July 3, 2024 • 26 mins
Paris returns with Jason Derulo to learn more about his real life RIGHT NOW! Find out how he fell in love with Tik Tok and why his favorite account is a “bee lady”.
We hear all about his pre-show rituals and what life is like on tour.
And Paris gets a sneak peek into Jason’s upcoming Vegas residency!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I a embarrassed. Hey everyone, I am back with my
friend Jason Derulo to talk about how he is living
right now. So I want to talk about your Vegas residency.
The best show ever. It's at the Voltaire at the
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Venetian Hotel. Tell us about it.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Really exciting. I mean I think it's every artists dream
to have a Vegas residency, you know, something that they
can call their own and the legendary Las Vegas, you know.
So I got the call and I was like, well,
let me see the thing first, Like, let me see
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this venue. I walk into this place and I just
couldn't believe. The beauty of the venue was just like
unlike anything I've ever seen. From the walls to the ceiling,
it all felt so beautiful, and I instantly knew exactly
what I wanted to do in the room. You know,
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the room just has like this three sixty perspective because
everywhere you look, it's a spectacle. So I was like,
I want to make my show exactly like that, you know,
I want I want to be on the floor with
with the audience. I want the dancers to be on
the floor with the with the audience as well. So
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it's a very unique three sixty experience that I don't
think we've ever seen before. So I'm really excited about it.
I really feel like it's become one of my greatest
accomplishments in such a short period of time. You know,
so really excited about it.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I can't wait to come and see the show.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, I got to come through.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, Kylie was inviting me. So I saw like videos
and pictures of the venue. But it just looks just
like so beautiful, like so intimate, like the vibe or
you can like really feel like you're just like in
the show.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
It's just so different than anything you've ever seen before.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Exciting. And what dates are you there too?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
So I'm there awesommer long, so through August, and I
think I'll be extending it after that as well, but
for now through August.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
And what nights do you do it?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
It's Friday and Saturday, right, Fridays and Saturdays every other ever, yeah,
every two weeks. It's like Fridays and Saturday.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Oh nice, amazing. Do you stay in Vegas at all
after the show or you go back?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
So I came right back. It depends on like if
I'm bringing my son or if he's going to stay
over here, because if he's going to be in La
then I'll just like take off right after the show
just so I can be with him. That's the beauty
about Las Vegas as well. It's just that it's a
happiness skip so I could literally finish the show and
then sleep in my own bed, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, it's so great, so close. Yeah, I love Vegas.
It's just like Vegas for or was it adults? For kids?
I can't even think straight.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah, it's the playground for adults.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
You have nearly two hundred million followers across all platforms.
What are the things that you enjoy most about social media?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Coming from miss social media, So, for the longest time
I've struggled with social media. Social media was really tough
for me, and it was like the one missing thing
that I just couldn't figure out. I had all of
these hit records, I had, you know, hundreds of millions
of records sold, but like the dots weren't being connected
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for some reason. And it wasn't until the pandemic where
I was like, I'm gonna figure this shit out. I'm
going to take some time and really like figure this
thing out. So I made a routine for myself again,
and I said that I was gonna post six times
a day. Now, six times a day is crazy, and
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to think about, like creating six pieces of content in
a day, what the hell do you post? So I
started posting any and everything, me cooking, me doing special effects,
me doing absolutely nothing, me dancing, all kinds of shit.
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And I think through that experimentation is when I figured
out what made people tick. And I feel like it
was in that moment I was just like, oh shit,
I get it. Like there are no rules, you know,
like I could literally post anything as long as it's
connected to me and my interests. And at this time,
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TikTok was just getting started and it was a dance app,
but I was posting any and every fucking thing like
I didn't care. And I slowly started to see the
app take a shift from a dance app to starting
to do all kinds of other things as well, which
I think is such a beautiful thing, because you know,
there are people that are fascinating in their field, and
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I think this is the first time ever people are
taking an interest into people's everyday lives, no matter who
they are. You know, you don't have to be a
celebrity to be interested or to be interesting. So you know,
people like like the bee Lady. I follow this bee
lady and she said goes out and saves the bees. Right.
