March 10, 2025 • 30 mins
Benny Blanco Talks About New Music, Working With His Fiancé Selena Gomez & More!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, guys, let's do this. What up is joke
you on the radio? This is the iHeart Radio count Down,
Benny blancll.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
What's up? Man? Oh my god, I'm here, Yes you are.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
We were talking behind the scenes here. Your your phone
cover is described this phone cover.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Dude, I guess it's like a tote in a hole.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
I guess it's like eggs on top of toast and
it really feels like toast. It's crazy. I got shout
out to shout out to where did I even get this?
And I might have got it on Amazon? It was
like ten dollars.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I could see you like scanning, like you know, Amazon,
three in the morning. What do I want to buy
a toast phone cover?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I might have bought this at a store I can't
even remember, but yeah, I want to buy. I'm very
big on like a good cover. You care about a cover,
and now you don't you know what?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I have a cover slash like put my.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I knew you were gonna do that because you're like
a slick guy.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
You're a slick dude too.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
No, no, but you're like wearing like a nice You're
like very you look like you're wearing like a tailored
like like it looks like it's like almost like a
tailored cashmerror sweater.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
It's it's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
It's the only thing that wasn't it was ironed, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
But you do keep it classy. You got a little
black fingernail polish.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I like, I just started this about a month ago.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
How's it feel? It was great.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
My wife and daughter said, hey, we run to get
our nails done. Can you drop us off? And I'm like,
I'll do one better. I'll just go with you guys.
And uh now I'm starting to love the black nail.
I may change the color at some point, but color
either red or white, I don't know, not like together,
but like, you know, what do you think?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I like this? The black is cool.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Why don't you have I assume I do my toes
all the time, like the you go sit in that thing,
the manicure or the pure Yeah, I go.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I actually I'm actually getting it next week. I don't
have it right now, but I'm big on the toes.
I do crazy ones.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Oh okay, it's becoming a thing, right Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I've been doing it for years. I love it. I
love it. I never do my fingernails. I think. I
I don't know why I would think.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
If you're gonna do one of the other, you do
finger fingers before toes.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I like toes more more, more more area.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
That fair enough, Benny blocos here all with the countdown,
Let's do it. This is song number twenty. That was
(02:26):
song number nineteen. This week on I heard radio countdown.
What up? It's Jojo on the radio, Benny Blanco was
hanging out once again. Congrats on the engagement, dude. I
don't want to, you know, I'm trying to avoid personal questions,
but this is it's it's hard because this one's about
your's it's your love story. But I guess my question
is when did you And don't give on, don't go
too far, be careful what you say. But when did
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you know that that this is the one?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Very early, very early, I'll tell you this much. From
our first date, which I didn't even know I was on.
I didn't even know we were on a date. She knew,
but you did, She did, but I didn't. From our
first date, I we just started hanging out like so often,
like almost every day, and it just you know, so
many times in my life I was like, oh, this
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is the one, this is the thing, but it just
felt different. Everything's easy, Everything's so easy, and she's such
a good person and that's why I'm making this music
was so easy too, because it was just like we
I feel like we just like know each other and
we don't even have to say things out loud. We
just know what the other one's thinking. And you know,
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making the music show me like how good our communication
skills are and how much we listen to each other,
and you know, we let each other get our ideas
out and like chase something if we think it's a
good idea or not.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
You know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I just I'm just so grateful that, you know, we're
both so busy that this just gave us another time
to be around each other all the time. Yeah, and
it was so awesome, And I was scared at first
for sure, but it just like everything fell into place
and it just was such a good cathartic, therapeutic experience.
And I'm just like, I'm just I'm just smiling ear
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to ear.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I guess the way I'm kind of reading it is
you're hanging out this date that you didn't know was
a date, and I'm guessing. At one point, You're like,
wait a minute, I think I think this is working.
This is a thing, Like, oh my god, like a
light bulb moment, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
It was a light bulb moment, like when on the
first date she was like yeah, she was like uh
she said, she was like, well, I would have worn
something better to our first date. And I was like,
we're on a date, like in my.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Head and I was like, what did you what did
you wear on your on the first day.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Oh my god, I can't even remember what I have
for breakfast. I can't. She's one of those people.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
She's like, and you were wearing the green shirt with
the pant. I don't remember anything. I don't understand how
people can remember stuff like that, Like it's crazy to me. No,
I don't remember what was I wearing on my first date.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I guess you look, you look. I just know where
we were. I know where we were.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I know where we were. We were eating dinner. P
It's called jitlid.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
All right, Well, Benny, once again, congrats to both you guys,
love you both.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Thanks all right.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Benny Blanco is hanging out on with the Countdown this
is song number eighteen. All right, guys, we're back. It's
(05:47):
Jojo on the radio. This is the iHeart Radio Candown.
