March 11, 2024 • 23 mins
Celebrating the release of "Everything You Do", Aviella shares how the song was born w Afroki (Afrojack & Steve Aoki), how long ago they started working on it, and the first time they performed it live. She also talks her new song "Dancing With Myself" w Slushii, and how it was born!
We also get to know Aviella better by finding out everything she would do!
Would she:
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We also get to know Aviella better by finding out everything she would do!
Would she:
- bungee jump?
- skydive?
- get a face tattoo?
- sing karaoke to her own music?
- commit a crime if she would get away with it?
- adopt an elder cat?
- do the cold plunge w Steve Aoki?
- let Afrojack put her on his shoulders?
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Counting down the biggest dance songs inthe country. This is America's Dance thirty.
I knew it. Hello, Iknew it. I knew I had
to be ready early. That's sofunny. You knew I was going to
be here early enough. I didokay, well, first of all,
before anything else. Happy birthday toyou, Happy birthday to you. Happy
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birthday, dear Brian, Happy birthdayto you, because thank you so much.
That was so beautiful. I appreciateit. I was it was it
a good one? Yeah, itwas actually really good. I took the
day normally on Saturday as I domy show, so I took it off
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and went go karting with a bunchof friends and then yeah, and then
in the morning did like a thirtymile bike ride, so it was yeah,
So it was really good. Thirtymiles. Yeah, I have to
train. I'm doing bike ms nextmonth again, and so I have to
start training for it. And Ihaven't done it in a long time,
so I'm slowly ramping myself back up. That doesn't seem very slow to me.
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Thirty miles is a normal bike ridefor me is like twenty miles,
So thirty miles is like the nextstep and then I'll slowly get up to
fifty again, which, God helpme, we got this. How have
you been amazing having a blast takingthe music? You know? I also
have somebody here that obviously wow,I was going to ask about her.
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Yeah, she's good. I havea jumping spider as a pet now too,
So that's my new edition. I'msorry what yeah, I have to
burn down this chat right now.Not a spider fan, not a Spider
fan in the not even a SpiderMan fan. But you know what's like,
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so, okay, this sounds crazy, but like this little spider,
it's so tiny, and it justhas these cute little hands, and its
face looks at you like a personalmost, and it has such cute eyes.
Like if you've ever seen a jumpingspider, when you talk to it,
it's face like tilts, like theycall them web puppies. You just
need to stop. So what makesit a jumping spider? Does it literally
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jump? Yeah? Oh god no, fury sounds terrifying. Yes, Like
you can tell when they're gonna doit because you can see the web,
so you can actually like hold ontothe string while it's jumping. It's pretty
wild. That is what nightmares aremade out of. Why would you want
that as a pet? Eh?Actually I don't have a good answer for
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that one. You were just inthe pet store and walk by the jumping
spider and you're like, oh,how adorable. Yeah, actually I have
a tarantula too, so it's nottoo crazy for me. I don't know
if it's all this talk about spiders, or if my hormones are off,
or if this building ac is off. But I'm like sweating right now.
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Yeah, maybe it's just you.It's just you. Yeah, and I'm
getting oh, spiders, spiders please, you know, instead of talking music,
I really just wish we could sithere for like hours talking about how
awesome our for children are. Orby the way, how is Morocca doing.
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She's good, she's good. She'shanging out right next to me over
here with her little spiked collar andyeah, everything's good. Did I ever
ask you how you came up withher name? So basically, my family
they have four dogs and they're allmusic names. So when I found Morocca,
I was like, oh my gosh, I have to do the music
name. I have to go withit. So they have a treble harmony,
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melody and symphony, and yeah,those are the family dogs. So
I obviously I was like, well, I can't think of really like anything
else music related that really stuck outto me. And then for some reason,
Morocca just came to me and Iwas like, you know, Morocca
vibe. That's the cutest name,avi Ella. It is so amazing seeing
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you again. Not only welcome backto America's Dan's thirty, but welcome to
the three hundredth episode of A Dthirty. Yes, yes, hundred.
I almost wore a tux again,but I figured I think the last time
we chatted, I was wearing likea suit because your song went number one.
I'm like, ah, I don'twant to do that again. But
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welcome back. Thank you, thanksfor having me. I'm so here.