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I even had her come to my house, and I
was the kind of star story. I was like, I
got the bee Lady. I got the lady at my house.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
She's amazing. She's like the bees, they love us all,
and like she just like be with the bees, and
she like helped me kind of get rid of the
fear of bees. I think we all have like a
secret little fear of bees, you know. But they're really
just very harmful. They don't want to sting you because
when they sting you, they die, don't. They don't really
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want to sting you. And I just feel like the
fact that social media highlights that everyday working person. Now,
it's just changed social media for me and I really
really enjoy diving deep into the unknown.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Mm hmm. Yeah. I think it's really incredible that anyone
with a phone and Wi Fi could literally build a
brand or a business or become like overnight sensation. That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
It really is. I think everybody's just social media like
no matter what you do, because it can amplify anything
that you're doing. I mean there's there's workers from from
Walmart and Subway, like all kinds of just famous people
that are just doing what they do within their uh job.
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And I think it's an amazing thing.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yeah, I've discovered so many people. It's amazing, like what
you can find on there and the type of people,
and it's just fun.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
And what you can learn. I remember I was I
was in Australia and I was trying to get dressed.
I had just come out of the shower and then
I saw some people on the glass. I was like,
oh shit, I'm sorry. Then there were like some glass cleaners.
I'm on like the fiftieth something floor or something, right,
and there were glass cleaners, and I was just so
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curious about their life, about their their life, right, I
mean it's they're tens of thousands of feet up in
the air and they're cleaning these windows flat. I opened
the window and I was like, hey, I don't think
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anybody's ever done that before. I was like, hey, what's up, y'all?
What's your names? And I just started talking to him,
and I was it's just so interested in like how
many hours it took them. But it was this massive building,
it's called the Crown in Australia, and they cleaned the
whole building themselves. It was just those two guys. But
I just thought that they were just these fascinating guys
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and I finally, you know, got a chance to learn
about what that lifestyle is like. And I just thought
that was the coolest moment. And I ended up posting
it from from my followers to see because I thought
it was just so interesting, and that ended up going
viral because I think people people want to know about
about these, uh, these lifestyles because they're just so far
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removed from what our norm is. So whatever, whatever we
can learn about from somebody else's life, I think it's interesting.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
What was some of your favorite types of tech talks
to do, like comedy sketches or dance or special effects.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I really like to switch it up because I get
bored really fast. So I really like doing the dessert
videos because I get to taste interesting shit. I've had
some of the best desserts that I've ever had in
my entire life doing that. Yeah, some of the worst
as well, but I think those are fun. I like
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doing the special effects ones because I like the finishing product.
A lot of times it's recording, it is kind of
dumb because like you're like with a green screen doing
some shit that you think is gonna look good later,
but you don't know if it's gonna look good. Literally,
Like I remember like fighting with a bee and I'm
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not fighting with anything, but it's fucking ridiculous. My neighbors
probably think I'm out of my mind, but yeah, I
just like I like switching it up. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I remember during the pandemic, I was watching so many
of your tiktoks. I'm like, well, did you have like
a whole movie production studio there? Like these are like crazy,
it looks like a real film.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yeah, It's crazy how it happened though, because I had
just got all this damn equipment at the house and
the pandemic happened, and I was just like, I got
so much shit here. We can't do anything. And I
was even doing I was doing shows like I was
performing on Good Morning America from my backyard.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
He had production studio.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I had a whole thing going on, and then I
tore my whole house down.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Why did that happen?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Because I was because I'm a virgo and I always
just want things to be better. So I I tore
my house down the majority of it, just because I
had a vision of my house and I wanted to
be perfect. I think the land that I have is
the perfect land, and I just want the finished product
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of my house to be that as well. I'm actually
really into interior and exterior design. It's my favorite thing
to do. But I just wouldn't recommend tearing the place
that you lived down because you know, it's just a hassle. Like,
you know, I'm like staying in the guest house, I'm
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like renting houses, Like I'll never do it again. Yeah,
but like once this project is finished, I think I'll
be really happy.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
So you released your album New King earlier this year.
How is the tour going?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Honestly unbelievable. It has been so long since I released
a full length project, you know, and a lot of
people have asked me, like, what took me so long
to release a new project? And you know, these songs
are like my babies, you know, and to put my
songs into someone's hands, you know, a record label there
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has to be some kind of rapport built. There has
to be some kind of trust, and I was coming
out of a really really, uh tough situation, and I
didn't want to release a full length project with that
team over there. So it took me a long time
to get out of that deal and to like figure
out what my next steps were. But in the process,
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I was still releasing songs, you know, which which was great,
but to release a full length project, I needed to
be secure in where I was. And uh, finally being
able to release new music has been one of the
greatest experiences because, you know, sometimes you forget to smell
the roses. You stop and smell the roses. But uh,
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in this in this album cycle, I have been doing
just that, you know, going out and touring the world
and seeing all the fans' faces, and you know, performing
new music as well as old music. I've treated everything
like a celebration, you know, and I think I've I've
been happier than I've ever been.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
What do you look like? You're really happy for you?