Benny Blanco is saying that this album, I said I
love you first. I mean, it's basically to my understanding,
it's it's your love story. This is like a movie,
the audio version of your movie, so to speak.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
She actually said I love you first.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
That my next question.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
She did.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
She accidentally said it, so she technically said it first,
but then I said it first for real. We were
I remember we were in New York and and she
was and she was like about to say it again,
like for real, and I was like, hey, can you
just let me have this moment, just give me one second,
let me get my words out. And then I said it,
and then it was great. And then it's so crazy
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because you know, before you say I love you, you
could never imagine like saying it. And then like when
you get when you start to get close to the
first time you're going to say I love you, you like
almost say it so many times, and then after you
say I love you, you're like, Holy, I can't believe I
went so long without saying I love you. It's so
much easier to just say I love you after everything.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
And the scary thing is, God, I hope they say
it back.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I know that's you know, I know, I know, I know.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
But she was she was any chance you got, she
was like pass me the greend, I love you what
like yeah, like she was test and testing out the
waters a little.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
All right. So this album is basically the story of
you like start to finish, I guess.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Yeah, And it's just like before during our future what
you know, every everything we wish and more. You know,
it was like a therapy session getting through this album.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Any any personal faves off the album or just the
whole I guess they all.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Mean just yeah, they all mean so much. And I
just like.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I can't wait for people, you know, I know, I
know that people have heard a few songs now, but
I can't wait until people get to, you know, take
in the whole story and really feel, you know, what
we were feeling, get a little glimpse into our life
because like you know, we're not you know, we don't
tell everyone stuff, and Selena is very private and it's
(07:46):
it's just interesting to you know, get her perspective and
my perspective on things, and it's it's fun, it's it's
it's it's cool, it's it's really it was.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
It was.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I think it was my favorite album I've ever made
because it's it was so I don't know, there was
just something about like letting go in a way that
I've never done before.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
All Right, the album once again, you guys, I said
I love you first check this album, you guys. Benny
Bloco hanging out all right, Back to the countdown. Time
for an extra track. This is Jonah Murray slow Motion.
(08:38):
That was a song number seventeen this week on the
iHeartRadio count out. What Up is Joe? Join the radio?
Benny Blanco is hanging out. Favorite lyric from the album?
You've written so many lyrics over the years, an impossible question,
But favorite lyric from the album?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
There's so many, but like right now, I really have
been liking you know, I'm not scared of loving you.
I'm just scared of losing you. And then it's like
you know, and it's just it's just talking about like
I'm not scared of dying young. Like you know, I
feel like Selena has told me so much that that
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this album gave her, Like just like a new perspective
on life. You know, she's dealt with so much stuff
in the past and medical and this and that, and
she said that she's never been happier and wanted to
live for something more in her life, you know, and
it's and and and I feel the same way. And
it's like I've done so many cool things in my life,
(09:39):
but I don't know, my like only regret is that
I didn't get to do some of the things that
I did earlier in my life with her.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
You know.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
It's like it's like I feel like I'm like, you know,
thirty something years old. I wish I met her when
I was like fourteen or something and we got to
do all this, and you know, we knew each other
for so long, but you know, it's just right time
and right place and.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Maybe now this maybe not the contradict, but to maybe
now it's the perfect time for Yeah, that's what well,
you don't.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Even know, no, no, no, that's what we always say,
like I don't think we were both like mature enough
for what it wouldn't have been right And I you know,
I'm just counting that. I always am, like I hope
she doesn't wake up one day and just be like,
what was I doing? I'm just I'm just happy to
be in the game. I'm happy to be in the game.
I'm happy to have a jersey on.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Oh Man. Benny Bluncles here, all im with the cowdown.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
This is song number sixteen. That was song number fifteen
this week on the iHeart Radio can't out? What up?
(10:51):
With stoked? You on the radio? BENNI Bluncles, Benny, do
you need any water or anything to drink? Or you're good?
Back rub? What do you want? What do you need?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
That crab would be nice?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Let me work on that. Give me a couple of seconds.
War with Benny coming up back to the countdown. This
is song number fourteen. Thank you guys for hanging out.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
What Up?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
It's Jojo on the radio. This is the I Heart
Radio Countdown. Benny Blanco is here.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Benny.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Any chance of a tour with this album, some sort
of a traveling thing this one or.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
A tour tour is like my idea of like a nightmare,
like if.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
You could I've looked that up and you don't. I don't.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
I couldn't find any tour. I don't even fly. Could
you do the boat thing with ed Yeah, yeah, yeah,
oh my god. That a bus tour though, could you
bust around?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I don't know, I don't know. I don't want a tour.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I don't know if she convinces me, but I don't
think there's gonna I don't think there's a tour. We'll
be touring from our bedroom. You can hear it, you
can you can you can hear it at home. You
can pretend you're on tour.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Touring does seem exciting from the outside looking in, but
it's just it's a it's a lot.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
It's my that's my that's my understanding of it. It
is a lot, all right, mor.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
With Benny Blancoll coming up in just a few minutes,
but first time for an extra track. This is Doci.
Oh my god. I love this track. Denial is a River.
(12:34):
All right, guys, we're back. It's Jojo on the radio.
This is the iHeart Radio Countdown. Benny Blanco was hanging up. Benny.
I've started to ask artists this question, and you're probably
the best one to ask this too. How do you
write a song? And let me break down what I
mean by that? Is it more of a muscle, meaning
like the more you do it, the better you get
or is it more inspiration? It comes from the heavens,
and you really have no say in what ideas come
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into your head.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I wish I knew you think you think you think
when I I'm taking this, you think when I'm taking it.
I don't I like a song like you think that's
a good time for a song to come into my head.
Sometimes it just happens whenever, or someone will be telling
me the most important thing and I'm like looking at
them and then I'm like, the idea just came to
my head.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
You know, I have no idea. It just happens, And
I wish I knew.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
I wish I could just you know, people don't know this,
but at least ninety percent of the songs I write
will never see the light of day. And it's only
like that, like ten percent, you know, maybe fifteen percent
of songs. And the thing that's so crazy is I
wish there was some voice that was like March sixteenth,
(13:39):
And I was like, what it was like, March sixteenth,
That's the only good song you'll write this year.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
You don't have to write one any other day.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Just write one on March sixteenth, but instead I get
in the studio every I'm I'm there on January third,
and I'm like, damn, I'm there on I'm there on
April twelfth, and I'm like ah, and then it's like,
you know, when that day comes around, that comes around,
and it's all worth it.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Okay, that's I think that's probably the best answer I've
got so far, I guess. And the answer to summarize it,
nobody knows. No one nos. Benny Blocos hanging Out Top
thirteen songs, See we Go. This is song number thirteen.
(14:36):
That was song number twelve this week on that I
heard radio Canawn. What ups? She joke you on the radio.
