Hey, fellow lushes! On this episode we sit down with singer-songwriter and Wisconsin native Genevieve Heyward — a musician who grew up belting karaoke at age ten, picked up her first bar gigs before she could legally drink (thanks, Mom), and now splits her time between the Midwest and Nashville chasing songs, chaos, and the perfect metaphor.
Genevieve takes us through her winding path from teenage karaoke queen (Before He Cheats and The Climb were in heavy rotation) to blowing out her voice with Alice Cooper covers, surviving speech therapy, and coming back stronger than ever. We talk about Mile of Music beginnings, writing weeks in Nashville, and the moment one throwaway lyric — “sprinkles on a shit sundae” — stopped the room and named her brand-new EP.
We dig into the near-disaster of almost calling it Disco Tits, why she actually hates sprinkles, and the creative chaos of promoting a record by dumping rainbow sugar on onions, kimchi, and corn on the cob. There’s jug wine teen stories, doppelgänger soul sisters in Amsterdam, why she thrives in uncomfortable rooms, and how her Instagram skits channel a childhood spent on Saturday nights watching SNL with her dad.
It’s Wisconsin roots, Nashville hustle, karaoke scars, and sprinkles on absolutely everything — even when they don’t belong.
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