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00:00:05 Speaker 1: What is up, guys. Welcome to post Friend. 00:00:07 Speaker 2: Hi. 00:00:08 Speaker 1: I'm here with Chelsea and Jeremy. 00:00:09 Speaker 3: I want you guys to just take like three minutes each and kind of walk us through your backstory where you grew up and how you got into music. 00:00:16 Speaker 2: I grew up in Connecticut and music was just kind of always the center of our household. Neither of my parents are like particularly musical, but they just always had Bruce, the Beatles, the Stones playing at all times and took us to concerts, Like my first concert was like Bruce Springsteen when I was two years old. 00:00:37 Speaker 1: That's so cool. And you also had a sporty background too, right, you were a soccer player. 00:00:40 Speaker 4: Yeah that's true. 00:00:41 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and you went to Amherst for soccer. 00:00:43 Speaker 4: Yeah, d three. 00:00:44 Speaker 2: So that's why my miles are thirteen minute miles. But okay, hey, what are you gonna do? 00:00:49 Speaker 4: Yeah? 00:00:50 Speaker 3: And so it's cool that you always had the combination of music and sports, like you had kind of two sides to you. 00:00:54 Speaker 2: Music was kind of always the thing that I just did for fun, and now it's the forefront of my life. So most of my adult life has been figuring out what do I want to do for fun. 00:01:05 Speaker 4: Now that, like my hobby has turned into my profession. 00:01:10 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:01:10 Speaker 3: I feel like that's such a good problem to have though, Like when you love work because it is just so fun to create things, and totally it's really cool when you're able to monetize that and like get paid. 00:01:19 Speaker 1: To do what you love. 00:01:20 Speaker 4: You know what you sound like my therapist. 00:01:22 Speaker 1: Really, Yeah, I feel like I've gotten out a lot. 00:01:24 Speaker 4: She's like, you, lucky bitch. Just enjoy your life. 00:01:26 Speaker 1: What do you do outside of music for fun? 00:01:28 Speaker 4: I don't know. 00:01:28 Speaker 2: I'm like trying to figure that out still, But as long as I'm with my friends, I'm usually pretty happy. 00:01:33 Speaker 1: Yeah, friends, dog outdoors. I love that. I feel like that's very you. 00:01:36 Speaker 4: And my dog. Yeah, my dog. 00:01:38 Speaker 1: Yeah, No, it's perfect. 00:01:39 Speaker 4: Okay. 00:01:39 Speaker 3: Jeremy Ovidio tell us about your early life and how you got into music. 00:01:42 Speaker 5: I grew up in New Jersey and my family wasn't particularly musical, but my parents made me take piano lessons when I was younger. I really didn't want to do it. I thought piano was lame, and eventually I really got intiplinquenty too on my own. Just my older brothers like gave me the CD and from then I was like, piano's really lame because I didn't hear a single piano in their music, and I begged my parents to get me guitar, and I started learning and started like writing my own like changing their songs to like to my own lyrics kind of, I would like rewrite existing songs. And then I started writing my own music, and then I was in bands, and then I was producing the music of my band because I was like learned on garage band. It was very like haphazard, and eventually I was like producing songs for my band that my band couldn't play. And then I was like why am I in a band? And then I started doing music on my own. 00:02:46 Speaker 4: Those poor guys are gonna hear. 00:02:49 Speaker 3: I've said that, Like, I mean, it's so cool, like you got to start somewhere, and I feel like also when you're younger, it is easier to start with a group of people that's like like minded totally also just like little fun fact but I'm from Glen Rock, New. 00:03:01 Speaker 1: Jersey, no way. I saw that today that you're from Franklin Lakes, and I was like. 00:03:05 Speaker 5: What I know that the glen Rock. 00:03:08 Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a big ass rock in I did, like, a it's like in the middle of town, in the center of town, and like sometimes the people in the town just like hold hands and they dance in a circle around this. 00:03:18 Speaker 5: That's cold tea. 00:03:19 Speaker 2: Honestly, I was going to say, like, we're all just little Sims characters. 00:03:24 Speaker 5: That rock was moved there from a glacier. 00:03:26 Speaker 4: Really whoa wait. 00:03:27 Speaker 5: I did like my fifth grade project on the glen rock. 00:03:31 Speaker 1: Oh my god, can you tell me anymore like about it? 00:03:34 Speaker 5: That's all I remembers thereby glacier. It's really really big. Yeah, it is a big I have a picture of me like in fifth grade in front of it. 00:03:40 Speaker 1: Go on like that. That's so cute, Jeremy, I literally love that. 00:03:44 Speaker 3: Okay, all right? And then when did you guys meet for the first. 