Bennie Blanco is hanging out, Benny, call me when you
break up. Name of the track, Give me the backstory?
What do we need to know on this track? You
didn't write this one on the toilet like you were
talking earlier, did you? I hope not.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
You know, it's so cool because I make Gracie.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I did some of her really early songs, and then
I put her on my album in like two thousand
and probably twenty. And you know, I've always believed in
her and you know, Selena independently just like loved her
on Instagram, loved her personality and listened to her music,
and it just kind of I remember she was like,
(15:14):
do you think Gracie Abrams would ever want to do
a song with us? And I was like, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I like was like, hey, Grazie, would you ever? And
she was like what?
Speaker 3 (15:22):
And she was And it almost didn't happen because we
almost didn't make deadlines because she was on tour. And
then we like pulled it together and did everything so
last minute, the video we did last minute one day.
The song was recorded like two days before. It was
all happened so quickly. It was so quickly, the very
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end of the album, and it just it happened.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
It's one of those meant to beat things.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
I know. I know.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
All here we go call me when you break up.
It is Selena Gomez, Benny Blanco and Gracie Abrams. All right, guys,
(16:10):
we're back. It's Jojo on the radio. This is the
iHeart Radio. Can down. Benny Blancos hanging up, Bennie. You've
done you know, live performances over the years. You haven't toured,
but you've done some live performances. Give me two part question,
best live performance ever the one that comes to mind
that was just phenomenal, perfect, and then the complete flip
of that complete utter disaster one of.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Each mine is the same one, Okay. And and I'll
tell you, I'll tell you. I'll tell you why Juice
World had had just passed away. Okay, gotcha, it just
passed away. And he was supposed to be headlining Rolling Loud.
And I got some of the worst information I had
(16:54):
ever heard, you know, in my life. And I got
a call the next day and they said, you know,
we really want you to open up his show, that
we're doing a memorial show for him, and they turned
his set into a memorial performance.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
And I remember.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Being so scared to even do that, to be like,
you know, I'm so scared to you know, give him
just even be on stage right now. And I remember
when we went out and I started doing that, I
just saw, you know, you know, when you're deep in
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music and you're making music, you don't always see the impact.
And I saw eighty one hundred thousand people there and
they were singing every word to every song, and it
just made me realize how many people he touched and
moved and changed their life lives, and it was it
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was just an experience. I had so many emotions going
into it, and I was so sad and then so
happy to see people like really celebrating his life. And
it was just such a crazy It was definitely the
craziest time I had ever been on a stage for.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Kind of spiritual like what you experienced.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
You know, it was like to see these people, you know,
to so many people, he was their higher power, Like
he was one of those guys that just transcended. And
he always said exactly what was on his mind, even
if it wasn't the coolest thing, Like maybe he's talked
about being sad, and I feel like maybe talked about
being happy and people people would listen to that and
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they would resonate with that and it would help him
through all different times. And he was one of the
best artists I've ever worked with in my entire life.
So I guess that's my story.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
That's a wow. All right, Benny Block wills hear you, guys,
bat to the countdown. Here we go. This is song
number eleven. That was song number ten this week on
(19:25):
the I Heart Radio countdown. What up? It's joke you
on the radio. Bennie Bloco is hanging up? Benny? True
or false? You are an amazing cook, like phenomenal cook.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Okay, I'm okay, I can do that. I can do
some stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
You got the cookbook. Can't do that and all that.
You know, what is your I just need to know
what is your go to dish?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Oh, my gosh, for me or for or first or
first Selena? When I got to cook for well, I
guess for Selena. I'm told she loves something. Maybe this
is not the go to dish. But these special fried
pickles or.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Is that like she does?
Speaker 1 (19:57):
What is that all you gotta jump on that?
Speaker 2 (19:59):
She just wants from Texas. It's like a Southern thing.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
She wants fried pickles, fried okra, a fried anything, but
fried pickles specifically.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
It's like her favorite.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
You never had a fried pick No, My wife is
from North Carolina and I'm originally from Texas.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
So yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Yeah, so I'm not a super super fan of it,
but I've had them plenty.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Oh you've had fried pickles?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yeah, but these are like something special, Benni Blanco, twist
on it.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
There no, it's her favorite thing in the world.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Just like a perfect fried pickle with a thin batter
is her favorite thing in the world.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Maybe a little ranch on the side. That's she's like,
she's she goes crazy.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
So you can if you offered her like this crazy dish,
which would.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
I could offer her like the fanciest thing in the world,
and she's like, give me fried pickles and coconut shrimp
like that's like, that's what she wants and.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
That's why you guys are get married.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
It's like you could offer a Michelin star meal. She
doesn't want that. She wants like chicken strips and gravy.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
And that's when you said, will you married me? After
something like that? Benny blancos here on with the countdown.
Here we go. This is song number nine. All right, guys,
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we're back. It's Jojo on the radio. This is the
I hear radio countdown. Benny Blanco is hanging up. Bennie,
you probably know this about me. Maybe I don't know.
I am obsessed with the paranormal, ghost, haunted houses, all
this craziness. I've got a podcast called Paranormalist. I talked
to people who've had real, you know, ghost paranormal encounters
all year long. Selena told me a story once where
she had a wild encounter at her young She was
(21:45):
a young kid, her home in I think it was
in La I think, and she saw a girl, what
she thought was a girl run across her yard near
their dollhouse, and she had her stepdad. I believe what
she told me search the premises, couldn't find anything. They
check security, nothing, but she swears it happened, so and
I believe her. Have you ever had anything you would
(22:06):
consider a paranormal encounter?