You have got so much going onand I can't wait to talk about all
of it. First of all,congratulations on the new song with afro Jack
and Steve Aoki or should I sayAfrokie Afrokie. Yeah. I feel like
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my running joke is like Afroki Yella. I feel like it just you know,
wants. I feel like they missedthe opportunity on that. I'll call
Nick right after this and tell memessed up. And then you've got another
song with Slushy that just came out. We're gonna talk about that song coming
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up. Plus you've got another songcoming out. This is gonna be the
month of Aviella, and we're gonnatalk all about it coming up. But
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first, in honor of everything youdo with f Rokie, let's get to
know Aviella a little better by findingout everything you would do. Oh you
know, I love this game andit's gonna start easy and get dark,
So get ready. All right,So, first of all, would you
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bungee jump? No? Really?That surprises me. No, And I
feel like we've had this conversation becauseyou love that kind of stuff I do,
although I don't know if I'll everbungee jump again. I did it
once. That was enough, really, But I can't believe that you wouldn't
because Okay, So here's the thing. So I'm good with jumping and you
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know, getting over the fear ofheights and stuff like that, I'm fine
with that. What I'm not goodwith is the bouncing afterwards. Oh yeah,
that's what made me nauseous. Solet me just take you through the
experience. So we went up liketwo hundred I think it was like two
hundred some feet in the air onthis crane and when you look down,
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it doesn't even look like the mattressesunder you. And so I turned to
the woman and I'm like, listen, hopefully we're not gonna need this,
but shouldn't we be over that thing? And she's like, we are,
it's just your depth perception is off. And then because it was attached at
my hip, when you jump andthen you're recoiling, that's when I was
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like, oh, this has gottastop. So I'm done with Bungie.
It was like Tower of Terror.I've never been on that ride before,
like that whole thing of going downand up and no, but wow,
that's amazing that you did that though. That's cool. Yeah, my ex
girlfriend took me on the Tower ofTerror and I'll never go on that again
either. That's the same thing,the whole bouncing thing that I'm like,
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no, I'm good now. Alongthe same lines, would you skydive?
No? So it's a is ita fear of heights thing? It must
be. I don't know, becauseI just have never It's got to be
a fear of heights. That's allbecause bungee jumping and doing that, they're
they're very similar. I mean thatreally surprises me, and I would definitely
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suggest skydiving. I tell, Itell everybody that everyone should skydive at least
once. It is the most incrediblenatural high you will ever have. I
think that I get that from beingon stage, so I feel like I'm
good in the adrenaline excitement apartment.I don't think that I need to jump
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out of a plane to do it. But so crazy to me, Like
I thought, I know you sowell and you've got a jumping spider,
but you won't jump out of aplane. That's so crazy to me.
It's a very different thing. Iguess they're both terrifying. The creepy crawleys
don't bother me as much. Keepthem away from me. Now, would
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you get a tattoo on your face? Ooh see, that's an interesting question.
I feel like, you know,maybe like does the ear count no?
No, your face like Mike Tysonstyle. Probably not, But I
do think it's really cool. It'sa look, it's a vibe. I
do like it for others. Forme, I don't think I would do
it. I'm glad you said no, and no offense to everybody that has
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a face tattoo. I just don'tget it. Like it's just like literally
right there in your face, andit's oh, I now, I'm good
on that. Would you sing karaoketo your own songs? Ooh No,
that's creepy, isn't it. Thefunny thing is, though I'm not really
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that much of a karaoke girl tobegin with. I'm not either, although
you should be. I mean,that rendition of Happy Birthday was amazing,
thank you, but that was notkaraoke. But I will hype up everybody
that I do see singing karaoke.I just don't enjoy being up there.
Yeah, I've never done karaoke,and I don't think I ever will never
unless I'm like, because this probablygonna surprise you, but I hate being
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in front of crowds life that really. Now. I love being out on
stage like introducing and announcing and stufflike that, but karaoke to me is
just terrifying. Unless I'm gonna belike blackout drunk, I don't so funny.
I don't know if I could doit. I think it's because as
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much as I say that I don'tcare what people think about me. I
still feel like the judging. Idon't know if I could handle that unless
I was highly intoxicated. Well,I would hype you up, Brian,
I would be there, Thank you, abyall. I appreciate that together.
I love it. Now, ifyou could get away with it, would
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you commit a crime? No?God, you're so good as the type
of a crime committer. No,But if you could get away with it,
I mean, I know, I'mjust not like that. Even robbing
a bank never Oh man, mymind could never even go there. Wow.
I don't know, Like robbing abank doesn't hurt anybody. So I
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think if I could get away withit, what does that say about me?
That's crazy? Right? I knowyou'll never respect me again? Now,
yes, would you adopt an elderlycat? Oh? Yes, that
I absolutely would do. See Ican't. Okay, So, like here's
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the thing. Okay, So myjumping spider, I know we're going down
the spider path. But she's likewhen I got her, she's a mama
spider, so she's already had allher eggs, and she's already had all
her babies. And when I gother, They were like, look,
she probably won't live very long,but thank you for giving her a home.
