Country artist Dariann Leigh talks about her latest music, her ultimate goal as a singer-songwriter, growing up with three older brothers, the worst thing she did as a kid, and much more in this episode of the Bored and Curious Podcast.
Find Dariann's music and social media links here:
https://www.dariannleigh.com/
Listen to and follow the Bored and Curious Podcast here: https://linktr.ee/boredandcuriouspodcast
Episode guide:
0:00 Intro & Upbringing
1:55 Early musical influences
2:25 What did you want to be as a kid?
3:16 First song you wrote
4:23 Dream collab
5:24 Ultimate career goal
6:12 Story behind the song "10,000 Miles"
8:01 Story behind the song "Let Me Go"
9:24 Behind the scenes - Dariann's YouTube channel
11:42 Whatcha watchin'?
15:17 Favorite movie
16:35 Favorite song
17:20 Celebrities in Nashville
19:15 Bucket list
21:44 Celebrity crush
22:47 Worst thing you did as a kid
26:13 Riskiest thing you've done
27:18 Could you not?
29:52 New music video!
Country artist Dariann Leigh talks about her latest music, her ultimate goal as a singer-songwriter, growing up with three older brothers, the worst thing she did as a kid, and much more in this episode of the Bored and Curious Podcast.
Find Dariann's music and social media links here:
https://www.dariannleigh.com/
Listen to and follow the Bored and Curious Podcast here: https://linktr.ee/boredandcuriouspodcast
Episode guide:
0:00 Intro & Upbringing
1:55 Early musical influences
2:25 What did you want to be as a kid?
3:16 First song you wrote
4:23 Dream collab
5:24 Ultimate career goal
6:12 Story behind the song "10,000 Miles"
8:01 Story behind the song "Let Me Go"
9:24 Behind the scenes - Dariann's YouTube channel
11:42 Whatcha watchin'?
15:17 Favorite movie
16:35 Favorite song
17:20 Celebrities in Nashville
19:15 Bucket list
21:44 Celebrity crush
22:47 Worst thing you did as a kid
26:13 Riskiest thing you've done
27:18 Could you not?
29:52 New music video!
Hi, everyone. Welcome to Bored and Curious. I'm your host, Mary Katz. On today's episode, we have Dariann Leigh. She is a new country singer song writer in Nashville. Today she's going to tell us about some new songs that she has put out recently. One is called 10,000 miles and it is a little bit of a tear-jerker y'all, especially if you know somebody in the military and you miss them a little bit. She'll tell us about her songs and we'll get to know her a bit more with some personal questions. Hope you guys enjoy. Let's get started. Well, uh, Darian, welcome to Bored and Curious. I, uh, yeah, pretty excited to have you here today. And, um, we're gonna have some fun, we're going to talk about your songs and whatnot. Um, you are a singer songwriter in Nashville, correct? Awesome. Well, let's start by telling me, uh, where'd you grow up? Give us some background.
Dariann Leigh:Yeah. I grew up in a very, very small town. Now you hear that all the time. Like the I'm from a small town, but it's actually like a lot of people. And you have a Walmart in your town. I'm talking like small town with no stoplights, no nothing. You hanging out at a gas station, that's like your place, small town, a very, very small town in Northern Minnesota and was really always interested in music and always found that that was kind of my way of getting through things in life or even just in school, like learning. I struggled with keeping up with everybody else sometimes. And so I would make songs out of math, whatever it might be. And it just became really clear to me throughout my life. Music was like the path that I was heading on. And it was always something that was there and it was just so much of a natural choice for me to get into music is right through my entire life. I have three older brothers, they were into like theater, sports, like all of it, full rounded circle. And I feel like I was raised with so many different options and music was always the one that was right in front of my face, screaming, like, look at me, look at me. It's fun to be doing it now, especially looking back at things from then when I was younger thinking about it. It's really cool.
Mary Katz:Right. So, uh, what were some of your, um, early influences musically?
Dariann Leigh:Oh, I am like the classic Johnny Cash Shania Twain girl, like throw it back to like the early earlies, but not crazy early; like my childhood timeframe. I mean, I've always got like Dolly Loretta, everybody in there. And growing up with such a large family, I feel like I got a huge taste in different genres of music, but Shania and Johnny are like my steadfast ones. Always.
