{"id":1465,"date":"2011-04-22T11:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2014-08-01T20:37:03","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T03:37:03","slug":"meet-the-worsties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/?p=1465","title":{"rendered":"Meet The Worsties"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Worsties are a Nashville based rock band. The Worsties are: Anna \u201cMadame Worsty\u201d Worstell on vocals, Jesse \u201cWorsty\u201d Worstell on guitar and bgv\u2019s, Jairo \u201cEl Guapo\u201d Ruiz on bass, Nathan \u201cFour to the Floor\u201d Shelton on Drums.They are gaining steam across the South and the Midwest with a very energetic live performance style and two successful EPs featuring songs like \u201cKitty Litter\u201d and \u201cDrop Your Panties and Roll\u201d gaining national acclaim through airplay and other forms of media. They are playing the MOTR Pub in Cincinnati at 9:00 on Saturday April 23rd<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Amy: I don\u2019t know if people in Cincinnati know a lot about you. Do you want to tell us a little bit about what the band is about and coming to Cincinnati?<\/p>\n

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Jesse: We have never been to Cincinnati. This is our first show there. I\u2019ve been there before with other bands and I\u2019ve always loved the city. I\u2019m excited to bring this band there and just show what I\u2019ve been talking about because we always hear about how awesome the scene is there in Cincinnati. We are a straight up rock band from Nashville, Tennessee. There\u2019s really no frills or anything too fancy in what we do. We like to put on a good show and get the crowd into a good mood and maybe help them party a little bit, dance a little bit.<\/p>\n

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Anna: Give them what they pay for. Perform on stage and have a good time.<\/p>\n

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Amy: You guys are pretty known around Nashville I know and other places for high energy performing. I saw it for the first time in Chicago opening for Kid Rock and Bon Jovi. Can you talk to us a little bit about what that experience was like and how that all came about?<\/p>\n

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Anna: Yeah, totally. We actually won a competition to play that show. We put our music on this site called Ourstage.com. Ourstage has been real good to us. They were fans of our music. We had a couple songs that were number one for a few weeks. Then they put on this competition where people could vote on getting the opportunity to open for Bon Jovi. I remember we were in Georgia on the road and Jesse came across the contest and was \u201cHey dudes I am going to sign us up for this.\u201d And we were all joking \u201cIt\u2019s gonna be killer when we open for Bon Jovi.\u201d And not really thinking of it but being positive anyway. And it came true. So we got a phone call that we won the contest to open for Bon Jovi at Soldier Field in Chicago. What was cool for me is I had never been to Chicago before. So my first experience going to Chicago was playing a gig at Soldier Field with Bon Jovi and Kid Rock. \u00a0So that was sort of surreal. The experience was awesome but it was a little bit of a tease for us all because it was one show. We wanted just to do our best and kill it. I feel we all acted very professional about it. Everybody backstage and Bon Jovi\u2019s manager told us how professional we were. It felt very natural. I\u2019m just glad we have that experience under our belt and hopefully there will be many more to come like that.<\/p>\n

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Amy: It was a great show. Very high energy.<\/p>\n

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Amy: You have a video and a song called \u201cKitty Litter\u201d that has gotten a lot of play. I saw an interview that the concept behind the song was \u201cGirls can be bitches\u201d and I thought that was the best line of the week. Can you tell me a little bit more about the song?<\/p>\n

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Anna: Yeah, sure. I mean that is sort of the basis of the song. Unfortunately from a little bit of experience. I called it \u201cKitty Litter\u201d just because that is the nastiest thing. People call girls catty. What\u2019s the nastiest part of the cat? That\u2019s just how \u201cKitty Litter\u201d evolved. I use a line in the song that it\u2019s a pretty little ribbon that\u2019s tied to a fatal disease. I write metaphorically, and that just sort of means that girls can come off as really pretty and friendly but once gossip gets involved, it can become deadly. It can bruise someone\u2019s ego or friendship or that sort of thing. That\u2019s basically what the song is about. Not all girls are like that, just some.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Amy:\u00a0 I\u2019d say most, at one point another we are all guilty I think. You guys just had a song featured on TV as well right?<\/p>\n

