Welcome to the Eric Metaxus show with your host, Eric Metaxus.

Hey, folks, welcome back. I'm talking to China, Phillips, and you're not, but you get to listen in. This is fun. Now, China, you are telling us, I love hearing these stories because most people don't know these stories, how Wilson Phillips came to be. So you're just at this point where this amazing songwriter says, I want to give you some of my songs. You'd already written some songs. So what's next? So he didn't say I want to give you some of my songs. He basically said, come over to my house and let's write. So we were pulling pointer sister songs out of the trash can and demoing those. And then between doing that, we were in between doing that, we were going over to Glenn's house and we were

writing songs with him. So we ended up writing, You're in Love. And then one day, he wrote this

track and just music. So a track is just music. There's no singing on it. There's no melody.

It's just the music, right? I know what a track is. Yeah. So he hands us the track and he's like, work on this, you know, work on this track. So, oh, I've got my lip gloss on my hands. Sorry. So anyway, we, um, I, we each get the track. I go home and I'm obsessed with this track that he's written, and I'm just playing it over and over and over

in my car on my way home.

And these melodies start coming to me.

Now, I don't take any credit for this whatsoever.

I totally believe it was Holy Spirit-driven.

I believe he downloaded the song that night into my brain

and into my heart.

And so I'm listening to it over and over again. And these melodies

start flying out of my mouth. And I pull up in front of my mom's house because I was still

living with my mother at the time. And I just put the car in park, grab my memo pad that was in my

backseat, my pen. And I just flooding lyrics on like literally in 20 minutes, I had song and I had the entire melody and it just was downloaded in a moment.

Well, that song ended up becoming hold on, you know, the number one hit that Wilson Phillips, our first single.

And so that was pretty awesome.

That was totally awesome.

Wait, so you, but on the on the on the on the, on the album, like you, you, so you have a songwriting credit in there. Yeah, I wrote that song with Glenn Baller. But you really should give the credit to the Holy Spirit. You need to change that. You need to talk to some lawyers. That's just not right. I agree. I agree. Stop it. I'm teasing you. Stop. Don't answer that. Come on. Don't let me do that. So, but that's it. That is kind of amazing. That is it? No, that's amazing. That's amazing. And so how many years were you performing together? I know you're doing stuff together now, but you, you had a season there where you were like on the road. Oh my gosh.

It was five years of nonstop traveling around the world just getting on one plane, you know, onto another.

And I was I was really burnt out by the end.

It was an amazing, awesome, mind-blowing, you know, priceless experience.

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