The Bobby Bones Show - BOBBYCAST #664 - Blippi, Bluey and Addictive Dancing Fruit with Punk Goes Princess Star Lauren Paley
Episode Date: August 24, 2026On this episode of Current Stuff, Bobby and Eddie are joined by Lauren Paley who is the singer behind "Punk Goes Princess" which reimagines iconic 2000s pop-punk and rock anthems with cinema...tic, Disney-style princess vocals! Lauren joins Bobby to talk about how a DM to Simple Plan’s Pierre Bouvier turned into an actual collaboration. They also get into Lauren’s life as a mom, singing for her daughter, the world of Blippi, Bluey, Cocomelon, Dancing Fruit and Ms. Rachel, and whether she’d ever take her act on the road for kids. Plus, sings a couple of songs for us! Check out Punk Goes Princess HERE Watch The BobbyCast on Netflix! Follow on Instagram: @TheBobbyCast Follow on TikTok: @TheBobbyCast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Twinkle, twink. Go to that concert. What you just heard was Lauren Paley singing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, and you're going, why?
Well, because that song is public domain and it's free. And anything else, we'd be kicked off. So, Lauren
Paley, she's massive on social media. I actually found her, shared her on my radio show. She sings
popular songs, but as a Disney princess, a lot of punk stuff, a lot of pop stuff from the 2000s.
And she's so good. And so we're going to talk with her. She's going to sing a little bit, but she has a
new EP that's out. It has perfect Simple Plan with the lead singer of Simple Plan. It has some
good Charlotte. It has a lot of great artists that we'll talk about. But she's classically trained
and she was just on social media
singing popular songs
as a Disney princess
and it popped off.
She has millions and millions and millions of followers
and I'm always so interested in people
who made it by just doing
random things or talented at.
Here she is Lauren Paley.
Hey everybody, welcome to this episode.
These are always fun for me
because I get to bring in people
whose work I enjoy
just by being on social media
and just reaching out.
And so our guest today
I had never met her until about
five minutes ago when she sat down.
And so I enjoy it so much.
I've actually played parts of it on the radio show.
And so her name is Lauren Paley.
Lauren hi.
Hi.
Now you get to be here.
Now it's not all third person.
So I'm going to do my interpretation of what you do.
Then you correct me.
Okay.
She sings normal songs in a Disney princess voice.
And she's such a good singer.
Like it sounds Broadway-esque.
And I was just,
I was just so entertained by like songs that I like even from my childhood sang like that.
How's that description?
That's great.
Honestly.
So one of my many lives I lived on social media has been this series.
And it's coined as punk ghost princess because I've sung a lot of punk emo songs from the early 2000s.
But I've honestly done a lot of things.
Like I just did like Iris by the Goo Goo Goo Dolls.
Like that's not punk.
It was so good.
Thanks.
I forgot to mention that.
Well, we've only been on 11 seconds, so I guess I had plenty of time to get to it.
That one was really good.
Thank you.
That's our next one.
That you're going to do as a real song?
Yeah.
Top of mind because Google Dolls just reposted some of my content.
Actually, they stole it and then reposted it.
But you know what?
I don't care.
It's okay.
It's the Google Doll.
It's fine.
They can steal anything they want.
So what was the first song you put online?
Ever?
That you did this.
Okay.
So the first thing I ever did was teenage dirt bag.
that was the first one that I ever did.
And then it kind of started a trend.
I was like, wow, people were doing it.
And like a few other girls were doing teenage dirtbag as well.
And then they kind of also started doing their own thing as I started doing more and more of them.
And I love that it became kind of a fun trend.
But yeah, teenage dirtbag started it.
All Disney princess.
What do you call it Disney or do they care?
They don't care, actually.
I mean, I don't say it when I actually put out.
songs. It's not, it's Disney adjacent is what I like to call it, but yeah, they're, they're pretty
supportive. At least my friends at Disney are supportive of it and think it's cool because they
released something called a whole new sound where it's a full Disney emo album. It's like a bunch of
punk emo bands singing Disney songs in their style. So it's kind of, so I kind of flipped and
reversed it and now sing it in a princess style, but the punk songs. So did that first, the
We just Teenage Dirt Bag.
Did it go extremely viral immediately?
It did really well to the point where I was like, oh, people like it.
Maybe I should do more.
Were you singing already on social media before that, but just singing as you were?
I've been on social media a while.
My social media career started a little bit pre-pandemic in 2019, but that's when I started.
Actually, my first viral video on social media was singing a Lizzo song in the
style of a Disney princess. So I've been doing this shtick for a bit, but then I actually started singing
in my garage stairwell and not just Disney songs, just singing in the stairwell. And then that's
what I became known for online. And then I moved. So I sang in literally close to here, a garage
stairwell. And that was my thing for like four years. Then I had a baby started singing a lot of Disney
songs to her and then kind of my whole content kind of just shifted into motherhood,
Disney, lullabies, sing-alongs, and then and then now this.
Would you consider yourself a full-time influencer or a content creator, I should say,
not influencer?
Yes.
So did you have to commit at some point fully to it and go, I am only focused on this
because if I'm only halfway in, I'm not in?
Yeah, I think the pandemic kind of forced a lot of people just to be like, all right, this is
this is what I'm just going to do because there's really nothing else to do right now. And also,
I have a degree in musical theater. And I always wanted to do music. But moving to Nashville,
I felt like I didn't fit in. I wasn't really a country singer. I tried the songwriting thing for a
bit. And then honestly, I downloaded TikTok. And that's why I was like, this is really fun.
I don't know if I can make a career out of it. But I'm,
might as well start posting, especially when everyone's on lockdown and we don't really have
anything else to do. And then it became my full-time thing. Did you sing in high school?