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Anna: You can barely hear it but it\u2019s so cool. It was on Burn Notice<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Amy: On USA. The TV show?<\/p>\n

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Both: Yeah.<\/p>\n

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Amy: What song was it?<\/p>\n

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Jesse: It was \u201cDrop Your Panties and Roll\u201d from our first EP Put Your Babe On<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Amy: And again, another song that I like. Can you tell me a little background what that song is about?<\/p>\n

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Anna: Oh yeah, that song was inspired by celebrities and paparazzi and how people are coming out of clubs and posing for cameras. It\u2019s how things can get crazy or dirty. It was written around the time that there was the Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, and Lindsay Lohan scandals wanting to show their coochies for the camera for exposure. That\u2019s why I say in the song, \u201cFilthy is as filthy does\/ Don\u2019t forget to pose for the camera\/ Raise your glass to the writer\u201d because the writer is basically gaining you fame for all of your bullshit. We weren\u2019t originally going to call it \u201cDrop Your Panties and Roll,\u201d but our witty bass player Jairo, I don\u2019t know, the most random shit comes out of his mouth. So I said, \u201cJairo, what do you think we should call this song?\u201d And within two seconds blurted out \u201cDrop Your Panties and Roll\u201d and we started laughing so hard and just kept the title. It was just convenient that that title was what I was writing about.<\/p>\n

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Amy: You guys have a fairly new EP out right?<\/p>\n

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Jesse: Yeah, it came out March, just a little three song EP. Amy: What are the three songs on there?<\/p>\n

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Anna: We feature \u201cLet\u2019s Go,\u201d \u201cParty Dress,\u201d and \u201cXOXO.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Amy: Do you guys write your stuff?<\/p>\n

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Jesse: Yeah, the guys usually write all the music and will have a full song figured out or Jairo will have the song musically figured out or if we don\u2019t we\u2019ll kind of jam on it, a rift that either one of us has come up with. Then once we get that solid, we\u2019ll bring it to Anna and just jam on it til she gets some words and melodies flowing. So everyone contributes musically, then we let Anna do her magic lyrically.<\/p>\n

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Anna: That, and then they come along and cut parts out here and there and turn it into a beautiful song.<\/p>\n

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Amy: Do you guys have anybody you run it across. Do you ever co-write with anybody?<\/p>\n

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Anna: No. But we have a friend of ours here in\u00a0Nashville who has approached us and has offered to help co-write with some stuff. My first reaction to that kind of stuff is pretty defensive. But this guy, he gets me and my writing style. I don\u2019t know, I give him a lot of credit for that. So he has been coming to some of our practices. We haven\u2019t written a song together from scratch. But he has been taking a few of our songs and sort of upping the game making it a little more \u201cpoppy\u201d and making it a little bit more placeable as far as movies and radio are concerned. So, I am sort of working with somebody but in general we don\u2019t at all.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Amy: What\u2019s your favorite song to play live?<\/p>\n

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Jesse: Good question. I can tell you mine.\u00a0We are always writing so we have a handful of new songs that aren\u2019t recorded yet. So mine right now at this moment is one of our newest songs called \u201cMarch.\u201d It\u2019s got\u00a0a bit of a different sound than we have recently recorded. It\u2019s going in a little bit more of a \u201cwhat\u2019s hot right now\u201d direction and got a lot of the dance feel but it\u2019s pretty rock and pop. That one is fun for me because I get to play a little bit of a solo. So it\u2019s a different kind of arrangement too.<\/p>\n