Speaker 3 (22:08):
One time in my life, we were at this really
old house in Italy, Okay, Okay, And first of all,
one of my friends was sleeping in like the like
there was like multiple houses on the property was really old.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
It was like so old.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
This place we rented like this like villa, and it
was so old and it was cool. It was in
the middle of nowhere. And then I remember my friend
comes running in and it's like, yo, I'm not sleeping
out in that thing anymore.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
There's something out there. And I was like, what are
you talking about?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
There's nothing out there, And then I guess it was
following him. Around, because then he went to sleep in
another room and then we just started hearing like banging doors,
banging doors, and he was like nope, and then he
moved to another room and then he was like right
by my bedroom door at the time, and he was
sleeping in like a like almost like a laundr room,
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and my door kept opening and closing, opening and closing,
and I was like what And that was the closest
and anywhere he went that night, all the doors would
open and close, drawers would open. I don't know, it
was crazy.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
That was when you left Italy. Did it still follow
him back to the stage?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
No?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
No, but that was that was It was only that
first night. But that was so crazy. I'd never experienced
anything like that before, and that was the one time
I ever did. I'm definitely, I definitely believe in that stuff,
but I just have never really experienced. That was the
one time where I was like, oh, okay, Like I've
experienced things where like where I thought it was that
but then it wasn't. But like this was like the
only time where it was like too many times for
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it to be a coincidence, too many times and it wasn't.
It wasn't windy out or anything.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
One of these days, because every now and then we'll
go to these haunted locations do a little thing. You know,
you should join me for one of them. Oh my
schedules permitting of course, yea, and bring your fried pickles
and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
That's so cool.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
It's there's some some things you just can't explain, like
you probably thought about, like what are the other what
could this be?
Speaker 2 (24:03):
You know?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
These doors are.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Just no, no no, and it was too many doors
no when nothing.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Benny Blanco's here on with the countdown. Let's go. This
is song number eight all way back you guys.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
What up?
Speaker 1 (24:41):
It's Jojo on the radio. This is the iHeart Radio countdown.
Benny Blancos here, Benny. Have you ever driven by this
must have happened. You got so many tracks driven by
someone and heard them playing your music or in a
store or restaurant.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
That's my favorite thing in the world.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
When you see like like a like a mother daughter
and they're like singing to each other in the car,
or like I'm at a concert and I see them
like singing and it's like at the top of their lungs.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Yeah, that's that's what I live for.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
That's what I live for, like to bring joy to
other people or like move them to tears, like yeah,
it's it's, it's, it's it's. One of my favorite parts
about making music is seeing like fans like feel moments
like that good or bad?
Speaker 1 (25:25):
What cool? I mean? And a lot of your songs
and you produce it, you're not vocally on it. So
I wonder if the people next to, like in a store,
in a restaurant realize that you're the one that put
everything together on that thing. It's got to be like
almost kind of cool to you know where you're so
visible now it's hard to hide, but gotta be cool
to kind of hide and watch somebody like be a
fly on the wall.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
You know, it was real cool back in the day,
I think, like because I don't think people really knew
who I was. So about twenty twenty is like when
it all like changed for me, like when I became an.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Artist and stuff.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
So like before it was very good to like be
a fly on I wish it was still like that.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Benny Blanco's Here Top five Songs, Here we Go, This
is song number five. All right, guys, we're back. It's
(26:41):
Jojo on the radio. This is the iHeart Radio count Now.
Benny Blanc was hanging out. Benny, when people see you
in public, what do they usually say to you? What's
their their go to?
Speaker 3 (26:50):
People know me from so many different things, so it's
like it'll usually be like inside joke from one of
those things, like and and I feel like I don't
know why, but everyone like immediately I wish I was
like one of those people that, like the famous people
that people are like scared to go up.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
To or something like.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Everyone will always come to me and be like like
right away, like and it's like I get maybe that's
a good thing. Maybe people think like I'm a nice
guy or something. But yeah, people say crazy to me?
Are you kidding me? Like they're not like they don't
go up to people like the way like when they
go up to Sleean and they're like son, they're like,
oh my god, like I, oh my god, you changed
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my life.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Like they go up to me, they're.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Like what up, Like like they're like say like crazy,
like they're like insane.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Oh god. All right, Benny blockles here Top three, Let's go.
This is song number three. That was song number two
(28:16):
this week. On iHeart Radio, Kenown What up it? Joe?
You on the radio, Benny blocles here, Benny, message to
your fans, og fans, new fans, you know, just what's
the from you to them?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
I wish I had a better message today. I'm exhausted.
I stayed up so late last night for a date night.
Uh be yourself. Everyone else is taken like that. Yeah,
thanks for being Thanks for being my friend. I guess
come up to me and say hi when you see me.
Just don't slap my back so hard. Sometimes people slap
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that back sometimes, like people come up and they're like hey,
and like they slap your back hard.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
So just Selena, Like Selena, I steet you and you're like, hey,
what up?
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Yeah, yeah yeah, or like they're like, hug me hard.
I'm fragile.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Oh god. Benny Blanco is here on with the countdown.
Let's do it. This is song number one there. It
is number one this week on the iHeart Radio Countdown.
Hope you're feeling that What up is? Joke? You On
the radio. Bennie Blanco is hanging out quick recap the
album I Said I Love You First. It's out for
(29:24):
the record, you know, she said, I love you first,
and we got that out of the way. Benny, what
else do people need to know about Benny Blanco?
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Benny Blanco, Nothing, there's nothing else, there's nothing.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
What else do you want to know about?
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Uh uh okay, what else is there to know about me?
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Maybe that's have we Maybe that's the that's your life.