I did. My whole life. Or did you do like productions? Theater. Yep. Did you ever try to make it
as an artist? Not that that's not art, but here an artist is someone who plays a guitar and sings
on a stage, original songs. Yeah. So the plan was always to go to, that my dream was to be on
Broadway, like my whole life, even in college. And then towards the end of college, and then towards the end of
college. I went to a music conservatory, so I studied musical theater. And then when I was there,
I did an emphasis in songwriting. So I started songwriting and I was like, maybe I just do this
instead. Maybe we moved to Nashville and I pursue songwriting. I was kind of like feeling a little
bit rebellious. I didn't really want to do what everyone else in my class was doing. I didn't want to
go to New York anymore. I just didn't want to live that life. And then I moved here and tried to pursue
songwriting for a bit and I still love songwriting but that's when I was like oh back then it was
very country when I was singing at these writer rounds I was like I'm singing like a little
pop princess over here and then people are singing their country tunes and I just felt awkward
and so did you ever audition for Broadway stuff in New York um I have auditioned for a lot of
stuff I haven't auditioned for have I auditioned for a Broadway show I'm trying to
I remember my entire life story right now.
We're big Broadway guys here.
We know a lot of Midtime.
We love it.
No, no, we get a whole episode on how stupid we are at musicals.
Yeah, yeah.
We tried to list as many as we could and we got to like three and a half.
You're like,
Hamilton.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's very, very popular.
It's funny hearing like about musical theater
from people that didn't study it
because I'll just have people coming up to me like,
sing something from Phantom of the Opera.
I'm like, I had no idea people loved it so much.
I don't ask you that.
I was going to ask you to do that.
No, but I actually don't think I've ever auditioned for a Broadway show.
Now that I think about it.
That's bad.
It's bad.
But I live here now, you know.
You can audition for a different Broadway show here.
Yeah, Broadway.
Broadway.
I do little shows called Off Broadway at the Hutton Hotel.
And we do like little cabarets and they bring in Broadway stars and we sing with them.
And I still consider my.
I'm very much musical theater influenced.
And you can hear it in my way.
That's my training.
That's just how I was brought up.
So I'm just interested in the songs that you sing.
Do the artists ever reach out even through DM and go?
That was really cool that you just sang my song like that?
Always.
A lot.
Tell us some good ones.
Okay.
Well, the coolest one is, so I just released a five song EP called Punko's Princess.
And the last song we wanted to do on the EP was perfect by a simple plan.
And it was my dream to have Pierre the lead singer collaborate with me on it.
And my producer, Cole, he was like, just DM him.
Because he had been following me for like over a year, interacted with my stuff all the time.
It's just like cool.
He's just online a lot.
And so then I was like, I don't want to because if he says no, that's going to really hurt my feelings.
And then just I'm just going to want to give up.
But Cole was like, just do it.
If he says no, we're still going to do it.
We're still going to put perfect on the EP.
And I was like, okay.
So I messaged him.
I DMed him.
And he responded like pretty quickly.
And he was like, hey, Lauren, this sounds awesome.
Let me talk to my peeps and I'll get back to you.
And I was like, that's not a no.
that's like a BRB.
I'm going to ask some people what I should do.
And then I didn't hear from him for like a month.
And I was like, oh, it's okay.
Like he's busy.
It was really nice how he responded.
And I honestly, we just resigned to the fact that maybe it's not going to happen,
but let's record it.
Let's get it recorded and send it to him and just be like, hey, this is what it sounds like.
Well, we didn't do that.
Life got ahead of us.
And Cole hadn't even like, we hadn't even started working on the track.
And then all of a sudden, when I am lying in bed, I had just put my daughter to bed.
I'm just lying next to her.
And I see a DM from him.
And I'm like, oh, my gosh.
And I didn't even want to open it because I just saw, hey, Lauren, I'm like, this could go two ways.
And I opened it.
And it was like, hey, Lauren, I'm so sorry.
It's taken me so long to get back to you.
Like, I dropped the ball on this, but we're so down.
Like, we want to do this.
Like, let's get this set up.
And it was so cool.
And then we got on a call with him.
in his management and got the track done.
He recorded, we recorded separately and then we shot a music video together like in June.
Was it so cool to hear the song done when you got it sent back to you with him on it?
Oh my gosh.
Well, he was also sending me voice memos while he was recording and I was like playing them like,
oh my gosh, I'm getting my own mini concert from like my middle school crush.
I was like, I'm obsessed.
This is amazing.
It was really cool to hear our voices together.
And it's a different style.
Like the song is completely reimagined.
And Pierre, you can tell he's like kind of putting a little bit more maybe musical theater.
Like you can tell he's singing the notes a little bit more legato.
Like he's changing his tone.
It doesn't sound like the original perfect, which we didn't want it to.
Like we can't compete with that.
We wanted to do completely different, something different.
And it turned out really well, I think.
It's like simple plan meets the greatest showman meets.
Disney Princess.
I'm a simple plan
slightly above casual
because I worked
in pop and hip hop
but I like simple plan
and Mike's a big punk guy.
Do you consider them
pop punk?
Yeah, do you like
Simple land?
I do.
Probably not when I was younger.
I was like,
I like a hard enough.
But like over time
I've grown to like them a lot.
I like, do you know perfect?
No.
Sorry can be perfect.
That one.
I'm just a kid.
I'm just a kid
and life is a nice.
That one, that one's like, that's like their most, that's like, I'm a dick, I'm a dick, I'm a dick.
No, I'm just a kid.
Okay, yeah.
Different.
But you don't know perfect?
Just keep going, keep going.
No, I don't know more.
Hey, dad, look at me.
No.
But the chorus, though.
Sorry, I'm there.
Perfect.
It sounds familiar, but no.
I do anything.
Well, everyone's trying so hard.
Come on.
Uh-uh.
When you finish it, but you've been inside of it for so long.
Did you still love it?
Could you love it even though you've been in the guts up it the whole time?
Yeah, I listened to it on the way here.
Okay, good.
I need to get in the zone.
I'm like, I need to remind myself because I have such imposter syndrome.
I'm like, I did this.
Like, this is really cool.
Imposter for what reason?
Like, what do you think you don't deserve?
I don't know.
All the things.
You know, I don't know.
Just coming here.
or I'm like, do I even deserve to be here?
I don't know.
We have the same thing about ourselves.
Yeah, every day.
I think everybody has it.
I own the building and I'm like, do I haven't deserved to go into this building?
And we have nothing to listen to on the way here.
That's so cool.
Whenever you're putting these songs out, when did you, like, when did you know that this was working
to where you had to start constantly thinking of new stuff to do?