And I was like, you know, that made me feel good.
I feel like a proud little spidermom parent. And I feel like I
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would feel that way about any animal, because you give them the best years
of their life or however long thatthey have left, and then you know
that you helped in some way.Now, two things. First of all,
how long do spiders live? Minedie right away? Why is that?
I don't know, they just diethe vacuum. No, it's usually
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a shoe. I mean, theshoe falls on them. It's not me.
I would never hurt a spider.It's actually normally like hair spray and
a lighter. Oh my gosh,I hate spiders. I remember seeing this
huge spider in my bathtub ones andI think I sprayed an entire bottle of
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raid on it, and it curledup and then uncurled and started laughing at
me. I'm like, oh no, I'm out, I'm out. Whole
house down, burn the entire housedown. So how do you know how
long they live? Jumping spiders havea shorter life span. I think they
can live up to a couple ofyears. But like tarantulas, and I
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mentioned I have a tarantula, theylive for like thirty years sometimes, Like,
yeah, I think so. Idon't know. I could be wrong,
but I'm pretty sure there's like themales they molt and then they die
almost like right away. But thefemale tarantulas they can live a really long
time. That is terrifying. Thatis absolutely terrifying. Now back to the
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elderly. I have so much respectfor people that can adopt elderly animals and
I would love to, but it'skind of like, it's this is going
to be horrible to say, butit's a selfish thing. Like if I'm
adopting a pet, I want tobe able to spend as much time as
I can with that animal. Andif you're adopting an elderly cat, you
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know, yes, you're giving ita great life out of a shelter,
but you're not spending that much timewith it. And death of animals is
just so hard. Yeah, forsure, that makes sense. I have
the utmost respect you for saying thatyou would do that. Now, would
you do the Cold Plunge with SteveAoki? Okay, So it's really funny
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because I've actually definitely thought about thisbefore because I feel like it's coming for
me at some point. I'm surprisedyou guys didn't have to for the promo
of the song. Yeah, no, we didn't. But I think I
would try it. I would probablytoo, like, yeah, everybody swears
by how amazing it is. Yeah, I don't think I would enjoy it,
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probably, but I would try itnow. Finally, how tall are
you? Five two on a goodday now? But actually I'm like five
to four if I wear my platforms, which is basically every day, so
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you know I'm tall now. Afrojackis six foot eight. Would you ever
allow Afrojack to put you on hisshoulders? That would be scary? You
know. It's funny. I methim EDC. I think it was twenty
twenty two, and we took apicture together, and the height difference is
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just wild. It's just wild.It's like the picture of the tallest man
and the shortest woman in that photo'shilarious. It was pretty funny. I
got it the first time I eversaw Afrojack in person. He was playing
at a club locally, and Iremember being on stage about to intro him
and looking off to the left andhe comes out of the doorway and I'm
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like, holy f I can't believeI had no idea how tall he was.
Yeah, Oh that was it.That's it. Let's end the conversation.
Let's talk about this smash with Afrokie. Now, this is the first
song in the afro Key project.How was everything you do born? So
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it's actually really cool because I've alwayslooked up to Steve as a mentor,
and after my EP came out withDemok, I still continued to send him
music and we'd always talked about atsome point having a collaborative record together.
And when he sent me this track, I was like, Wow, this
feels so special and unique. AndI called up my friend Leo, who
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had just moved to LA and wegot in a session. We wrote it
in like thirty minutes, recorded thetop line, sent it back to Steve,
and almost immediately he was like,yeah, I like it. Let
me send it to Afrojack and seewhat he thinks. And I was like,
oh my gosh, I didn't evenrealize that it was going to be
an Afroki record. Oh wow,you just thought it was going to be
Steve. Yeah. So, Imean, it was so cool. When
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he got back and he was like, yeah, we can work with this,
let's run with it. We finallyhave a song together, and it
felt so it still feels so surreal. It just felt so right. And
when I was writing it too,I really wanted to make something that was
very anthemic and something that people couldreally feel, you know, like that
feeling of when you're in the crowdlistening to a song like this and how
it makes you feel like everything youdo makes me alive, like, don't
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let this be over, this feeling. We just want to live in it
forever. It's such a sick track. It kind of takes you back to
take over control. I mean,it's just so how it like molds great
vocal with incredible Afrojack and Steve Aokienergy exactly. And then we go back
to No Beef and a song likethat and that makes everyone feel and it
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still does even now. That's sucha classic. Absolutely. Now, how
long ago did Steve send you thesong? So this happened in October And
then it's really funny because it happenedso fast. Once the track was finally
done, after I sent the topline back to him and he was like
yeah, we're going to go withthis. I was actually in Vegas for
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when we were Young Festival, justhaving a nice weekend out and it just
so happened that he was playing ata club and he was like, Hey,
come out and do song. Andso the song wasn't even done yet,
but it was just the idea andwe tested it out and everybody loved
it and it was so cool andit just felt so oh, it felt
so right. I'm so excited thatit's out. That's got to feel so
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awesome being part of such a highprofile song like this. Thank you.