Do you have any pre show rituals or superstitions?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Oh? Yeah, so one one is basically something that I started.
I would say, like ten years ago. It's like after
we've done our prayer, which is, you know, the first
and foremost. After we've done our prayer, we do this
dance ritual and we add a piece of the dance
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every couple of months. So it started off as a
dance that was fifteen seconds, but now it takes a
full on five minute to finish this little warm up dance.
But it's so perfect because like it's like a slight,
little warm up before we go out on stage. But
basically we add one dance move for like every like
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every quarter I would say, like every like five months
or something like that. We add one more dance move
at the end. And it's a lot of fun. Like
when a new dancer is implemented, they got to learn
this long ass they have danced, so they got to
learn the show, but then they got to learn this
long ass warm up dance that takes five minutes to do.
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But it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I need to figure out a name for it.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
M the Live, Oh my god, the pre show Slive.
Do you ever get nervous before you go out on stage?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Actually, never get nervous before I go out on stage
because I know exactly what's gonna happen, and I haven't
been nervous until my first show in Las Vegas. Yeah,
I was nervous as shit. And I think it's because
usually I'm so well rehearsed that I know exactly what's
gonna happen. And when you know exactly what's gonna happen,
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there's nothing to be nervous about because I've spent so
many hours rehearsing, you know, these eight hours rehearsals. I've
done it a million and one times, you know. But
in Las Vegas, it's a totally different style show. It's
this three sixty show. Now the audience is implemented within
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the show, and all of a sudden, it was just like, damn,
what are these feelings? Like this is real? Nervous like
these are real? Like this is this is a real thing.
So on the first night, I was definitely nervous. The
second night, I was in my element. I was I
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felt way better about it. I felt like, you know,
I got one out of the hatchet, and then it
all came together and all came alive. And then I again,
now I know exactly what will happen on the floor yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I always get nervous before everything I do, singing talking
at all.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Which when you get more nervous at singing or talking singing? Yeah, yes, yeah,
I get more nervous in talking.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Really. Yeah, you don't seem like it.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Thank you. That's because you gave me this nice little tequila.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Loves it. So you have amazing fans. Can you share
a special fan interaction that you've had recently?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Two days ago, Ah, a good friend of mine, Zach.
He goes by MD Motivator.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I love him, Yeah, I love him so much.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah, he's amazing. He came to the Vegas show and
he was staying in the hotel with us, obviously, and
he ran as across one of my fans in the
hallway and he gave her a thousand dollars and he
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was like, do you want to come to Jason show
with me? And of course I'm watching this after the fact,
but he tells me about his interaction with this woman
and how she was struggling and her daughter was struggling
with tuition, and he like how that thousand dollars was
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such a big help in that moment, and he brought
her back and I met her afterwards. And you know,
I gave a donation as well, and I just thought
that moment was just so beautiful and unscripted and just real.
And he does it every single time. He's able to
just capture these unbelievable moments with these special people that
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otherwise we would have never known, and I love it.
Every single time. I've done at least like videos with
Zach and I've loved every single one of them. So
that's like a recent one that was pretty special.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
He's incredible and just I've done a video with him
as well, and we're about to do more stuff together.
But seeing just how much impact you can have on
someone's life and just making them feel so happy and
it's just so heartwarming and so amazing. I wish there
are more people in the world like him.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Yeah. Same, same, really really special and I can believe
he's built such a big brand by having such a
big heart, and it proves that being a good person
is also a superhero, having a what do you call
that shit superpower? Superpower? Being having a big heart is
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also a superpower, you know, and he has one of
the biggest hearts I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
I agree, Yeah, saying that I been saying now is
that being kind is iconic because I want to make
like being kind like something where people aspire to be.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
I feel like what we have also is like a
superpower where we can just make someone so happy, and
I feel like that's such a gift to be able
to do to people.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Totally agreed. Totally agreed. I mean when I'm doing these shows,
even all the people that are on stage with me,
because everybody that I'm on stage with has given their
life as well, and in some way or another to
the craft. Yeah. Right, So these are some of the
best dancers, some of the best musicians on planet Earth,
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and they have given their life to that craft to
make people happy, you know. So getting to share the
stage with those kinds of people and being able to
just give, give, give, I think is a really special thing.
I love it. Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
So let's talk about fatherhood. You have your son Jason,
who is so adorable.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
What is the best part about being a dad?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
The best part about being a dad? I would say
two things. I feel like I relearned how to love.