Because there's a difference in just creating content and having, because I was talking
one of the guy yesterday was asking me. He said, hey, what should I do? And I have this whole thing
about podcasting now where I believe that there are so many interview shows. Now, everybody has
an interview podcast, and unless you're super famous, and even then, it's impossible to cut through.
And I'm lucky I've been doing it for over 20 years, so I have a very built-in base. But to start
new right now, I would say almost impossible. However, I think the pendulum is swinging to people
who can go one straight to the camera. Because everything's interview. And if I have a great guest,
they've been on 11 shows already,
and maybe you list them on mine,
but they've just done a whole tour.
But the only thing you can't replicate is me talking to a camera about myself, right?
I was giving him this speech,
and I was like,
what you should do is find something you can do 25 episodes on
that you can do by yourself
and commit to that because I feel like that's where it's going.
I think that's what works.
When did you realize the singing punk or pop songs
in a Disney style?
was actually working that you had to constantly think of new ones.
Well, honestly, it wasn't that hard to think of new ones.
I had been dying to sing.
So I have a history of singing a lot of Disney music on my social media.
And I have a big Disney fan base.
And singing to my daughter has been like a big part of my content, just like sing-alongs.
And there was, I got a comment that said, do you sing anything else but Disney?
And I was like, yes, I do.
But I post this because I know you guys like it.
But I was like, what others? I love so much, I love so much different music. And then I was thinking about like my favorite music is like early 2000s. Like my middle school, just punk, all the stuff that was on the radio. That was such a nostalgic time period for me. And I was like, I want to sing this stuff. But I still want my audience to be in support of it. I don't want them to scroll away. So I wanted to do something kind of in the middle. And also I want to sing this stuff. And also I want to sing.
I want my daughter to learn these songs.
I'm like I don't, I love Disney and I love that she loves Disney music, but I want her to learn other stuff, especially like the stuff that I grew up with.
And so it was partially for my audience, partially for me and then partially to introduce my daughter to music I like.
My daughter is five months old now.
Oh, baby.
And yeah, for sure, baby.
I would never had a baby.
So this is the first one.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
I only have one.
And I'm trying to introduce her to music.
And my wife is 12 years younger than I am, so we have different music.
And so with me, like last night, it was Beastie Boys Cracker.
I'm trying to think of what the playlist was.
It was the night before it was Dr. Dre.
Oh.
I know, and that's tough.
But babies don't know curse words yet.
No, no, no, yeah.
It's too early.
her first word zf word i'm gonna be in trouble that's like a parrot when a parrot starts to say it you if
that's the first word um i did uh you got what i need that's a fun one to sing too so i've been trying
to introduce that music to her i'll show i don't we don't show the camera i'll show a picture
well i love babies you know i only have ever held one and a half babies it's scary
holding babies now i like i won't even hold my friend my friend just had a baby and i'm scared
It's a lot of responsibility.
Oh my gosh.
She's a doll.
You have to say that.
This is the whole thing.
No, no.
No, no. She's a doll.
I tell him that he doesn't believe me.
She's very cute.
I don't believe anybody about anything.
I mean, you know, there's no argument, though.
Like, she's very, very cute.
I told him that if she wasn't cute, we would just be like, oh, I love that.
We wouldn't say she's so cute.
I'd go, aw.
So what if I did then?
all babies are cute
Beastie boys in Disney style
Totally
Start your own series
I don't even know how you would
How you would do that
How old's your daughter?
She just turned four
Oh so she still really thinks you're cool then
It's funny because I just did something really cool
I sang background vocals in the Disney Princess
Ultimate concert in Disneyland last week
And it's on Disney Plus right now
And she just casually watches
And she's like mama
And then she like moves on with her life
I'm like, I'm standing next to all the original Disney princesses
singing background for them.
And she's like, cool, okay, anyways.
Let's go play.
Has Disney reached out to you at all?
Do you want to be a princess?
That's my dream.
Would that be fun?
I don't know.
I would love to voice a new princess.
That would be the ultimate.
So this honestly was such a dream working with Disney last week.
That was amazing.
And just like being amongst literally all of my princess.
idols and just hearing them saying just in rehearsal.
We had like an overnight rehearsal.
So it was just us in the parks because we performed in Disneyland.
Have you been to Disneyland in California?
California, yes.
At World of Color.
So the whole show, you should watch it.
I hate World of Color.
I'm colorblind.
Oh, no.
Yeah.
She sees a tear run down my eye and I start to think of the time.
He just asked, what color is that?
I'm so sorry.
To me, it's world of all the same.
You ever been to the world of all the same?
Yeah, you go, it's pretty amazing.
It's all the same.
I feel really bad now.
But it's still a beautiful show to listen to, too.
Not just see it.
Yeah.
I don't know if you're, do you play things for your daughter?
Does she screen at all?
Like screen time?
It's not really screen time.
It doesn't count because it's like concert.
Officially no.
Okay.
Unofficially?
Yes.
Behind closed doors.
When it's just you two?
Yes.
Yes.
My wife is very, we don't want to give her.
phone and have her.
But I like to show her the videos from Sing.
Yeah.
Because they're current songs.
So I like that.
Yeah.
I'm still standing.
Oh, yeah.
It's so good.
Yeah.
Sing is great.
So those movies were good.
And then it's cartoons and they move fast.
And, oh, man.
I've showed her to Miss Rachel, too.
She's the best.
I love Miss Rachel.
She's like I love Miss Rachel and always.
Miss Rachel followed me on TikTok.
I forget how many years ago.
three years ago maybe and I
I don't really get super starstruck
but I literally like screamed
I was like it's Miss Rachel
like I was freaking out because she
I just love her
Me too and I like what she stands
for outside of being Miss Rachel
and all the colors and
also she started very organically
yeah like just making it
when I first watched her video I was like
what is going on because
I feel like people don't understand until they have
a child like the exaggeration
speaking and stuff, you're like, this chick is crazy.
But then you're like, oh, actually, she's a genius, and I love her.
And we're co-parenting.
I watched a TikTok, and all it was was a compilation of a lot of late baby early toddler.
I don't really know what to call a baby yet.
I call it late baby early toddler.
Perfect.
