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June 21, 2023 10 mins
Singer and actress JoJo hang out in studio to talk about starring on Broadway in 'Moulin Rouge' and some new music she's been working on over the last year!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
These bands interview Lounge of Course, starring on Broadway in
mulin Rouge. It's Jojo, Hi, Jojo, I'm so glad you're here.
I haven't seen you in a thousand years. Literally, But wait,
am I saying? I always say mulin rouge?

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Yes? I like the little accent you put on.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
It isn't it how you say it, mulin rouge or
whatever you say?

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Where are you from? It's all right?

Speaker 1 (00:24):
So JoJo's wearing sunglasses? Yes, and she looks She looks
over it at her friend and says, hey, is it
too douchey to sit here with sunglasses on in an interview?

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Because I've just never done that really before. I'm like,
have I become this person? But I have? And that's okay.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
If you actually point out, Jojo, that maybe I'm being douchey,
then you're not douchey now now it's okay. To where
who was? It was Tayo cru Tyo Cruz is here, okay,
And he was not in a good mood, and he
was wearing his glasses and I said, hey, I can't
see your eyes. I just want to interview you. He says.
TiO is not taking off his glass.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
He talked about himself in the third person ye, and.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Then I was like, well, it's great heaving you tie
up byey. You have so much douche you can be
as douchey as you want.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Okay, thank you? Acceptable levels here.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
So Broadway, I mean, has it always been kind of
a dream. It's been a dream of mine to be
on Broadway. I just walked down Broadways as close as
I get. But you're starring in this incredible, over the
top musical octical.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
It's such an amazing show. Yes, it's always been a dream.
I would come to New York for auditions for musical
theater since I was a little girl, and I started
out in Boston doing like local and professional productions of
things when I was just six years old. So to
now be almost twenty years into my career and to
be able to do something for the first time is
so fun. I do it seven times a week, and

(01:47):
it's just I don't get sick of it.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
If you saw the movie, It's a whole different world.
This and all the hits. I mean, how many songs
do you sing?

Speaker 2 (01:55):
It's like seventy three songs that are mashed up, interwoven
into this into the story and it's just it's such
a good time. There's there's drama and romance and comedy
and all of that, but like songs that you grew
up knowing that are embedded into your brain, you know.
So sometimes the audience sings along and it's like you

(02:15):
want them to.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
Shut up while they're singing along.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
We always wonder that.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
We ask that all the time, like do the performers
like when people participate or are they kind of like
you're throwing me all.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
It's different at a concert, Like at a concert, yes,
please sing along, but it's sometimes it's I don't know,
it's never a dull moment. Like sometimes it's nice, and
then sometimes it's like you're not on the beat or
you know what, we need to focus at.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Least not throwing their cell phones at your head. Oh
my god, maybe I know. That made me so sick
when I saw that, and that guy was such a
little turd.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Well I didn't see the guy, but I mean.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
He said he threw the phone at her because it
would be funny.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Wow, oh yeah, it's funny to make somebody get stitches.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Ever, Jojo, did anyone ever throw things that you throw something? Right?

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Back.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
That's a good guitar.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
I just I can't believe that. I'm so you're probably
just such a state of shock, like I'm saying, oh yeah,
i'd throw something back, but I'd actually probably just be
so devastated and like shocked and totally shocked. So Bibe,
I'm sending you so much love. I can't believe it
you just went through that.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Okay, I want to hear some music.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yes, So, I just put out a song with Mehalia,
who's this dope artist from the UK. And the song
is called Cheat and it's about no good rotten cheaters
and how you know that? That's saying once a cheat,
always a cheat. It's like, damn, I should have known
better than to give you a message.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Agree with that though.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
I don't actually so I'm full of to be doing
this song. No, I think that with some people. It's true.
Some people just talk out of their butts and are like,
you know, oh yeah, I'm never gonna do that again
or whatever. You need to make a real concerted effort
if you have cheated and you like have these bad
habits or whatever and you don't want to do it again.

(03:56):
I think people are always can always be deemed can
always change, but you need to like really work hard
at it.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
So what's the song's angle?

Speaker 2 (04:04):
If you cheated on me once, you're gonna do it again,
Like if I took you back from cheating, then you're
it's like I'm enabling that behavior and you might do
it again. And that has been true for me. I mean,
I've been through that.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
And have you ever cheated on someone?

Speaker 2 (04:20):
I have then on both sides of it, so I
can't I love it.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
I love cheating on my husband.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
You love Do you guys have an open do you
guys have an open relationship?

Speaker 1 (04:27):
Or no? And he's not a fan of the show.
He's not listening.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
Yeah, perfect, Yeah, and none of his friends will tell
him it's gonna be fun.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, it's a safe space.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yeah, I'm cheating with his friends.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
I scanned of all exactly.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Okay, Mula rouge. I mean, have seventy something songs, and
how many of those do you do?

Speaker 2 (04:45):
I do about a thousand of them?

Speaker 1 (04:47):
Okay, that's what percentages?