The way that I am able to give off love
is very different now because it kind of shifted love
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for me, the way that my relationship with my parents
has changed, the way that our relationship with my siblings
has changed. Its definitely because of him and having a kid. Also,
you know, it kind of reintroduces you see your childhood,
you know. So I love I love going back to
all the old things that I used to do as
a child and and getting to relive those things. Like
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he loves playing hide and go seek, he loves playing tag.
He loves those simple things. And we can get him
all the gifts in the world, but like he would
literally be cool having a cardboard box in the corner
of past And I think, you know, that sort of
innocence has reminded me about what's important in life.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Mm hmm. Yeah, I feel the exact same way. It's
really deep in my relationships with my friend, my family,
and just seeing that like through his eyes, like bringing
him to Disneyland and just like seeing the look and
the excitement and it's really like reliving your childhood all
over again again.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
You want to be excited again too, so you're like, yes,
it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
So much fun. Yeah, we just got back from Maui
two days ago, and just being with them in the
water and going down the slides, just doing all the
things that I did when I was little. Just it's
just I don't know, there's nothing like it for sure.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
For sure was it their first time in Maui.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
It was his second time, but London her first time.
Such a great place for kids to get for sure.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I love the Grand Waaliyah because they have all of
the slides there. It's like so much fun for the kids.
The Grand Wyalah. It's like a Walter for Storia property.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
MAUI got to check that out too. So anytime I'm
going anywhere, I'm like, Paris, where do I need to stay?
That's where I've been messing up in life. I haven't
been calling you and telling, like asking you where I
need to stay. Because there's a lot of times where
you go to an amazing place, but it's always dictated
by where you stay, you know, and I know you
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know all the all the good places to to be.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
It matters where you stay.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Oh, for sure. That's that's the biggest part of your
your vacation. You can't vacation in the place that's not
that's that that that you don't enjoy this stay, you know,
I think service is really important on a vacation.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
So important. Well, let me know for sure.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
I will.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I know everything, especially about Hilton and Waldorf story.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
I know you do. And you guys have places everywhere,
right yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Everywhere?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Man?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
So yeah, lets me know. Mm hmm. My son, Phoenix
loves to dance. Does Jason love to dance?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Oh? Loves loves, loves to dance. He's all over. My
friend Danny has a son and his son started to
dance and my son saw him and he was like,
what is this thing that's doing? And ever since that day,
like he just fell in love with dancing, Like anytime
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a song comes on, he goes crazy about it.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Does he love your music?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Love?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
It's so proud.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Yeah, man, I don't know how long that's gonna last.
But he's he's all about Daddy songs right now.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Have you brought him to shows? Oh yeah, with the
headphones on?
Speaker 2 (23:35):
For sure? For sure. He loves coming out to the shows,
and he loves coming to our rehearsals and during rehearsals
he's like totally into it, totally enamored. And actually just
posted something the other day. I have the Less Twins
on the road with me, and they were taking him
through like a little dance class and he was killing
it and killing it.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
How do you juggle fatherhood and being on the road
and all that.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
You know, I'm still learning, I'm still learning it. I
want to make sure I am I'm there, you know.
I know I have a very demanding job as a musician,
but also have a very demanding job as a father.
So I'm going to make sure that I'm giving him
the time that he needs.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Yeah, always, that's awesome. Would you want him to follow
in your steps and get into music?
Speaker 2 (24:29):
The music industry is a tough place. So if he
really wanted it, and if he really wanted to make
those kinds of sacrifices in his life, then, by all means,
but it's very it's a very very tough place to be.
I mean, if you think about artists that have been
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able to stand the test of time and like really
do it at a high level for a long time,
it's a very very short list, you know. So you know,
if he wants to do it, then, by all means,
but I would implore to him how much it takes,
you know, and how hard it is, because I mean,
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there's a lot of there's a lot of things that
you can do in life that take a lot less, yeah,
you know, and you can still be happy doing it.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Yeah. I hope that my kids don't want to be
in the entertainment industry either, just because I've seen it
all and it's you know, it could be a scary
place sometimes as well, especially for like a little girl.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Definitely, definitely, yeah, But I mean they see it so much,
so I mean, I don't know. I don't know whether
it will scare them or excite them about it. I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
We'll see what happens. Well. Thank you everyone for listening,
and stay tuned for one more episode about the future
coming out soon.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Bye.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Everyone, Thanks for listening to I Paris. Don't forget to
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at Paris at iHeartRadio dot com, be hot and subscribe now.