All of them reacting to Ms. Rachel's, that she go like, hi, hello, or whatever she says at the beginning.
And I'm talking, the kid can be asleep.
She can wake you from the dead with that.
No way.
It was like 15 in a row.
That's amazing.
I do find myself too on TikTok watching and laughing at baby videos.
Because I had no idea.
I had no idea.
I bet you I sent my, because my wife and I will send TikToks and they used to be like funny things about, I don't know, adult stuff.
I would bet you the last one that I sent her.
Yeah.
Everything changes.
Your sense of humor changes.
changes to like this is the last one I sent her let's see what I mean let's see what it is
here we go oh yeah it's a baby video where it's babies he's holding the coffee cup
he's walking it and then oh no he throws he just and then runs away from it it's just constant
and I'm just laughing in bed she's asleep and I'm just like shaking the bed laughing so
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What about that world?
Have you ever thought about that world?
I have thought about it a little bit.
I don't know.
There's just, I feel like with the childhood development videos, I'm not a teacher.
I think that's the main thing.
But also, I just, I feel like I'm more of an artist.
Like, I just want to release music or an actor because I would love, I have a,
a background in acting too.
So my dream has been to get into voice work and start doing,
voicing a character, like voicing a Disney princess is the ultimate dream.
And I love the Miss Rachel's in that journey,
but I don't know.
I just, I don't know if it would fulfill me as much.
Paychecks probably would be pretty good.
That's pretty fulfilling.
I know, I know.
But I'm like, oh, Miss Rachel's so good at it.
Like she can do it.
I don't know if I could do it as well.
What about like Blurpy?
Blippy?
Yep.
Okay.
I was like, Blurpy sounds familiar.
Another story about blippy.
I was just at the Moana live action premiere last month.
And there's a lot of celebrities that go to like the Disney premieres.
And I literally turn to my left and I see Blippy in full costume.
And I was like, oh, another thing.
Like I promise I don't really get like starstruck.
But I was fan-girling over Blippy.
Like I went up to him with my phone.
I was like, can we record something for my daughter?
I was freaking out because he was in full costume and he is in character.
And then I got sat with him for the movie.
And he was out of character at that point.
He's great.
I hear he's really cool.
Clayton.
He's amazing.
No, he's just a great person.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Super night.
I'm sure he has a theater background too.
Did he start?
I may be messed up on this because, again, I thought he was Blurpee.
So what do I mean?
Did he start?
making videos for like his niece or something.
Is that his, Mike, would you look that up?
His, okay, so.
So he's not the OG blippy though.
So there's a man that created, yeah.
Oh, I don't know about this.
I know all the blippy tea.
Oh, no.
They killed the original?
So the original, I don't know what the deal is, but a guy started blippy.
Would you say this guy killed the original?
Yeah.
Like, has that been a vest?
I'm starting a conspiracy with the story.
Okay, please tell us.
I honestly don't know if I know the full story.
I just know that a man created blitz.
And then they ended up, I don't know if he wanted to be the face of blipy and also running this empire that he created.
And I think blippy was bought out by the cocoa melon people.
Yeah, moonbug.
Right.
Yeah.
I know all about this.
Okay.
Dude made bank.
And cocoa melon, is that international?
Yeah, I think so.
He sold the.
Cocoa's huge.
It's like baby shark.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He said blippy to moonbug for like $4 billion.
Yeah.
And so they have a new blipy.
I think they actually have a couple of blippies.
There's one that does a certain show on YouTube,
and there's Mika, who's another character on Blippi.
This is like the mom of my fresh prince.
Like all of a sudden, you just tune in one day and there's a new one?
Yeah.
And they tour with a musical and they have different blippies.
I actually like the new Blippie.
Clayton.
But Clayton didn't create it then.
No, he's just the Blippy actor.
How long ago was this?
I wonder if I knew the OG.
Because my kids are older.
I mean, I have a 7-year-old, but not big on Blippie.
Go on YouTube, look up Blippy, and then you'll see the old blippy and old videos.
and then you'll also see the new blippy
and like the newer videos.
Old blippy versus.
Eddie, you definitely had the old blippy.
Old blippy?
Yeah.
Wow.
There's a picture of them beside each other.
Yeah.
Oh.
But here's the problem.
They weren't in the same clothes.
Right.
That's what I'm saying.
They could pull it off.
So those are two new blippies.
Okay.
That's not the OG.
That's not right.
Neither of those are the OG.
I feel so betrayed.
Anyone can be a blippy.
You know, we just go and get the costume and wear a blippy.
I always thought I could be a blippy because, I mean, it seems so easy just to be like, hey.
Wait, so did you know who?
Wait, so did you know who Blippy was?
No.
Oh, okay, I was like, wait a second.
You don't know Simple Plan, but you know Blippy?
Well, I tell you, I have four boys.
Stephen John was the original.
He's the original Blurpee.
Yeah.
So that's the original guy there.
Okay.
And so he created it for his nephew and then sold it.
So now he just loaded somewhere?
Oh, yeah.
Like he just has money and he's not doing like a different character.
Well, what about Blue?
Oh.
Blue's clue?
Blue is a clue.
Blue.
Blue.
So Steve, there was Steve and now there's a newer guy.
Blippy does all the shows now.
That's Blippy.
I forget his name, but he's great.
Josh.
Josh, yes, my daughter loves Josh.
There's a new Blue's Clue guy?
Interesting.
I know.
I have a bad relationship with Bluey.
Bluey, the dog?
Sure.
Why?
The animated dog, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, I got beef.
Real beef.
And what does he do, by the way?
Bluey's a girl dog.
Oh, I did.
She's like a child.
Yeah.
But go ahead.
So you have beef with a child.
Did you not know this?
A child canine.
You don't like, you don't like Louis.
Well, when my show was on Disney Plus, breaking Bobby Bones, it was always second to that stupid dog.
Always.
And I could never get number one.
And I would try to juice it sometimes be like, everybody, watch.
you to 1 p.m. exactly.
We're going to take over that stupid dog.
You can't ever be Bluey.
So I never beat Bluey.
I'm going to beckleson.
He's Tiger Woods.
I just couldn't do it.
Yes, that's it.
So, yeah.
Bluey's also an empire now.
