and 2020 was like the year like okay sink or swim like like yeah either it's gonna we're gonna sink or swim like there was no we all went through it yeah we had to sit down and have it we had a family meeting where we were like, OK, what are we going to do?

You know, like we're it's either we turn up on fucking content. We can't go anywhere. We can't tour. So it's like, let's just become fucking online celebrities. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And that was the time that TikTok was brand new.

Yeah. And I, you know, I was like, what am I what am i gonna do you know maybe i just start singing and the only thing that you could do is content yeah i couldn't play in the bars i mean what else was i gonna do so anyway so i'm on tiktok and it's literally like that i thought it was like this dancing app same i would not be on it i rebuked it literally I was like fuck this I'm not getting on this fucking kids app you're not getting me on here well I did learn the walk in my kitchen I learned the walk yeah but you can do that I am so uncoordinated there's no dance moves that I'm gonna be able to do oh my god well I was like maybe I just become a dancer I don't know I mean

like a terribly bad dancer that gets paid for it Priscilla's like I don't give a fuck whatever I gotta do to get paid let's go. Oh yeah whatever. I love it. So I just started there was like um I don't know when it was but I decided I'm like man like I'm just gonna throw up some original music on here and see what happens. Yeah. So I started having like little viral moments I guess and there really wasn't a lot of like original music on TikTok at this time. Right. Especially in country. And so then I, you know, things started growing and I would like look at my phone and I'm getting all these hundreds of messages from people.

And it was like a light switch that went off. And I was like, I'm going to make this my full time job. All it takes is that one viral video. And you're like, OK, how do I keep this fucking momentum going? And it's like either you're a hustler or and you do something with it or you don't. Like, yeah, sink or swim, literally. So I was posting like 20 videos a day, just like grinding in my apartment. Yeah.

And by this point, I'm four months behind on my rent. Oh, no. And yeah, like, is it really? I mean, we have gone through the journey in Nashville, but it's fine. Poor baby. So I move out of my apartment, and I move into this, like, little shack in Nashville. I didn't have AC. I had this, like, window unit by my bed.

Oh, my God. Yeah. In Nashville, not having AC. I'd rather not have heat. I know. Because then you could at least buy a heater. Bundle up. Yeah, exactly. You need AC.

And I'm a sweater like let me just I don't I don't listen I just yeah like no me and jelly yes so I move into this like little house and um as I'm moving out of my apartment I am just like screw it all like my life is going to shit and I go to the bar and um I'm just like well I mean what do I have to lose at this point run into my ex-boyfriend and um I end up coming down with COVID uh not long I probably shouldn't have gone to the bar but hey yeah I think the beer was worth it it's all right I didn't go to any bars and I ended up with COVID three times oh well you're good yeah so at least you had a fun story to tell exactly yeah whatever so anyway I went back home and Sarah Jones called me and uh I'm sicker than ever no AC in my house

I'm like you know sweating with the COVID sweats. And she called me and she was like, hey, we were supposed to write today. Did you want to still write? You know, what's what's up? And it literally took everything in me to not say no. And I was like, no, I'm gonna write today. And I hopped on FaceTime and I wrote the song that completely changed my life that day. Which was? Just About Over You. and I wrote the song that completely changed my life that day which was just about over you and this is about your ex right yeah and if I would have never ran into him at the bar if I would have never you know moved out of my apartment had to do this FaceTime call it just it all led me to that moment and it's insane looking back because I was at the lowest of lows and it brought

like everything and um the universe has a way of answering you even when you don't think they're listening the universe is listening you know and I heard that so many times like right when you think that you're at your breaking point I tell this to people all the time it's like so many people are going through so much shit but like you literally might be around the corner tomorrow absolutely and you just don't know the rain always brings the sunshine yeah so I decided to just post a clip of me singing it online and that was my first very viral moment and um I was singing in my car I say I'm like I'm pretty sure I was singing in my car before everyone now everyone's singing in their cars you know what I mean um but I was singing in my car before everyone. Now everyone's singing in their cars. You know what I mean?

