HARDY caught up with Billboard's Lyndsey Havens at the ACM Awards 2024.
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00:00 We are here with Hardy. How's it going?
00:02 Good.
00:03 One word. Love that.
00:05 What's your favorite and least favorite part about an award show like tonight?
00:09 Oh, that's a great question.
00:12 Favorite part is like just seeing all the homies.
00:17 Because you never get to do that ever.
00:20 It's like so rare.
00:22 Least favorite part is...
00:28 This is such a cliche answer, but it's so true. The hangover.
00:32 I got so drunk last night that I thought I got roofied. I'm not even kidding.
00:37 And it happens like once every five years.
00:41 And I literally woke up this morning and didn't know where I was.
00:44 I'm very hungover right now.
00:46 So we are in Texas at the ACMs. Thank you for being here.
00:50 Did you have this in your bingo card?
00:52 We talked about killing...
00:54 Yeah, I was going to say.
00:55 It just says "Kill Cheetahs" on your card.
00:58 So you with the Hick's Tape were part of this amazing song, Morgan Wallen, Post Malone.
01:03 Tell me a little bit about getting them together.
01:05 And now they have a single out.
01:07 Look, all that credit goes to Earn and Charlie Handsome, who's the songwriter.
01:14 I was just along for the ride.
01:16 I just got invited to some writing rooms and fortunately got to write some songs with them.
01:23 But it is very cool.
01:25 The one thing I will say about it is I have so much respect for Posty because he came to Nashville
01:32 and he immersed himself in our culture for like six months.
01:35 And he went to freaking Midtown every night and drank.
01:37 And he got up the next day and he wrote songs.
01:39 And he wrote with like Rhett Aikens and Josh Thompson, all these people that most people have never heard of.
01:45 But they're hit writers in Nashville and they're really good.
01:49 And he just took a shot on all these guys and he did it the right way.
01:54 And I just have a lot of respect for him for taking six months of his life that he could have done anything,
01:58 but he immersed himself into Nashville and he made a record based off of that.
02:02 And I just think that's the coolest thing in the world.
02:04 I don't know if I could do that.
02:06 Like go to L.A. and I don't know.
02:08 It took a lot of patience and just good on him for doing it the right way.
02:13 If you ever try L.A., we will welcome you with open arms.
02:16 I love L.A.
02:18 People are like, "Eh, L.A. I like L.A. L.A.'s fun.
02:21 I think it's beautiful.
02:23 So speaking of music for yourself, I know you're working on a rock project now.
02:26 What can you tell us?
02:28 I can tell you everything.
02:29 Tell us everything.
02:30 Literally because it gets announced tonight and I finally got the green light.
02:33 It's called, the album is called Quit.
02:35 It's 13 songs.
02:39 I've got Fred Durst on the album.
02:41 I've got Chad Smith from Red Hot Chili Peppers playing drums on a song.
02:45 There's no country songs on it, but I also--
02:50 none of this makes any sense, but my next country single is coming from this album.
02:56 It's called Six Feet Under and it's a song I wrote for my wife.
02:59 I don't know.
03:02 It's a big rock and roll album and I'm so freaking excited about it.
03:07 I'm so excited.
03:09 That's awesome.
03:11 It does make a bit of sense because country is rock and rock is country
03:14 and everything is just a melting pot right now.
03:17 Is there one artist you wanted to get on the album but you didn't,
03:20 but maybe for the next one?
03:26 No, I mean--
03:30 No.
03:33 My fever dream is--
03:36 or pipe dream, whatever the good one is, is Mike Shinoda from Ligon Park.
03:41 But I don't know.
03:43 I think it was perfect.
03:45 I don't know.
03:47 The last few months have been crazy and I've gotten to collab with so many people.
03:50 I'm just happy with everybody.
03:53 I'm not worried about anybody that wasn't on it or anything.
03:57 I'm just stoked that it just turned out the way it did.
04:00 I can't wait to hear it.
04:01 Thank you.
04:02 Thank you so much.
04:03 Have so much fun tonight.
04:04 I will.
04:05 Thanks.
04:06 Same to you all.