Mary Katz:I love it. So I would normally ask what you wanted to be with when you were a kid, but you found music pretty early on. Was that the only thing that you were interested in or at one point where you're like, I want to be a teacher or, uh, anything else?
Dariann Leigh:I think like any kid you think about a million things and I was the kid that was, I'm going to be this, and then I'm going to do that. And then I'm also going to do that. And then this as well. Like I was the trying to overachieve in like my mind. And so I actually, when I went to college, starting out, I did go into actually English education, which is funny because I write music. So it just kind of coincides in a way. And yeah, that was my first ambition for a little bit, just because you hear so much, you know, go to school, do all these things, like the typical cross out the checklist kind of thing. But music was definitely the thing from when I was young.
Mary Katz:Oh, awesome. So, do you remember the first song that you wrote?
Dariann Leigh:Painfully.
Mary Katz:That takes to be the answer I get on that one.
Dariann Leigh:It is because for me, music is so personal. Like the writing is so personal and actually just a few days ago, I was at home with my parents and I was going through my old journals of writing music. And I found one of my first ones. And it's all just about. Like who hurt me when I was 13? Like, why is it so deep? Like what is happening in my life right now? That that's what I was writing about. And I was actually talking with friends about it too. It's like, you read it. And at the time it feels so real, which is beautiful because you found your outlet, but you look at it now and I'm like, this is painful, like crud.
Mary Katz:Oh my goodness. I'm going to guess. Did you get your heartbroken or something? And you just had to get a Taylor Swift it, ya know.
Dariann Leigh:Yeah. Yeah. Literally right on.
Mary Katz:So um living in Nashville, right? You're you're living in Nashville. Perfect. Yeah. Um, is there someone in the industry who you haven't worked with yet, but you really want to?
Dariann Leigh:Ooh. There's a lot. I feel like the list is always growing.
Mary Katz:And it doesn't even have to just be like a singer or songwriter even within the music industry that maybe people don't even know about. Cause I mean, I think that pe- one goal here in me doing a podcast is for people to understand there's more than, you know, singers in Nashville. Like there's, there's a lot, there's a lot that goes on behind the scenes. There's producers. There's right uh, record label executives and the gamut. So if you get a list, rattle them off, girl. We got it.
Dariann Leigh:Heck yeah. I want to write with Shane McAnally. That's a huge goal of mine because he's just like killing it all the time and I'm like, listen, I think I need to write with you like with so many other people too. He's definitely been one of my like goal writers to write with.
Mary Katz:Awesome. Yeah, he does fill out a lot of good stuff. Um, Would you say that you have an ultimate goal in the industry? Like what, what's the thing that when you look in your future, you're like, that means I made it? That's the thing that needs to happen.
Dariann Leigh:Yeah. I grew up watching the Grand Old Opry a lot as a kid and listening to it on the radio, whether it be with my parents, my grandparents. That was my request. When we're driving. Let's play the Grand Old Opry. I need to listen. I need to know who's singing tonight. And I toured it when I was like 17 and it's just become like a huge thing for me that I've always wanted to do for me. That's like the big. The second you step on the circle kind of thing for me is that's like the holy grail.
Mary Katz:Absolutely. It's a pretty, a pretty common goal in that the music industry too.
Dariann Leigh:It's a beautiful goal to have too!
Mary Katz:Oh yeah. We can move into the story behind this song. Um, one of your most recent releases is called 10,000 miles, which is beautiful.
Dariann Leigh:Yes.
Mary Katz:So go ahead and tell me the story behind that one.
Dariann Leigh:Yeah. I wrote that one actually while at CRS and not at it, but that night. Um, CRS, as anybody knows, it's a lot of shaking hands. You're doing a lot of things. Keeping really busy, like talking huge socializing event. And the person that I loved was currently deployed at the time. And so it was kind of this thing of you're doing all these awesome things and you're grateful for it, but at the same time, you're like, I want to call you and I want to talk to you about it. But I can't. And so it was just this moment of not even really knowing how to spit out what I needed to spit out and like all these things I wanted to talk about. Cause I was proud of what I was doing and I still am. And it's basically just my write of wherever you are like, my love is there. And it's been really beautiful to watch people relate to it since its release, just because it's one of those things, when you're going through it, it feels so alone and personal, but you look on it from kind of a different looking glass and you can see that it's so similar to other people's experiences, too.