But I just started posting videos left and right. And there was this angel. Her name's Samantha. She was living out in California and basically started a like crowdfunding campaign for me to record the song and like call to action on TikTok tock and was like let's help priscilla put this song out in my heart like i still no one knew that i was like going through the hardest time in my life i couldn't have gone in and recorded that song you know and people all over it just became this like internet storm and everyone was like we need this song how do we get it where is it out when are you recording it and literally like the

the fans made this happen for me and it's so interesting you know because I look back on the years that I've been in Nashville and I was begging for a deal and it was so political out here people don't realize that about the music industry in Nashville it is so political yeah and so you know and and so when I it kind of all happened I'm calling every producer that I know I'm like who can get started on this I need someone to start on the song now I don't know what's happening like I didn't have a team it was like me and my best friends and you know my band and we're all just like I'm like we need to release this as soon as we can and within three weeks of writing it I released it and um independently and I was sitting Sarah called me Sarah Jones Sarah Jones

shout out Sarah Jones um she called me and was like hey have you uh have you seen the iTunes charts and I was like how do you find that yeah you're so me do people buy music anymore like I don't know and so I go and look at it and it's just like I mean top 10 top 5 and then boom it's like me Nicki Minaj Harry Styles and like Billy did I already say Billie Eilish yeah it was me Nicki Minaj Billie Eilish and Harry Styles and I'm having messages like Nicki Minaj fans are trolling me they're like who is this bimbo like take a seat there's some the barbs are mean oh my gosh they don't play oh no no they were they were coming for me they were like who is this girl there's no the bots girl like yeah 100 has bots like whatever it was it was what it was but

and then that's when all the labels started calling because like their attention yeah i mean even i think at that time they weren't paying attention to the iTunes charts because streaming so big you know you don't sometimes you forget that people buy music and so for me the leverage that I had going into these label meetings was I have fans yeah I fans and that's what why I am so thankful that this never happened sooner because you know I think back in the day like the labels would sign you they'd help brand you and then help you get the fans yeah I'm sorry I'm so anti like even though my husband signed I just have seen all the shit he's gone through in the fucking past you know since I've been with

him for the past seven eight years that it's just, I'm so thankful that he signed with Broken Bow because they're just amazing human. Shout out Loba. Love you guys so much. Um, but just, I've seen how the industry just chews up artists, you know, and spits them out and leaves them with nothing. You know, I, I definitely, I mean, I've seen it and I, that's why I I was so when I went into these meetings I I knew that I had some leverage and I was confident I was like you know what this is happening and when was the last time you've seen an independent artist do this and um so it was it was awesome I mean people like it was great but it was like the most terrifying moment of my life absolutely because you're scared of getting screwed over that change is scary too

you know yeah people involved in your business that you've built is like very scary yeah having hands and something that you is your baby yeah it was definitely it was weird like you feel on top of the world but you're scared shitless you're like man like I hope that someone believes not only in a song but in a career absolutely so did you end up signing so I ended up signing with Universal and I gosh I'm so thankful for them I think that it was the one meeting you know I had I had quite a few and was torn but I really do feel like it was the meeting at that time that they really thought that there was way more than just a song I love that and that dude hope yeah it breathes so much life into decisions because

if somebody believes in you that's all you need is to you know to just take off and spread your wings and fly yeah and it was cool when I signed you know I remember um Cindy Mabe uh she looked at me and she said I want to tell you one thing she said I if anyone at this label ever tries changing you do not love them yeah and just hearing that comfort like hearing that come from a label head you're like good because you don't want to be changed and what what worked for me was me being me yeah being the shit show being the girl that sings about a broken heart or gaining weight like that is just who I am I think you actually have a really good head on your shoulders. You're very level headed. Let's talk about your image because that's one of the one things that drew me into you was I love the