00:03:48 Speaker 5: Time at a frat party at Yukon in twenty sixteen? 00:03:53 Speaker 4: Wow? 00:03:54 Speaker 3: And I saw online that before that you guys had been connected through SoundCloud? 00:03:59 Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I feel like there maybe should be context for the frat party too, because neither of us went to Yukon. 00:04:04 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I might walk me back. 00:04:06 Speaker 2: One of my best friends from high school went to Yukon and I just picked a random weekend to visit her, and she was hooking up with this whack ass guy in whatever frat. 00:04:16 Speaker 4: It was. 00:04:18 Speaker 2: A pie, Yeah, a pie, which I don't like. There was no Greek life at Ammer, so I don't understand Greek life at all. She made me go to this dartydarty, which. 00:04:28 Speaker 4: Was sick by the way. 00:04:29 Speaker 5: Yeah, it was really sick. So I got flown out with like two of my best friends to play a show to Like at that time, I'd been releasing music for like a year on SoundCloud, and I was actually like the drunkest ever been on stage. And I'm like not drinking on stage, but that was like an exception and it was really intense. And then I came off stage like kind of wobbly, and Chelsea comes up to me and she's like, I'm Chelsea Cutler, like we talk online, and I was like, what are you doing. 00:05:02 Speaker 4: That's how I introduced myself. I go, I'm Toty Keller. We talk online. 00:05:05 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I literally feel like the stars aligned that day, Like the fact that you guys ran into each. 00:05:11 Speaker 2: Other crazy, because like the circumstances were so peculiar. 00:05:16 Speaker 5: It's funny the kid that like flew me out to play at that party. Is now one of my really good friends. What Ben marenhal. 00:05:23 Speaker 1: Oh my god. By the way, okay, can I just give you a funny fact? 00:05:26 Speaker 3: Okay, So I'm engaged and my fiancee and I we met for the first the first date that we ever went on. You were with Ben Mareenthal at output and this was like six years ago. 00:05:37 Speaker 1: Do you remember that place? 00:05:38 Speaker 3: And I mean I didn't know at the time, but like, Jeremy and Ben are very good friends, and we're really good friends. 00:05:43 Speaker 1: With Ben and Ashley, and shout out Ben and Ashley. They were freaking and they're definitely gonna be watching this. But yeah, you were at our first date. 00:05:52 Speaker 3: So we always have this like afterwards, I was like such a little crackhead at that age that I don't even know what I was talking about. 00:05:58 Speaker 1: But now my fiancee always jokes. 00:06:00 Speaker 3: He was like, you were so busy talking about whatever the fuck you were talking about that you missed the fact. 00:06:04 Speaker 1: That Jerney Sucker was there. Wow. 00:06:07 Speaker 5: Yeah, that's nuts. 00:06:09 Speaker 1: Crazy. 00:06:09 Speaker 4: The world is so full. What's like invisible string. 00:06:13 Speaker 2: It's like you're connected to all these people and then like you're always gonna meet or something. 00:06:18 Speaker 4: I don't write. I don't really know. 00:06:21 Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, I mean you guys definitely like your interaction from SoundCloud too. 00:06:25 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's like, that's so weird that I was just visiting my friend the same weekend that you and that, like she was hooking up with that whack ass guy, and so we went to the API party. Yeah, they have to add up. 00:06:38 Speaker 3: And then also invisible String goes on because you guys met at that party and that was kind of the first in person interaction, but you guys didn't have to go on and collaborate after that, right, So. 00:06:47 Speaker 2: Well, not only that, but so we have the same management, the same label team, like everything in our careers just fairly has just has fallen into place together. 00:06:57 Speaker 4: Yeah, which is pretty crazy. 00:06:58 Speaker 5: No, but even both of us working with Jesse was random because I, like me and you had probably talked about management stuff and I was like, oh, blah blah blah, he's managing you, and I did not think about it at all. And the only reason I got linked with Jesse was because I collaborated with Mike Quinn ninety two crazy in like twenty sixteen, and then I wasn't really ready for a manager yet, and like I reached out to him like when I was ready, and then found out he was already managing you, and I was. 00:07:26 Speaker 2: Well, we were all hyping him up behind your back too, and we were like, Jeremy's music is so good, like you need to like you need to like get him to. 00:07:33 Speaker 4: Work with you. 00:07:34 Speaker 5: It's so funny. 