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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Your love Line Countdown, Yeah, that's your boy. Back for more.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Bob counting down the biggest songs in the country and
around the world, as voted by you.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Hello, Jem, how is your Saturday Night? Going?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
On the show tonight? American artist Micah McLaurin. If you
love Lady Gaga Madonna, you will love him, plus lots
of new music from Queen Katie Perry. Can you believe
She's going to be in the country next month performing
at the AFL Grand Final and steal one of the
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biggest songs Tommy Richmond, Air, Kylie Minogue, bb Rexa and Toblow.
Is anyone else still obsessed with their performance from Hyde
Park in London? Because yeah, same Here here these when
they play in the countdown right now it is Australian
artist Jesse k Jealous. This is Colublime Countdown with Jim
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as we're counting down the top twenty songs. I'm super
excited to introduce you to Micah mclauren. If you're a
fan of like Lady Gaga Madonna, You're gonna love Micah.
He makes dance pop music, sois disco. He sings right
and he's also a trained pianist as well. He studied
at Juilliard, which is a massive music school over in New.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
York, and he joins us.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Now, hey, Micah, you've released a few songs this year
which are all amazing.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Released Don't Give Up on Love, which came out in January.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
It's disco.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
It's kind of retro but modern, and it's like, to me,
that one is a banger.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
So I love that one.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
It came from a piano piece that I wrote and
I released Let's Go to France, which is also kind
of in the disco genre, and it's kind of like
abba meets disco dance pop and now I have called
me so it's not disco, but it's like it's a
fun pop song.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
It's a dance song.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
It's for clubs, and it's just supposed to be kind
of silly and sarcastic.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I love that because like pop music as well, like
that's fun, like even growing up as well, Like I
lovely things to pop music that's fun, like cheeky, you
can dance too, and that's.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
What like your music is as well. And it's so
cool with each song that you release.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Yeah, it's not that serious like the lyrics are supposed
to be lighthearted and not not like too serious and heavy.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
It's so cool how you can play the piano and
you went to Juilliard, Like what made you want to
play the.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Piano at eight years old?
Speaker 4 (02:40):
My grandmother gave us for old piano because she got
a new one. My mom signed me up for lessons
and I was obsessed and I didn't think about anything else,
and so yeah, I just wanted to be a concert pianist.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
He's seeing you write music and it's cool having that
other school playing the piano. Not everyone can do that
and be so amazing at it, and like when you're
playing it, you're like, I was amazed watching your videos.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Oh my god, this is incredible.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
You.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Yeah, that's not something that you can just pick up.
We have to start early and fortunately I did.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
So.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Yeah, that's my foundation, and that's my bass. My singing
and my songwriting is like an extension of my musicality.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I've got a wrap it round of questions for you.
Are you ready?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah? I'm ready?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
What is your go to coffee.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Order cappuccina with regular home mill and.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
What's your favorite season?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I honestly like winter.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Winter is good and your favorite.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Film, The Devil World's Product.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Oh my god, how good is that?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Like?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
You can watch it so many times?
Speaker 4 (03:39):
It's I've never watched anything that many times as I've
watched that one.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
And what is your This is a hard one. What
is your favorite Lady Gaga song?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Bad Romance?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Yeah, iconic, no question. And how would you describe your
music in three words?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Disco, modern and classic?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Love it? And what's the last TV series that you watch?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I love that one.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I haven't seen that after Ticket Out.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
It's about the rich people in Palm Beach. Oh yeah,
dramatic and funny.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
And what's your favorite vacation spot.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Paris, Europe in general, and probably Italy?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, such beautiful places. And what's the song that's stuck
in your head right now? Oh yeah, that's so catchy.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, it's been sucking in my head since last year.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
And what's something you'd like to achieve this time next year?
Speaker 4 (04:31):
I want to do touring. I want to tour. I
want to do more shows early performing a lot.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Kylie Minogue tours. You should tour with her? That would
be incredible.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I honored, thank you so much for hanging out. Micah
mclauren did you see that. Tate McRae brought out her
boyfriend the Kidler Roy this week at her show over
in New York and they sung without You together. It
is the cutest and they're going to be in the
country soon for both of their tours, which is super exciting.
Let's get on the Kidler Roy girls on Clublime Countdown
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with Gem. Charlie XCX with Apple on Clublime Countdown with
the Gem. As we're cutting down the top twenty songs.
Maybe did the dance to that on TikTok It looks
like fun now how to go doing it? And I'm
just so on co it dancing. I can play suck
up there, definitely not good to dancing coming up. Songs
by Tommy Richmond and Sabrina Carpenter and a few months
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ago Hayes Warner.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
She's a New York artist. She was on the show.
She's definitely an artist to watch.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
She recently performed at Lallapalooza, which is a massive festival
over in the US. This is her latest single, it's
called Predator. It plays now on Club Lime Countdown with Gem.
That came out a week ago. That is brand new.
Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars Die with a smile on
Clublime Countdown with.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Gem, which means we only have one song left. Who's
gonna have the number one spot?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
You're gonna find out very very soon. And you can't
get in touch anytime. Countdown with Jem on Socials and
on the iHeartRadio app as well. Click on the mic
can send in a voice note as well let me
know what songs you.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Want to hear on the show.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And Chapel Roane she's become one of the biggest artists
in the world within just a few months.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Even though she's been making music for ten years.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
She's finally getting the recognition and she actually did some
back up vocals in a few Olivia Rodrigo songs and
she recently toured with her as well. It's Chapel roon
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