body positivity. I love that you're not afraid to wear the short shorts. It's pretty much like fuck everybody to wear the bikini. Yeah. You know, like I think that's amazing. And, um, I think little girls now really need that more than ever because, you know, my generation growing up, it was the fucking stick models. It was like, you know, it was just eating disorders and fucking, you know, it was comparing yourself to people that you just were never going to be like, you know. And I think little girls having a role model like you right now is so special. Oh, well, thank you. I struggled hard with my body growing up like I mean I was the little girl that was scared to go to the pool I never went on spring break with my friends because I I didn't love the way that I looked and you know I I think that's why

I like I listen to all kinds of music yeah but I love like so many rappers and like, you know, just like. Yeah. And I think it was so kind of normal in the pop and rap world for girls to show off their body and be shaking their ass up on stage. But in country, it was different. You know, I didn't see myself in anybody else. You know, everybody's everybody's so covered up in country. Yeah, especially like back then, I think. But and then you have Beyonce that's up like just twerking and like going at it.

And I just was like, oh, my gosh, like there was something in me that I was like, well, maybe I can do that, too. But I'm also seeing country music. I don't know. Yeah. But I'll tell you what I wrote so when I moved to Nashville I think everyone has their influences and people that they want to be like and obviously I wanted to be the next Taylor Swift and I want hell I wanted to be Carrie

Underwood but turns out I don't have that Carrie Underwood is like her voice she's a machine and those legs I'm like yes it's crazy and she she's so beautiful in person we got to see her at the cmt awards i'm like bro it's crazy breathtaking yeah breathtaking the way she carries herself she's just all woman yeah and so anyway as as i was trying to figure out who i was in nashville you know you realize no one wants another somebody right they're already out there yep and um that's what Jay and I are finding out in the country realm everybody's freaking out over us and it's like it's because you're so different right they're like what is this hussy and this drug dealer doing on the red carpet together y'all are y'all yeah no for sure like and that's what i love about you guys like

y'all are just who you are you don't give a shit and i'm i'm kind of the same way no that's what we love about you too jay told me to tell you hello oh i love him i love him wait did he tell you that we cried when we met each other yeah he told me the whole story yeah oh my god he's so sweet but he's just he's just such a good like he's a great inspiration you know like coming from somebody that maybe didn't look the part or fit into this box like he's doing it and that was I think that's why we love you so much too because you you're beautiful though like you know like you're so pretty and I love the confidence that you exude even if you don't feel, you're still portraying that to these little girls that look up to you online, and that means a lot.

Thank you. So when I stopped, like, really copying, to be honest, I think I was copying people, because I just, I thought that that's what you had to do to end up on the radio, but I'll never forget the day that I wrote Thick Thighs, and that was, like, the moment that everything changed. And me and Sarah Jones.

I love that Sarah is there for every moment. Yes, I should have had her sitting right here. I should have put a little bobblehead Sarah Jones. But we, so I went into the write that day and I was like, I am not writing another heartbreak song today. Like, can we write Thick Thighs or something? And it was just an off the wall thing. And she was like, are you serious?

And I'm like, oh, yeah, kind of. But, you know, and she was like, that's what we're writing. And when I wrote that song, I remember I had sent it to my family and they were like, this is it. And I just there was something freeing. Like, I felt like I finally said something that I hadn't heard before. It was me. there was something freeing like I felt like I finally said something that I hadn't heard before it was me like you know I had had so many people in in meetings that told me that I needed to lose weight before making it and you know look different and this was like my big old fu like

I am who I am I'm not even big by the way like you're curvy but you're not a big girl like when I met you the first thing I said was she's so fucking tiny like literally you have this big persona online but then when you meet you you're just like this tiny little package well thank you I fireball I but I wrote it to anybody that ever made me feel like I needed to look a different way and I'm glad that little girls can can see that and see me and be like you know what I can be a singer too too. I can be a country singer. And I can wear the two-piece. Like, what the hell?

