Speaker 2
And it's a ride. And a ride. I knew ride was last one. So say it all together so I get it.
Speaker 1
Mystical, magical, rhythmical, radical ride. Perfect. It's a great album. Thanks.
Speaker 2
Even though I couldn't remember it just now. I just watched last night. I hadn't seen any of the videos for the album and the video for I feel like dancing is incredible. Great. I love a one shot video. Yeah. The best videos are one shot. I
Speaker 1
agree. I wish all of them had been one-shot videos. How
Speaker 2
long did you have to rehearse that to make sure that that could come off seamlessly? And how many times did you do that shot? That one long shot? And are there cuts in the video that we don't know about? We did
Speaker 1
it, I'd say at least seven times where we're actually rolling tape.
Speaker 2
Uh-huh. Because I mean, it's quite a production. You go through this entire hotel with different dancers, and then you end up in the kitchen, and then you end up at a wedding at the very end. I mean, it's just hundreds and hundreds of people involved in this video. It was a blast. Yeah, it's a really joyful, fantastic romp, a good time. And I loved it very much. Everything from like the cover art to like, just the new sound, it just feels like you're in this different place in your life, and there seems to be... I mean, I guess I've heard you talk about it a little bit, sort of settling into a version of yourself that you're super comfortable with, which... Yeah. Thanks.
Speaker 1
Yeah, I feel a little bit like starting over or not to discredit anything I'd done in the past, not really starting over, but I just felt brand new. Yeah. And dance is a common theme in music. And as someone who's performed in front of concerts, I'm always asking the audience to get up and dance, but I had not yet explored that in me. I didn't want to be the one out front dancing. Even though I love to do it, I always danced kind of humorously.
Speaker 1
it was this reoccurring theme in the song and I felt like it was the dimension of music that I'd yet to really explore. Yeah. It's like the fourth dimension of music. It's actually moving and creating visual interpretations of the sound. And so I really learned so much from dancers during the video process. Because I made the song not realizing I was going to to go out in the world and dance. When
Speaker 2
you write a song called I Feel Like Dancing, you kind of have to do it. Right.
Speaker 1
Like it feels good to sing and play and rap and move. But once it got real, I allowed myself to like stop making fun of dance. Stop trying to dance like a clown and see what's really in there. Do I have a soul that wants to come out, you know? Well, and then also you were on
Speaker 2
a season of dancing with the stars, which I'm sure... Well, yeah, that's what ultimately
Speaker 1
came out of putting a song out called I Feel Like Dancing. Then the producers of Dancing with the Stars called and
Speaker 2
said, hey, that's how you get on the show. We heard you feel like dancing. Are you serious about that? And
Speaker 1
I thought, wow, what an honor. What a great school to learn dancing fast. And you know, being in the song game every Tuesday night, I got to turn in something, which I still played every week during Dance with the Stars. But it was the same. Every Tuesday night, we had to show up on the set and perform our dance, that we created. And it was the hardest thing ever, but so fun. But you did
Speaker 2
very well. I did okay. You did okay, you gave
Speaker 1
me a second. I did okay. I think if I had really wanted to win, now, looking back, I probably could have gone for it, but honestly, I... Didn't think I had a shot. So I went in thinking, I'll probably last two or three weeks.
Speaker 1
two or three weeks in, I realized I'm probably gonna be here the whole time, and I'm terrified, and I have to cancel all my plans for the entire rest of the year, and I'm missing my cat terribly, and I start telling my friends, stop voting for me. It's like, the only way I can get off this show, is if I don't get enough votes. And I even told the producers, like, I'm good. Like, I can go home now. Thank you so much for the honor. And they said, we can't do anything about you being here. So the only thing I could do is ask friends to vote for someone else. And having made it all the way to the very end, made it to the buzzer, I look back and laugh and think, well, maybe if I'd actually given a shit. So I would do it all over again if I could. It's incredible. And I would try really hard. Maybe they'll have a Dancing with the Stars all-star season. I would go back.