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I a embarrassed. Hey everyone, I am back with my
friend Jason Derulo to talk about how he is living
right now. So I want to talk about your Vegas residency.
The best show ever. It's at the Voltaire at the
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Venetian Hotel. Tell us about it.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Really exciting. I mean I think it's every artists dream
to have a Vegas residency, you know, something that they
can call their own and the legendary Las Vegas, you know.
So I got the call and I was like, well,
let me see the thing first, Like, let me see
(00:48):
this venue. I walk into this place and I just
couldn't believe. The beauty of the venue was just like
unlike anything I've ever seen. From the walls to the ceiling,
it all felt so beautiful, and I instantly knew exactly
what I wanted to do in the room. You know,
(01:08):
the room just has like this three sixty perspective because
everywhere you look, it's a spectacle. So I was like,
I want to make my show exactly like that, you know,
I want I want to be on the floor with
with the audience. I want the dancers to be on
the floor with the with the audience as well. So
(01:29):
it's a very unique three sixty experience that I don't
think we've ever seen before. So I'm really excited about it.
I really feel like it's become one of my greatest
accomplishments in such a short period of time. You know,
so really excited about it.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I can't wait to come and see the show.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, I got to come through.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, Kylie was inviting me. So I saw like videos
and pictures of the venue. But it just looks just
like so beautiful, like so intimate, like the vibe or
you can like really feel like you're just like in
the show.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
It's just so different than anything you've ever seen before.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Exciting. And what dates are you there too?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
So I'm there awesommer long, so through August, and I
think I'll be extending it after that as well, but
for now through August.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
And what nights do you do it?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
It's Friday and Saturday, right, Fridays and Saturdays every other ever, yeah,
every two weeks. It's like Fridays and Saturday.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Oh nice, amazing. Do you stay in Vegas at all
after the show or you go back?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
So I came right back. It depends on like if
I'm bringing my son or if he's going to stay
over here, because if he's going to be in La
then I'll just like take off right after the show
just so I can be with him. That's the beauty
about Las Vegas as well. It's just that it's a
happiness skip so I could literally finish the show and
then sleep in my own bed, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, it's so great, so close. Yeah, I love Vegas.
It's just like Vegas for or was it adults? For kids?
I can't even think straight.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah, it's the playground for adults.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
You have nearly two hundred million followers across all platforms.
What are the things that you enjoy most about social media?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Coming from miss social media, So, for the longest time
I've struggled with social media. Social media was really tough
for me, and it was like the one missing thing
that I just couldn't figure out. I had all of
these hit records, I had, you know, hundreds of millions
of records sold, but like the dots weren't being connected
(03:40):
for some reason. And it wasn't until the pandemic where
I was like, I'm gonna figure this shit out. I'm
going to take some time and really like figure this
thing out. So I made a routine for myself again,
and I said that I was gonna post six times
a day. Now, six times a day is crazy, and
(04:01):
to think about, like creating six pieces of content in
a day, what the hell do you post? So I
started posting any and everything, me cooking, me doing special effects,
me doing absolutely nothing, me dancing, all kinds of shit.
(04:23):
And I think through that experimentation is when I figured
out what made people tick. And I feel like it
was in that moment I was just like, oh shit,
I get it. Like there are no rules, you know,
like I could literally post anything as long as it's
connected to me and my interests. And at this time,
(04:47):
TikTok was just getting started and it was a dance app,
but I was posting any and every fucking thing like
I didn't care. And I slowly started to see the
app take a shift from a dance app to starting
to do all kinds of other things as well, which
I think is such a beautiful thing, because you know,
there are people that are fascinating in their field, and
(05:11):
I think this is the first time ever people are
taking an interest into people's everyday lives, no matter who
they are. You know, you don't have to be a
celebrity to be interested or to be interesting. So you know,
people like like the bee Lady. I follow this bee
lady and she said goes out and saves the bees. Right.
(05:32):
I even had her come to my house, and I
was the kind of star story. I was like, I
got the bee Lady. I got the lady at my house.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
She's amazing. She's like the bees, they love us all,
and like she just like be with the bees, and
she like helped me kind of get rid of the
fear of bees. I think we all have like a
secret little fear of bees, you know. But they're really
just very harmful. They don't want to sting you because
when they sting you, they die, don't. They don't really
(06:03):
want to sting you. And I just feel like the
fact that social media highlights that everyday working person. Now,
it's just changed social media for me and I really
really enjoy diving deep into the unknown.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Mm hmm. Yeah. I think it's really incredible that anyone
with a phone and Wi Fi could literally build a
brand or a business or become like overnight sensation. That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
It really is. I think everybody's just social media like
no matter what you do, because it can amplify anything
that you're doing. I mean there's there's workers from from
Walmart and Subway, like all kinds of just famous people
that are just doing what they do within their uh job.