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Anna: Yeah, I actually agree with Jessie. That\u2019s not necessarily my favorite song right now but when any song is new and fresh, you have fresh energy with the song. I\u2019m not saying that always goes away but I\u2019m pretty pumped about that song. Otherwise, we have a song that isn\u2019t recorded yet called \u201cHey Kid\u201d that is about the downfall of the music industry and it\u2019s very anthemy. It\u2019s one of those I can jump around a lot. I really like that one. \u201cLet\u2019s Go\u201d is fun because it has the cheerleader chant to it but it\u2019s not cheerleader at all which is awesome. \u00a0I like \u201cSugar Cookies\u201d because it\u2019s all balls to the wall and crazy and I can jump into the crowd with that song and people can get into it and just want to dance. I try to write all of our songs to be fun to perform.<\/p>\n

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Amy: What are you guys listening to right now. What\u2019s in your Ipod or your car?<\/p>\n

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Anna: Right now in my car I\u2019m listening to Iggy Pop\u2019s Greatest Hits<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Amy: Who are your influences when you perform or written in the past? I hear a No Doubt \u201cfeel\u201d to your music.<\/p>\n

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Anna: Oh yeah if you mention No Doubt it\u2019s totally cool. I have quite a few influences. Non-female anywhere from David Lee Roth to Freddy Mercury, even a little bit of Kurt Cobain. But as far as females are concerned, Chrissy Hines, Joan Jett, and Gwen Stefani for sure. I grew up in a really super religious home where MTV was blocked from the television. But when No Doubt came out, my parents actually let me listen to that CD. I listened to that CD until my ears were on fire. I admired her stage presence and I think her power sparked something in me and I woke up one day and I said that\u2019s exactly what I\u2019m going to do with my life. Everybody in my high school knew that I would do that one day. That dream is coming true. So yeah Gwen Stefani is up there but not my only influence.<\/p>\n

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Amy: You brought up being raised in the religious household. I mean Nashville has a great music scene and I love to go to Nashville but one of the things that bothers me is the ultra-conservatism that is around town. Do you have to deal with that or has that ever been a problem for you?<\/p>\n

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Anna: I don\u2019t hang out with those people.<\/p>\n

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Jesse: Well speaking of Nashville having a really good music scene. I\u2019m not sure if you saw the Rolling Stone<\/em> article but they just named Nashville the best.<\/p>\n

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Amy: I did and I just read it last night and saw the article.<\/p>\n

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Jesse: Yeah that\u2019s huge and I got really excited when I saw that.<\/p>\n

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Amy: I think it\u2019s true. I always tell people that I find Nashville to be an awesome place but also a frustrating place because I have seen people on the street or working at Trader Joes that I feel are awesome singers or musicians that are never going to make it, better than a lot of the people out there.<\/p>\n

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Jesse: That is kind of frustrating to see that. I think, with what we\u2019re doing, there is a really strong rock scene going on here. Of course you have country, you have Americana, you got folk, got blues, whatever. But we find more success when we play shows out of Nashville. We love living there, we love playing shows there. But everyone is a musician and everyone is a critic. You\u2019re a dime a dozen. You\u2019re like everybody else in town.<\/p>\n

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Anna: Right, like everybody is a music lover but if they come to see you, they never want to show it. It\u2019s either everyone is jealous of everyone else or everybody is trying to copy someone else. Nashville is a tough crowd as a lot of big cities are, but Nashville in particular. When we go out of town, it\u2019s night and day. We have fans who are putting their hands up and trying to get as close to the stage as possible. When that kind of energy happens, that\u2019s when they get the better show and that\u2019s when I\u2019ll jump into the crowd with them.<\/p>\n

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Amy: So are you guys originally from there?<\/p>\n

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Jesse: I\u2019m from Grand Rapids, Michigan.<\/p>\n

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Anna: I\u2019m sort of a mutt but I grew up in Montreal in my childhood and then moved to South Florida for high school and college.<\/p>\n

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Amy: How did you guys all come together and form the band?<\/p>\n

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Jesse: Funny story. Anna and I actually met on the internet.<\/p>\n

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Anna: Before it was cool.<\/p>\n