Yeah, it's it's amazing. Asa singer songwriter, do you stay in
the entire process of the production ordo you do the top line? You
do the writing, send it offand then just move on. I think
it depends on the song, becausea lot of times I will be in
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a session actually like in real time, working on building a track with the
producer and my other collaborators and writingit in real time, and then with
something like this, I might getsent a track and then top line over
it and then go back and forthwith ideas. And it was a really
cool collaborative process because Steve sent mesome voice memos from Afrojack, like saying,
hey, can we tweak this?Can we do that? And then
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I got back in and re recordsome parts, and so even though we
weren't actually all in the room togetherat the same time, it actually felt
like we were. I don't knowif you're gonna know the answer to this,
but I always love finding out howmany v's there are, you know,
all the tweaking and everything that goeson before the song is released.
Do you know what the final vwas of the f Roki song? No,
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I don't, because I got aninitial version after my vocals were on
it, and then we cut andchopped and changed some things, and then
I heard the live version the firsttime that I performed it with Steve and
Vegas, and that was very roughat the time, and so I think
the last time I heard it wasright before it actually came out. Gotcha,
well it's such a smash. Congratulations. Now onto your new song with
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Slushy. Is it Dance with Myself? Dance ill in Myself? Yeah?
How was that song born? Becausethis is in your first go around with
Slushie. Yeah. So Slushy andI have had a lot of collaborations.
We've worked together for many years.We had the Fortnite Rocket League song and
that that was really fun. Sowe've just continued to work together. And
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this top line specifically was really coolbecause I wrote this with some amazing Swedish
songwriters back in twenty twenty, sothis song has been actually years in the
making, and I had it inmy folder of stuff, and you know,
as things are in the folders ofstuff, they get sent around and
then sometimes they get picked up,and so this was a cool this happened
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that way, and he was like, Hey, I really like this one.
Let's go with it, and thenput the magic on it, kind
of did some pitching up and movedthe BPM a little, and yeah,
here we are. What is theoldest thing in Alviella's folder of stuff?
Is twenty twenty the oldest thing?Or do you have stuff older than that?
I'm sure I have older than thatsomewhere out there, but in the
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current folder. In the current folder, I would say they're even more recent
than twenty twenty. Like I've beenI've been working. I am ready I
am putting out more of Yellow music. It is go time. That's what
I was gonna say next is I'vegot another song coming out next week.
This is going to be the monthof Aviyella. Tell us about that song.
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Yeah, I have a song comingout with Chill. I'm really excited
about it. It's called full Speed. Hopefully I can say that. Yeah,
I'm really excited about it. Wegot some little like racing themes going
on in there, so it's goingto be a really fun one. Well,
I would ask what's next for Aviella, but I mean that you've got
some much's going on. Yeah,I'm so excited. I can't wait to
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continue to share my music. Andit's so incredible when I hear stories of
people and they reach out to meand say that my lyrics have helped them
through something and gotten them through atough time, or given them something to
listen to just for fun. It'sincredible that I'm able to write something that
people resonate with like that. AndI just think that that's the most human
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thing. Like the fact that wecreate music and people listen and people it
makes sense to them is just likemind blowing to me. I gotta be
honest, I think that is oneof the most incredible things because as somebody
who loves music. You know,it's such a great escape. You can
have so much going on in yourlife, but you put on a great
song and you totally escape from it. So to be the creator or a
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part of that and giving it tosomebody to be able to escape, that's
just got to be so amazing.Yeah, that's so awesome. Well,
congratulations on everything. It is alwaysawesome seeing you. Hopefully next time we'll
be in person on a seesaw.Yep, And it's not in person on
a seesaw. We got to figureout how to cut our sea saws together,
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Yes, we do, but it'sgot to be in person because we've
got to give each other candy again, because you gave me candy at EDC
Vegas. Oh yeah, and Ineed to be able to repay your candy
favor. Oh little Plaurer moment.Absolutely, Avi, Yella, it's always
great seeing you. Thank you somuch for your time with us. On
the three hundredth episode of America's Dansthirty. Thank you so much for having
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me. It is a pleasure always. Thank you. America's Dance thirty counting
down the biggest dance songs in thecountry, America's Dance thirty
Counting down the biggest dance songs inthe country. This is America's Dance thirty.