(07:00):
And I think it's an amazing thing.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yeah, I've discovered so many people. It's amazing, like what
you can find on there and the type of people,
and it's just fun.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
And what you can learn. I remember I was I
was in Australia and I was trying to get dressed.
I had just come out of the shower and then
I saw some people on the glass. I was like,
oh shit, I'm sorry. Then there were like some glass cleaners.
I'm on like the fiftieth something floor or something, right,
and there were glass cleaners, and I was just so
(07:33):
curious about their life, about their their life, right, I
mean it's they're tens of thousands of feet up in
the air and they're cleaning these windows flat. I opened
the window and I was like, hey, I don't think
(07:53):
anybody's ever done that before. I was like, hey, what's up, y'all?
What's your names? And I just started talking to him,
and I was it's just so interested in like how
many hours it took them. But it was this massive building,
it's called the Crown in Australia, and they cleaned the
whole building themselves. It was just those two guys. But
I just thought that they were just these fascinating guys
(08:16):
and I finally, you know, got a chance to learn
about what that lifestyle is like. And I just thought
that was the coolest moment. And I ended up posting
it from from my followers to see because I thought
it was just so interesting, and that ended up going
viral because I think people people want to know about
about these, uh, these lifestyles because they're just so far
(08:36):
removed from what our norm is. So whatever, whatever we
can learn about from somebody else's life, I think it's interesting.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
What was some of your favorite types of tech talks
to do, like comedy sketches or dance or special effects.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I really like to switch it up because I get
bored really fast. So I really like doing the dessert
videos because I get to taste interesting shit. I've had
some of the best desserts that I've ever had in
my entire life doing that. Yeah, some of the worst
as well, but I think those are fun. I like
(09:23):
doing the special effects ones because I like the finishing product.
A lot of times it's recording, it is kind of
dumb because like you're like with a green screen doing
some shit that you think is gonna look good later,
but you don't know if it's gonna look good. Literally,
Like I remember like fighting with a bee and I'm
(09:44):
not fighting with anything, but it's fucking ridiculous. My neighbors
probably think I'm out of my mind, but yeah, I
just like I like switching it up. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I remember during the pandemic, I was watching so many
of your tiktoks. I'm like, well, did you have like
a whole movie production studio there? Like these are like crazy,
it looks like a real film.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yeah, It's crazy how it happened though, because I had
just got all this damn equipment at the house and
the pandemic happened, and I was just like, I got
so much shit here. We can't do anything. And I
was even doing I was doing shows like I was
performing on Good Morning America from my backyard.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
He had production studio.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I had a whole thing going on, and then I
tore my whole house down.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Why did that happen?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Because I was because I'm a virgo and I always
just want things to be better. So I I tore
my house down the majority of it, just because I
had a vision of my house and I wanted to
be perfect. I think the land that I have is
the perfect land, and I just want the finished product
(10:56):
of my house to be that as well. I'm actually
really into interior and exterior design. It's my favorite thing
to do. But I just wouldn't recommend tearing the place
that you lived down because you know, it's just a hassle. Like,
you know, I'm like staying in the guest house, I'm
(11:18):
like renting houses, Like I'll never do it again. Yeah,
but like once this project is finished, I think I'll
be really happy.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
So you released your album New King earlier this year.
How is the tour going?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Honestly unbelievable. It has been so long since I released
a full length project, you know, and a lot of
people have asked me, like, what took me so long
to release a new project? And you know, these songs
are like my babies, you know, and to put my
songs into someone's hands, you know, a record label there
(11:54):
has to be some kind of rapport built. There has
to be some kind of trust, and I was coming
out of a really really, uh tough situation, and I
didn't want to release a full length project with that
team over there. So it took me a long time
to get out of that deal and to like figure
out what my next steps were. But in the process,
(12:16):
I was still releasing songs, you know, which which was great,
but to release a full length project, I needed to
be secure in where I was. And uh, finally being
able to release new music has been one of the
greatest experiences because, you know, sometimes you forget to smell
the roses. You stop and smell the roses. But uh,
(12:37):
in this in this album cycle, I have been doing
just that, you know, going out and touring the world
and seeing all the fans' faces, and you know, performing
new music as well as old music. I've treated everything
like a celebration, you know, and I think I've I've
been happier than I've ever been.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
What do you look like? You're really happy for you?
