{"id":285838,"date":"2026-04-25T18:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/285838\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T18:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:58:09","slug":"10-minutes-backstage-with-bailey-zimmerman-at-stagecoach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/285838\/","title":{"rendered":"10 minutes backstage with Bailey Zimmerman at Stagecoach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bailey Zimmerman performed Friday night at Stagecoach<\/a>, where his set mixed post-grunge country hits like \u201cReligiously\u201d and \u201cWhere It Ends\u201d with a cover of Miley Cyrus\u2019 \u201cThe Climb\u201d and an appearance by BigXthaPlug on their duet \u201cAll the Way.\u201d Before Zimmerman\u2019s set, I met with the 26-year-old singer inside a denim-bedecked pop-up presented by American Eagle, for whom Zimmerman serves as an official spokesbro.<\/p>\n

Did you only agree to become an American Eagle ambassador because you thought you might be able to meet Sydney Sweeney<\/a>?
I would understand why you would think that. But honestly, no \u2014 it was a full circle moment in my life. Before my American Eagle deal, I had all the American Eagle underwear. They couldn\u2019t send me new ones \u2014 I had \u2019em all.<\/p>\n

Do you get free jeans?
They give me everything for free.<\/p>\n

Could you get me some free jeans?
Maybe? I could do one of those things where I\u2019m like, \u201cOh, it\u2019s for me,\u201d but it\u2019s really for you.<\/p>\n

By my count, this is your fourth Stagecoach in a row.
Yep.<\/p>\n

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You never miss this, bro.
It\u2019s my favorite time of the year \u2014 it\u2019s sick. I come out here the whole weekend. The first year, I brought my best friends, and we\u2019ve done it every year since \u2014 all my friends and their fiancees now because we\u2019re getting older and they\u2019re getting married. So it\u2019s just a big party all weekend. It\u2019s something I look forward to.<\/p>\n

Speaking of getting married, last year you you told me<\/a> you were looking for a wife. Any progress?
Well, you know, honestly, I\u2019m still just kind of doing my thing. I\u2019m on God\u2019s timing, truly \u2014I\u2019m just letting it roll.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re a Justin Bieber guy.
Beliebe it.<\/p>\n

\u201cSwag\u201d or \u201cSwag II\u201d?
I was hesitant to want to listen to \u201cSwag II\u201d because I love \u201cSwag I\u201d so much. But then once you get into \u201cSwag II,\u201d it\u2019s like, Dude, this is so fire, bro. Both albums are so fire \u2014 I\u2019ll listen to either one.<\/p>\n

Did you watch Bieberchella<\/a>?
Yes!<\/p>\n

What did you think of the YouTube of it all?
I thought it was really cool. I loved it \u2014 it was just something way different. I\u2019ve never seen that done like that. Iconic \u2014 I would call it iconic. That\u2019ll go down in history.<\/p>\n

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Bailey Zimmerman on Stagecoach\u2019s main stage.<\/p>\n

(Allen J. Schaben \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n

You have a current radio hit, \u201cChevy Silverado.\u201d What was your first truck?
A 2005 white Chevy Silverado. That\u2019s what the song\u2019s about.<\/p>\n

Yes, of course. But I didn\u2019t know it was true to life \u2014 I thought you were using writerly inspiration.
No, true to life, man. My grandpa had a 2005 crew-cab short-bed Chevy Silverado, and I bought it off of him. I had to borrow money from my bank in my hometown, and I bought it of him because times weren\u2019t good at the time. When the used car dealership was going good, maybe he would\u2019ve given it to me, but at that time, it wasn\u2019t going good, so I had to borrow money and have a payment at the bank. Adult things.<\/p>\n

You know where that truck is now?
I still have it. Honestly, I didn\u2019t think anybody would resonate with the song \u2014 I didn\u2019t think anybody would listen to it just because it was so personal to me. Every single line is a real life story from my life, so to see it resonating with everybody and seeing it do what it\u2019s doing \u2014 it\u2019s so cool, man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bailey Zimmerman performed Friday night at Stagecoach, where his set mixed post-grunge country hits like \u201cReligiously\u201d and \u201cWhere…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[122464,122463,9261,118759,122465,3802,122468,48,52,51,1637,47,50,49,122466,4263,122447,77779,4610,122467,72],"class_list":{"0":"post-285838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-american-eagle","9":"tag-bailey-zimmerman","10":"tag-bank","11":"tag-chevy-silverado","12":"tag-favorite-time","13":"tag-fire","14":"tag-first-truck","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-la-headlines","17":"tag-la-news","18":"tag-life","19":"tag-los-angeles","20":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","21":"tag-los-angeles-news","22":"tag-minute-backstage","23":"tag-money","24":"tag-stagecoach","25":"tag-swag","26":"tag-thing","27":"tag-whole-weekend","28":"tag-year"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}