Jason Derulo talks new music, Tik Tok Dances and more!
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On with Mario Lopez. You know Mario Lopez Jordan now
on Zoom, singer and songwriter with seventeen platinum singles.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
On that, Jason Drulah, Welcome to the show. Brother, Thank you, Mario.
How you doing.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
I'm doing well, man, I'm doing well. Hey, congrats on
the new single, make Me Happy.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
It's upbeat, it's fun you start moving to it. What
was the inspo for this one?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Man, you know, with all the civil unrest in the world,
I wanted to, you know, create some kind of tonic,
you know, create something that would make people happy. And
Josh six five actually sent me a track that I
thought was amazing. He sent it to me and instantly
I started to feel good listening to it, so I,
(00:47):
you know, I wrote this song to it, and you know,
it's it's been amazing to watch everybody, do you know,
these videos with their families and you see all the
love and the videos, and then you see the the
dance that was created by Olivia from Poland that has
just been going crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
It's been pretty amazing to watch. That's cool.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
You guys, you and Josh have a great history together. Obviously,
the Savage Love monster hit right there is this? Uh
is this part of the new album or just a
one off single?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah, definitely part of a new album, which uh, you
know I'm trying well, I can't say the date obviously,
but I'm trying to get it, get it out as
soon as possible. You know, the last time people waiting
for like four years, So it's not gonna be one
of them kind of situations.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Okay, I know you'd be in Vegas for New Year's
Eve weekend?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Get better?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Yeah, man, you got excited, so had the residency this year,
and there was a lot of upset fans that didn't
get a chance to get tickets. So I was like,
before the year ends, I wanted to, you know, put
these last two dates out, So big weekend, uh, New
Year's Weekend and two dates twenty in twenty ninth. Back
(02:01):
to Vegas to talk about this all the time. But
the room is unbelievable. Everywhere you turn within that room,
you see the walls are alive almost you know, the
dancers are in the.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
In the stands with you.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I'm in the stands with you, and it feels like
a submersive kind of experience.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
What's the venue it's called a Voltaire. Okay, tear at
the Venetian.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Oh okay, yes, yes, nice, All right. You're also gonna
be doing some jingle Ball shows this holiday season. You
you do any Christmas songs or you just just the hits.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
You know what.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I was thinking about doing some Christmas songs, but man,
I'm already trying to fit, you know, all of these
songs into this into this set, so I don't I
don't think I can add any Christmas songs without people
getting upset.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
The worst thing in the world is when people come
up to me and they're like, I love you, Jason,
but why didn't you do that? Right? Right, right?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
That's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
That's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I'm gonna stick to my songs for the jingle Ball, man,
But I'm really excited. I'm actually partnering up with Make
a Wish and with iHeart to bring somebody to meet
me live on stage in front of the twenty thousand
people in Miami, Miami's jingle Ball and all people got
(03:22):
to do is raise awareness by doing the dance challenge
for make Me Happy and hashtag that make Me Happy Sweepstakes.
But the saddest thing about Make a wish is that
every wish doesn't come true, you know, for these deserving kids.
So I wanted to do my part, and I think
we all should do our part and making as many
wishes come true and the shortest amount of time possible.
(03:42):
So either do the dance or donate ten dollars of
more to enter the sweep stakes, and you get a
first class flight Rose Royce Action Red carpet and meet
me live on stage in front of all of those
people in Miami.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
That's awesome, man, good for you, Very cool of you
to do that. Hey, the social media game is next
level right there. How you come up with ideas for
your videos? And my kids were mad at me, he said, Dad,
you had Jason Derulo and you came up.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
With that whack video. So you're gonna have to help me.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Man, Come on and do something a little a little
better for my kids, who are all big fans of yours.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah, we got we gotta plant it out, man, and
I'm gonna see you in a little bit. Yeah for sure,
let's let's let's do a real video.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Okay, uh be uh excited, but yeah, man, I'm constantly
thinking about ideas, like during during the day. If something
just comes up, I'm just like, oh oh that could
be a TikTok what that could be a video?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
So this just throughout the day as things happened.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yeah, okay, so you see, when you're young and cool,
it just comes to you. I'm trying to hang in there,
so okay, I'm gonna listen to you right there. He
hold your boy, Now hold.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Your son three? He's three years old. Man. It's fun. Yeah, man,
it's a hell of a I've been having the time
of my life.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
What was he for Halloween?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Buzz light Year? He was buzz light Year. His mom
was both Peep and I was Woody. The theme we
did that theme.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah, they love toy Let's get a little story right there.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Toyster card too.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Hey man, Well, congratulations on everything. We look forward to
checking you out and listen to make me happy on
iHeartRadio or wherever you get new music. Thanks for having out, brother,
I'll see you soon.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I'll see a bit right
Speaker 1 (05:28):
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