Jessie Jo Dillon caught up with Billboard's Tetris Kelly and Rania Aniftos on the 2025 GRAMMYs red carpet.
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00:00We're here with Jesse Joe Dillon, I mean songwriter extraordinaire, and what's it
00:04like to be constantly recognized for all your hard work? Man, honestly, it just is
00:09surreal. I mean, I still feel like I was nominated last year and then this year
00:14again I was not expecting. I was actually, I'm an actual girlie, but I was out with
00:19Diplo working in Malibu when we found out and we were like, what? I mean, I just
00:23did not, it almost still will feel like I'm talking about someone else. I mean, I
00:28feel like you just keep your head down and you work and you're like, whoa, I
00:31don't know. It's still so surreal. And she sounds so humble, but I mean, Diplo,
00:36Jelly Roll, Morgan Wallen, what are those names? I mean, who has the craziest night?
00:42Craziest night? Jelly, every time. You can already tell. Every time. I mean, I'll
00:47probably, he, last year particularly, I had won a Billboard Award and we went out
00:54to Rainbow after that. He broke my horn everywhere else. Stop it! Yes. And after he broke his TMA, not that
01:02long before, so I was like, dude, you're cursed. He's like my brother. I love him so much.
01:06What is he doing? Dropping it? Throwing it? What is he doing? He like knocked it off the table and we like died about, now it's in the Hall of Fame, at the Country Music Hall of Fame. So it ended up being a great moment, but I love him so much. He's like family to me.
01:20And somebody else you've worked with that I love, Megan Maroney. So you guys are both badass girls. So tell me about working with her and why you guys mesh so well.
01:28Man, Megan's like, she's like my little sister in the good ways and the bad. Where our men problems haunt us or whatever, but I love working with her so much. I'm so proud of her. She's an amazing songwriter. She's an awesome girl. I mean, I feel like everything that's happening for her, she deserves and I'm
01:50proud of her sold out tour and our single now, I think we're at 15 or something. So I'm really happy about that too. It keeps like jumping a lot of spots every week. So I'm like, let's go keep going. But you know,
02:03I mean, you're the daughter of an iconic country songwriter. I mean, what is the best advice he gave you when you were first starting out?
02:10If you don't love it, nobody else's either. And so like, he was like, don't sit down and write these songs that if you don't love them, you know, actually on my suit, I got a he calls me peanut. So I got a little like peanut for him. So it's like he's with me today.