We just talked about it.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Yeah, I told you guys my whole life. There's nothing
else to know about me. I'm gonna hang out with
my mom this weekend, So that's it.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Bye, Benny.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Thanks for hanging out, dude.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
At the end of every interview, fist pumped to make
it official. Give me a lit of four
All right, guys, let's do this. What up is joke
you on the radio? This is the iHeart Radio count Down,
Benny blancll.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
What's up? Man? Oh my god, I'm here, Yes you are.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
We were talking behind the scenes here. Your your phone
cover is described this phone cover.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Dude, I guess it's like a tote in a hole.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
I guess it's like eggs on top of toast and
it really feels like toast. It's crazy. I got shout
out to shout out to where did I even get this?
And I might have got it on Amazon? It was
like ten dollars.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I could see you like scanning, like you know, Amazon,
three in the morning. What do I want to buy
a toast phone cover?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I might have bought this at a store I can't
even remember, but yeah, I want to buy. I'm very
big on like a good cover. You care about a cover,
and now you don't you know what?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I have a cover slash like put my.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I knew you were gonna do that because you're like
a slick guy.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
You're a slick dude too.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
No, no, but you're like wearing like a nice You're
like very you look like you're wearing like a tailored
like like it looks like it's like almost like a
tailored cashmerror sweater.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
It's it's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
It's the only thing that wasn't it was ironed, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
But you do keep it classy. You got a little
black fingernail polish.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I like, I just started this about a month ago.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
How's it feel? It was great.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
My wife and daughter said, hey, we run to get
our nails done. Can you drop us off? And I'm like,
I'll do one better. I'll just go with you guys.
And uh now I'm starting to love the black nail.
I may change the color at some point, but color
either red or white, I don't know, not like together,
but like, you know, what do you think?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I like this? The black is cool.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Why don't you have I assume I do my toes
all the time, like the you go sit in that thing,
the manicure or the pure Yeah, I go.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I actually I'm actually getting it next week. I don't
have it right now, but I'm big on the toes.
I do crazy ones.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Oh okay, it's becoming a thing, right Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I've been doing it for years. I love it. I
love it. I never do my fingernails. I think. I
I don't know why I would think.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
If you're gonna do one of the other, you do
finger fingers before toes.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I like toes more more, more more area.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
That fair enough, Benny blocos here all with the countdown,
Let's do it. This is song number twenty. That was
(02:26):
song number nineteen. This week on I heard radio countdown.
What up? It's Jojo on the radio, Benny Blanco was
hanging out once again. Congrats on the engagement, dude. I
don't want to, you know, I'm trying to avoid personal questions,
but this is it's it's hard because this one's about
your's it's your love story. But I guess my question
is when did you And don't give on, don't go
too far, be careful what you say. But when did
(02:46):
you know that that this is the one?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Very early, very early, I'll tell you this much. From
our first date, which I didn't even know I was on.
I didn't even know we were on a date. She knew,
but you did, She did, but I didn't. From our
first date, I we just started hanging out like so often,
like almost every day, and it just you know, so
many times in my life I was like, oh, this
(03:10):
is the one, this is the thing, but it just
felt different. Everything's easy, Everything's so easy, and she's such
a good person and that's why I'm making this music
was so easy too, because it was just like we
I feel like we just like know each other and
we don't even have to say things out loud. We
just know what the other one's thinking. And you know,
(03:32):
making the music show me like how good our communication
skills are and how much we listen to each other,
and you know, we let each other get our ideas
out and like chase something if we think it's a
good idea or not.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
You know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I just I'm just so grateful that, you know, we're
both so busy that this just gave us another time
to be around each other all the time. Yeah, and
it was so awesome, And I was scared at first
for sure, but it just like everything fell into place
and it just was such a good cathartic, therapeutic experience.
And I'm just like, I'm just I'm just smiling ear
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to ear.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I guess the way I'm kind of reading it is
you're hanging out this date that you didn't know was
a date, and I'm guessing. At one point, You're like,
wait a minute, I think I think this is working.
This is a thing, Like, oh my god, like a
light bulb moment, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
It was a light bulb moment, like when on the
first date she was like yeah, she was like uh
she said, she was like, well, I would have worn
something better to our first date. And I was like,
we're on a date, like in my.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Head and I was like, what did you what did
you wear on your on the first day.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Oh my god, I can't even remember what I have
for breakfast. I can't. She's one of those people.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
She's like, and you were wearing the green shirt with
the pant. I don't remember anything. I don't understand how
people can remember stuff like that, Like it's crazy to me. No,
I don't remember what was I wearing on my first date.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I guess you look, you look. I just know where
we were. I know where we were.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I know where we were. We were eating dinner. P
It's called jitlid.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
All right, Well, Benny, once again, congrats to both you guys,
love you both.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Thanks all right.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Benny Blanco is hanging out on with the Countdown this
is song number eighteen. All right, guys, we're back. It's
(05:47):
Jojo on the radio. This is the iHeart Radio Candown.
Benny Blanco is saying that this album, I said I
love you first. I mean, it's basically to my understanding,
it's it's your love story. This is like a movie,
the audio version of your movie, so to speak.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
She actually said I love you first.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
That my next question.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
She did.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
She accidentally said it, so she technically said it first,
but then I said it first for real. We were
I remember we were in New York and and she
was and she was like about to say it again,
like for real, and I was like, hey, can you
just let me have this moment, just give me one second,
let me get my words out. And then I said it,
and then it was great. And then it's so crazy
(06:25):
because you know, before you say I love you, you
could never imagine like saying it. And then like when
you get when you start to get close to the
first time you're going to say I love you, you like
almost say it so many times, and then after you
say I love you, you're like, Holy, I can't believe I
went so long without saying I love you. It's so
much easier to just say I love you after everything.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
And the scary thing is, God, I hope they say
it back.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I know that's you know, I know, I know, I know.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
But she was she was any chance you got, she
was like pass me the greend, I love you what
like yeah, like she was test and testing out the
waters a little.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
All right. So this album is basically the story of
you like start to finish, I guess.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Yeah, And it's just like before during our future what
you know, every everything we wish and more. You know,
it was like a therapy session getting through this album.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Any any personal faves off the album or just the
whole I guess they all.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Mean just yeah, they all mean so much. And I
just like.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I can't wait for people, you know, I know, I
know that people have heard a few songs now, but
I can't wait until people get to, you know, take
in the whole story and really feel, you know, what
we were feeling, get a little glimpse into our life
because like you know, we're not you know, we don't
tell everyone stuff, and Selena is very private and it's
(07:46):
it's just interesting to you know, get her perspective and
my perspective on things, and it's it's fun, it's it's
it's it's cool, it's it's really it was.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
It was.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I think it was my favorite album I've ever made
because it's it was so I don't know, there was
just something about like letting go in a way that
I've never done before.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
All Right, the album once again, you guys, I said
I love you first check this album, you guys. Benny
Bloco hanging out all right, Back to the countdown. Time
for an extra track. This is Jonah Murray slow Motion.