Like, Bluey has a whole area
in Animal Kingdom and Walt Disney World
has a show in Disneyland.
There's a movie they just announced.
Bluey, the movie coming out.
That's a girl?
I was just at D23.
Yeah, Bluey's a girl.
And Bingo's a girl.
They're two girls.
Yeah.
Who's the other one?
I don't know the other one.
Bingo, her sister.
I was bandit for Halloween.
No way.
And he didn't have any kids.
He does.
He doesn't.
That's really cute.
He went trick-treating.
I just love blurpy.
The other one,
Cocoa melon you mentioned.
Are those a little kids with the big heads?
Yes.
Yeah.
But the music.
That's controversial.
I see me in them.
I see me in them.
For being overstimulating.
Yeah.
I like it.
Yeah.
Sensory.
Like they say,
don't let your kids watch Cocoa melon.
And it's like,
first thing when you're a parent that you'll like look something up either they tell you let them
watch the dancing fruit did they tell you that i don't know what that is there's dancing fruit
i got to watch dancing it's supposed to be not stimulating all the sudden i don't get back in the
conversation he's like it's a pineapple dancing fruit well i know you know about the purple monkey
in the bubble gum tree oh yeah that song that's like an inside joke yeah i mean fisher price yeah
they kind of roll the musical charts at my house number one this week it's the purple monkey
and the bubble gum tree
and maybe you
yeah that one
and it stomped stomps
I was like oh that was good
yeah yeah
the elephant stomp stomp
I know all of them
that mat
yeah that was just like
the soundtrack of my
postpartum journey
you don't know stomp
stomps tom
no man I missed that one
you don't know a simple plan
or stomp stomps
this is this is like the generation
where like man I know the old stuff
you know because my kids are older
but I missed all this
dude these days a fruit kind of rock
look at you go
hay bear sensory
yes hay bear sensory
sensory overload.
Yeah, they tell you to put this on for your little one.
Yeah.
You want to get stuff done.
Put them in the bouncer and go clean or something.
This video is seven hours and 30 minutes long of dancing fruit.
That's where it's trouble.
You can't leave that on for seven hours.
No.
Oh my goodness.
But the fact that it is seven hours.
But then there's controversy about this saying that it's actually not good.
And if you backward mask it, it says kills three people.
Paul is this.
So, what does it look like?
Explain it.
Well, first of all, there's some music notes coming down.
And this is the hay bear sensory, the total fruit and veggie.
They call it a live stream, but it's a seven hour and 30 minute video that's up now.
And then all of a sudden, like, new fruit comes into the screen.
Here's cherries coming on down.
I know.
It's actually like.
Easy money.
Brainwashing.
I start speaking Russian all of a sudden.
Yeah.
It's hypnotic.
What's it brainwashing?
Fruit?
It's just hypnotizing.
like they're just like yeah are you the big
it's like big pharma
big fruit goddess
we all even go to the grocery store
without you thinking about
we see each other in the banana
what are you doing here
baby Lauren's on or something
I'm like decoding all of this
have you seen this save by the bell
where they like hypnotize everybody
and they're all like trying to date Zach
that's what that's what this is
we have no idea
and we're all like
avocado
Wow.
I mean, it's multi-billion dollar empire, obviously.
And if you can get one that hits.
I know who rocks, though, still is.
And they rock back then and they rock now is Elmo.
Yeah.
Oh, dude, yeah.
Like, Elmo still rocks.
Yes.
Sesame Street is just great.
See, I liked Sesame Street when I was a kid.
We're not there yet.
Sesame Street is the Rolling Stones of music.
Yeah.
They just keep doing it.
Yeah, I liked Barney.
Barney's not a thing anymore.
Barney was a group of eating.
Barney got canceled.
What?
What?
What?
What do you do?
Barney.
Like, don't tell me.
No, Barney.
The dinosaur got canceled.
Dinosaurs in HR.
Yeah.
It was just a joke.
I didn't mean, I didn't mean to forward the email to her.
Barney, no.
The dancing fruit, this is crazy at the views these dancing fruit videos have.
This is owned by cocoa melon.
Who knows?
Maybe now.
And it doesn't look like a lot of work, you know, like to.
Yeah, there's no work.
To animate that.
Unfair to say.
I mean seven hours yeah
No I'd like to say unfair
Because that's what people say about songs that are super simple
Like people will go Sam Hunt
By like a back yard
That's not even that song took no time to write
And you're going
You know what?
There is some
There is some art to simplicity
If you nail it
Yeah
And I think you're being unfair
But fruit just falling down
It looks almost like just emojis
Yeah it doesn't like emojis
But like
You're being a hater
3D maybe a little bit
Baby Shark is owned by this place.
Cocoa melon, yeah.
I want how much money that thing is made.
That's the biggest kid song of all time, right?
It's got to be.
I think so.
I think Mike is hypnotized by this fruit right now.
I can't stop watching.
No, yeah, yeah.
Baby Shark, total money made.
It's got to be like...
So Baby Shark video, the main one, has over 16 billion views on YouTube.
And so we're just talking about this one.
So not in every way that it's been licensed.
Just from that video.
it's made $35 million from that one video.
Dang.
It's also, I think it's a show, too.
Baby Sharkas?
It's Pinkfong.
Pink fong, yeah.
Pink fong, yeah.
What is, yeah, what are you guys saying?
What are these things?
Pink fong.
Pink fong.
I think that's the company, the amel.
I thought maybe you guys would be in racist.
I'll be honest with you.
But it is actually called pink foam.
I don't know if they were just doing an accent.
Don't do that, guys.
Yeah.
Okay.
Pink fong.
God, it is actually, I see, I gotta be careful.
I don't get like Barney and be canceled all of a sudden.
Before the video starts, it just say like being fun.
Yes, yes, I wasn't just.
I've seen that, yeah.
I wasn't being crazy.
Wow, it has over.
I promise, I promise.
It's just 16 billion views.
That's amazing.
Of that.
Crazy.
Wow.
Yeah, and there's like a million different versions.
There's like a pirate version.
There's Halloween version.
And they don't change anything.
It's just maybe like in a minor tune.
So it's sad?
It's a little.
more sad.