Life is, wear it. Yeah. You know what I mean? And look good while doing it. Well, I think it's just being able to give women and younger girls, like, that ballsiness to express themselves in whatever you're wearing and just own who you are. Like it's, I'm so proud of that song. And I never knew that that was going to be such a big part of my story. And I'm, I'm thankful for it. I love it. So moving on from that and your image, what is, what are you doing now? You're like tour, you're always on tour i feel like you're always

in your tour bus getting ready yes well i just got the damn tour bus like i love that i was in the church van for a long time and us our band we take off driving you know whoever's like the least tired i guess drives through the night no jay and i used to have the fucking uh the 18 passenger van that we had to tour in. And it was filled with fucking our whole crew would be in this van. And oh, my God, it was terrible. Years of that. But yeah, when you finally get that first tour bus, it's like, holy shit, I've made it.

Oh, yeah. It's I mean, the quality of life. I'm like, I don't know if I get more sleep or less sleep now, but very thankful for it. Dude, our first tour bus was a nightmare, though. Fucking oh, God, what was the tour bus guy's name i forget but we had this hashtag we started on him because literally we got woken up in the middle of the night he was drunk drinking a bottle of jack daniels with the ass in jay and i were sleeping in the back the ass end is hitting the ground just sparking dude going the whole way home up these mountains we got pulled over by cops they pulled us all off the bus search the bus found drugs it was a fucking thing fuck greg that's his

name we were so mad we were so mad at greg the fucking bus driver but dude we were so happy just to even have a tour bus oh my god yeah no it's it's life-changing yeah so you're on tour right now yeah so I'm on tour um when when I signed my deal and the pandemic kind of like slowly started you know getting back to normal I I was like I want to go out and start selling my own tickets and um I think that was also a scary thing for the whole team you know the whole team's like well maybe you should hop on a tour and I was like you know what the fans are there yeah and I Jay, I mean, he's been doing that since day one and just building his hard tickets. And I think it's super important. Oh, yeah. So, yeah, we went out. I did my first headlining tour. Welcome to the block party. Love that. And it was such a success.

I decided to go back out in the fall and double our venue sizes. And we just did the spring break tour and we're now tripling our venue sizes. And it's just crazy. I'm so proud of you. Thank you. I love watching the journey. I think it's beautiful. Thank you. What's next for you?

Like what? You're just, you're just going to keep on rolling like a rolling stone. Oh my gosh. Well, this year I am, um, I'm going on tour with Shania Twain.

Oh my girl. girl wait so can i ask you did you get a squeeze in on her butt that fucking picture i'm just gonna say yes no i'm just kidding well we i did not touch her ass but well she was walking by and we were so shook we had like a fangirl moment we were like oh hey shania and they caught the picture and it just looks like i well i was like trying to move cause she was squeezing in through the seat. So I was like, Oh, you know, like trying to be nice and put my hand out and move my leg. But it looked like I grabbed her ass. It was very amazing. I was really hoping that you did. I would love to tell everybody that I did, but I don't want her coming for me.

No, she did not grab my ass. But yeah, if anybody asks, yes, I grabbed her ass. Um, yeah, no. So we were, it was just a moment caught in time but that's so awesome did she request you or how did that work like does she know who you are well i guess so i'm like dang like how'd she get my number you know what i mean yeah um no it's really cool she's bringing out like a bunch of new women um on our tour and i have five dates with her which is super exciting I mean she's been such a big inspiration for me yeah I mean Shania yeah Shania I didn't really know much about Shania's story until I watched her uh documentary that she dropped and it's insane dude she edits her own videos

fucking like everything it's crazy well not anymore but back in the day when she was you know really the any man of mine video and like um i think it's uh out of here video she edited those herself like that's crazy well and i think that's like also being that hands-on when you know like you're people like just it's almost like they believe it more right you know what i mean because she like when you're in the studio when you're writing it and then you i think when you write it it you have a vision of what the video could be so like her even having her hands on it I think is so cool and so genius yeah for sure you know so we're going out Shania I'm doing a lot of headlining dates I'm gonna be out with um Old