00:07:35 Speaker 4: Yeah, it was really funny. 00:07:36 Speaker 3: Talk to me about the first time that you guys did collaborate together. What song was it that you guys worked on, and how did it come to be better Off? 00:07:42 Speaker 5: I think better Off? Yeah, yeah, So I think what happened was I had I ended up working at this like random studio in Connecticut called Stone Studio, and it was built in an old carriage house, and I guess we were messaging and we were about to collaborate for the first time, and I invited you up. We wrote a song together and it was better Off, and that was for my project at the time, and it was such a fun and effortless experience that we were talking again and we were like, why don't we just go to that same place and work on music together. And we went for three days or four days, and then that ended up being Brent and it became its own thing. 00:08:24 Speaker 1: Where'd you guys get the name Brent? 00:08:27 Speaker 5: What was what do you think the name of the street was. It was like Brent something. 00:08:31 Speaker 2: Yeah, we were honestly, we were driving well, we drove into Millerton every day to get coffee. And then I because I remember being like, oh, it could be that street. 00:08:44 Speaker 5: You know, we wanted to name it after the place because the place inspired the music. 00:08:49 Speaker 3: And it's so cool that Brent has become such a fan favorite for you, Like people get so excited when you guys do anything together. And now you're about to release the third Rent project. 00:09:01 Speaker 1: Bret number three. 00:09:02 Speaker 4: Right, yeah, so talk. 00:09:03 Speaker 1: To me about Brett number three. 00:09:05 Speaker 2: Well, I think maybe the most important thing about it is that it ended up becoming a full length album. It wasn't even like a conscious decision. I feel like we just started writing songs and they were all We just liked all of them. 00:09:17 Speaker 5: I kept saying it from the beginning, and I remember Jesse was like, are you sure you want to? 00:09:22 Speaker 2: Well, I was very reluctant to commit to an album, not because I didn't want to make an album, but because, like I think, I was really nervous and apprehensive about like changing the structure or like the identity of Brent in any way. So I was really nervous about it being an album. But then like we had all of these songs that were so special and I couldn't imagine us not using them. 00:09:50 Speaker 5: Worked out great. 00:09:51 Speaker 3: Yeah, all of your songs are so emotional and they really tell a story. I love listening to them because it's like you're listening to an individual story that you feel like you've gone through. So I'm curious, like, how do you guys go about writing your lyrics. Is it a combination of experiences or are you just drawing from general experiences you know people have gone through. 00:10:10 Speaker 2: I feel like it's a really nice like seesaw of like we'll have really honest conversations about things going on in both of our lives. Like I remember Jeremy and I were kind of talking about things going on in your life and I was like, no, let's lean into that, let's write about that. And then there are times where we're talking about things that are going on in my life and Jeremy will kind of encourage me and like us as a duo to lean into that too. So I think there's a really nice push and pull. 00:10:35 Speaker 5: With that, we'll have like a concept that works for both of us, and we each kind of write our own like stories about it. 00:10:43 Speaker 2: I think at this point too, like we have so much trust in each other that sometimes Jeremy will kind of spitball, you know, a stanza of lyrics or a spitball, like a bunch of lyrics, And at this point, for the most part, we'll either be like, that's really cool, or we'll tweak like tiny words here and there. But for the most part, I think we have a lot of faith in each other's judgment. 00:11:06 Speaker 4: Yeah. 00:11:07 Speaker 3: No, it's so cool to know that you guys both go on your own and write stories about the subject that you want to create a song on, and then it kind of weaves together what is like a typical studio session when you're in the initial stages of writing a song look like for you guys. 00:11:19 Speaker 2: Oh man, I feel like when we start to catch something that feels really magic, like we both know right away. 00:11:26 Speaker 5: I know pretty much like how it starts. Usually it's like we'll be fiddling around and then Chelsea will play something and I'll be like, what was that, And She'll be like, I don't know, I just made it up. 00:11:36 Speaker 2: Yeah, Jeremy will like throw something down