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Full Circle Boys - From Comp Kids to Boy Band · Making The Impact - A Dance Competition Podcast

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SPEAKER_04: Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the table at a dance competition?
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SPEAKER_04: Exactly what are the judges looking for anyway?
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SPEAKER_04: This is Making the Impact, a dance competition podcast.
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SPEAKER_04: Each week we'll cover a different topic related to the world of competitive dance from the perspective of the judges behind the table.
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SPEAKER_04: There are many career paths that competitive dancers can follow after their time on stage, but one you might not think of is being in a boy band.
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SPEAKER_04: The Full Circle Boys are a group of five former competitive dancers who have taken the pop music world by storm with their infectious songs and creative choreography to match.
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SPEAKER_04: We can't wait to hear about their journey from the competitive stage to the professional stage.
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SPEAKER_06: Hey y'all, welcome to this week's episode of Making Impact.
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SPEAKER_06: I'm your host, Courtney Ortiz, and I'm here with my co-host, Leslie Mueller.
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SPEAKER_06: Hey Courtney, happy podcast day.
0:56
SPEAKER_06: Happy podcast day and happy holidays.
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SPEAKER_06: It is the holiday season and it is it's come up so fast.
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SPEAKER_06: I I can't believe it.
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SPEAKER_06: I'm not ready.
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SPEAKER_06: I'm not ready yet.
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SPEAKER_04: It's hard to believe.
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SPEAKER_04: We leave as as of this recording, we leave tomorrow for a 10-day holiday extravaganza to Florida and Georgia.
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SPEAKER_04: So I don't, I mean, I'm excited, but like I can't believe it's here already.
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SPEAKER_06: I can't either.
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SPEAKER_06: And we have a really fun episode in store today that is a little bit different than what we normally bring to Making the Impact.
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SPEAKER_04: Our holiday present to you.
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SPEAKER_04: This was this is it, like Courtney said, very different episode for us.
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SPEAKER_04: Really interesting, really exciting.
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SPEAKER_04: And I just can't wait to share it with y'all.
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SPEAKER_06: All right, Dance World, we have a special episode for you this week on making the impact.
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SPEAKER_06: And I'm really excited to sit down and get to know this all of these fabulous guests because we have five guests joining us, Leslie, on this chat this week.
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SPEAKER_04: This is the one of the biggest episodes we've ever had.
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SPEAKER_04: So I'm excited to see how hopefully we can get everybody some airtime.
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SPEAKER_06: Absolutely.
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SPEAKER_06: I definitely think we will.
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SPEAKER_06: And I'm actually like learning about them right now.
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SPEAKER_06: So I can't wait to hear more about their journey in this dance world and entertainment world.
5:21
SPEAKER_06: They hit me up in the DMs and said, Hey, we love your podcast and we want to be guests on it.
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SPEAKER_06: Can we make that happen?
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SPEAKER_06: And I said, Yeah, let's do it.
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SPEAKER_06: And they are an up-and-coming boy band, but fun fact, they all were competitive dancers growing up in their youth.
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SPEAKER_06: So taking that full circle over here at Making the Impact and seeing how dance brought them into the boy band world.
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SPEAKER_06: I'm so excited to welcome the full circle boys.
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SPEAKER_06: Welcome Jagger, James, Sean, Dawson, and Ollie to the podcast.
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SPEAKER_06: Welcome, y'all.
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SPEAKER_12: Thank you.
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SPEAKER_12: Thank you for having us.
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SPEAKER_12: That was a great intro, Jazz.
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SPEAKER_06: Yay! Oh my gosh.
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SPEAKER_06: And you know what?
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SPEAKER_06: Here's another really fun fact that I'm sure y'all are gonna really like.
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SPEAKER_06: So I was teaching a dance convention this weekend.
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SPEAKER_06: I teach on the Streets Dance Convention.
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SPEAKER_06: Yeah, and one I just joined last season, but I'm jazz faculty there, and I was teaching in Biloxi, Mississippi, and I taught a Spice Girls routine, and I was talking about like that they were my favorite girl group and girl band back in my youth, which is a very long time ago.
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SPEAKER_06: And then I started asking all of the dancers, like, so who are some of your favorite like boy bands or girl bands in like right now?
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SPEAKER_06: And someone said, the full circle boys in the audience.
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SPEAKER_06: Right?
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SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_06: Oh that's cool.
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SPEAKER_06: That's really cool.
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SPEAKER_06: That feels that feels pretty cool.
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SPEAKER_06: So we definitely know we have some fans that are probably listening and really excited for this episode.
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SPEAKER_06: And I can't wait to just hear about y'all's journey in dance and then how you became a boy band.
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SPEAKER_06: So let's do some little introductions and whoever wants to kick it off, and we can go down the down the line of like where you grew up, what your early dance training was like, like a little brief history, and then then we'll go down the list and keep it rolling.
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SPEAKER_11: Oh, cool.
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SPEAKER_11: Hello, I'm Jagger Moon.
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SPEAKER_11: I am I almost said 19, but I'm not 19.
