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February 21, 2025 12 mins
Benny Blanco tells Valentine in the Morning about making music with his fiancée Selena Gomez. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Valentine in the Morning on three FM. Listen anywhere with
the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
It is one or board three, my Famit's Valentine in
the Morning in the studio.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Now give it up for Benny Blanco. So first sings.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
First we saw the tub full of case of Did
you do anything else for Selena?

Speaker 1 (00:18):
How did that go? It went really well. Her favorite
thing in the world is what a burger? Okay, it's
the best, and it's in It's mostly for people who
don't know. It's mostly in Texas, you know, it's Arizona
and they don't have one in La I somehow got
her what a burger here and like got it all

(00:39):
separated and then like put it back together and like
heat it up and like this oven they are friar.
This is so I brought it in and she was
just like what, like her mind didn't even understand. She said.
She said, it was the second best thing I ever did,
next to uh, proposing to the shed. That was the

(01:00):
second best thing I've ever done, dude. Yeah. And then
we went out to like a real dinner and she
didn't eat and I just ate at the real dinner.
It was it was great. You got her water burger.
That's awesome. Yeah, it was like she was so happy
she almost yeah crying.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
No, that's a big thing.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
When I moved to Dallas years ago because I worked
in radio Dallas for three years. My wife's from Crowley, Texas.
So yeah, what a burger down there is like our
in and out. It's her redigeon, you know what I mean.
It's very important.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
He's a really good gift giver, like I feel like
you really pay attention and.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
A of cheese. Different. He doesn't know, he doesn't get it.
He doesn't get it. No, it's not about like these
huge gifts. It's about like thinking like she was like,
I can't believe you remembered that. She was like I
said it like twice. She told me her order once
and I was like just remembering it, and I was like,
I'm gonna use that.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Anyone can get anyone like a bottle of champagne and
shirt that everyone has. But it's like making We're really
big on like making each other gifts or doing something
that's like just like a jet like a grand gesture.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yeah. Yeah, my wife, she.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Likes to baseball nut ice cream. I usually go buy that.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
It's a baseball nut.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Flappers basket robs. Yeah, and they only sell like certain
times of the year. So when it's in stock, I'll
go buy like five six quarts and shove it in
the freezer in the garage. And then when I do
something wrong, I.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Go, oh, but baseball nut.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
That's your whataburger. That's my whataburger. That's your Every guy's
got to have a whataburger. What would make you so happy?
Too's tacos if someone just brought you Tita. It's like
your date night Tito's Tacos.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
When I first started dating my husband, I started a
note in my notes app of little things that he
would say, like his favorite Gatorade was orange Gatorade flavors,
you know, So that I had this list, and our
first Valentine's Day together, I put a basket together of
all these little things that he said, it's so important.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Same thing on one of our Valentine's Days. It was like, yeah,
it was like cheetos and stuff like that.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
Things like that go such a long way.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
What do you do? You don't do any chicken tenders?

Speaker 3 (02:57):
Like I'm easy to please.

Speaker 4 (02:59):
You need to hear about John's record that he made
her what was it.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Well, last Valentine's Day was our first one together and
the bond of her music. I'm a big music guy,
and so I got her a vinyl record made and
on one vinyl, on one half of it was all
the songs that I recommended to her, and on the
other half is all the songs she showed me.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
That's good. Take this out of the interview. I'm gonna
steal that.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah, that's good.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
That one's really good. Really, that one's really I did.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
I'm gonna be honest now because you're thinking I'm not romantic.
My name is Valentine, so you may have misjudged me.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
I one time made a calendar for her. I went
to Kinko's and.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
I you made was It was one of those like
sexy man calendars.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Me and the dogs. Okay, okay, that's great. That's laying
on the carpet in front of the fireplace. That's incredible.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Excuse me, the dog saved it. You don't like that.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
I had a carefully placed Manchester Terrier at the time.
He was in front of that area. I love that.
That's a large dog, the Manchester Terry. Don't let it
fool you and uh yeah, and you had a gerbil
at that time that covered up Then you need to
stop this got an album, I said, I love you first. Yeah,
let's talk about that. Benny, you and Selena doing this.

