Taylor Acorn - BUS INVADERS Ep. 2170

This honey bonnet hot sauce wrecked my life. I have a designated spot in my house for all of my gifts. Fun fact, there's no suspension, so especially on the bottom, you feel every single bump. Who is it? Oh, it's Bus Invaders. Come on in. What is up? It's Taylor Acorn. Welcome to my crib. We're on tour right now for the Poster Child album that I just released in November. I'm so excited. This is gonna be awesome. So over here we have our TV. This is our duck row. Honestly, I don't know where they came from. I woke up one morning and they were just all here. I love them though. They're so cute. TV, we've been watching a lot of Smiling Friends, SpongeBob, Bob's Burgers. I've been begging for Seinfeld. Nobody lets me watch it, but we've been watching that. We've got our candles going. Big candle girl. My whole team, we're really big on scents and making sure we have a clean, nice, just cozy feeling little home on wheels because we are away from our homes for very long. So it just feels nice to come in and have everything smelling good. Here is our photo wall. As you can see, we have everyone in our crew. Don't look at that one. But everything else is great. Over here we have our fridge, one of my favorite parts of the bandwagon. And we are all very much foodies as well. So I apologize if this is a mess, but we've got a whole mess of things. Lots of Elanis, hot sauces. We just spent the night at our merch guy Anthony's parents' house last night. So they provided us with a huge meal of lasagna and bread and soup. And so we have all of that for leftovers for the rest of the week because we only have four shows left. So it'll get us through. So on our rider, we usually ask for cold cuts, turkey, ham, we'll get bread, we'll get cheese. So we have a lot of that and we always keep it. It just gets us through for lunches and things like that, especially when we're on a long drive when we can't really stop anywhere. But in here we've got all of that. Yogurts we have on our rider. We've been trying to be a little bit more healthy. We used to get like candy and stuff and I just can't eat that anymore. I'm getting old. Okay. So these are mine right here. These are my saving grace, my Elanis. I have one every single night before I play, at least half of one. It's like my go-go juice. It gets me going and it keeps me alive because like I said, I'm old and it's really hard for me to stay up past 9 p.m. anymore. We've got Uncrustables in here, fruit, pineapple juice we always get on the rider. It's really good for vocals and things like that. And as you can see, we've got some homemade hot sauces. This is my favorite one. These are Dylan's. He brought them and Dylan is our photographer. This thing, wait, where is it at? I'll show you. This honey bonnet hot sauce wrecked my life. It seriously wrecked me. I got like Chipotle one day and I just grabbed this, squeezed it all over myself. I was in pain for like an hour. So we don't eat that one, but everything else is pretty fair game. We like to share. So everybody's kind of been eating everybody's snacks and all the things. Freezer time. In here, oh gosh, we've got our Ben and Jerry's. I think these are Connor's and our driver Austin's. I'm not sure. This is my favorite kind of Ben and Jerry's though. I saw Connor eating it the other day and I was like, don't catch me with an edible after getting in here. But yeah, we've got just like candies and stuff. More Uncrustables. Yeah. Got some Christmas trees to the season and these are the best ones. Alcohol in there. I don't really drink alcohol, but the boys do. So we let them have their fun. As you can see, we've got lots of waters here and things like that. Ollie Pops. Now that is what I do drink and I love those. We've got Modellos for the boys. Again, they love their drinks and we let them have fun. So yeah, that's pretty much all for this. Oh, every single show that I go to in Dallas, I have a fan that makes me a cowboy hat and it's always on theme with the album that I'm touring at that time. So this one is my poster child one and it says, I don't know if we can cuss on here, but it says Better Run Motherfucker, which is from my song Blood on your hands. So I love the colors and it's been so fun so far. Like this has been one of the best tours we've done. It's been so easy and everyone has been so nice. And this is a basket from my mom. She provides me with some snacks sometimes and she gave these to me. So there's this and then what next? Oh, over on this side. So we're big on like wanting to cook and things like that. I obviously, I like to save money and I like to kind of have like a specific diet. I have an autoimmune deficiency. So for me, it's really easy to get sick. And so eating healthy and like making sure I'm on top of my food and all the things is really important. This is my baby. A few years ago, my van broke down and this is the last thing that we kept from that. We've had it for like the last five years. I'm a basic girl. I just need a K cup and one of these styrofoam cups and I literally will just