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SPEAKER_04: How old are you?
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SPEAKER_11: I'm 22.
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SPEAKER_11: I bet that's very far off from what I am.
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SPEAKER_11: I uh grew up in Ogden, Utah.
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SPEAKER_11: I started dancing when I was like, I started taking it taking dance classes when I was seven, but I was self-taught for a little bit because I loved Michael Jackson.
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SPEAKER_11: I would just watch Michael Jackson music videos over and over and over and try and recreate his dance moves in it.
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SPEAKER_11: And then I started dancing because of high school musical.
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SPEAKER_11: The high school musical movies pretty much shaped my entire personality.
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SPEAKER_11: And me too.
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SPEAKER_11: I know, right?
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SPEAKER_11: It's just us early 2000 babies, it's just everything.
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SPEAKER_11: Love that.
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SPEAKER_11: And I grew up on Hollywood Vibes dance company.
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SPEAKER_11: I was an MVA plus at Velocity.
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SPEAKER_11: I was on High School Musical The Musical The Series, and now I'm in a boy band.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, very cool.
8:19
SPEAKER_00: That's so fun.
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SPEAKER_00: I love that.
8:21
SPEAKER_00: Well, welcome to the podcast.
8:24
SPEAKER_09: Thank you.
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SPEAKER_09: Hey, I'm James.
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SPEAKER_09: I'm 20 years old.
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SPEAKER_09: And I grew up in Temecula slash Murrito, California.
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SPEAKER_09: And I started dancing at the age of eight.
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SPEAKER_09: And then I didn't get like too into it until I was about 10 years old.
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SPEAKER_09: That's when I joined the um local competition team.
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SPEAKER_09: Oh yeah, and then I joined the um local competition team when I was about ten, and then that's where I met Sean.
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SPEAKER_09: And yeah, from there, dancing, you know.
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SPEAKER_09: Sean asked me to what and boom, here we are.
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SPEAKER_06: Wow, awesome.
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SPEAKER_06: Love it.
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SPEAKER_10: Boom.
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SPEAKER_10: Hey, what's up?
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SPEAKER_10: I'm Sean.
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SPEAKER_10: A little origin story on me.
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SPEAKER_10: I started dancing when I was seven.
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SPEAKER_10: I loved hip hop and tap and musical theater.
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SPEAKER_10: Those are my favorite things growing up.
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SPEAKER_10: And like James said, we we grew up at the same dance studio.
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SPEAKER_10: We'd always go to dance competitions together.
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SPEAKER_10: We were on the same competitive team.
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SPEAKER_10: Uh we went to a couple camp pulses together.
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SPEAKER_10: And living close to LA, we're both live in Marietta, California.
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SPEAKER_10: About two hours out of LA.
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SPEAKER_10: We'd always go to auditions together and all that fun jazz stuff.
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SPEAKER_10: So yeah, that's a little bit about me.
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SPEAKER_08: Awesome.
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SPEAKER_08: How's it going?
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SPEAKER_08: I'm Dawson.
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SPEAKER_08: Um, I'm 19 years old.
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SPEAKER_08: Uh started, I did rec in like kindergarten, just where you drive across the stage in the little car.
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SPEAKER_04: You were that kid.
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SPEAKER_04: Amazing.
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SPEAKER_08: You were the token boy.
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SPEAKER_04: Nothing wrong with that.
9:56
SPEAKER_04: Listen, you gotta start somewhere.
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SPEAKER_08: Start competitive dancing until fourth grade.
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SPEAKER_08: I was planning planning to grow up playing sports, but then I was born with a heart condition, and then around fourth grade is when they were like no more sports, and so my mom asked me if I want to dance like my sisters, and I said I would love to, and I started and then I fell in love with it, and yeah, I kept dancing ever since then and moved to St.
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SPEAKER_08: Louis, danced in St.
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SPEAKER_08: Louis, had another studio, and then came back and was able to dance with him for my senior year.
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SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh awesome.
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SPEAKER_07: What's up?
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SPEAKER_07: I'm Ollie.
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SPEAKER_07: I grew up with these boys, Dawson and Jagger at Infinity Dance.
10:35
SPEAKER_07: I started dancing around, I think it was like I was like nine or ten.
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SPEAKER_07: I was a little, yeah, people some people would say I'm a little I was a little late to dancing, but I don't think so.
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SPEAKER_07: I grew up just loving music.
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SPEAKER_07: I I always freestyled improved around the house before I actually started dance.
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SPEAKER_07: And then I would say, like, what was it, my sophomore year that I moved out to California to San Kimeni, and I joined another studio, Pave.
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SPEAKER_07: I was also on a Hollywood vibe company, and yeah, oh by the way, I'm 17.
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SPEAKER_07: I forgot to say that, but uh I would I would still be in competition right now if I wasn't doing this.
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SPEAKER_07: But so yeah.
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SPEAKER_06: So are you still in high school?
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SPEAKER_07: Yeah, I'm senior right now.
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unknown: Wow.