I knew it. Hello, Iknew it. I knew I had
to be ready early. That's sofunny. You knew I was going to
be here early enough. I didokay, well, first of all,
before anything else. Happy birthday toyou, Happy birthday to you. Happy
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birthday, dear Brian, Happy birthdayto you, because thank you so much.
That was so beautiful. I appreciateit. I was it was it
a good one? Yeah, itwas actually really good. I took the
day normally on Saturday as I domy show, so I took it off
(01:00):
and went go karting with a bunchof friends and then yeah, and then
in the morning did like a thirtymile bike ride, so it was yeah,
So it was really good. Thirtymiles. Yeah, I have to
train. I'm doing bike ms nextmonth again, and so I have to
start training for it. And Ihaven't done it in a long time,
so I'm slowly ramping myself back up. That doesn't seem very slow to me.
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Thirty miles is a normal bike ridefor me is like twenty miles,
So thirty miles is like the nextstep and then I'll slowly get up to
fifty again, which, God helpme, we got this. How have
you been amazing having a blast takingthe music? You know? I also
have somebody here that obviously wow,I was going to ask about her.
(01:49):
Yeah, she's good. I havea jumping spider as a pet now too,
So that's my new edition. I'msorry what yeah, I have to
burn down this chat right now.Not a spider fan, not a Spider
fan in the not even a SpiderMan fan. But you know what's like,
(02:12):
so, okay, this sounds crazy, but like this little spider,
it's so tiny, and it justhas these cute little hands, and its
face looks at you like a personalmost, and it has such cute eyes.
Like if you've ever seen a jumpingspider, when you talk to it,
it's face like tilts, like theycall them web puppies. You just
need to stop. So what makesit a jumping spider? Does it literally
(02:35):
jump? Yeah? Oh god no, fury sounds terrifying. Yes, Like
you can tell when they're gonna doit because you can see the web,
so you can actually like hold ontothe string while it's jumping. It's pretty
wild. That is what nightmares aremade out of. Why would you want
that as a pet? Eh?Actually I don't have a good answer for
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that one. You were just inthe pet store and walk by the jumping
spider and you're like, oh,how adorable. Yeah, actually I have
a tarantula too, so it's nottoo crazy for me. I don't know
if it's all this talk about spiders, or if my hormones are off,
or if this building ac is off. But I'm like sweating right now.
(03:22):
Yeah, maybe it's just you.It's just you. Yeah, and I'm
getting oh, spiders, spiders please, you know, instead of talking music,
I really just wish we could sithere for like hours talking about how
awesome our for children are. Orby the way, how is Morocca doing.
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She's good, she's good. She'shanging out right next to me over
here with her little spiked collar andyeah, everything's good. Did I ever
ask you how you came up withher name? So basically, my family
they have four dogs and they're allmusic names. So when I found Morocca,
I was like, oh my gosh, I have to do the music
name. I have to go withit. So they have a treble harmony,
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melody and symphony, and yeah,those are the family dogs. So
I obviously I was like, well, I can't think of really like anything
else music related that really stuck outto me. And then for some reason,
Morocca just came to me and Iwas like, you know, Morocca
vibe. That's the cutest name,avi Ella. It is so amazing seeing
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you again. Not only welcome backto America's Dan's thirty, but welcome to
the three hundredth episode of A Dthirty. Yes, yes, hundred.
I almost wore a tux again,but I figured I think the last time
we chatted, I was wearing likea suit because your song went number one.
I'm like, ah, I don'twant to do that again. But
(04:56):
welcome back. Thank you, thanksfor having me. I'm so here.
