Getting Candid with Georgia Webster [INTERVIEW]

Name 3 Songs: What has it been like having to figure out who Georgia Webster, the professional singer, is while all of these milestones are happening in your career at the same time? 

Georgia Webster: Yeah, that’s a good question. Honestly, the [Kelsea Ballerini tour] kind of came out of nowhere. It was awesome. But I was also like, ‘Oh my God, I’m so scared. I haven’t done something like this.” 

It was hard for me to see myself as a professional before this tour because I was doing so much on TikTok and the only thing I could even really do was TikTok. I didn’t have money to go on my own tour. Touring is expensive, so I didn’t have to go on tour if I can’t sell out more than 100 cap rooms yet. So I wasn’t going to do a whole tour, but at the same time, I don’t feel like I’m growing as a musician because I’m not playing shows. I’m just making TikToks and writing all the time. 

And as a writer, I felt like I was growing substantially, but as a musician and as a performer, I felt kind of stunted. And so then when Kelsea asked me to go out with her, I got thrown in the fire a little bit. At the time it was really rough, but now looking back, it’s something that takes you to the next level. Like now I feel like I can perform so much better and I’m not really nervous and I have fun with it. 

You moved to Nashville to pursue your career and it’s known as such a hub for musicians and songwriters. What has it been like working with other songwriters?

At first I did not want to co-write. I was very hesitant to even get in the room with anyone because I wrote my whole first project and the stuff that started doing well on TikTok was just me, myself writing. I was like, why would I change? If it’s working for me right now, why would I change? 

But co-writing has helped me so much. I think I had to put my ego aside a little bit and sometimes you have to hear people out and hear the other ideas in the room. Because I’ve gotten so many songs that I would not have come up with on my own, like “Attention,” on this project. The first single that I put out, I didn’t write at all. And I never thought I would do that like ever. 

But when Emily Wiseman showed it to me and she co-wrote it – she showed it to me and she was like, I really feel like this is perfect for your project and it reminds me of you so much and the situation you’re going through. And she played it for me and I was like, dude, I have to, this is my song. I feel like I wrote this song and I was such a fan of the song. It was one of the best songs I’d ever heard. 

I just thought it was so amazing and so well written and I related to it so much. If it’s something that resonates with me, like, why not? So I ended up cutting that and it’s been cool to just collaborate with people in that way.