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Hi, I'm Nessa Bear and this is the
wired autocomplete interview.
See, when I'm looking at my name this
much, it like just doesn't look like my
name anymore.
>> I think there's a word for that.
Semantic satiation.
Have you ever heard of that?
>> Oh, I thought it was just dyslexia.
Thank you.
How tall is Nessa Barrett?
On my ID, it's 5 foot, but I actually went to the
doctor.
um recently and I'm 49.
My least favorite part about being 49 is I think
every time I walk into a room I feel like a child.
I can't reach the top
shelf.
It's hard.
It's a hard life.
Why is Nessa Barrett called Baby Cowboy?
I
don't know.
It was a Soundcloud name that I I made randomly.
It's really
random.
Um but it just felt right.
And then my fans kind of just call me that now.
What
tattoos does Nessa Barrett have?
I have like 60.
So, we'd be here like all day
if I go over all of them.
My most recent one, I have a matching tattoo with Bri,
my best friend, and two cherries with a little bow, which is kind of cute.
Is
Nessa Bear removing her tattoos?
I want to.
It's been a really long
debate.
I'm really scared of pain.
Well, that's a lie.
But I think I have a few
that I'd really like to get removed.
When did Nessa Barrett get famous?
I don't really like that word.
I feel like
people know me, but uh famous is crazy.
I feel like I got a little popular
when I was 16, 17 on social media
and then I
started doing music when I was 17, 18.
When I first started, it was
something that was really random and kind of scary at first.
I loved it
because I think coming from like a small
town in New Jersey and not really having
a lot of friends, having like thousands of
people online like me was super cool.
But yeah, after a while I was like, I don't know if I'm built for this.
It's
kind of crazy.
What is Nessa Barrett's most popular song?
Am I allowed to say
it?
Is it inappropriate?
Porn star.
Uh, I don't know how that happened.
I think it was the anime edits to it on
TikTok.
I thought it was a cool song.
I definitely didn't think that that would
be the one that would do well because
I feel like I I make a lot
of like deep
and like emotional vulnerable songs.
To have a song called Porn Star be the one
that really did it for me is crazy, but lucky I guess.
What is Nessa
Barrett's new song about?
My new song, High on Heaven, is really all about how
love is an addiction.
My favorite lyric is a man is a woman's worst drug, which
I stand by that.
I love throwing things.
When is Nessa Barrett album coming out?
I'm looking at my team behind the camera.
Later this year.
Yeah, I think
all of the music that I I release
is going to be different than the last
because I am like growing and maturing with it.
And so I think the older I get,
the older my songs feel and and the more mature they are.
And yeah, I've been
really prioritizing making music for myself and for the art.
Who does Nessa
Barrett want to collab with?
The neighborhood of them.
I've been a fan of
The Neighborhood since I was like ripe age of 10.
I feel like my music has
always been heavily inspired by them um naturally
because I love them so much
and yeah, I feel like our our sounds would blend beautifully.
Nessa Barrett
mukbang.
If we're being open and honest, I am a girl that has struggled with
eating in the past.
And so watching mukbangs has been something that's
really helped me to eat with someone on camera.
And also there was few years ago
me and my best friend Cooper, we actually made a mukbang video.
I don't
know if it's talking about that one, but
we ordered everything at Taco Bell and
we sat down and we just talked about
our our struggles with eating disorders and
it was actually really sweet.
Um, it was a way for us to talk about a sensitive
topic while eating and hoping that people that
struggle can watch it and
eat with us.
Um, but yeah, maybe I should do those more often.
That one went far.
Okay.
What is on Nessa Barretts for you, babe?
I get a lot of astrology,
spiritual videos, witchy stuff, funny AI stuff.
That's kind of been annoying
recently because I never know what's real and what's not.
My free page is
kind of all over the place like me.
Oh, book talk.
I don't know how I forgot
that.
Book talk.
So, I actually just started reading Acatar, the third one, A
Court of Wings and Ruin.
Probably one of the best books I've read in so long.
What does Nessa Barrett struggle with?
A lot.
Let's see.
I struggle with what I'm going to wear in the morning.
Sometimes I struggle with writing songs.
Sometimes I struggle with eating.
Sometimes I struggle with crying too much.
Sometimes I struggle with being too cool.
Why does Nessa Barrett write die first?
I actually originally wrote it because I'm just terrified of
losing the people that I love and I
think the concept of death is really
scary for me, especially with um my loved ones.
And then it
unfortunately adapted a brand new meaning after I lost my best friend.
So
yeah, Die first is dedicated to Cooper who
is my best friend of all time.
I'm really flinging these things.
Nessa Barrett, best Tik Tok.
I don't know.
I kind of hate everything that I
post.
I'll post something and then like I'll throw my phone across the room
because it's just scary.
I think the idea of possibly everyone seeing a video
is a little intimidating.
But yeah, I don't know.
My best Tik Tok.
I feel like
that's probably for other people to decide.
Nessa Barrett, Lana Del Rey.
I
love her.
I'm the biggest fan.
I got to perform with her at a festival in
Alabama, which is really sick.
We sang my song American Jesus together.
Best
moment of my life, probably.
It still doesn't feel real.
Kind of.
Not even
kind of, it's super crazy.
Nessa Barrett, biggest influences.
I feel like for the
music that I'm making now, I've been heavily
inspired by Massive Attack and
Poris Head.
I Love Prince, Amy Winehouse, Stevie Nicks.
I feel like
there's so many Nessa Barrett in 5 years.
I don't really like think about it.
I think that's kind
of a tricky thing to think about.
I think that I'm pretty like comfortable
in knowing that I like what I do
in life and I'm probably always going to
do this
and so wherever God or the universe decides
to take me in 5 years I'm here
for the ride.
Well, that's all the questions.
I thought that was super fun.
Kind of
crazy that those are the most Googled things,
but I guess it makes sense.
Thank you for watching.