You have got so much going onand I can't wait to talk about all
of it. First of all,congratulations on the new song with afro Jack
and Steve Aoki or should I sayAfrokie Afrokie. Yeah. I feel like
(05:17):
my running joke is like Afroki Yella. I feel like it just you know,
wants. I feel like they missedthe opportunity on that. I'll call
Nick right after this and tell memessed up. And then you've got another
song with Slushy that just came out. We're gonna talk about that song coming
(05:39):
up. Plus you've got another songcoming out. This is gonna be the
month of Aviella, and we're gonnatalk all about it coming up. But
(06:00):
first, in honor of everything youdo with f Rokie, let's get to
know Aviella a little better by findingout everything you would do. Oh you
know, I love this game andit's gonna start easy and get dark,
So get ready. All right,So, first of all, would you
(06:23):
bungee jump? No? Really?That surprises me. No, And I
feel like we've had this conversation becauseyou love that kind of stuff I do,
although I don't know if I'll everbungee jump again. I did it
once. That was enough, really, But I can't believe that you wouldn't
because Okay, So here's the thing. So I'm good with jumping and you
(06:46):
know, getting over the fear ofheights and stuff like that, I'm fine
with that. What I'm not goodwith is the bouncing afterwards. Oh yeah,
that's what made me nauseous. Solet me just take you through the
experience. So we went up liketwo hundred I think it was like two
hundred some feet in the air onthis crane and when you look down,
(07:09):
it doesn't even look like the mattressesunder you. And so I turned to
the woman and I'm like, listen, hopefully we're not gonna need this,
but shouldn't we be over that thing? And she's like, we are,
it's just your depth perception is off. And then because it was attached at
my hip, when you jump andthen you're recoiling, that's when I was
(07:32):
like, oh, this has gottastop. So I'm done with Bungie.
It was like Tower of Terror.I've never been on that ride before,
like that whole thing of going downand up and no, but wow,
that's amazing that you did that though. That's cool. Yeah, my ex
girlfriend took me on the Tower ofTerror and I'll never go on that again
either. That's the same thing,the whole bouncing thing that I'm like,
(07:54):
no, I'm good now. Alongthe same lines, would you skydive?
No? So it's a is ita fear of heights thing? It must
be. I don't know, becauseI just have never It's got to be
a fear of heights. That's allbecause bungee jumping and doing that, they're
they're very similar. I mean thatreally surprises me, and I would definitely
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suggest skydiving. I tell, Itell everybody that everyone should skydive at least
once. It is the most incrediblenatural high you will ever have. I
think that I get that from beingon stage, so I feel like I'm
good in the adrenaline excitement apartment.I don't think that I need to jump
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out of a plane to do it. But so crazy to me, Like
I thought, I know you sowell and you've got a jumping spider,
but you won't jump out of aplane. That's so crazy to me.
It's a very different thing. Iguess they're both terrifying. The creepy crawleys
don't bother me as much. Keepthem away from me. Now, would
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you get a tattoo on your face? Ooh see, that's an interesting question.
I feel like, you know,maybe like does the ear count no?
No, your face like Mike Tysonstyle. Probably not, But I
do think it's really cool. It'sa look, it's a vibe. I
do like it for others. Forme, I don't think I would do
it. I'm glad you said no, and no offense to everybody that has
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a face tattoo. I just don'tget it. Like it's just like literally
right there in your face, andit's oh, I now, I'm good
on that. Would you sing karaoketo your own songs? Ooh No,
that's creepy, isn't it. Thefunny thing is, though I'm not really
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that much of a karaoke girl tobegin with. I'm not either, although
you should be. I mean,that rendition of Happy Birthday was amazing,
thank you, but that was notkaraoke. But I will hype up everybody
that I do see singing karaoke.I just don't enjoy being up there.
Yeah, I've never done karaoke,and I don't think I ever will never
unless I'm like, because this probablygonna surprise you, but I hate being
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in front of crowds life that really. Now. I love being out on
stage like introducing and announcing and stufflike that, but karaoke to me is
just terrifying. Unless I'm gonna belike blackout drunk, I don't so funny.
I don't know if I could doit. I think it's because as
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much as I say that I don'tcare what people think about me. I
still feel like the judging. Idon't know if I could handle that unless
I was highly intoxicated. Well,I would hype you up, Brian,
I would be there, Thank you, abyall. I appreciate that together.
I love it. Now, ifyou could get away with it, would
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you commit a crime? No?God, you're so good as the type
of a crime committer. No,But if you could get away with it,
I mean, I know, I'mjust not like that. Even robbing
a bank never Oh man, mymind could never even go there. Wow.
I don't know, Like robbing abank doesn't hurt anybody. So I
(11:09):
think if I could get away withit, what does that say about me?
That's crazy? Right? I knowyou'll never respect me again? Now,
yes, would you adopt an elderlycat? Oh? Yes, that
I absolutely would do. See Ican't. Okay, So, like here's
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the thing. Okay, So myjumping spider, I know we're going down
the spider path. But she's likewhen I got her, she's a mama
spider, so she's already had allher eggs, and she's already had all
her babies. And when I gother, They were like, look,
she probably won't live very long,but thank you for giving her a home.
And I was like, you know, that made me feel good.
I feel like a proud little spidermom parent. And I feel like I
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would feel that way about any animal, because you give them the best years
of their life or however long thatthey have left, and then you know
that you helped in some way.Now, two things. First of all,
how long do spiders live? Minedie right away? Why is that?