drink coffee every morning from here. We've got a toaster, very important for bread, bagels, toast, all the things. And then this thing is our air fryer and it does air fryer things. But yeah, I think I cooked a steak in here not too long ago. But yeah, I can cook pretty much anything and it's been really nice and handy to have on the road, especially when you're in a pinch and you can't stop anywhere and you want to make something. Here's this. I apologize for how this looks in advance. This is our snack cabinet. We've got our K cups. This is all of our medicine and things. This is a Bucky's Rice Krispie Treat that is literally a rock. This has been here for probably an entire month. But all of our snacks, we've got little... This is a little honey thing my mom made me. It's like Manuka honey and all the good stuff. Yeah, just a bunch of snacks. Oh, these are cute. It's me on a cookie. But we got these the other day. We sold out Denver, the Marquis in Denver. So they made us little special cookies. They're just so cute. My nose just started running too. Please forgive me. It's cold. We're in Chicago. It's very cold and snowy. So yeah, but this is all of our snacks. We got biscuits, more alcohol. Like I said, the boys like to have a good time and we do not deny them of that. Tequila. And then that's it. All of these cabinets, we always... So like you can see, we have V for Victoria, A for Anthony. These I think are just like empty space. This one's mine, which is just like my side... Like there's not much going on in there right now, but just like my side snacks and things like that, that I like to keep separate from the boys because they are ravenous sometimes. And everybody else, we kind of have our own designated either drawer or a little pantry. And then we can keep all personal items in there. All drawers. Shoe basket. This is like my pride and joy. I am very type A. I'm a Virgo. I love being clean. And so I think I forced some of my organizing habits on some other people, but it's honestly... To me, I'm like, I think it's for the best. I think for everybody's health and wellbeing and all of the things. This is my little drawer. I just keep like everyday clothes, just like my packing cubes in here and things like that. Just everyday stuff. Pikachu, he's been with us. I think Austin, our driver, one of my Dave and Buster's a few days ago. This is Victoria. She's very rare. We've kept her around now for like five years. Very rare. Not very many people get one of these, only me. But this is Victoria, our tour manager. Her and I have been touring together for like what? Four or five years now? Yeah. Since she started. Yeah. It's been her, Ricky, and I since the very beginning, since our very first show with Hot Mulligan. And ever since then, we've been pretty much inseparable, even when we want to be separable. Yeah. So right now she has been taking meetings, so we'll use this area- I'm watching stage threads right now. Stage threads, yes. Little plug. Little plug. But yeah, no, we use this as like a workstation. It has been very, very cold the last few days, so I'll use it as like my makeup station because the heater's right here. So I will crank it up all the way, so when the boys come in, it's like a sauna. But honestly, I turn it off at night. They hate it. And they'll turn it down and we're like, no, no, no, no. We like it warm. But I'll just like crank it up so I have heat. And usually I'm the one that spends the most time in here. Everybody else goes to like the green room or like goes out and does things. I'm very much like a vegetable until it's time to play a show. You'll see an Ilani, a makeup mirror, maybe a tea. And anytime after 4 p.m., that's exactly what this will look like. Yeah. I have- I'm like a beverage girl. I like to have all like my special drinks. I have my water, my tea. Maybe an Ilani. My Ilani. I mean, maybe an Olipop. My Olipop. I like- I'm drinking like five different drinks at one time. Yeah. I don't know. What are you going to do? Yeah. But this is more like a little workstation. I'll eat here. I'll do makeup here. The boys will sit here and chill after the shows. We'll kind of debrief. And yeah, that's really what this side of the bandwagon is for. Yeah. Um, but not too far. We'll go here. Closet. So, um, there's no closets in the bandwagon. And, you know, I don't need a lot of things, to be honest, to be happy. But one thing I do need is space for my clothes because Lord knows when you're on tour and you're trying to sift through things and find outfits, it's nearly impossible. This is going to be scary looking, I'm sure. But this is my closet. In here, we've got show shoes. We've got more show shoes back here somewhere. My sneakers, my everyday clothes. This is all of my- well, there's everyday clothes, but all of like my tour stuff. So I have like my shirts and things. I keep everything in packing coupes just to make it easy and organized. Like I said, I'm very type A and I can't help myself. I just, I, I just get a rise out of organizing. I really do. This is really awesome actually. So, in, and