Mary Katz:Right. And for the folks at home who don't know, tell us what CRS.
Dariann Leigh:Yeah, CRS is country radio seminar. So you're meeting all the people, shaking all the hands, thinking quite a bit if you're getting performances and things like that, but you're also watching really awesome shows, concerts, prom by great artists, listening to what they have to say about the industry. It's really cool. It's a lot of information for sure.
Mary Katz:Yeah. Um, it's probably like I'm trying to take a drink from a, a fire hydrant
Dariann Leigh:Literally is. Quite literally.
Mary Katz:Alright. And so the next song would be, let me go. Tell us the story behind that one.
Dariann Leigh:Yes. The flame to the fire for sure is let me go. I wrote that song with Emily Fortney and Sky Claire. They had previously written wherever I go from me, which was my single in 2019. And it was really cool to sit down with them and to write a song with them and just kind of see their whole process because we all write very similarly, which makes us push so much more for a better song, which I appreciate because there's so many times where you can write something and you walk away not feeling proud of it, but they're going to make sure that you walk away feeling proud of it. And we're talking about chapters in life, seasons people in your life. Ready to take the next step from, to get away from whether it just be breakups, ending a friendship, whatever it might be. And for us, it was relationship wise. And just looking forward to the next thing where somebody was toxic for you and they can be great outside of your relationship. It can be perfectly fine, but together you don't make a right set. And you're looking for the future and trying to get out of that. And it just talks about kind of starts out with a, you showed up at my door for a box of your things. Lays it all out plain and clear from there, which is really cool. Because again, with that song, I also saw so many people that were like, yes, yes. I've felt these things. I've done these things too. Like I too want to move on and it's cool. That's the power of music. I love it.
Mary Katz:Absolutely. And speaking of a box of your things you tend to do, uh, some behind the scenes stuff on your YouTube channel. Um, yeah. Yeah. Uh, showing, you know, content shoots and, and whatnot. So tell us about that. So people can check it out.
Dariann Leigh:Yeah, I grew up when YouTube was really becoming a huge thing. I remember watching Taylor Swift on a little computer in my parents' basement when I was a kid and being like, this is amazing. I'm able to watch these music videos on here. I don't have to wait for it on TV. This is awesome. And growing up, I like that was my thing. Like I watched YouTube videos and so getting older, I realized how cool it is to see like the behind the scenes. And when I started doing all these things, I totally need to film this a because I want to be able to see it one day, like looking back and be because I just think it's so cool and people don't always get to see that. There's such a disconnect sometimes between you and your audience. And sometimes I find that it's just that you don't open up the door for them to see that. And I just think it's so fun to film it just because you see like the funny stuff, the, oh, this person was supposed to do this, but literally fell and we're cutting a tree and all these things, like, let me go. Absolutely crazy that one I'm still working on, which is so cool. And the fun thing is it's me doing it. So it feels really personal because it's literally me and I'll have like a friend or even my mom sometimes will film for me from behind the scenes and it just keeps it fun. You know? It's like, it's more fun I feel like when other people are doing it for you and it's not you filming it just cause you really get to see all the behind the scenes. And I think it's cool. You got to see some behind the scenes work.
Mary Katz:Absolutely. Yeah. I think you're right about connecting with the audience and, um, and kind of showing them that, you know, what it takes to, you know, do a photo, shoot what it takes to make a music video and all of that. Cause you know, I, I think some people don't really realize everything that goes into it. Just like a simple lighting setup. Whenever, you know, you have a light that breaks 30 minutes before you're recording a podcast and you're like,
Dariann Leigh:Or it just shines really weird It's the worst! Or you set it up and it looks great. And now I'm like, Whoa What happened?
Mary Katz:Oh, gosh Yup. Keeps it fun. All right. So real moving. Yeah. Moving into, um, just for fun. Let's get to know you a little bit. Um, if you're watching anything on TV or YouTube or Netflix, or what have you, um, whatcha watchin'?