I don't know, they just diethe vacuum. No, it's usually
(12:16):
a shoe. I mean, theshoe falls on them. It's not me.
I would never hurt a spider.It's actually normally like hair spray and
a lighter. Oh my gosh,I hate spiders. I remember seeing this
huge spider in my bathtub ones andI think I sprayed an entire bottle of
(12:39):
raid on it, and it curledup and then uncurled and started laughing at
me. I'm like, oh no, I'm out, I'm out. Whole
house down, burn the entire housedown. So how do you know how
long they live? Jumping spiders havea shorter life span. I think they
can live up to a couple ofyears. But like tarantulas, and I
(13:01):
mentioned I have a tarantula, theylive for like thirty years sometimes, Like,
yeah, I think so. Idon't know. I could be wrong,
but I'm pretty sure there's like themales they molt and then they die
almost like right away. But thefemale tarantulas they can live a really long
time. That is terrifying. Thatis absolutely terrifying. Now back to the
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elderly. I have so much respectfor people that can adopt elderly animals and
I would love to, but it'skind of like, it's this is going
to be horrible to say, butit's a selfish thing. Like if I'm
adopting a pet, I want tobe able to spend as much time as
I can with that animal. Andif you're adopting an elderly cat, you
(13:46):
know, yes, you're giving ita great life out of a shelter,
but you're not spending that much timewith it. And death of animals is
just so hard. Yeah, forsure, that makes sense. I have
the utmost respect you for saying thatyou would do that. Now, would
you do the Cold Plunge with SteveAoki? Okay, So it's really funny
(14:07):
because I've actually definitely thought about thisbefore because I feel like it's coming for
me at some point. I'm surprisedyou guys didn't have to for the promo
of the song. Yeah, no, we didn't. But I think I
would try it. I would probablytoo, like, yeah, everybody swears
by how amazing it is. Yeah, I don't think I would enjoy it,
(14:28):
probably, but I would try itnow. Finally, how tall are
you? Five two on a goodday now? But actually I'm like five
to four if I wear my platforms, which is basically every day, so
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you know I'm tall now. Afrojackis six foot eight. Would you ever
allow Afrojack to put you on hisshoulders? That would be scary? You
know. It's funny. I methim EDC. I think it was twenty
twenty two, and we took apicture together, and the height difference is
(15:11):
just wild. It's just wild.It's like the picture of the tallest man
and the shortest woman in that photo'shilarious. It was pretty funny. I
got it the first time I eversaw Afrojack in person. He was playing
at a club locally, and Iremember being on stage about to intro him
and looking off to the left andhe comes out of the doorway and I'm
(15:37):
like, holy f I can't believeI had no idea how tall he was.
Yeah, Oh that was it.That's it. Let's end the conversation.
Let's talk about this smash with Afrokie. Now, this is the first
song in the afro Key project.How was everything you do born? So
(16:03):
it's actually really cool because I've alwayslooked up to Steve as a mentor,
and after my EP came out withDemok, I still continued to send him
music and we'd always talked about atsome point having a collaborative record together.
And when he sent me this track, I was like, Wow, this
feels so special and unique. AndI called up my friend Leo, who
(16:26):
had just moved to LA and wegot in a session. We wrote it
in like thirty minutes, recorded thetop line, sent it back to Steve,
and almost immediately he was like,yeah, I like it. Let
me send it to Afrojack and seewhat he thinks. And I was like,
oh my gosh, I didn't evenrealize that it was going to be
an Afroki record. Oh wow,you just thought it was going to be
Steve. Yeah. So, Imean, it was so cool. When
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he got back and he was like, yeah, we can work with this,
let's run with it. We finallyhave a song together, and it
felt so it still feels so surreal. It just felt so right. And
when I was writing it too,I really wanted to make something that was
very anthemic and something that people couldreally feel, you know, like that
feeling of when you're in the crowdlistening to a song like this and how
it makes you feel like everything youdo makes me alive, like, don't
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let this be over, this feeling. We just want to live in it
forever. It's such a sick track. It kind of takes you back to
take over control. I mean,it's just so how it like molds great
vocal with incredible Afrojack and Steve Aokienergy exactly. And then we go back
to No Beef and a song likethat and that makes everyone feel and it
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still does even now. That's sucha classic. Absolutely. Now, how
long ago did Steve send you thesong? So this happened in October And
then it's really funny because it happenedso fast. Once the track was finally
done, after I sent the topline back to him and he was like
yeah, we're going to go withthis. I was actually in Vegas for
(17:52):
when we were Young Festival, justhaving a nice weekend out and it just
so happened that he was playing ata club and he was like, Hey,
come out and do song. Andso the song wasn't even done yet,
but it was just the idea andwe tested it out and everybody loved
it and it was so cool andit just felt so oh, it felt
so right. I'm so excited thatit's out. That's got to feel so
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awesome being part of such a highprofile song like this. Thank you.