It's like,
spooky.
Yeah.
Spooky.
Well, I know what a minor is versus a major.
That's why I said a little more sad.
You don't know music like that.
Baby shark.
Yeah, but that song.
And there's toys.
My daughter has a toy baby shark thing.
It's like a you go fishing for the baby sharks and it just plays the song on loop.
And you can't play it without the song being on.
Oh, throw it out the window.
You can't play the game without a song being on.
No, so she turns it on and it's the song.
I wish there was like a.
option to turn the song off and like keep it would keep rotating but no no
no have you got to hear the song a kid's concert like with a child I haven't but I
actually wish I took my daughter to Danny Go when he was here okay here like a
couple years ago what is Danny Goh I can keep going and going I just realized I know a
lot Danny Go I am a huge Danny Go fan okay Danny Go is a live action children's show
with music, movement, and educational content.
I don't know if this one's for me because there's no fruit, but I'm able to listen.
You should watch the videos.
There's definitely fruit.
There's everything.
Do we get a workout to Danny Go?
Oh, yeah.
So why do you like Danny Go?
I like Danny Go because his songs are bops.
Like, I'm like, wait a second.
This is pretty good.
I don't know why it comes up with so much stuff.
It's really, if you listen to it, you're like, oh, yeah.
And like, he dances and stuff.
And I do like that
I would honestly get workouts too.
Like doing, when my daughter was really little,
we would dance.
There's like a lava song.
This dance gonna get your heart cold fire.
Yeah, that one's great.
Trust me.
I'm telling you, you're gonna listen to Danny Goh soon.
Do you think somewhere in, I don't know,
New Zealand roster, yeah, I don't know,
there's the wiggles or drinking beer being going like.
I was going to say the wiggles too.
These guys are nothing compared to what we used to be.
Yes.
Like, they don't even know music.
You gotta be.
Like, they're smoking cigarette.
They're like, these young, they have no idea what real kids' music is like.
The Wiggles is OG.
But they had a good run.
Well, they're still going.
Are they?
Yeah, they were on tour.
They were on tour last year.
Right.
Is it the OGs, though?
They do have new ones.
They replaced them.
They have new people.
They do have, Anthony, he's like one of the OG Wiggles.
I know a lot about this stuff, I'm realizing.
You're talking about, I'm like tracking with you.
Yeah.
He actually.
follows me and was very friendly with me for like years and I think he deleted his
Instagram but the Wiggles and I feel like we're friends
some of the Wiggles follow me I followed them we're like I get the Wiggles mixed up
with Power Rangers oh the colors yeah yeah because they're the Wiggles is fruit salad
right yeah the Wiggles all no to him because he's colorblind like world of color oh gosh
you're telling me they're not all gray dressing gray
No, but yeah, they have
Do the Wiggles do different things?
Are they like the Jackson 5?
Or there's like one that plays the bass,
one that plays a guy.
There's a few that are more like dancery.
And then there's some that are like Locky.
He's the purple.
There's two purple wiggles actually.
One of them has gone super viral because he was like a mom favorite.
Hot.
He's like the jacked wiggle.
Oh, my mom's liked him.
And there's Locky who's also great.
And then there's the yellow wiggle.
She's a newer wiggle, I'm not sure.
Would you like to do that?
Would you like to tour and do music to kids' concerts?
I would love to sing with the wiggles at some point.
I don't know if I would go on tour.
I'm also not Australian.
Fair.
I thought about it.
I'm like, oh, it would be really cool to go on tour the wiggles.
Wait a second.
I'm not Australian.
What if you went on tour for yourself?
Like, would you do?
Because you put out this music, obviously.
Would you do that if it was into, would you like to do that?
Yeah, I would.
actually.
If like, you know, having a child kind of changes things, especially a young one.
But short little tours, sure.
Summer tours.
You know what is really cool that Disney does is they do something called, they do eat to the beat in Epcot.
And they do like at the Flower and Garden Festival and there's the Food and Wine Festival.
They bring in artists and they like perform like simple plan performs every year, newfound glory.
like all these
not random bands
but these bands
like Hanson performs every year
Oh because they have a big stage there
Yeah they do like full on concerts
People buy tickets
And then it's just like an extra
I think it probably is extra money
Actually I don't know
It might be included in your park ticket
I'm not sure but somebody asked me
They're like would you want to do that
Like would you want to sing it
Disney I'm like yes
Yes of course I would love to do that
Here's the problem with kids kids concerts
So you probably don't remember
Well, this is not for the kids.
It's wild. I know, but just like doing it,
like if you were going to tour and do the Disney songs.
So many years ago, Eddie and myself,
we had a kiddie and myself, we had a kiddie's record called The Raging Kiddits,
because we have a comedy group called The Raging Idiots,
and we did a whole kiddiege and kids' records,
and it was okay received.
Like Cracker Barretted all bought it.
Yeah.
It was pretty neat.
Yeah, I'm worried about it.
Yeah, I'm worried about it.
Yeah, we're just two guys making kids music.
But anyway, so we do these songs,
and then we only play it, like,
a couple shows with kids there.
They just don't focus and shut up.
No.
They're always yelling.
Yeah, it's like kids.
You've done a lot of things I'm learning.
You did a kids?
I did a kid's album.
I did a kid's album.
Wow.
Oh my gosh.
This is all before I had kids.
So it seemed really creepy.
Wow.
You're like, I just need to have one already.
But I had kids so it worked out.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, great.
But yeah, when I wrote the kids book, I had no children.
Yeah.
And so people are like, what are you doing?
I was like, I just love kids.
They can't say that.
That's the thing.
You can't say that.
I know.
I know.
You can't.
I could maybe.
I can now.
If I didn't have kids.
Now I can go.
But I don't love kids.
Yeah.
I love my kid.
You love yours.
Yeah.
It's hard to love other kids.
Yeah, kids don't also.
Yeah.
Attention spans with when it comes to performing.
Yeah.
What were you going to say?
Because I feel like what she said was way nicer than what you were about to say.
No, you know, it's like you're not their parent.
And like sometimes they're just like, what do you don't, don't do that.
But then you know, like you can't tell them that.
I know.
I know.
It's hard.
It's hard to what, not hit, hit him?