Dariann Leigh:Right now, I kind of go through series when I'm able to actually watch series. And recently I've actually been into watching all the Marvel movies. Which is very random for me. Cause I go through like, I'll be all stranger things, you know, all, whatever crown, whatever it might be. And recently I was like, Marvel movies are pretty decent. Like this is an entertaining time I can laugh. It can be dramatic for a second. I don't know what's happening freaking out for a second. And then it's back to funny. So like keeps you on the edge of your seat, but it also is Halloween season right now. And so I'm also still. Getting into the spooky scaries too, but not too scary. Cause then I won't sleep at night.
Mary Katz:So like Hocus Pocus, Hocus.
Dariann Leigh:Okay. Hocus Pocus used to terrify me when I was a child. It was like the VHS would sit in our cupboard and I would hide it in the very back because seeing like the cover made me like, oh no, this is too much for me.
Mary Katz:Was it a zombie guy that freaked you out? Billy?
Dariann Leigh:No! I thought he, I felt bad for Billy as a kid and I still do, but it's always them sitting like that terrified me. I don't know what was about it, but as a kid, I was like, no, not doing that!
Mary Katz:Well it might like, you know, it might be because they wanted to, you know, suck the life out of all the children in the town. That's a little terrifying when you're a child.
Dariann Leigh:I envisioned that in my head. We have like a broken down building in my town that looks almost identical to that, but much more broken down. And every time I pass by it, I was like, they're in there and it's going to happen. And nobody can go in there because that can not happen here. Not today. Like that was me as a kid. And now it's, I don't know. I can watch scary stuff. I watched the, what was it recently? It was the blind man or all of those. All of those kinds of movies. And then the, what was that? Recent shows? Midnight mass, which like confused me, but also threw me through so many different loops. I don't know if you've seen it, but it's like craziness.
Mary Katz:No. What is that?
Dariann Leigh:Netflix. It's like this show where. And it was so weird because I didn't know what I was getting into at first. Cause they make it seem like it's very like religious space. And I was like, all right, you know, I can get into whatever, but then it turns into like, I don't know if these people are turning into like zombies or what's happening, but like just weird things start happening on this island. I mean, if you have to watch it to know, because I have like, or vampires or something, I have, it's weird. Like it is one of those, like you walk when you're. Yeah. I don't know if I would have chose that to begin with, but because I started watching it, I had to know what was happening.
Mary Katz:Okay. That was me with manifest. I watched the manifest, I mean, and you get, you know, a couple seasons in, I don't even think it takes a couple seasons you're like, you know, you're like it's taken a turn, but I'm invested. So I have. Yeah,
Dariann Leigh:I'm glad that they've yeah,
Mary Katz:they're moving forward with the fourth season and I'm like, what are they going to do? Right.
Dariann Leigh:How do you, this just look like you don't even know if you want to continue to know, but you like subconsciously already know, you know, you're like, all right here, I guess we'll watch.
Mary Katz:Yeah.
Dariann Leigh:Yep. Like you in just enough, they know exactly what they're doing. Oh
Mary Katz:yeah, absolutely. Um, so if you have a favorite movie, what is it?
Dariann Leigh:Ooh. I mean, I can always go with the classic walk the line, that kind of movie right now. I'm like all over the board with movies. I've been watching all kinds of them, like nighttime to turn on a movie it's fall. So it feels like the perfect time to watch movies. But I think walk the line is like kind of my OG like always go back to it kind of thing.
Mary Katz:Yeah. Oh, that's absolutely a good one. Oh God. Those, the, the, um, the table saw seen I'm like, cause like I have kids now I have three kids and I'm like, It freaks me out, man.
Dariann Leigh:Yeah. Right. But I realize that's a fun, not that seems specific, but the movie is really fun to be like, uh, you haven't seen this movie, let me show you this movie. And you'll also fall in love with it. Like I do. It's one of those classics where it's like, you have to see it at some point.
Mary Katz:Oh yeah. Yeah. Especially to understand the tension between Johnny Cash and his father. It's like, why aren't they? So like at odds with each other. You find out, um,
Dariann Leigh:um, watch it to understand it things.
Mary Katz:Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Um, if you have a favorite song was, and this is, oh my I know asking like a singer song writer, this. Let me send you a Google doc with 50, right?
Dariann Leigh:Literally right now I go through sprints of like listening to much older music all the way to like right now. And I'm very much so in a heavy, like middle right now, I've been listening to a lot of, oh gee, a lot of OG Shania as well, which has been like, I feel like I always go through that. But one of my favorite like original albums of hers. I like the Home Ain't Where His Heart Is Anymore, I feel like it's just written really beautifully and the melody is just keeps you there. It's good.
