the press remains rooted in a fact based universe especially. truth and fiction. interesting. music sensation it's. me just being myself on social media. i feel like a lot of kids are fighting with. their present what's it like for you being famous so you don't. spread myself from my childhood i have my own child. all through high school being famous. for myself on the top of great deal of. you have.

everything happened so fast especially in social media. definitely fall in love plus joy to meet with president and. no desire. that all the. guests are songwriting colleague at only nineteen years old 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 king graduation rate so much i appreciate that we shocked oh yeah i was so 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 i spent my time in my best friend so the really cool was it like for you being famous so your own 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 as 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 yeah 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 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 war as. my friends do. 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 finding relation with that and their present play i'm glad they're presently i'm glad they're buying it because i mean six months is a long time it's crazy in august of this year vogue 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 tweets living with his parents passing out in his messages clear he's it's an unwavering ode to the teenage years their triumphs their confusions and above all their heartbreak this 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 pretty sad i got through it and the end of the album kind of shows that was it 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 have come up to me i mean greta just tell me this 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 is 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 swings in the album too. but is definitely a sofa is there one song is most important to you an american teen 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 that 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 so yeah my mom was definitely how to 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 i've loved shows no age 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 right now. i got a kid eighteen he texted a girl for six months they never met and 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 broke. so you don't feel this right now 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 you 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 friend of mine black. 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. would be super cool cancer tomorrow i mean there's so many amazing rappers and singers out right now you are. think you're so how could you work your chance because i feel

like the balance between so and rap is there's a mix and i feel like 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. the issue for me i feel like 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 thought i being young being an influence or 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 something that i love to do you want to make a difference for oh yeah it 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 tell me that they're affected by it and that means that it's a great song from your friends or no person i have friends in el paso actually my best friend is here with me in l.a. to see if 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 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. 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 i sad it's saddening because of everything that's been happening to scrim a nation 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 resort to meet with president trump. no desire. now do you do concerts do i do concerts and. travel all over the country yet i'm actually going to europe at the end of this month with lloyd as 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 who know every single word i think it's a. massive she's also going to open for yes i'm opening for nineteen after. coming world tour with lord jump into the if you only knew what. the album is a member of didn't seem to stay with us. spent

countless hours poring through documents to tell the story about the. corporate media really used to talk about the car. i'm going to pay to clear picture about how disturbing. for her conduct has been in mom these are stories. in my own post of america. where. i do not know if the russian state john podesta emails and gave them to wiki leaks but i do know barack obama's director of national intelligence has not provided. to support his claims. i also know he perjured himself in a senate hearing three months for the revelations provided by edwards. to be n.s.a. was carrying out wholesale surveillance of the us. the hyperventilating. has once

again proved to be a. government claims that cannot be. you would have thought they would have learned something after serving as george w. bush's useful idiots in the lead up to the invasion of iraq. it is vitally important that the press remains rooted in a fact based universe especially when we enter an era when truth and fiction are becoming indistinguishable. looks like. this one. analyzes the bottom. line. like you not i got. with.

linux talk. a little bit longer stuck. in the pit. bull of the. lead you're a military brat so yes like fumbling around right it was fun i mean spinning like your stepfather or your real father my step father my mom i saw your father die when you were young yet when i was young and when i was in the second being in the

war store my parents were different still boys from that i think but for me i mean being a military child was. so much fun because grew 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 send and changing my life so united services in the. jeddah register if 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. yet she's actually one of my inspirations so how did you hook up we actually created this song called young women vote and she was actually a huge fan of the song and so we kind of followed each other from that so we're touring we're actually touring in europe so i mean we're having spots that expanding italy england in i've never been to italy or spain before you

have a someone older going with you oh no. but i have two of my best friends are going to come overseas with me too so is going to be cool what's the lord like lord is this we see 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 you 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 that are always your first car kiri do you really. superpower you wish you had flight proudest accomplishment meeting. is a good. artist from yesteryear you wish you could collaborate with. michael jackson. secret talent i see though i 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 so very cold in american teens i thought it was awesome. if not music then what teasing biggest misconception about cole lead the pronunciation of my name. people say my name wrong all the time always a prose curly but people say cali. all the time favorite place to write lyrics my better. instrument you wish you could play piano the 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 listen to. our loved ones to find 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 to run out 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 we'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. rest for a family i feel like i'm too busy that that's what the dogs i want the dogs the advice you'd give to young artists. give to young artists to not listen to negativity there are so many people who told me that my job wasn't for me the moment out of my is. and out of my way i became successful so don't listen to negativity we have some social media questions corey anderson on facebook you have a unique fashion sense who are some of your fashion inspirations. they are. a separate key. there's a couple are i'm in love with gucci right now i like that. cory 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 and so when i wear clothes that i live a happier person it was not the fashion center of america know that it 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 just read that 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 myself it's lorraine 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 it's to learn about him you know there in the 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 do that and sometimes you're writing all the time right 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 sometime soon 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 i actually just broke up my girlfriend i thought i was. nineteen you broke up oh she nineteen. it's hot damn right.

music. 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. i'll give you what the mainstream media can't help big picture. little slow and when you question mark find what you're looking for this is. the stuff. will go deeper investigate and debate all so you can get the

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tell when you know why because their advertisers won't let them. in order to create change you have to be honest you have to tell the truth parties able to do that every story is built on going after the back story to what's really happening out there to the american public what's happening when a corporation makes a pharmaceutical chills people when a company in the environmental business ends up polluting a river that causes cancer and other illnesses they put all the health risk all the dangers out to the american public those are stories that we tell every week and you know what they're working. the mission of news with it is to go to the people tell their side of the story our stories are well sourced we don't hide anything from the public and i don't think

the mainstream media in this country can say that i think average viewer knows that our t. america has a different perspective so that we're not hearing one echo chamber that mainstream media is constantly spewing. we're not beholden to any corporate sponsor no one tells us what the cover how long the coverage or how to say it that's the beauty of archie america. we give both sides we hear from both sides and we question more that journalists are not letting anything get in your way to bring it home to the american people. a little bit more of a stunning. thing. to

do with the. little doesn't. in the. ratings and sell you take us for anyone even moderately paying attention to the foreign policy agenda of the united states for the last twenty to thirty years i think it's a very safe. bet that you've come across the terms humanitarian intervention or the ubiquitous spreading of democracy bandied about by any number of elected officials or state department spokesperson and well for many of the hard working folks either elected to or working for the us government that that is indeed probably their

legitimate goal when it comes to foreign policy and handing out a but converse leak the old spreading of democracy has also been widely used as a justification to drop bombs and wage war by those with an agenda of pax americana full spectrum dominance this contradiction is what inspired attorney and former illinois green party candidate for governor rich whitney to ask the question does the united states government actually oppose dictatorships and championed democracy around the world as we are repeatedly told over and over and over again and what mr whitney discovered is indeed shocking but for those of us who read between the headlines it's tragically what we expected using a combination of official government documentation and freedom house's annual global report on political rights and civil liberties mr whitney had discovered that in twenty fifteen just two short years ago the united states gave military aid .