No, not tell him not to do that.
You know, like, you just see a kid misbehaving, and you're just like, oh, I can't do anything.
It's not my kid.
I know.
But then sometimes I'm like, it takes a village, man.
I should really step in.
I think the parent would really want me to, but then.
Oh, yeah.
I understand.
I always want to step in.
Sometimes I'm like, don't do it.
Take deep breaths.
I want to step in with adults.
Right.
Like, I feel like there's like idiot adults.
Like, I like to step in with adults.
This is probably a little, I mean, you'd.
Have you ever done birthday parties?
Like sung at a birthday party?
Mm-mm.
Because that would be awesome.
How much to hire you to come sing at a birthday party?
I don't know.
You know, I...
$1,000?
There is a...
$2,000?
She's not answering.
Okay, I don't want anything I say to be, like, offensive or controversial.
I'm like, don't get canceled on this point.
Hey, this is what Barney said.
What?
What is what Barney said before that happened.
No, but there's a lot of great part.
There's a company called Party Bells here in Nashville.
that people dress up as princesses and go sing at parties.
I'm like, that would be really fun.
I don't know if I personally do it anymore at this point.
But I think it's awesome that people do it.
You just don't want to do it.
Yeah, I get it.
I think if it was like for a specific person or like a child that maybe I got to know parents online or like a supporter in that way,
I have a really, really sweet community.
I don't know.
If it was like a special circumstance, like absolutely.
Also, if my friends want me to sing at their birthday parties for their kid,
a thousand percent.
I got one.
I would do it in a second.
Jeff Bezos.
He wants for his birthday party.
Would I do it?
Probably.
Sure.
Let's just keep aden rich people.
Go ahead.
Elon Musk.
Would you do it?
But it's his birthday party, not his kids.
Yeah, there are no kids.
And it's only Elon Musk.
It's nobody else but Elon Musk sitting in a chair.
Go ahead, please.
Yeah, I don't know.
I'm like, what are you?
That's probably going to be a no.
It would be a weird one, yeah.
Yeah.
Maybe if there were kids involved.
What are his kids' names?
X, General P, Elementopee, Star, Starver, X, Y, Z.
Yeah.
Oh, do you follow kids?
No, no, no, I fault.
Oh, God.
Do I follow kids?
On social media.
No.
Like, no.
Do you follow kids in real life if you see them walking on the street?
Yes.
Yeah.
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What is your most viral singing as a Disney princess?
Okay, as a Disney princess, definitely numb, Lincoln Park, which is on our album.
Really?
Yeah, that one goes crazy.
Honestly, I've ever posted it a few times.
And yeah, it goes crazy every time.
People just also, people love Lincoln Park.
Like, they have a huge fan base.
And whenever I release these songs, I get a little bit nervous because I'm like, oh, people, if you're a big Lincoln Park fan, you might think this is an abomination.
But I've actually gotten a lot of mainly nice comments about it.
People like it.
So the stuff I do on Instagram and TikTok, I always tell people like, I cringe it up a little bit.
Like I'm, it's like kind of like a bit.
But then when I get the, do the songs and record them, I want them to appeal to a bigger audience.
So we do a lot of princessy cinematic elements, but it's not as, it's not the same thing that you're going to be watching on Instagram.
Whereas like I put on a full like, not gown, but like I get in the princess mode.
before I do these.
That's what we do.
And I speak a lot.
You know,
I speak a lot of the lyrics and I make it sound very like theatrical.
But surprisingly, people have really liked that one.
So numb.
Before you came in, we were talking about just you singing and I rarely ask people to sing.
And then also we can't because on Netflix everything.
We can't put music on it because we don't own it, generally speaking.
And so I was talking to Mike and I said, but there are songs.
that have existed for over 90 years.
Like I think literally public domains 90 years, Mike, right?
Yeah, 90, 99.
Yeah, that we can actually give a little tune to.
Could you give us, if I gave it like a really old school, 100-year-old song,
would you mind singing like 20 seconds of something?
Absolutely.
Okay, hold on, let me see.
Because we have a list here.
Mike, what's one of the ones that we picked?
The top two?
Yeah.
Just give me one right now.
I'm scared.
Like, like Home on the Run.
range it might have been
and I'm wondering
if you know the lyrics
okay
okay how about this one
is it's
I feel like
I know a lot of songs
I know that song
but that's definitely not
one that I'm like
you all say every day
we do every day
yeah I'm like
I wake up in the morning
I sing home
she'll be coming around
the mountain do you know
that one
yeah you got that
can you do that a little bit
of that one okay
sure do you want me to
here
am I push this a little bit
yeah you can do that
and do if you do like
so there's mountain
so there's a mountain
I think
I hear someone
I hear someone
or
is she coming
wait I think I hear
Do you want me to do it in Princess?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
She'll be coming round the mountain when she comes.
She'll be coming round the mountain when she comes.
She'll be coming round the mountain.
She'll be coming round the mountain.
She'll be coming around the mountain when she comes.
That's awesome
Lauren, that's so good
You know what you do have a good
Princess voice
Like not even when you're singing
When you're talking
You think?
That's so good
If that's a humiliation ritual
Please humiliate me
Because
I'm like you actually think that was good
And I was like oh
But thank you
That's very sweet
Awesome
Do you have one other Mike?
Twinkle toickle Little Star
Which one?
Oh you know Twinkle Tickle Tickle Little Star
Can you do that as a princess?
Okay
I'm kidding
I feel like I'm like, I have to act.
Yeah, it's good, it's good.
Okay.
Twinkle, twinkle little star.
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky.
twinkle
twinkle little star
how I wonder
what you
I'd go to that concert
I'd pay for a ticket instead
That's so good
Normally I can act it
Because these emo songs
These emo songs, they're so theatrical
You know
So they give me a lot to work with
Which is really nice
My favorite is when she does the
In the
in the sky.
It's such like a Disney princess.
I don't want to group them all together,
but it's just a cadence.
It's a lot of breathiness that I incorporate,
which I feel like people think like,
oh, she only knows how to sing like a princess.
Like honestly, I sang Alto in college.
I sing a lot of jazz too.
I don't know what that means.
Alto is like the lowest female voice part.