Dominion oh I love them and yeah and I am playing at Bridgestone for the first time. Wow. Crazy. Gosh, I don't know the date of it. December 15th. Oh, I love that. Yeah, that's so cool. Jay's first time headlining Bridgestone was December 9th. I was there. I was there. I was there. But yeah, I'm so excited. I mean, that's gonna be full circle because I used to play at the bar outside. Yes. So like we are in the Bridgestone this time time I'm really I'm really pumped for that and I'm just I'm writing music you know I've been so busy do we have an album dropping anytime soon I'm working on it yeah you know I I was planning on like in in the as I'm you know we all plan out our life and our careers right I thought that like I would be closer to my

second album but I do feel like I've been on the go so much that I really haven't like written my life right now. And like, I feel like I have, I have enough songs that I feel like are great, but there's some things that I just need to write, you know, and, and write this time of life. And I think it's for me saying no is a very hard thing because I've wanted this for so long but now I'm at a point where I'm gonna have to start saying no and being like all right guys I need to slow down a little bit so I can write my life good luck I my husband still can't say no he literally it's hard he's just started saying no the first like for the past few months and but like before that it was yes to everything and I just got to a point with him where I was like honey you are going to wear yourself out yeah for sure so you got to always

make sure to take time for yourself even though it's hard and you're in the fucking whole you know movement of it right now the momentum you got to you know take that deep breath and take that down time because it's so important yeah no it is and I think that like we've seen so many people lose yourself in a lot of this and I I really try to like bring myself back down to earth. I think you're very level headed and very down to earth. You remind me of like Gretchen Wilson, Dolly Parton and like one other like female artist just kind of all mixed together. You have the sassiness and the style of like Gretchen Wilson where she didn't care. She was going to wear the short shorts and, you know, she's a redneck woman.

But you have like the classiness of Dolly like I love that um so tell everybody where they can find you like TikTok yeah you know all things all your social medias all things Priscilla Block there you go um just google Priscilla I don't think that there's another Priscilla Block out there maybe there is hey if there is hey girl girl. Yes, all. What about an OnlyFans? Do we have an OnlyFans? No OnlyFans, but I got a fans only link on my page. I love it. Yeah, my management was like, wait, I'm like, it's clickbait, baby. Yeah.

I bet you have a lot of OnlyFans. Who knows? You can do it with your clothes on. Yeah. You don't have to take your clothes off. Hey, anything to pay the bills, I'm all about. She's like, when Bella make you holla let's go baby so any little girls that are watching sorry go ahead Priscilla I cut you off so anywhere

Priscilla block anywhere Priscilla block yeah I love that so any little girls that are watching this what that want to become you know an artist or in the industry what are some words of advice that you have for them you know I would just go back to a lot of the things that I've, I've heard from people and that's do not let anyone change who you are. And also things that I've learned by my own mistakes and learning experiences. Don't try to be anything that you're not. Um, cause that doesn't work and yeah, stay true to you and kick some ass yeah kick some ass baby i love it priscilla thank you so much for coming on the thank you for having me i'm such a fan and i just i'm so proud of everything that you're doing and i really think that you are

a light to so many men and women out there so i've been a light to a lot of men in my life oh my god i'm just kidding hey we, I kept it actually pretty clean with you. Well, I love you so much. I love you too. And I can't wait to have you back on. And Jay and I are rooting for you. I just want you to know that.

Thank you. Yeah. Thank you guys for tuning in to another episode of dumb blonde. We will see you guys next week. Bye. Yay. Yay. Dude dude i'm sweating like my legs are sweating