(08:38):
That was a song number seventeen this week on the
iHeartRadio count out. What Up is Joe? Join the radio?
Benny Blanco is hanging out. Favorite lyric from the album?
You've written so many lyrics over the years, an impossible question,
But favorite lyric from the album?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
There's so many, but like right now, I really have
been liking you know, I'm not scared of loving you.
I'm just scared of losing you. And then it's like
you know, and it's just it's just talking about like
I'm not scared of dying young. Like you know, I
feel like Selena has told me so much that that
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this album gave her, Like just like a new perspective
on life. You know, she's dealt with so much stuff
in the past and medical and this and that, and
she said that she's never been happier and wanted to
live for something more in her life, you know, and
it's and and and I feel the same way. And
it's like I've done so many cool things in my life,
(09:39):
but I don't know, my like only regret is that
I didn't get to do some of the things that
I did earlier in my life with her.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
You know.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
It's like it's like I feel like I'm like, you know,
thirty something years old. I wish I met her when
I was like fourteen or something and we got to
do all this, and you know, we knew each other
for so long, but you know, it's just right time
and right place and.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Maybe now this maybe not the contradict, but to maybe
now it's the perfect time for Yeah, that's what well,
you don't.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Even know, no, no, no, that's what we always say,
like I don't think we were both like mature enough
for what it wouldn't have been right And I you know,
I'm just counting that. I always am, like I hope
she doesn't wake up one day and just be like,
what was I doing? I'm just I'm just happy to
be in the game. I'm happy to be in the game.
I'm happy to have a jersey on.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Oh Man. Benny Bluncles here, all im with the cowdown.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
This is song number sixteen. That was song number fifteen
this week on the iHeart Radio can't out? What up?
(10:51):
With stoked? You on the radio? BENNI Bluncles, Benny, do
you need any water or anything to drink? Or you're good?
Back rub? What do you want? What do you need?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
That crab would be nice?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Let me work on that. Give me a couple of seconds.
War with Benny coming up back to the countdown. This
is song number fourteen. Thank you guys for hanging out.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
What Up?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
It's Jojo on the radio. This is the I Heart
Radio Countdown. Benny Blanco is here.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Benny.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Any chance of a tour with this album, some sort
of a traveling thing this one or.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
A tour tour is like my idea of like a nightmare,
like if.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
You could I've looked that up and you don't. I don't.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
I couldn't find any tour. I don't even fly. Could
you do the boat thing with ed Yeah, yeah, yeah,
oh my god. That a bus tour though, could you
bust around?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I don't know, I don't know. I don't want a tour.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I don't know if she convinces me, but I don't
think there's gonna I don't think there's a tour. We'll
be touring from our bedroom. You can hear it, you
can you can you can hear it at home. You
can pretend you're on tour.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Touring does seem exciting from the outside looking in, but
it's just it's a it's a lot.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
It's my that's my that's my understanding of it. It
is a lot, all right, mor.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
With Benny Blancoll coming up in just a few minutes,
but first time for an extra track. This is Doci.
Oh my god. I love this track. Denial is a River.
(12:34):
All right, guys, we're back. It's Jojo on the radio.
This is the iHeart Radio Countdown. Benny Blanco was hanging up. Benny.
I've started to ask artists this question, and you're probably
the best one to ask this too. How do you
write a song? And let me break down what I
mean by that? Is it more of a muscle, meaning
like the more you do it, the better you get
or is it more inspiration? It comes from the heavens,
and you really have no say in what ideas come
(12:56):
into your head.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I wish I knew you think you think you think
when I I'm taking this, you think when I'm taking it.
I don't I like a song like you think that's
a good time for a song to come into my head.
Sometimes it just happens whenever, or someone will be telling
me the most important thing and I'm like looking at
them and then I'm like, the idea just came to
my head.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
You know, I have no idea. It just happens, And
I wish I knew.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
I wish I could just you know, people don't know this,
but at least ninety percent of the songs I write
will never see the light of day. And it's only
like that, like ten percent, you know, maybe fifteen percent
of songs. And the thing that's so crazy is I
wish there was some voice that was like March sixteenth,
(13:39):
And I was like, what it was like, March sixteenth,
That's the only good song you'll write this year.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
You don't have to write one any other day.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Just write one on March sixteenth, but instead I get
in the studio every I'm I'm there on January third,
and I'm like, damn, I'm there on I'm there on
April twelfth, and I'm like ah, and then it's like,
you know, when that day comes around, that comes around,
and it's all worth it.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Okay, that's I think that's probably the best answer I've
got so far, I guess. And the answer to summarize it,
nobody knows. No one nos. Benny Blocos hanging Out Top
thirteen songs, See we Go. This is song number thirteen.
(14:36):
That was song number twelve this week on that I
heard radio Canawn. What ups? She joke you on the radio.