So I only started singing soprano stuff
literally when I started on TikTok.
I was like, I'm just going to do this for fun.
And then, yeah, now I sing Phantom of Opera, soprano stuff all the time.
And yeah.
That's so cool.
That is really cool.
Did you watch your social media grow by leaps and bounds?
Like, could you every day wake up and it was another so many more thousand people?
Yeah, I think the during the pandemic was like the huge leap where I kind of created this community.
I was really consistent.
I would post multiple videos a day.
I would go live on TikTok.
I would take people's requests.
I would sing them.
I would make people videos.
I honestly just took requests and just learned songs and sang every single day.
And then that was awesome.
And then I feel like when you grow a following and then you have a baby online,
people, they feel like they know you, you know, like get to know you.
you and they feel like they're following your journey.
Plus, I've spoken into existence the fact that I've wanted to sing for Disney literally
since the beginning.
So my community that's watching me do these cool things, they're all like rooting for me too.
So it has been really cool to just to watch my, like the numbers go up.
But now at this point, it's less about numbers and it's just more about community.
Who pays more meta or TikTok?
TikTok used to pay way better.
Meta does not pay.
Well, Facebook is better overall.
Yeah, Facebook is better than Instagram.
Yeah, I guess they all come from the same place.
Instagram is not good for paying.
Instagram videos, you don't make any money at all.
No, they're like, here's your payout for 0.2 cents.
I'm like, thanks.
That's why I post pictures.
Yeah, all pictures.
Or post aeros sales.
Just post a picture with an arrow that goes, hey, there's a cool video right after this.
If you post a picture up front in the video second, you can.
get paid for that.
Do you have notifications on?
I don't.
Okay.
Well, for DMs, I do.
Okay.
Do you have notifications on?
No, but I wonder if, like, if I was tracking kind of to see, like, oh, let's see
if this video pops if notifications are...
Sometimes I don't want to know.
Sometimes if I, like, put a lot of effort into something or I think it's going to do
really well, I'll, like, post something and then I'll leave it.
Because I don't want to, like, sit there and refresh.
Does one ever not hit?
Sometimes.
Or at least not hit as hard as I thought it would.
and I can't even remember what that was
but weirdly sometimes I'll post something
and it won't pop off right away
and then I'll wake up in the morning
and it'll have done really well
so don't delete your post
sometimes when I post something and it doesn't pop off
I wake up in the morning and it still hasn't popped off
that happens too
and then the next day happens and it still hasn't
and then here we are
no pops
it just didn't pop
I look into the track list here
we have perfect
we have anthem good Charlotte
This is the anthem.
Lake of Park, Numb.
Is Helena, welcome to the Black Praet people?
My Kim.
My Chemical Romance.
Got it.
That one also had done really well online that I was like, we need to do this.
We need to get it recorded.
And then Fallout Boy, Sugar, we're going down.
Yeah, that was the first one that we ever did.
So we're going to wrap this episode up in a second.
And I can't put it on Netflix, but I can't.
clip it.
We didn't run this by you.
Could you just give me a little chorus of sugar we're going down?
Yeah.
The, okay.
Not the fallout, your version.
Okay.
Yeah.
But not the beginning.
Yeah, no, you can do whatever you want.
I just don't want to ask too much of you.
Yeah.
That's why I'm being sensitive.
I'm like getting into my character.
So, yeah.
You can do as much or as little as you want, but I don't want to push you to go, you
must sing.
Do you see what I'm battling here?
Okay.
I would love sugar.
We're going down.
I love fallout.
Yeah, I'm trying to remember what key that I started.
You want to give her a key?
Yeah.
I throw her off completely.
Dang, that's so good.
Dang, that's so good.
And we're so jaded because we get to hear everybody all the time.
So for us to feel this way, because we really do, like that gives me chills.
I haven't closed my eyes.
Have you heard the, I know you can't play it, but have you heard the recorded version?
That you've done?
Yeah.
No.
You should listen to it because it gives you that, like, cinematic.
movie feel like my producer cole he's he's really amazing and he I don't know anything about this stuff
like when he asked me he messaged me and said do you want to record these he DM'd me I had never
met him we had been following each other and I was like yeah and he just took everything that I would
have wanted and put it in the track and it's just it feels magical and that's really fun I mean this
feels magical it really does thanks so I am a genuine fan because again I was
I was talking about your stuff months and months ago.
And then...
You know, someone messaged me and told...
Like, I had a flooded DMs.
Like, I heard you on Bobby Bones.
Really?
Yeah.
Oh, that's nice.
And I was like, oh, what did he say?
And they were talking about you singing like a Disney princess.
I was like, yeah.
Yeah, I was playing like in your car singing.
Yeah.
Because it was so good and raw, right?
And everything's so polished on social media.
Or a lot of stuff so polished.
And especially when it comes to performing.
Yeah.
But it was so raw and it was like such a wholesome feeling.
and it was also songs I really liked.
So it was that perfect stew.
Yeah, you're awesome.
I hope that people stream this record like crazy
and I hope you get to do whatever it is
your heart desires as far as with Disney.
Thank you so much.
That's so cool.
That's so cool.
So for those that are watching on Netflix
and you did not get to hear her do Fallout Boy.
It was awesome.
It was awesome.
And I'll put it up on my social.
So you just go actually listen to the records.
So the record is a really good one.
She's talking about.
But just to prove she actually can sing, we'll put the raw up as well.
It was like I was nervous when I was doing that.
No.
No.
Sorry, who's shaky.
And it's also true.
I was like, follow Lauren.
I think people need to stop following or she has so many following.
Like, if you're watching, like, give her a little space, you know?
I just give her some room.
Congratulations on everything.
Thank you so much.
I really appreciate you coming up.
I'm obviously a fan.
And so this was super fun for me.
Eddie, anything?
I loved it, Lauren.
Yeah, I can't wait.
The tour.
The tour's going to be awesome.
Thanks, guys.
We're manifesting.
We'll open.
Yes, please.
Okay, there she is.
And we'll put some, on the, if you're listening to audio podcast, we'll put the notes down on the bottom so you can kind of find everything.
All right.
Thank you guys.
And we will see you next week.
Bye, guys.
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