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Question: What is your favorite summer activity?
Ashley Cooke: I’m a big water girl. I love the ocean. I love the lake. I Love the pool, whatever it is. I love being near water. I like to wakeboard. I love to just lay out, read a book under the sun. Summer is my favorite season and I feel like the most me as soon as summer comes back around.
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Question: How does it feel playing the Opry?
Ashley Cooke: “It’s so special to get to play at the Grand Ole Opry, stepping in the circle every time. I mean, it’s never not just so special and incredible and feels like you step into history every time you do it. And the crowd is always so attentive. There’s just nothing quite like the Opry.”
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Question: Tell me how this new album is different than your first
Ashley Cooke: “Yeah, I think sonically it’s different. It has a lot of different flavors in it, which is fun because I didn’t want a record that sounded the same from top to bottom. So there’s definitely some different elements and different flavors and cool things about it that I got to experiment with. There’s a new producer on this record, Dan Huff produced it, and he’s a legend, an icon. He did a lot like Keith Urban and Rascal Flatts. He played guitar on Thriller. Like, he’s… Iconic and one of my great friends now, and he just, he crushed this record. So it was fun to get to work with a different producer. So it just kind of inherently, innately sounds different because of that. I just feel like it hits a little harder, you know? Like it just feels a little different and just a little more mature. And I think I just got really honest lyrically, which I didn’t not do on Shot in the Dark, but it just feel I really leaned into like the brutal honesty of every situation on this album.”
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Question: Are you an over packer or not?
Ashley Cooke: “Yeah, I would say pretty moderate. I feel like I typically would lean on over packing more so than I do light packing I just you never know, you know, there’s there’s been times where you’ve been on the road and You know, we get stuck in a snowstorm or stuck in something our flight gets canceled And we have like two extra days somewhere and I’m like, oh glad I packed an extra sweatsuit.”
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Question: What are some red & green flags?
Ashley Cooke: Ooh, that’s a great question. Red flags, I would say when they’re inconsistent, I think if somebody is interested in you and in a healthy way, they will be consistent with how they show up for you, show up, you know, for your time, they’ll pursue consistently, all of that. So I think red flags, that a red flag is inconsistency. I think using like Snapchat is a red flags. I really do, I think when guys are like, what’s your snap? And not like, what’s you number, it just gives me the ick. And then I think being rude to anybody. If they talk about other girls negatively to you, they’re probably talking about you negatively too. So, no, get away from me. Green flag, I would say if they’re close to their family, I’d say if they’re kind to you even when they don’t need to be. Like if they’re patient and kind to you in situations when maybe it doesn’t benefit them. I think that’s a really big green flag.