Bennie Blanco is hanging out, Benny, call me when you
break up. Name of the track, Give me the backstory?
What do we need to know on this track? You
didn't write this one on the toilet like you were
talking earlier, did you? I hope not.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
You know, it's so cool because I make Gracie.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I did some of her really early songs, and then
I put her on my album in like two thousand
and probably twenty. And you know, I've always believed in
her and you know, Selena independently just like loved her
on Instagram, loved her personality and listened to her music,
and it just kind of I remember she was like,
(15:14):
do you think Gracie Abrams would ever want to do
a song with us? And I was like, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I like was like, hey, Grazie, would you ever? And
she was like what?
Speaker 3 (15:22):
And she was And it almost didn't happen because we
almost didn't make deadlines because she was on tour. And
then we like pulled it together and did everything so
last minute, the video we did last minute one day.
The song was recorded like two days before. It was
all happened so quickly. It was so quickly, the very
(15:43):
end of the album, and it just it happened.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
It's one of those meant to beat things.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
I know. I know.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
All here we go call me when you break up.
It is Selena Gomez, Benny Blanco and Gracie Abrams. All right, guys,
(16:10):
we're back. It's Jojo on the radio. This is the
iHeart Radio. Can down. Benny Blancos hanging up, Bennie. You've
done you know, live performances over the years. You haven't toured,
but you've done some live performances. Give me two part question,
best live performance ever the one that comes to mind
that was just phenomenal, perfect, and then the complete flip
of that complete utter disaster one of.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Each mine is the same one, Okay. And and I'll
tell you, I'll tell you. I'll tell you why Juice
World had had just passed away. Okay, gotcha, it just
passed away. And he was supposed to be headlining Rolling Loud.
And I got some of the worst information I had
(16:54):
ever heard, you know, in my life. And I got
a call the next day and they said, you know,
we really want you to open up his show, that
we're doing a memorial show for him, and they turned
his set into a memorial performance.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
And I remember.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Being so scared to even do that, to be like,
you know, I'm so scared to you know, give him
just even be on stage right now. And I remember
when we went out and I started doing that, I
just saw, you know, you know, when you're deep in
(17:39):
music and you're making music, you don't always see the impact.
And I saw eighty one hundred thousand people there and
they were singing every word to every song, and it
just made me realize how many people he touched and
moved and changed their life lives, and it was it
(18:01):
was just an experience. I had so many emotions going
into it, and I was so sad and then so
happy to see people like really celebrating his life. And
it was just such a crazy It was definitely the
craziest time I had ever been on a stage for.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Kind of spiritual like what you experienced.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
You know, it was like to see these people, you know,
to so many people, he was their higher power, Like
he was one of those guys that just transcended. And
he always said exactly what was on his mind, even
if it wasn't the coolest thing, Like maybe he's talked
about being sad, and I feel like maybe talked about
being happy and people people would listen to that and
(18:48):
they would resonate with that and it would help him
through all different times. And he was one of the
best artists I've ever worked with in my entire life.
So I guess that's my story.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
That's a wow. All right, Benny Block wills hear you, guys,
bat to the countdown. Here we go. This is song
number eleven. That was song number ten this week on
(19:25):
the I Heart Radio countdown. What up? It's joke you
on the radio. Bennie Bloco is hanging up? Benny? True
or false? You are an amazing cook, like phenomenal cook.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Okay, I'm okay, I can do that. I can do
some stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
You got the cookbook. Can't do that and all that.
You know, what is your I just need to know
what is your go to dish?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Oh, my gosh, for me or for or first or
first Selena? When I got to cook for well, I
guess for Selena. I'm told she loves something. Maybe this
is not the go to dish. But these special fried
pickles or.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Is that like she does?
Speaker 1 (19:57):
What is that all you gotta jump on that?
Speaker 2 (19:59):
She just wants from Texas. It's like a Southern thing.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
She wants fried pickles, fried okra, a fried anything, but
fried pickles specifically.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
It's like her favorite.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
You never had a fried pick No, My wife is
from North Carolina and I'm originally from Texas.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
So yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Yeah, so I'm not a super super fan of it,
but I've had them plenty.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Oh you've had fried pickles?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yeah, but these are like something special, Benni Blanco, twist
on it.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
There no, it's her favorite thing in the world.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Just like a perfect fried pickle with a thin batter
is her favorite thing in the world.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Maybe a little ranch on the side. That's she's like,
she's she goes crazy.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
So you can if you offered her like this crazy dish,
which would.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
I could offer her like the fanciest thing in the world,
and she's like, give me fried pickles and coconut shrimp
like that's like, that's what she wants and.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
That's why you guys are get married.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
It's like you could offer a Michelin star meal. She
doesn't want that. She wants like chicken strips and gravy.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
And that's when you said, will you married me? After
something like that? Benny blancos here on with the countdown.
Here we go. This is song number nine. All right, guys,
(21:23):
we're back. It's Jojo on the radio. This is the
I hear radio countdown. Benny Blanco is hanging up. Bennie,
you probably know this about me. Maybe I don't know.
I am obsessed with the paranormal, ghost, haunted houses, all
this craziness. I've got a podcast called Paranormalist. I talked
to people who've had real, you know, ghost paranormal encounters
all year long. Selena told me a story once where
she had a wild encounter at her young She was
(21:45):
a young kid, her home in I think it was
in La I think, and she saw a girl, what
she thought was a girl run across her yard near
their dollhouse, and she had her stepdad. I believe what
she told me search the premises, couldn't find anything. They
check security, nothing, but she swears it happened, so and
I believe her. Have you ever had anything you would
(22:06):
consider a paranormal encounter?