we have like some fan gifts and things like that, but this, um, in Seattle. So I, I lived in Seattle for 10 years. I was there since like year four. I was like four years old up until I was 11. And one of my, actually, she's my oldest friend. Her and I have been friends for like, this is going to age me 25 years, um, is getting married. And so at the show, she came and brought me this because I don't get to see her very often, but I'm going to be a bridesmaid. It was so exciting. So, um, this was a nice little surprise that I got in Washington, in Seattle. Um, here I have all of my fan gifts. This one is my favorite one. So we were obviously on tour during Thanksgiving and I have a fan. Her name is Cece. She's the best. And wait, I'll have Victoria. Yes. She made us all turkey hats to wear on Thanksgiving and we wore them. And yeah, that was fun. All of our little tour gifts. I keep them. I keep everything also too. I'm a bit of a hoarder in that way. Um, I have a designated spot in my house for all of my gifts that people give me, but yeah, just a few little things that were cute. Turkey hat was honorable mention, but this is where I get all of my clothes and this is my Planet Fitness bag. We'll stop at Planet Fitnesses and shower and work out. So I have my little gym bag with me and that's pretty much all of that. Not too exciting, but, and then back here, obviously we have bunks. This is just a junk bunk. This is where everyone else keeps all of like their extra bags and things like that. Um, Jared, our sound guy sleeps here. Connor sleeps here, except for, he hasn't slept here for like a month. He's been sleeping out there, rightfully so. I don't think I would want to sleep on the top bunk either. I'll be honest. Um, Anthony sleeps here. I won't show you his bunk. He has, he tends to have a lot of things in his bunk and every night, um, we have an ongoing joke because projectiles will literally fly out of his bunk. Um, a few nights ago, I got up to go to the bathroom and his phone hit me in the head. So that was fun. You never know what you're going to get with Anthony, but he does have the wicked color theme lights. Um, but this is my bunk down here. Um, nothing too crazy. Just pillow. This is my Jack Skellington. I've had him for years now. He's a bit grungy now, but he's come on me with every tour that we've done. Um, just a little piece of home. I always bring like a weighted blanket and then in the bandwagon, fun fact, there's no suspension. So especially on the bottom, you feel every single bump, every single dim in the road. It's, it's quite something. Like I can't even describe it unless you've like been on it, then you'd understand, but it's, it's quite rough. So I have like a three inch mattress pad to go over my mattress. Um, I wish I could say it's been helping, but we do what we can, you know. Um, I've got an air purifier here. This is just essential. Like I said, I've auto immune deficiency. So just trying to keep the bandwagon as like clean and just nice and trying to avoid getting sick for anybody, not just myself, but my whole crew. Like the last thing that I want is for anybody to get sick. So we're just making sure that we're doing that. Um, back, well, actually this is all, we've got like hooks and things like that. Underneath here, we have a little shoe rack. Um, again, organization. I just love it so much. And especially when there's like eight people on a bandwagon, it's kind of hard to keep up with that. But this is just bathroom. Self-explanatory really, except for this is my favorite thing ever. My pride and joy, my vacuum. I won't show you guys how it works. You already know, but, um, we always make sure to bring like a vacuum and mop. And again, I love, I love to clean. I really do. It's a problem. Um, and then in here is just shower. We buy mirrors. So we have a nice little mirror to get ready. Um, on the other side of this, there's like a organization rack with just like all of our things, toiletries, whatnot. Shower back here. Obviously everyone's towels, sink. It's a bathroom. Um, and then up here we just keep like extra little things. Victoria and I have all of our girls stuff in here. Um, and we've claimed a lot of space because well, we're girls and we need it. So, um, but yeah, that's pretty much all of the exciting things in our bandwagon. Um, our lights have been like my favorite thing. Um, you know, we've just tried to make it cute and cozy and festive for the times and we've got like four shows left. And so it's going to be really sad to leave our wagon, but, um, I am curious and to celebrate the holidays with my family. So that is pretty much all of our bandwagon. Thank you guys so much for coming and hanging out with us. Please check out my album, Poster Child, which is out now. Um, and if you've already listened to it, thank you so much. Um, you can check me out on Instagram, Taylor Acorn Music on all platforms, except for TikTok where I'm tayloracorn1 because somebody stole my name. But aside from that, thank you guys so much. I hope you enjoyed our, um, our little humble abode.