Do you have any pre show rituals or superstitions?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Oh? Yeah, so one one is basically something that I started.
I would say, like ten years ago. It's like after
we've done our prayer, which is, you know, the first
and foremost. After we've done our prayer, we do this
dance ritual and we add a piece of the dance
(13:26):
every couple of months. So it started off as a
dance that was fifteen seconds, but now it takes a
full on five minute to finish this little warm up dance.
But it's so perfect because like it's like a slight,
little warm up before we go out on stage. But
basically we add one dance move for like every like
(13:49):
every quarter I would say, like every like five months
or something like that. We add one more dance move
at the end. And it's a lot of fun. Like
when a new dancer is implemented, they got to learn
this long ass they have danced, so they got to
learn the show, but then they got to learn this
long ass warm up dance that takes five minutes to do.
(14:10):
But it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I need to figure out a name for it.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
M the Live, Oh my god, the pre show Slive.
Do you ever get nervous before you go out on stage?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Actually, never get nervous before I go out on stage
because I know exactly what's gonna happen, and I haven't
been nervous until my first show in Las Vegas. Yeah,
I was nervous as shit. And I think it's because
usually I'm so well rehearsed that I know exactly what's
gonna happen. And when you know exactly what's gonna happen,
(14:53):
there's nothing to be nervous about because I've spent so
many hours rehearsing, you know, these eight hours rehearsals. I've
done it a million and one times, you know. But
in Las Vegas, it's a totally different style show. It's
this three sixty show. Now the audience is implemented within
(15:13):
the show, and all of a sudden, it was just like, damn,
what are these feelings? Like this is real? Nervous like
these are real? Like this is this is a real thing.
So on the first night, I was definitely nervous. The
second night, I was in my element. I was I
(15:34):
felt way better about it. I felt like, you know,
I got one out of the hatchet, and then it
all came together and all came alive. And then I again,
now I know exactly what will happen on the floor yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I always get nervous before everything I do, singing talking
at all.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Which when you get more nervous at singing or talking singing? Yeah, yes, yeah,
I get more nervous in talking.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Really. Yeah, you don't seem like it.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Thank you. That's because you gave me this nice little tequila.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Loves it. So you have amazing fans. Can you share
a special fan interaction that you've had recently?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Two days ago, Ah, a good friend of mine, Zach.
He goes by MD Motivator.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I love him, Yeah, I love him so much.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah, he's amazing. He came to the Vegas show and
he was staying in the hotel with us, obviously, and
he ran as across one of my fans in the
hallway and he gave her a thousand dollars and he
(17:01):
was like, do you want to come to Jason show
with me? And of course I'm watching this after the fact,
but he tells me about his interaction with this woman
and how she was struggling and her daughter was struggling
with tuition, and he like how that thousand dollars was
(17:23):
such a big help in that moment, and he brought
her back and I met her afterwards. And you know,
I gave a donation as well, and I just thought
that moment was just so beautiful and unscripted and just real.
And he does it every single time. He's able to
just capture these unbelievable moments with these special people that
(17:47):
otherwise we would have never known, and I love it.
Every single time. I've done at least like videos with
Zach and I've loved every single one of them. So
that's like a recent one that was pretty special.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
He's incredible and just I've done a video with him
as well, and we're about to do more stuff together.
But seeing just how much impact you can have on
someone's life and just making them feel so happy and
it's just so heartwarming and so amazing. I wish there
are more people in the world like him.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Yeah. Same, same, really really special and I can believe
he's built such a big brand by having such a
big heart, and it proves that being a good person
is also a superhero, having a what do you call
that shit superpower? Superpower? Being having a big heart is
(18:39):
also a superpower, you know, and he has one of
the biggest hearts I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
I agree, Yeah, saying that I been saying now is
that being kind is iconic because I want to make
like being kind like something where people aspire to be.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
I feel like what we have also is like a
superpower where we can just make someone so happy, and
I feel like that's such a gift to be able
to do to people.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Totally agreed. Totally agreed. I mean when I'm doing these shows,
even all the people that are on stage with me,
because everybody that I'm on stage with has given their
life as well, and in some way or another to
the craft. Yeah. Right, So these are some of the
best dancers, some of the best musicians on planet Earth,
(19:31):
and they have given their life to that craft to
make people happy, you know. So getting to share the
stage with those kinds of people and being able to
just give, give, give, I think is a really special thing.
I love it. Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
So let's talk about fatherhood. You have your son Jason,
who is so adorable.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
What is the best part about being a dad?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
The best part about being a dad? I would say
two things. I feel like I relearned how to love.