Speaker 3 (22:08):
One time in my life, we were at this really
old house in Italy, Okay, Okay, And first of all,
one of my friends was sleeping in like the like
there was like multiple houses on the property was really old.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
It was like so old.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
This place we rented like this like villa, and it
was so old and it was cool. It was in
the middle of nowhere. And then I remember my friend
comes running in and it's like, yo, I'm not sleeping
out in that thing anymore.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
There's something out there. And I was like, what are
you talking about?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
There's nothing out there, And then I guess it was
following him. Around, because then he went to sleep in
another room and then we just started hearing like banging doors,
banging doors, and he was like nope, and then he
moved to another room and then he was like right
by my bedroom door at the time, and he was
sleeping in like a like almost like a laundr room,
(23:03):
and my door kept opening and closing, opening and closing,
and I was like what And that was the closest
and anywhere he went that night, all the doors would
open and close, drawers would open. I don't know, it
was crazy.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
That was when you left Italy. Did it still follow
him back to the stage?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
No?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
No, but that was that was It was only that
first night. But that was so crazy. I'd never experienced
anything like that before, and that was the one time
I ever did. I'm definitely, I definitely believe in that stuff,
but I just have never really experienced. That was the
one time where I was like, oh, okay, Like I've
experienced things where like where I thought it was that
but then it wasn't. But like this was like the
only time where it was like too many times for
(23:43):
it to be a coincidence, too many times and it wasn't.
It wasn't windy out or anything.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
One of these days, because every now and then we'll
go to these haunted locations do a little thing. You know,
you should join me for one of them. Oh my
schedules permitting of course, yea, and bring your fried pickles
and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
That's so cool.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
It's there's some some things you just can't explain, like
you probably thought about, like what are the other what
could this be?
Speaker 2 (24:03):
You know?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
These doors are.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Just no, no no, and it was too many doors
no when nothing.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Benny Blanco's here on with the countdown. Let's go. This
is song number eight all way back you guys.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
What up?
Speaker 1 (24:41):
It's Jojo on the radio. This is the iHeart Radio countdown.
Benny Blancos here, Benny. Have you ever driven by this
must have happened. You got so many tracks driven by
someone and heard them playing your music or in a
store or restaurant.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
That's my favorite thing in the world.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
When you see like like a like a mother daughter
and they're like singing to each other in the car,
or like I'm at a concert and I see them
like singing and it's like at the top of their lungs.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Yeah, that's that's what I live for.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
That's what I live for, like to bring joy to
other people or like move them to tears, like yeah,
it's it's, it's, it's it's. One of my favorite parts
about making music is seeing like fans like feel moments
like that good or bad?
Speaker 1 (25:25):
What cool? I mean? And a lot of your songs
and you produce it, you're not vocally on it. So
I wonder if the people next to, like in a store,
in a restaurant realize that you're the one that put
everything together on that thing. It's got to be like
almost kind of cool to you know where you're so
visible now it's hard to hide, but gotta be cool
to kind of hide and watch somebody like be a
fly on the wall.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
You know, it was real cool back in the day,
I think, like because I don't think people really knew
who I was. So about twenty twenty is like when
it all like changed for me, like when I became an.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Artist and stuff.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
So like before it was very good to like be
a fly on I wish it was still like that.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Benny Blanco's Here Top five Songs, Here we Go, This
is song number five. All right, guys, we're back. It's
(26:41):
Jojo on the radio. This is the iHeart Radio count Now.
Benny Blanc was hanging out. Benny, when people see you
in public, what do they usually say to you? What's
their their go to?
Speaker 3 (26:50):
People know me from so many different things, so it's
like it'll usually be like inside joke from one of
those things, like and and I feel like I don't
know why, but everyone like immediately I wish I was
like one of those people that, like the famous people
that people are like scared to go up.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
To or something like.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Everyone will always come to me and be like like
right away, like and it's like I get maybe that's
a good thing. Maybe people think like I'm a nice
guy or something. But yeah, people say crazy to me?
Are you kidding me? Like they're not like they don't
go up to people like the way like when they
go up to Sleean and they're like son, they're like,
oh my god, like I, oh my god, you changed
(27:33):
my life.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Like they go up to me, they're.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Like what up, Like like they're like say like crazy,
like they're like insane.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Oh god. All right, Benny blockles here Top three, Let's go.
This is song number three. That was song number two
(28:16):
this week. On iHeart Radio, Kenown What up it? Joe?
You on the radio, Benny blocles here, Benny, message to
your fans, og fans, new fans, you know, just what's
the from you to them?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
I wish I had a better message today. I'm exhausted.
I stayed up so late last night for a date night.
Uh be yourself. Everyone else is taken like that. Yeah,
thanks for being Thanks for being my friend. I guess
come up to me and say hi when you see me.
Just don't slap my back so hard. Sometimes people slap
(28:52):
that back sometimes, like people come up and they're like hey,
and like they slap your back hard.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
So just Selena, Like Selena, I steet you and you're like, hey,
what up?
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Yeah, yeah yeah, or like they're like, hug me hard.
I'm fragile.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Oh god. Benny Blanco is here on with the countdown.
Let's do it. This is song number one there. It
is number one this week on the iHeart Radio Countdown.
Hope you're feeling that What up is? Joke? You On
the radio. Bennie Blanco is hanging out quick recap the
album I Said I Love You First. It's out for
(29:24):
the record, you know, she said, I love you first,
and we got that out of the way. Benny, what
else do people need to know about Benny Blanco?
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Benny Blanco, Nothing, there's nothing else, there's nothing.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
What else do you want to know about?
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Uh uh okay, what else is there to know about me?
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Maybe that's have we Maybe that's the that's your life.
We just talked about it.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Yeah, I told you guys my whole life. There's nothing
else to know about me. I'm gonna hang out with
my mom this weekend, So that's it.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Bye, Benny.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Thanks for hanging out, dude.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
At the end of every interview, fist pumped to make
it official. Give me a lit of four
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