Mary Katz:Yeah. Um, so what you're living in Nashville, have you had a chance to meet any of, you know, the staples out there?
Dariann Leigh:It's always random because it's very unexpected. Like. I'm not the one to come up to people. Cause I'm like, I respect your privacy. I'm not going to be like all up. And you're like, sir, sir, man, whatever. Like I'm very much like, uh, oh, there's that person. And I just go on with my day. Like I'm very, I saw this thing yesterday where it's like on the outside, you're cool. Calm and collected. But on the inside you're squirrel trying to collect all the peanuts that are falling from a tree. Like that's basically me. So when I see it, I'm like, hi. I'm going to go over here because I don't want to. So I've ran into you. I once ran into, I don't know if you're familiar with the whole like Kardashian thing, but I ran into their Food God friend in Nashville once, but it was
Mary Katz:Jonathan Cheban? Cheban? Jonathan is it Cheh-ban or Sheh-ban? I can't pronounce his last name.
Dariann Leigh:One of the first few times where I visited Nashville at the time. And I'd walked out of Jason Aldean's. Is that my mom's like, oh my gosh. That's and I'm like, yeah, there we go.
Mary Katz:Yeah. I mean, when I was in college, I used to, I think this was college. Um, I used to watch his show, uh, that he had with the guy, his name was Simon, I think, um, the spin crowd or something where they were doing PR stuff. Yeah. I used to watch. Yeah, no, I, I, I watched the Kardashians a lot whenever I was in college. Yeah.
Dariann Leigh:It's like a of time. Everybody goes through it. I refuse to believe that most people don't go through it at some point where they're like reality television, whether it be them or somebody else, they have to be sucked in at some point, eventually get some sort of reality.
Mary Katz:The thing is that the thing is they won't admit it.
Dariann Leigh:Right. Exactly. Exactly. Whether it be like cake boss or just kind of reality or whatever it might be, everybody gets sucked in at some point. Yup.
Mary Katz:So, uh, what is at least one item on your bucket list?
Dariann Leigh:An item on my bucket list, growing up with three older brothers, I feel like I've been chasing this cat keeping up with the boys kind of thing, because my brothers were very much into like adrenaline rush stuff, like building zip lines out of a tree house and having me be their test. And I was, I don't know if it ever went smoothly, but that was like my childhood I used to, and I can decide if I still am interested in going skydiving, but I think I might be still interested in going skydiving. Just because it seems like something, but I'm also like if the plane is working, why am I jumping out of it? You know? Just to complete different parallels, but I'm pretty sure that might still be something like my bucket list is like not the career, like can be career based, but it can also just be like pure insanity where people are like, no, no, listen, you don't need to do things. I would love to go to like Tahiti or something like that. Right. That seems a little bit more chill than jumping out of a plane.
Mary Katz:Yeah. I don't understand adrenaline junkies. Cause I'm just like, I don't do roller coasters or like if a ride spins a little bit. I'm okay. But outside of that, I'm like none of, none of, none of no vertical situations.
Dariann Leigh:None of the upside down stuff? I hear you, but I've accidentally taken part in rides that go upside down and I nearly left. Mm, but the man behind me reminded me of my dad and he's like, listen, honey, you can do it. And I'm like, all right, because he said so I'll give it a shot because you a complete stranger said that I should be able to do it. I'll give it a shot.
Mary Katz:Oh gosh. no, my kids are way too. Like my oldest son, he's five. Uh, he's like me. He's very cautious, but my other, my other two, my other son is four and my baby girl is too. They it's just, they're too adventurous, especially for how small they are. Like, you know, you don't, that's that's for teenagers. Like you can't get on that. You know, my baby girl is looking at a rock wall and she goes, mama, I climb. I'm like, no, you don't. We go right down here.
Dariann Leigh:We don't climb here.
Mary Katz:Um, okay. This is one of my favorite questions to ask. Who's your celebrity crush.
