Nate Smith caught up with Billboard's Lyndsey Havens at the ACM Awards 2024.
Category
🎵
MusicTranscript
00:00 We are here with ACM winner Nate Smith. Congratulations!
00:04 It's so weird to hear you say that. It still doesn't sound right. No! No, it doesn't.
00:08 But I'm on the verge of crying at any minute, so.
00:11 Well, do it here and then it'll be an exclusive.
00:13 [laughs] Let's just not. Let's just not, you know?
00:17 So, you're performing with Avril Lavigne tonight, which is everyone's most excited for that performance.
00:23 You two have been hanging out all week. You released a song today. Tell me about that friendship.
00:27 She's my absolute home slice. Avril has amazing energy. Our energies are really great.
00:32 We're really good friends. We like to drink white wine. We like to attempt to skateboard. I'm terrible.
00:37 She goes, "It's because you were in cowboy boots." I said, "No, it's because I can't freaking skateboard."
00:41 That's actually what it is. But she's just like the coolest person and like so real and
00:46 she lives in the moment in every way and I love that about Av.
00:49 All right, so she is teaching you skateboarding. What's something from your lane that you want to teach her?
00:54 There's nothing I can teach Avril. I'll be honest with you. There's nothing. Nothing.
00:58 Nurse skills.
01:00 Okay, how to put a catheter in. That's a little weird, but we could work on it, I guess. I don't know.
01:04 Horrible suggestion.
01:05 Right? Or draw blood. That's just... Now we're getting vampiric, you know? Very vampiric.
01:08 Well, that is my lane. So, you released a... Dracula is my favorite book. It's the best.
01:14 Oh, I'm so sorry. I wish. Oh, God. So, she's released Bulletproof, your song, a new version.
01:21 Would you two ever work on something original? Has that idea come up yet?
01:24 I'll be honest with you. It's already in the works. Yeah, so we will be putting out an original song.
01:28 Oh, that's awesome.
01:29 Yeah, so you hear it here first. I haven't told anybody.
01:32 Wow. I'm very excited to hear that.
01:34 All right. Well, you're already a winner. Is there anything else once you get in that room that you're excited for tonight?
01:39 The whole thing is just surreal and I'm so excited to be there, honestly. I don't even know what to say.
01:42 I'm just like... I'm on the verge of crying every five seconds, but this is amazing. What a good night. What a good week.
01:47 What a good week. Rookie, winner. Yeah, it sounds sad.
01:50 Female artist. We're literally... I'm getting on a plane at 5 a.m., flying to New York to do two stadiums with Morgan Wallen.
01:56 I'm not mad. I'm not mad.
01:59 You're living the life.
02:00 I'm hanging with my bestie, so...
02:01 My bestie, Nate Smith. Thank you so much for joining us. We love you.
02:04 I love you.
02:04 [BLANK_AUDIO]