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king now music sensation it's. me just being myself on social media. i feel like a lot of kids are fighting with. their present play what's it like for you being famous so you don't. spread myself from my childhood. all through high school without being famous the moment i graduated. came. super well for myself on the top of great deal about. you have. everything happened so fast especially as social media. definitely fallen plus she like to meet with president no. no does. all

the. guests songwriting colleague at only nineteen years old el paso texas native has taken the musical world by storm in two thousand and seventeen with hit singles location and young dumb and broke colleagues album american teen debuted in march and has remained in the billboard top ten for an incredible six months straight. he joins me fresh off his best new artist victory at the twenty seventeen m.t.v. video music awards congratulations really so much i appreciate that we shocked oh yeah. it's crazy thinking about being so young and having this much happen to me so

fast as it's and saying i'll just celebrate. i didn't. do much only nineteen but i split my time of my best friends so the really cool was it like for you being famous so your own that couldn't that that's not always the best thing to much too soon oh yeah for me luckily i feel like i got to express myself in my childhood and have my own childhood you know i went all through high school without being famous the moment i graduated is when things kind of came alive so i'm handling it super well for myself i think we all was singing in childhood oh yeah i always saying because my mom sings are actually saying in the army and she kind of inspired me to join choir and do musicals and all of that i was probably the friend that everyone would tell because i was singing way too much your parents were both in the service yet both my parents are in the army and they both actually retired so i'm happy for them did you travel up and yet so i actually

lived in germany for six years i lived in northern europe for four born in georgia and then i moved topass and that's kind of when everything happened for me go through high school no person yet so i actually spent my senior year in el paso and for me it was a culture shock because living in new york at the climate everything's different going to help not knowing anybody was very nerve wracking but luckily that loneliness allowed me to find my own sense of creativity and i started making music very cross the border for morris yeah you go into our resident i know my friends. your album's been on the billboard top ten for six straight months yet why do you think that is what's at stake. i feel like it's the authenticity of me just being myself on social media throughout my music i feel like a lot of kids are fighting relation with that and their press and play i'm glad

they're presently i'm glad they're buying it because i mean six months is a long time was crazy in august of this year vogel wrote about american teen it said he covers common ground meditating on loneliness loss and love is an obvious generational influence in his music as he mentions sub tweets living with his parents passing out in his message is clear he's it's an unwavering ode to the teenage years their triumphs their confusions and above all their heartbreak is sad . it's pretty sad i feel like there's definitely highlights where happiness kind of breaks through but the sad the album for me was definitely about self acceptance and so going through that process i was i was pleased that i got through it and the end of the album kind of shows that it was that hard to be so personal it was hard

but i realized it was for a better cause and for me i make music to try to help other people and luckily the impact has helped so many individuals that come up to me i mean grief that is tell me is how most music means to them so it keeps me going i still writing songs oh yeah i'm still i'm always writing i'm not always recording is writing. and i can't wait until i get to advance especially my writing style like i'm all about evolution so hopefully the music evolved to describe it as a rhythm and blues as for me. it's a mixture of rhythm and blues pop i love the eighty's i love the use of those kind of retro twains in the album too. but is definitely a sofa is there one song is most important to you in american tween yes for me it's angels which is the last track on the album i actually wrote that to kind of show love and dedication to my own personal guardian angels like my mom my friends and

every time i perform that song that's always the most emotional song for me to sing just because of how much it means to be closer to your mother than your father or mother or father passed away yet my mom is definitely how me down a lot i mean for some time we had to be you know a family with a single mother and it was it was a little hard of a stepfather yeah i was the phone that he was in the army yet. i mean i love my mom you talk a great deal about love and the album yet you're nineteen. you haven't been in love . puppy love i've been i've loved shows no age like i've been in love i've been out of love maybe nineteen. nineteen year olds fall in love everything happened so fast it's also media i fell in love but i've definitely fallen out of love and i'm not in love right now. i got a kid eighteen he texted