The way that I am able to give off love
is very different now because it kind of shifted love
(20:15):
for me, the way that my relationship with my parents
has changed, the way that our relationship with my siblings
has changed. Its definitely because of him and having a kid. Also,
you know, it kind of reintroduces you see your childhood,
you know. So I love I love going back to
all the old things that I used to do as
a child and and getting to relive those things. Like
(20:38):
he loves playing hide and go seek, he loves playing tag.
He loves those simple things. And we can get him
all the gifts in the world, but like he would
literally be cool having a cardboard box in the corner
of past And I think, you know, that sort of
innocence has reminded me about what's important in life.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Mm hmm. Yeah, I feel the exact same way. It's
really deep in my relationships with my friend, my family,
and just seeing that like through his eyes, like bringing
him to Disneyland and just like seeing the look and
the excitement and it's really like reliving your childhood all
over again again.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
You want to be excited again too, so you're like, yes,
it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
So much fun. Yeah, we just got back from Maui
two days ago, and just being with them in the
water and going down the slides, just doing all the
things that I did when I was little. Just it's
just I don't know, there's nothing like it for sure.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
For sure was it their first time in Maui.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
It was his second time, but London her first time.
Such a great place for kids to get for sure.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I love the Grand Waaliyah because they have all of
the slides there. It's like so much fun for the kids.
The Grand Wyalah. It's like a Walter for Storia property.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
MAUI got to check that out too. So anytime I'm
going anywhere, I'm like, Paris, where do I need to stay?
That's where I've been messing up in life. I haven't
been calling you and telling, like asking you where I
need to stay. Because there's a lot of times where
you go to an amazing place, but it's always dictated
by where you stay, you know, and I know you
(22:17):
know all the all the good places to to be.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
It matters where you stay.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Oh, for sure. That's that's the biggest part of your
your vacation. You can't vacation in the place that's not
that's that that that you don't enjoy this stay, you know,
I think service is really important on a vacation.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
So important. Well, let me know for sure.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
I will.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I know everything, especially about Hilton and Waldorf story.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
I know you do. And you guys have places everywhere,
right yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Everywhere?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Man?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
So yeah, lets me know. Mm hmm. My son, Phoenix
loves to dance. Does Jason love to dance?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Oh? Loves loves, loves to dance. He's all over. My
friend Danny has a son and his son started to
dance and my son saw him and he was like,
what is this thing that's doing? And ever since that day,
like he just fell in love with dancing, Like anytime
(23:20):
a song comes on, he goes crazy about it.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Does he love your music?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Love?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
It's so proud.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Yeah, man, I don't know how long that's gonna last.
But he's he's all about Daddy songs right now.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Have you brought him to shows? Oh yeah, with the
headphones on?
Speaker 2 (23:35):
For sure? For sure. He loves coming out to the shows,
and he loves coming to our rehearsals and during rehearsals
he's like totally into it, totally enamored. And actually just
posted something the other day. I have the Less Twins
on the road with me, and they were taking him
through like a little dance class and he was killing
it and killing it.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
How do you juggle fatherhood and being on the road
and all that.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
You know, I'm still learning, I'm still learning it. I
want to make sure I am I'm there, you know.
I know I have a very demanding job as a musician,
but also have a very demanding job as a father.
So I'm going to make sure that I'm giving him
the time that he needs.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Yeah, always, that's awesome. Would you want him to follow
in your steps and get into music?
Speaker 2 (24:29):
The music industry is a tough place. So if he
really wanted it, and if he really wanted to make
those kinds of sacrifices in his life, then, by all means,
but it's very it's a very very tough place to be.
I mean, if you think about artists that have been
(24:51):
able to stand the test of time and like really
do it at a high level for a long time,
it's a very very short list, you know. So you know,
if he wants to do it, then, by all means,
but I would implore to him how much it takes,
you know, and how hard it is, because I mean,
(25:13):
there's a lot of there's a lot of things that
you can do in life that take a lot less, yeah,
you know, and you can still be happy doing it.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Yeah. I hope that my kids don't want to be
in the entertainment industry either, just because I've seen it
all and it's you know, it could be a scary
place sometimes as well, especially for like a little girl.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Definitely, definitely, yeah, But I mean they see it so much,
so I mean, I don't know. I don't know whether
it will scare them or excite them about it. I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
We'll see what happens. Well. Thank you everyone for listening,
and stay tuned for one more episode about the future
coming out soon.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Bye.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Everyone, Thanks for listening to I Paris. Don't forget to
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