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Bailey Zimmerman performed Friday nighttime astatine Stagecoach, wherever his acceptable mixed post-grunge state hits similar “Religiously” and “Where It Ends” with a screen of Miley Cyrus’ “The Climb” and an quality by BigXthaPlug connected their duet “All the Way.” Before Zimmerman’s set, I met with the 26-year-old vocalist wrong a denim-bedecked pop-up presented by American Eagle, for whom Zimmerman serves arsenic an authoritative spokesbro.
Did you lone hold to go an American Eagle ambassador due to the fact that you thought you mightiness beryllium capable to conscionable Sydney Sweeney?
I would recognize wherefore you would deliberation that. But honestly, nary — it was a afloat ellipse infinitesimal successful my life. Before my American Eagle deal, I had each the American Eagle underwear. They couldn’t nonstop maine caller ones — I had ’em all.
Do you get escaped jeans?
They springiness maine everything for free.
Could you get me immoderate escaped jeans?
Maybe? I could bash 1 of those things wherever I’m like, “Oh, it’s for me,” but it’s truly for you.
By my count, this is your 4th Stagecoach successful a row.
Yep.
You ne'er miss this, bro.
It’s my favourite clip of the twelvemonth — it’s sick. I travel retired present the full weekend. The archetypal year, I brought my champion friends, and we’ve done it each twelvemonth since — each my friends and their fiancees present due to the fact that we’re getting older and they’re getting married. So it’s conscionable a large enactment each weekend. It’s thing I look guardant to.
Speaking of getting married, past twelvemonth you you told me you were looking for a wife. Any progress?
Well, you know, honestly, I’m inactive conscionable benignant of doing my thing. I’m connected God’s timing, genuinely —I’m conscionable letting it roll.
You’re a Justin Bieber guy.
Beliebe it.
“Swag” oregon “Swag II”?
I was hesitant to privation to perceive to “Swag II” due to the fact that I emotion “Swag I” truthful much. But past erstwhile you get into “Swag II,” it’s like, Dude, this is truthful fire, bro. Both albums are truthful occurrence — I’ll perceive to either one.
Did you ticker Bieberchella?
Yes!
What did you deliberation of the YouTube of it all?
I thought it was truly cool. I loved it — it was conscionable thing mode different. I’ve ne'er seen that done similar that. Iconic — I would telephone it iconic. That’ll spell down successful history.
Bailey Zimmerman connected Stagecoach’s main stage.
(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
You person a existent vigor hit, “Chevy Silverado.” What was your archetypal truck?
A 2005 achromatic Chevy Silverado. That’s what the song’s about.
Yes, of course. But I didn’t cognize it was existent to beingness — I thought you were utilizing writerly inspiration.
No, existent to life, man. My grandpa had a 2005 crew-cab short-bed Chevy Silverado, and I bought it disconnected of him. I had to get wealth from my slope successful my hometown, and I bought it of him due to the fact that times weren’t bully astatine the time. When the utilized car dealership was going good, possibly helium would’ve fixed it to me, but astatine that time, it wasn’t going good, truthful I had to get wealth and person a outgo astatine the bank. Adult things.
You cognize wherever that motortruck is now?
I inactive person it. Honestly, I didn’t deliberation anybody would resonate with the opus — I didn’t deliberation anybody would perceive to it conscionable due to the fact that it was truthful idiosyncratic to me. Every azygous enactment is simply a existent beingness communicative from my life, truthful to spot it resonating with everybody and seeing it bash what it’s doing — it’s truthful cool, man.
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