(04:10):
I know it's crazy, it's crazy. This is the first
time I'm talking about it.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Is it really? This is the first time I'm talking
about it. You're having the exclusive, right. We both like
didn't really know where we were going creatively, and she
was like ready to put down music, and we had
this like aha moment and we got in the studio
together like one time. And like normally, when I like

(04:35):
get in the studio, everything's hard. It's like so hard,
it takes so long. I like just like kill myself
over these projects. And the second we got in, it's
just everything flowed out like immediately, and it was like
it was like therapy sessions. Like we would sit in
bed and I'd have like a notebook open and I'd
be like, oh, She'd be like, I had this dream
last night. This is what happened, bablah, And then before

(04:57):
we know it, we're like in the studio and it's
a song. And like the cool part about making music
you can say things that you wouldn't necessarily be able
to get away with saying like as your partner, like
going to your partner and being like, you know, I
didn't like this thing about like this relationship or I
didn't like how you did this. But if you're if
you're doing it in song form, it's like everything's forgotten.

(05:18):
So it's like the art like I don't know, it's
like it's a different way. So it was like we
were giving each other like free therapy. It was. It
was really cool. It was such like a cathartic experience.
But I'm like kind of nervous. I'm like, oh my god,
people are like gonna listen to this, but yeah, I
guess it's here now. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
Anything that was a little too personal that you guys
thought we're not gonna put this on the album.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
Maybe as we were writing, like like but for the
most part, we just like, no, we just did it
every once in a while, like we had a few
ideas and she was like, nah, I don't you know,
I don't want to talk about that, not even like
just like it just random things, right, and like it
just wouldn't resonate with people. Maybe no, it's just like
didn't feel or maybe we wrote it in and we're
like I don't feel the same way. Okay, you know

(06:02):
what I change? And this was like this this album
was such a capsule of like what we were feeling
in that in that moment, and it was no, it's
it's so cool. It's so I don't know, it's so
cool to be able to work with your partner and
have it be like actually like easy, and it was
like more time we got to spend together. Yeah, and
so it's just like I loved it. Which we want
to talk about that because John and I have questions.

(06:23):
Let's play the song though. Call me when you break
up with Selena Gomez and Gracie Abrams and when we
come back, we want to ask you about working with
a partner your fiance because you asked me. Thank you
your call.

Speaker 4 (06:32):
It's been forwarded to an automatic voice message system. It's
not available.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Please record your message.

Speaker 5 (06:41):
Call me when you break for some on your mom
and you.

Speaker 6 (07:00):
You picked up, Call me when you break up unless
you've found the person that you on a noon name,
I'd like to be when the day comes, you know,
I'm always here, stranger.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
We alluded to working with a partner you said working
with Selena has been just perfect, the problems perfect.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
I think it can be bad for people plaining that.
It helped me realize how rock solid our relationship is.
We're never like butting head like. We're both pretty like
chill listeners, and she's she's like the yank to my yang.

Speaker 3 (07:36):
Like.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
She's very much like, she's very introverted. She's very shy,
which is funny because she's like the biggest star in
the world, but she's very very shy. She's a very
shy person, and I'm like the other way, I'm like hot,
like right away. So sometimes she's like that and then
I'll listen. Sometimes she's hyped up and I'm choked, and
it's and it made me realize that we both have

(08:01):
such good communication skills, and we were yeah, and we
would just listen to each other and she would be like,
you know, neither one of us had any ego in
the studio, so it's like, do you like this thing.
She'd be like yeah, or she'd be like nah, I
don't like that, and I'm like, okay, I can just
tell because I know her so well. Sometimes I don't
even have to ask her. I would just play something,
and I'd be like, play the next it, right?

Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yeah, So did you have to figure out that balance,
like is there a boundary you had to sit in
there to make sure that that relationship is able to
work so well? Because I feel like it'd be so
challenging sometimes to mix those relationships, your work relationship and
your home one.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
I said very early on, we both said we said
if it ever were to not feel right, we'd stop immediately.
But it never not fell right. It fell right the
whole time. Good for you, man. There was never not
not one argument in it was actually the one argument
in the studio, Come on, nothing, not one nothing nothing.
We always had like the same We just had the

(08:55):
same like intuition, like like it was like we would
like pick all the same things. And I don't know,
it was just she's just a very easy person in general.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
God, good for you. I know, I'm married twenty six years,
so I'm in a very long term yah yea. Yeah.
We argued over how to make the corn on the
cob the other night. She was boiling it and of
course you all spoil it, right, but she put it
in the water before it was boiling. I'm like, no,
you drop the corn in and shock it when it's
boiling and it's just put a lid on it and

(09:26):
it's it's bubbling up, like, no, you can't put the
lid on it.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
You let the air out.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
And then she did the full corn on the cob,
didn't cut it in half. Nobody wants to be like
the old days, like a massive piece of corn in
the cob. You like the half cob. I'm a half
cob guy. I'm a full cop.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
You go full cock. I like, so I'm like a
full cob. I'm a full cob guy. But I do
agree with you on every other point. But but but.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
When you go listen, do you go half cobs? I
know you like to cook, right, and I'm a big
cook guy. Yeah, I love to cook. When you go
half it's easier to get them to sit inside the
pump full cob. They take up so much room and
they don't rotate as easy.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
This is the craziest argument to have. We would never
have an argument like that ever, Like, there would be no.
I don't even I'm trying to think if we've ever
we ever even argue? Do you guys argue a lot?

Speaker 4 (10:18):
My husband and I have not argued once. We've been
together for three years now.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
That makes us so sick.

Speaker 4 (10:22):
We know, we know we are going to disagree at
some point, We're going to argue.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
At some point we disagree, we just don't argue, yes, right,
we just I'm not like, I don't like, are you
like a big lee love to like raise your voice? No?
Why would you come? I said, do you?

Speaker 6 (10:38):
No?

Speaker 1 (10:38):
I don't. But now you're getting people wondering.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
You see you raise your voice?

Speaker 5 (10:46):
You were?

Speaker 1 (10:47):
It was? It was it was a concern. Yeah, it was.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
It was more like, sweetheart, I have to ask you
a question. No, it wasn't was it was I wrote
a poem to her, and now we're in the cob
if you use this knob the corner.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
I think you were like this. I think you're like
I think you're like, what are you doing?

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Like it was?

Speaker 1 (11:06):
I think it was like that tone. I think it
was like a what you out of my house?

Speaker 4 (11:10):
Yeah, as a fan of Selena's for so many years,
you can see it like I don't know her personally,
she's coming here a couple of times.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
I don't know personally.

Speaker 4 (11:19):
I know how happy she is with you, and I
just wanted to thank you, as a fan of Selena's
thinking for making her so happy because you see it
and you just know that you two are honestly the
real deal. And from a fan standpoint, you so happy.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
Oh I'm so sweet? Do you ever yell?

Speaker 2 (11:39):
You know?

Speaker 6 (11:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (11:40):
I can never see you have like one of those
like little cute faces.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
Like it's golden retriever.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
It's like, yours look like what Eddy? Go ahead, wrap
it up with what I look like? Go ahead do
like a hot macho man, Yours is different. Yours is different.
You're like a hot macho man coming in like Matt
Damon all ye stuff.

Speaker 5 (11:57):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Like, are you from Boston? I grew up in Connecticut.
I like to say it from Boston sounds tough. Yeah,
it sounds me and Affleck. We hang out a duncan.
It's good times.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
I like him. He never raised his voice.

Speaker 4 (12:08):
He does not raise.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
I'm not that guy. I'm very I liked. I never
get in the fights either, like and everything fight. As kid,
I was always like Switzerland. I try and solve the problems.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
You know. Thank you for coming in. Thank you. There's
things everywhere everywhere I look. There's a new thing there's
I like it. This one says connecting. Oh that's that's
the iHeart WiFi, I heeart Wifi's down. Guys, please buy
my album so I can donate forty six percent to

(12:37):
iHeart Radio's Wi Fi and also Valentine so we can
update his sweatshirt from three years ago.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
Thank you, Benny one four three MYFM
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