that that will just loop and like there's an energy in the room based off that that feels really magic. One of Jeremy's like best talents is creating like really beautiful and provocative like textures, And I feel like I'll usually sit down at the piano or pick up a guitar and just start spitballing with terrible things like I just freestyled, like. 00:12:01 Speaker 4: I want to know why I think, and just. 00:12:04 Speaker 2: Like all those things, and then we voice note it and just jam for like five minutes, and then we look at each other and we're both like like. 00:12:14 Speaker 1: You did it, Oh my god. 00:12:15 Speaker 3: I mean, and when we're like looking at the Brent projects, like there's been so many iconic songs that have come out of it that people have gone crazy over right, like you were good to me, this is how you fall in love? What was one of your favorite songs to create together? 00:12:28 Speaker 2: It's just so it's so funny because every song that we've made together that feels special, it's the same formula, like one of us starting with like a diddle or a texture and the other one just freestyling and then we're like, what was that? 00:12:43 Speaker 4: M every single time. 00:12:45 Speaker 5: The magic for the first project, you were good to me. It was my favorite and I and I think we were both very reluctant to try to beat it, and like we both wanted to. 00:12:57 Speaker 4: I think it was the first song that we wrote. 00:12:59 Speaker 3: I think, so, yeah, that's interesting the idea of trying to beat it because you're like, this is so good, Yeah, how do we I mean another one on this album that's going to be even better? 00:13:08 Speaker 5: Kind of thing. That was the mentality behind Brent too, was like, Okay, we did such a good job the first time without knowing what we were doing, without trying, and so we were like, okay, now what can we do if we really try? And at first that kind of like it was an obstacle because we kind of tried too hard and like. 00:13:28 Speaker 2: There was a day we didn't speak, like Jeremy lay in the hammock and I laid in the grass, like but that you have to have this not in like not in a grumpy with each other way, but like just depleted. 00:13:38 Speaker 5: I think yeah, And I like and I pushed you a lot to like try harder, and I think it just like didn't. 00:13:46 Speaker 2: I do my absolute best when I'm trying like a mid amount. 00:13:51 Speaker 5: Yeah, and I do my best when I'm trying a lot. So like it was, that was just something that we had to kind of get through. But I remember we had a couple of really good songs for Brent too, and then we went to my studio at the time in Greenpoint and I didn't want to like put any pressure on it. I was just like, let's see, like if we could do one more song for this project, and we wrote this how You Fall in Love. Chelsea sat down at the piano and played like. 00:14:18 Speaker 2: No, remember you told me to freestyle? What song was it? You were like just hum things at the beginning. It was maybe parent song. 00:14:28 Speaker 5: Oh oh yeah, oh my god, I forgot this. 00:14:35 Speaker 2: Jeremy told me to sit down and just style hums into a microphone and then you said. I was just like, oh mo, so two side for no fucking reason at all, and Jeremy stops me right there and goes, that's a song. 00:14:49 Speaker 4: Piano. 00:14:49 Speaker 3: Now, Okay, so let's talk about Brent three. When does the Brent three album come out November? 00:14:56 Speaker 5: Because Brent three I I November eleven, first one, So I is eleven. 00:15:04 Speaker 1: One ones are a good number. 00:15:05 Speaker 5: Great angel eleven one. 00:15:07 Speaker 2: So I have an angel number tattooed on my neck and I truly don't know what it means. 00:15:10 Speaker 1: I saw the Angel number. 00:15:11 Speaker 4: I don't know. 00:15:11 Speaker 2: I saw it on interested it's four for four. I genuinely don't know what it means. But one one one? Maybe I should have gotten that? 00:15:19 Speaker 3: And Sid, should we do a little preview of what's to come in front three? 00:15:23 Speaker 4: Yeah? 00:15:23 Speaker 1: Sure's I'm so excited. 00:15:46 Speaker 3: Oh my god, pretty good. 00:15:52 Speaker 1: It's pretty good. Don't know, that's just one of them guys. 00:16:06 Speaker 5: Things have faced theorld on my own. How can I ever survive thout? You beside me soon? 00:16:23 Speaker 3: No? Hi? Shot? 00:16:32 Speaker 5: How you see. 00:16:37 Speaker 1: That? 00:16:38 Speaker 5: Said? 00:16:42 Speaker 3: How is h that? S? 00:16:58 Speaker 1: She said? 00:17:07 Speaker 3: Vibes vibes, vibes are high. Oh my god, it's so good. Thank you so much for joining me today. You guys are the freaking best. 00:17:14 Speaker 1: I cannot wait. 00:17:16 Speaker 3: I really can't wait to stream your new album