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Actually, No, I'm singing so much and yeah, so many
of these cool pop songs that I've loved.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
What do you love most about it?

Speaker 2 (04:57):
You're gonna be like, okay, but the community, I really do.
I love the community aspect because I'm an only child
and I've been a solo artist since I was a fetus,
and so it feels really nice to be like in.
I just never feel alone, and I don't feel alone
with my band on stage either, but it's still me by.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
The way of just turning us on. Jojo is here
and she's extended her run at Mulin Rouge until the
end of July. E Eli.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
End of July, July thirtieth is my last show, So
where are.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
You going next?

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Then? After this?

Speaker 2 (05:31):
So I am writing a memoir, which is crazy talk
about that because I'm thirty two and next year will
be celebrating twenty years of Leave get Out and my
first album coming out and everything.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
So there's just a lot of stories that I've kept
to myself out of not being ready to talk about,
and not even just career stuff, like a lot of
people know about the issues I went through with my
record label. That's actually the least interesting part of my
life and career, I think. And I have some tour
dates which we haven't announced yet, which are overseas, and

(06:03):
then I'm going to start making new music, so it's
going to be a full end of the year.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
We'd like to hear an album.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yeah, I would have to make one, Okay, I just
I just I wanted to, like, not feel that I
needed to be in this. I I've already released the
idea of you know, you need to stay in people's minds.
I can't control that. And if you forget, that's fine,
you know what I'm saying, Like, I'm not gonna stress
myself out and being like it's been six months, it's

(06:28):
time to put out a new album.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
They miss me, they miss me, they need me.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
I don't feel that self indulgent. Actually, like it's just
I want to make something that I really dig and
that's really dupe.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
That's what you should be doing, and you will do that.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
I will do that, Okay.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
I want to I want to come see the show.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Come.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
I haven't seen it with you in it, and you'll
sing along. I'm along.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
I want you to clap on the one in the
three during during rolling in the Deep.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
Favorite I'm gonna go I'm a good show, just to
f up your show.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah yeah, Oh my god. Someone got kicked out of
the audience for like I came down from the ceiling
and some and it was cool, Like this person was
very boisterous and excited and they were like hell yeah.
But as I'm coming down from the ceiling, and eventually
they were drinking the whole show. So eventually they got
kicked out. They got rowdy, like and.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
At a musical it's kind of scary. I love getting tanked
at musicale.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
Too as an audience member.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
Oh yeah, they actually will pour a triple Like I'll
have a Tito's and water. You want to double that?
How about triple? I'm sure? Yeah, I'll skip right, Like
why take the local when you can take the express train?
You know, like boom, they're getting drunk watching Jojo and
I can't wait. Okay, So if I'm sitting in the

(07:44):
theater watching Mulan Rouge, what am I experiencing? I want
people who've never seen it to go, oh god, that
sounds hot.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yeah, so off the bat, it is sexy, like if
you come in thirty minutes before even if you want
to start you know, drinking, start with your triple shots
or whatever. It is so lush and so romantic. You're
you're transported to to a hyper on steroids version of
the Mulam Rouge in Paris, and and it feels like

(08:17):
you're kind of at a sex show, low key in
the intro, and then we go into our show and
it is it's a love story, and it is just
filled with all these songs that you know that you love,
but seamlessly and like very cleverly interwoven into our story
in a way that just makes sense. I mean. And

(08:38):
they won ten Tony's when it came out four years
ago almost and there's a reason for that because the
show is unreal.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
The staging, the sets, everything is just.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
Beautiful, glamorous, beautiful. You really feel transported. Like they they
say on the billboard, it's like the most this Broadway's
most spectacular night. And I would have to agree, it's unbelievable.
And I've seen so many shows will I've been here
too because I'm a fangirl. And last night I just
saw Days of Wine and Roses off Broadway, and so

(09:08):
I'm just there's something for everyone in our show I
think is so good. Whether your first time Broadway patron
or you know are well versed in it all.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
Well that's it. Decision made. But you need to do
it before the end of July because Jojo is leaving
the building.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yeah, I mean I had to do it.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
That was like the most amazing cult classic song of
all time. I don't care how is it a cult classic?

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Oh my god?

Speaker 3 (09:36):
Absolutely, you play that and the way people start like
raging to it is amazing. We just took like a
trip in a ARV a couple of years ago. I
think we played that song once an hour and all
sing along the whole time. So thank you for that.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
See you've done, and you've got to see Jojo and
Meline do it.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
Yeah before July thirtieth final bouts.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
Thank you for coming in today. I want to play
cheap Yeah, and here we go, Jojoe, thanks for coming
in today. There you go. That is Mehelia and our
friend Jojo and che I see a birthday cake?

Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yeah, somebody's birthday.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
Somebody's birthday. Yeah, huh, we'll find out whose birthday it is.
Excuse to eat cake exactly what flavor is it? Oh?

Speaker 2 (10:26):
This is Oriokay, I'm in.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
Okay, all right, hold on, let's go. We should take
a break before things get out ahead.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
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