Dariann Leigh:Oh, I was a kid. My oldest brother was, has always been very into Broadway and I grew up and I think one of the earliest Broadway productions I'd ever seen, like a movie of it was Phantom of the opera and it was Gerard Butler. And so if it's ever Gerard Butler, I'm like, I got you. Like, if it's a, if it's anything, but Gerard Butler hard pass. That was my thing is that as a kid, I was like, this man sings beautifully. I can't even see a quarter of his face, but he must be like crush worthy. First one that comes to mind.
Mary Katz:That's awesome. Yeah.
Dariann Leigh:The accent!
Mary Katz:Oh yeah, that'll do it, man. Come on. Like what's a girl to do.
Dariann Leigh:You can't compete. It's just great.
Mary Katz:No, I, I understand that one. Yeah. Um, so what's the worst thing you did as a kid? Oh, I have a feeling. This is going to be something that your brothers roped you into.
Dariann Leigh:This is very true. Somewhat, honestly, jumping out of tree houses when they said a zipline was connected to a tree. It wasn't, wasn't very smart. But I was also like a literal child. I was perfectly fine. Somehow. God bless. We're just fine. Don't know how that happened. But we used to like, so I come from a family of four, so there's not just like chasing one brother, two relatives, three older brothers. And so it's always like, uh, one of them is always up to something like any kid would be. We were, we grew up putting like a rope to a golf cart and holding onto it and putting rollerblades on as if you're skiing, but on land. And so like driving around our yard, like we come from the outside of a town, so like kind of country-ish. And so we had a fairly large yard to do these things. And we're probably far too young to be doing those sorts of things. We did that. I'm trying to think of other things, but it's all just kind of like nonsensery from outside. I grew up very outdoors all the time, but the jumping out of a tree house, believing that my brothers were trustworthy in that moment, at that age to have built a zip line, but to have failed was probably one of the, I don't think I ever trusted them completely in their building skills after that, that was like a hm..maybe not.
Mary Katz:So two questions to follow up on that one. One, how old were you? And two, how high up was this tree house when you jumped out of it?
Dariann Leigh:Oh, I'm talking like, oh geez. I don't like over eight feet, like, well, above eight feet. Cause it's like, uh, you picture not like the magic tree house, tree house. Like. Up here kind of built like people build their deer stands, like definitely elevated in the air kind of thing. I was probably like five or six. And so I was like very much so, like, I just want to keep up and have fun and play because it looks like they're having so much fun and falling and biffing in nearly breaking bones. I think I was the only one I actually am in my family. The only person that ever broke a bone, which is very ironic too, having older brothers that are very, just like. Going out for all things. I broke my wrist in second grade, falling out of a tree, which is also not surprising after hearing the zip line story.
Mary Katz:It's more so that I was waiting, like, I thought this story would end up with a broken bone.
Dariann Leigh:Right. But it didn't shockingly enough. And I'm still surprised by that because our, the way that we would strap ourselves in was kind of like a, I think it, those carabiners that come with just a little click. It was an attempt to be ingenuity, but it wasn't like fully engineered. Like you tied, you just clipped it onto the sides of your pants. Like jeans had the little belt buckle loops and you just clip that, and they're like, all right, you're set. And I was like, okay, this should be fun. Like, no question how it stops. Nothing like that. Like logic wasn't my question. At age five, I was just like my brothers say, it's going to be fun and I believe them and ground,
Mary Katz:and now you have trust issues.
Dariann Leigh:From my three older brothers.
Mary Katz:Oh, goodness. So, oh man, this, you might have the same answer for this one. Um, what's the most adventurous or riskiest thing you've ever done?
Dariann Leigh:Oh, I mean, that was pretty risky at age five. I don't know if I've really done anything crazy because I feel like I, in that moment, at that time, like, Physics and logic very quickly. So the rest of my life, I was kind of just like, you know, I'm, I'm satisfied watching these people do these things. I've gone zip, like actually zip lining. We went to Hawaii once when I was a kid, we went like legit zip lining, not my brothers built zip lines. And I don't know if that was really risky, but it's definitely a really good time, especially because it works.
Mary Katz:I mean, I think there's always some level of risk associated with being on a rope, essentially going through over foliage and stuff, you know, it's not-
Dariann Leigh:Right.
Mary Katz:A hundred percent that you're going to get on the other side, you could, you know, smack into a banana plant or something.
Dariann Leigh:True! Of all things.