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Jesse: Yeah before it was cool to meet someone on the internet. I was living in Indiana at the time and going to school there and I was in a band there and really tied down. So when I met Anna on the internet and saw that she lived in Florida, I was like \u201clong distance relationship, okay.\u201d\u00a0 And we had a really strong connection. Then we started visiting each other all the time and sparks flew. So she decided to move up to be near me when I was still in my other band. As time went on, that band fizzled out. Then we started writing together, and I realized that \u201cHoly crap! This is really good. This is the best stuff I\u2019ve ever done.\u201d We couldn\u2019t hack it in Indiana anymore, we wanted the big time and the closest option that seemed like the right place was Nashville. So we moved here about six years ago and we met the other guys when we got here. I worked with our bass player Jairo. We met Nathan via Craigslist when we were looking for a drummer. So a very unique come together of how it all started.<\/p>\n

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Amy: So are you and Anna together-together?<\/p>\n

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Jesse: We are together-together.<\/p>\n

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Amy: Does that cause any problems? That\u2019s a lot of togetherness.<\/p>\n

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Anna: Oh for me and Jessie?<\/p>\n

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Amy: Yeah, you\u2019re like in a van, traveling together, working together, it\u2019s like 24-7.<\/p>\n

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Anna: No, every relationship has its problems but I think what\u2019s really awesome about our marriage and being together is the fact that we have a common goal. So it\u2019s not like I want to have babies and be a stay at home mom, it\u2019s like \u201cF that, we are going to do this together.\u201d We actually have a lot of fun with it. Jesse and I are best friends first. When we\u2019re on the road, we feel that too. I don\u2019t know, it\u2019s really unique, we get along really well honestly. We\u2019re all really different people but it just happens to work.<\/p>\n

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Amy: I think you have to get along to be in a band together for long periods of time. It\u2019s a tough situation but if you\u2019re good friends, you just kind of let things go.<\/p>\n

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Anna: Yeah for sure. I would love to spread the rumor that we are real rock stars that cause trouble, drug addicts, burn out all the time, real crazy, but we\u2019re not, we\u2019re actually super business-minded. And don\u2019t get into any trouble, the worst thing we do is play dirty mad-libs in the van for like eight hours straight.<\/p>\n

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Amy: You guys do this full time right?<\/p>\n

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Jesse: No, we all work 9-5\u2019s and the band is like another part time job.<\/p>\n

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Anna: But we\u2019re working on it to be full time. That\u2019s our goal.<\/p>\n

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Jesse: That\u2019s our goal to make a living at making music.<\/p>\n

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Anna: You really have to believe you are going to do it. It can get really discouraging. For example, all the guys do work 9-5 jobs. I used to. I\u2019m more of a night person and I just started waiting tables and making more money doing that. I\u2019m working at a higher end hotel in Nashville where all the musicians come through and all the main songwriters come through. And here I am wanting to make a living for The Worsties and overhearing shit bands getting signed and things are happening for other people. \u00a0I am pouring their sparkling water and wanting to throw up in their food. It\u2019s discouraging because you see things coming together for other people. But at the same I\u2019m super positive because every goal we have set we have surpassed so far. We\u2019re going to get there. Our time is coming. It\u2019s hard.<\/p>\n

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Amy: I am really a firm believer that if you work hard and you really put your mind to something, good things happen.<\/p>\n

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Jesse: It sounds very clich\u00e9 but there is a lot of power in positive thinking. If you will it, it will happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Worsties are a Nashville based rock band. The Worsties are: Anna \u201cMadame Worsty\u201d Worstell on vocals, Jesse \u201cWorsty\u201d Worstell on guitar and bgv\u2019s, Jairo \u201cEl Guapo\u201d Ruiz on bass, Nathan \u201cFour to the Floor\u201d Shelton on Drums.They are gaining steam across the South and the Midwest with a very energetic live performance style and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[819],"tags":[824,823,820,825,822,821,1777],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1467,"href":"http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions\/1467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thefirst3songs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}