a girl for six months they never met and that crazy ok. by the way the current single young dumb and broke is rising on the charts are you writing about yourself i was writing about my past. self well young. woman you are broke. so you don't feel this right. i feel like for me that song is about taking negative connotations about myself and being like you know what this is who i am you know. i'm broke but i still have so much love to give how do you make of the person what was your break for me i feel like it was location the moment it ever location and the moment. a couple of influences found the song played on social media and snap chat kind of took me to the next level and so i'm proud and i'm glad it kind of took me out get a label how to get a label for me i feel like i got so many offers for me to pick it

definitely had to be a label that supported my vision and my dreams what is the label are not that yeah it's a good label. you recently said you're focusing primarily on collaboration who you're going with so i'm trying to work with so many people right now i've been talking to a good friend of mine blag no money from for the harmony hopefully we get to do something sometime soon for me i love to work with my friends so if i meet someone and we have chemistry connection i love getting in the studio because i mean you get to hear the connection to the music who had dion to work with so many people tends to be super cool cancer. i mean there's so many amazing rappers and singers out right now you're out there and. think you're so how could you work with chance because i feel like the balance between so and rap is there's a makes an awful lot both of us kind of have the the sauce to kind of mix it up

a little beside me would be awesome he joined forces with logic. for the song call one eight hundred two seven three eight two five five if you have a hip talk about the topic of suicide prevention and mental health. why we into the issue for me i feel you wrote that i wrote my of my part of the song logic actually contacted me about the song in the moment that he did it was a yes for me because i feel like being young being an influence and being an advocate for mental illness and mental health is necessary to use my platform to help other kids you had in your own family have use my friends you know i've dealt with a lot of friends who have had trouble who have always been there for but for me i feel like the closest way to be there for majority of the people is to music and so being able to help people cope with mental illness mental health is just something that i love to do do you want to make a difference for all yet what drives you what drives me i feel like the motivation

from my friends most definitely all of them all of the music that i create i think it's all my friends even if it's sad to say my friends going through something hard ice in the music and if they told me that they're affected by it and that means that it's a great song from your friends or no personal friends in el paso actually my best friend is here with me in l.a. to see he came from el paso where do you live i live in l.a. and i go back and forth back and forth with your mother and so yeah my mom still no you know how do they how do you step father and mother feel about your success my mom super proud of me because i'm kind of living out my mom's dream my dad super supportive as well but for me you know being able to sing every day and do something that my mom wants to do means a lot to me so i'm so glad of all the accomplishments that i'm making so for a political issue you recently spoke about was the decision on dark yet the dreamers deferred action for childhood arrivals or just think of that decision i

think that the decision that was going to impact a lot of people negatively i have so many friends in el paso who you know who are at risk you must know a lot of course. you know i have so many friends who risk and i feel for them and you know it's sad it's saddening because of everything that's been happening discrimination all of that is just it's so unnecessary and i mean i'm upset about it especially living you know. what do you make of the current state of politics. current state of politics i definitely don't like it and i feel like it's absurd the youth me as an individual to speak against to make a change so that eventually we get to get out of this state right now would you like to meet with president trump. no desire. do you

do concerts do i do concerts. travel all over the country yet i'm actually going to europe at the end of this month with lloyd and i'm super excited about. i mean it's super cool singing a song you know american teen for people who aren't necessarily american to know every single word i think she's a. massive she's also open for i'm opening for nineteen. days upcoming world tour with lord. of the if you only knew what. the album is a member of didn't stay with us. and. basically everything that you think you know about civil society has broken down.

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it was co-leader you were a military brat so yes it was a like fumbling around it was i mean spinning like your stepfather or your real father my stepfather my mom so your father died when you were young yet when i was younger and when i was in the second grade you divorced or my parents were the divorce when that happened but for me i mean being a military child was so much fun because i got to grow up overseas i spent six years in germany it was the time of my life that's where i bet that's where i met a lot of my best friends and then allowed me to move past it would seem that changing my life so united is going observers in the. general register is. not my son just a team you're about to tour with lord what is she like to work with she's a lot of fun she's nice and she's yet she's actually one of my inspirations so how did you hook up we actually created this song called the move and she was actually