Mary Katz:Oh gosh. All right. So moving on to, could you not, so just tell us what your like is essentially, you know, what is your pet peeves? What just gets under your skin? Tell the world to not.
Dariann Leigh:Oh, man, could you not? I don't love when people do the whole thing a lot, like click in their mouth. I think that starts at school. I had, I had gone through numerous teachers that had done that in school, and I think it drove all of us nuts because you're also a teenager in school, but I'm also just like a very organized person. And if you like disrupt my organization, I'm like, oh, You could have just like left it. I could have grabbed whatever you're looking for and it would have been left perfectly fine.
Mary Katz:Oh my God. I, if you ever decide to have kids,
Dariann Leigh:It'll completely be disrupted. I have little cousins that come over and just like disrupt all the peace.
Mary Katz:Kids. Yes. Yeah. Cause I wish I was more organized, but then I see what they do and I'm like, Hmm. Is it worth it? It's just going to
Dariann Leigh:Right.
Mary Katz:You know?
Dariann Leigh:It's a time. We had another story, random story. Um, again, a little cousins coming to town. I was at my parents' house and we had this little toy kitchen that my parents had gotten us when we were kids. And I thought it was so fun because nobody after COVID had really gotten together for so long. And so it's just enjoyable to be around them and the imagination of kids crazy and off the walls, but it's so beautiful because they don't have reins on their imagination, which is so cool. And seeing them like, just completely run through toys, like, because they're finally with the younger cousins again, like I came downstairs and the kitchen thing was just, everything was everywhere. And it was like, normally I'm the organization person, but I saw it. And I was like, these kids have finally been able to hang out with their cousins and I'm completely okay with picking this up for them. Like normally they would, but right now they're so focused on finally being together that I'm totally happy. Pick this up right now. Like doesn't even bug me. So I think it depends on times. Like there's a different appreciation, I think for it now, like when somebody comes like they're together finally, and I was like, whatever, like make a mess. Just don't be completely disruptive.
Mary Katz:Yeah. It's like, that's not the hill you want to die on. Right. It's like, right. You just got to let go, say your serenity prayer, little a
Dariann Leigh:breathe.
Mary Katz:Yeah. Little breathing. And move on. It'll be fine.
Dariann Leigh:Oh yeah.
Mary Katz:It's just stuff.
Dariann Leigh:Gotta do whatcha gotta do.
Mary Katz:All right. So those are all the questions I have. Um, so the floor is yours, whatever you got coming up. If you have new music coming out, new videos, new, um, if you've got some, some tour dates coming up, whatever you want to tell the people that like, Hey, this is what I'm doing. Go ahead and tell them.
Dariann Leigh:Heck. Yeah, let's do it. I've got the official lyric video for 10,000 miles. Typically you see that kind of thing come out day of, or really close to after the song, I've waited quite a bit because I wanted to be able to give everything its time, just cause the song. A different kind of advertisement for 10,000 miles. So it was military, coming home videos or photos of you with your service member, and put it all together and have lyrics with it. Cause the song for me is truly like a diary entry. And so why not like let it be what the story's already written about? I just appreciate the honor of being able to share such a special moment that is so heartfelt and being able to share that means a lot to me.
Mary Katz:The song itself, you guys are going to have to listen to it. Absolutely. You're going to get weepy. All right. So now she's starting talking about, the videos of the soldiers coming home, which gets me every time. God.
Dariann Leigh:Same same same! We're just sponsored by like Kleenex. Right? Like we gotta get that working cause it's definitely going to be necessary. Yeah. Oh gosh.
Mary Katz:Yeah. That's awesome. All right. Well, thank you so much for coming on today. This has been so much fun and, uh, look forward to yeah. Yeah. And I'll attach all your stuff and, um, your social links, your website, all that in the description, a YouTube channel, all of that. Y'all make sure you check all this out because she's a phenomenal singer. Um, she's got a bright future ahead of her. And um, that's all I got. So, um,
Dariann Leigh:Thank you for having me!
Mary Katz:Yeah. Thanks for, thanks for coming. This has been really fun.
Dariann Leigh:I enjoyed it.
Mary Katz:All right. Have a good one. You too. Bye. Bye. Well folks, thank you so much for checking out this episode of Bored and Curious. Make sure that you are subscribed to the YouTube channel and give us a follow over on social media. See you next time.