Yeah, it's it's amazing. Asa singer songwriter, do you stay in
the entire process of the production ordo you do the top line? You
do the writing, send it offand then just move on. I think
it depends on the song, becausea lot of times I will be in
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a session actually like in real time, working on building a track with the
producer and my other collaborators and writingit in real time, and then with
something like this, I might getsent a track and then top line over
it and then go back and forthwith ideas. And it was a really
cool collaborative process because Steve sent mesome voice memos from Afrojack, like saying,
hey, can we tweak this?Can we do that? And then
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I got back in and re recordsome parts, and so even though we
weren't actually all in the room togetherat the same time, it actually felt
like we were. I don't knowif you're gonna know the answer to this,
but I always love finding out howmany v's there are, you know,
all the tweaking and everything that goeson before the song is released.
Do you know what the final vwas of the f Roki song? No,
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I don't, because I got aninitial version after my vocals were on
it, and then we cut andchopped and changed some things, and then
I heard the live version the firsttime that I performed it with Steve and
Vegas, and that was very roughat the time, and so I think
the last time I heard it wasright before it actually came out. Gotcha,
well it's such a smash. Congratulations. Now onto your new song with
(19:42):
Slushy. Is it Dance with Myself? Dance ill in Myself? Yeah?
How was that song born? Becausethis is in your first go around with
Slushie. Yeah. So Slushy andI have had a lot of collaborations.
We've worked together for many years.We had the Fortnite Rocket League song and
that that was really fun. Sowe've just continued to work together. And
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this top line specifically was really coolbecause I wrote this with some amazing Swedish
songwriters back in twenty twenty, sothis song has been actually years in the
making, and I had it inmy folder of stuff, and you know,
as things are in the folders ofstuff, they get sent around and
then sometimes they get picked up,and so this was a cool this happened
(20:25):
that way, and he was like, Hey, I really like this one.
Let's go with it, and thenput the magic on it, kind
of did some pitching up and movedthe BPM a little, and yeah,
here we are. What is theoldest thing in Alviella's folder of stuff?
Is twenty twenty the oldest thing?Or do you have stuff older than that?
I'm sure I have older than thatsomewhere out there, but in the
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current folder. In the current folder, I would say they're even more recent
than twenty twenty. Like I've beenI've been working. I am ready I
am putting out more of Yellow music. It is go time. That's what
I was gonna say next is I'vegot another song coming out next week.
This is going to be the monthof Aviyella. Tell us about that song.
(21:07):
Yeah, I have a song comingout with Chill. I'm really excited
about it. It's called full Speed. Hopefully I can say that. Yeah,
I'm really excited about it. Wegot some little like racing themes going
on in there, so it's goingto be a really fun one. Well,
I would ask what's next for Aviella, but I mean that you've got
some much's going on. Yeah,I'm so excited. I can't wait to
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continue to share my music. Andit's so incredible when I hear stories of
people and they reach out to meand say that my lyrics have helped them
through something and gotten them through atough time, or given them something to
listen to just for fun. It'sincredible that I'm able to write something that
people resonate with like that. AndI just think that that's the most human
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thing. Like the fact that wecreate music and people listen and people it
makes sense to them is just likemind blowing to me. I gotta be
honest, I think that is oneof the most incredible things because as somebody
who loves music. You know,it's such a great escape. You can
have so much going on in yourlife, but you put on a great
song and you totally escape from it. So to be the creator or a
(22:11):
part of that and giving it tosomebody to be able to escape, that's
just got to be so amazing.Yeah, that's so awesome. Well,
congratulations on everything. It is alwaysawesome seeing you. Hopefully next time we'll
be in person on a seesaw.Yep, And it's not in person on
a seesaw. We got to figureout how to cut our sea saws together,
(22:33):
Yes, we do, but it'sgot to be in person because we've
got to give each other candy again, because you gave me candy at EDC
Vegas. Oh yeah, and Ineed to be able to repay your candy
favor. Oh little Plaurer moment.Absolutely, Avi, Yella, it's always
great seeing you. Thank you somuch for your time with us. On
the three hundredth episode of America's Dansthirty. Thank you so much for having
(22:56):
me. It is a pleasure always. Thank you. America's Dance thirty counting
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