a huge fan of the song and so we kind of followed each other from that this is awesome so we're you touring we're actually touring in europe so i mean we're having spots that expand in italy and i've never been to italy or spain going before you have a someone older going with you. but i have two of my best friends are going to come overseas with me too so is going to be cool what's lorde like lord is sweet this is the nicest and just her positive energy and how she told me before i was in the same position as her really inspired me to keep going because i mean if i get to keep going i get to be just as successful as her new plan to sing with her oh yeah of course i would love to make a song with the way we play a little game of if you only knew the questions such as your first car key area you. key. superpower you wish you had

a flight proudest accomplishment meeting. he's a good. artist from yesteryear you wish you could collaborate with. michael jackson see good talent i actually don't have one. funniest fan encounter someone saves their license plate k r nine one five or eighty for american teens as my first lesson is still very cold in american teens i thought i was awesome. if not music then what teasing biggest misconception about co-leader the pronunciation of my name. people say my name wrong all the time always a pronounce curly but people say cali. all the time favorite place to write lyrics my better. instrument you wish you could play piano best

piece of advice you ever got definitely not to be cliche but to never give up persistence is key to keep going things that motivate me to not quit that's the best words of advice i've ever gotten you an old soul i think as a kid oh yeah of course artist we'd be surprised to hear that you listened to. our loved ones to funny it's like my favorite now artist you're most excited to hear new music from frank ocean favorite thing to do on a day off sleep. most embarrassing moment on stage i've written my pants and toronto and i had the run off for a quick change it was the worst but it was hilarious oh you moving around i did stay out of excitement in my pants in having seen them since when you were first

worked on stage where you're nervous oh yeah of course i was so nervous actually the first time that i performed. it was in november last year so i was definitely in there not even a year not even a year yeah i feel like those those nerves kind of drove me to get better and to learn how to perform better co-leader in ten years. hopefully open a foundation for music education in el paso hopefully that i get to spread across america. probably have a nice house with a couple of dogs in my front lawn you want family. in the us for a family i feel like i'm too busy to want the dogs i want the dogs the advice you'd give to young artists. i give to young artists is to not listen to negativity there are so many people who told me that my job wasn't for me the moment i do that out of my is. and out of my way i became successful so don't listen to negativity we

have some social media question corey anderson on facebook you have a unique fashion sense who are some of your fashion inspirations. they. there's a couple are i'm in love with gucci right now. i like that and. also as do you have any desire to design your own clothing. or drove you to fashion. fashion is kind of one of the truest points of self-expression so when i wear clothes that i feel i have here oh person it was not the fashion center of america. did you pick this up. definitely i feel that being military meeting so many different people growing up in europe all of that stuff kind of influenced the way i dress right now but you met a lot of people in uniform oh yeah. ashley butler on the larry king now blog what

city are you most looking to perform in during your upcoming tour. madrid spain. i've never been heard spain's amazing and i kind of want to experience that for myself it's lorain on the larry king now blog if you could work with an artist from yesteryear who would it be and why so i would work with michael jackson for me to learn about him you know to their music we you know how he creates how he i'm so curious about it because i mean there will never be another michael jackson what was special about him for me i feel like it was his drive and his work ethic he never stopped making music he always learned about himself is dancing in his voice and that's something i want to do all case think baby on twitter or it's your favorite kind of pizza. meat lovers. glance loss on facebook what

song means the most to you off american teen angels and as you said that before it was nancy sands on facebook was there a particular moment when you knew you had made it. particular moment recently it was probably my v.m.e. when that was the moment he was surprised i was so surprised but i was excited ken dawson where would you like to be in five or ten years five years i would like to have a couple of grammys and i'm about so i'll see that happen sometimes in your writing all the time writing writing in your head my head my head doesn't stop i think of music all the time when do you do another album hopefully soon whenever i get free times i don't want to be free sometimes if i am i definitely write the next one is the tour stores in this moment. i have a couple of time off probably like a week maybe i'll start writing something are you dating girls. relationship and

she just broke up my girlfriend i thought i was. nineteen you broke up oh she nineteen. it's hot damn right. music is going to hurt you. big things that i guess colleague be sure to pick up a copy of his album american teen as always you can follow me on twitter at kings things i'll see you next time.

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