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SPEAKER_06: And are you like homeschooled right now or I'm doing like an online charter school?
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SPEAKER_07: It's super awesome.
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SPEAKER_07: So it's so that's perfect.
11:31
SPEAKER_06: Cool.
11:32
SPEAKER_06: Wow.
11:33
SPEAKER_06: Okay, so I'm seeing where the connections kind of.
11:36
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, there's like I'm writing it down so I don't get it wrong.
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SPEAKER_05: Yeah, so so okay, so so Sean and James.
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SPEAKER_06: Sean and James danced growing up together in California.
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SPEAKER_06: Jagger, Ollie, and Dawson grew up in Utah.
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SPEAKER_06: Utah.
11:52
SPEAKER_06: Utah.
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SPEAKER_06: Utah.
11:54
SPEAKER_06: Okay.
11:54
SPEAKER_06: And and all connected in Utah originally.
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SPEAKER_11: Yeah, we all we all went to the same dance studio.
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SPEAKER_06: Got it.
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SPEAKER_04: Three boys at one studio.
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SPEAKER_11: There was a fourth, there was a fourth boy who just sadly didn't make the group.
12:06
SPEAKER_04: Oh man.
12:07
SPEAKER_04: No, we didn't make the cut.
12:08
SPEAKER_04: Well, these things happen.
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SPEAKER_04: That's that's the professional world.
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SPEAKER_11: We just need to ask him.
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SPEAKER_11: I love hip.
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SPEAKER_11: I love hip hop.
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SPEAKER_11: We call him hip hop Henry.
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SPEAKER_11: His name's Henry.
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SPEAKER_11: Dancers I've ever met in my entire life.
12:20
SPEAKER_11: Oh wow.
12:21
SPEAKER_04: Shout out to Hip Hop Henry.
12:23
SPEAKER_11: Shout out to Hip Hop Henry.
12:25
SPEAKER_11: And he just dan not dance.
12:27
SPEAKER_11: He's just not a singer, and it's not what he would have wanted.
12:30
SPEAKER_11: So I we just never asked him because it's just not his vibe.
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SPEAKER_04: Okay, so so the I'm getting the picture that you guys were the impetus of forming this group.
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SPEAKER_04: It wasn't that somebody came in from outside and said, Hey, you guys would do this well.
12:43
SPEAKER_04: Like, how did this start?
12:44
SPEAKER_10: John.
12:45
SPEAKER_10: Yeah, so it starts.
12:46
SPEAKER_10: So the origin stories of of this whole boy band lore, it started off back in 2020.
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SPEAKER_10: Uh I met uh our managers, John, Luceros, and Stacey Pyle at High Road Entertainment.
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SPEAKER_10: And they they were they had the seed idea, you know, they were like, we want to start a boy band, and they found me, and that that seed kind of organically grew uh because of this this interesting world of dance that there's not a lot of boys that dance, so I always kept in contact and I always knew of just about everybody I'd ever met, you know?
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SPEAKER_10: So organically from there, James joined the group and Jagger, who I'd met doing some dance jobs.
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SPEAKER_10: Uh so that's kind of how the two worlds collided, and yeah, the the group performed fairly organically.
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SPEAKER_10: I mean, there was no real auditioning process, yeah, no major label involved either.
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SPEAKER_10: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_04: And so y'all are all clearly accomplished dancers and did that, but when did singing come into play for all of you?
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
13:49
SPEAKER_04: Because that's c that's a big deal.
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SPEAKER_11: I feel like I've been, like I mentioned, high school musical and Michael Jackson were huge impacts on my life.
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SPEAKER_11: And I think just loving those singing came not naturally, but it was just like part of the gig, I guess.
14:06
SPEAKER_11: If you were gonna loved high school musical, you had to pretty much sing all the songs and stuff.
14:13
SPEAKER_11: And then when I was around how old was I around eight, Justin Bieber started getting popular, and I was like, I want to be like that guy.
14:22
SPEAKER_11: So then I stopped singing.
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SPEAKER_11: I was never trained or anything, and then when I did when I got to high school, I did musical theater.
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SPEAKER_11: So that's started doing vocal training and all that, but I didn't start taking singing really, really seriously till once I had graduated high school.
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SPEAKER_11: But yeah, I guess it's been singing my whole life.
14:43
SPEAKER_11: It was never really the main focus though.
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SPEAKER_11: Dance was always the focus, and it's really interesting having to flip it, making more of a priority than dancing.
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SPEAKER_09: Yeah.
14:54
SPEAKER_09: Um, I'm kind of similar to Jagger as well.
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SPEAKER_09: I grew up singing around the house and whatnot, like in the grocery store while my mom was like pushing me in the cart and whatnot, but yeah, I didn't really get into singing until I joined this group, which is crazy because I never saw myself being a singer.
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SPEAKER_04: It's it's very what about the rest of you?
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SPEAKER_10: Sean here.
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SPEAKER_10: I had a piano growing up in my house, so that I was always trying to learn how to play the piano, and I I took some lessons growing up, and I was in uh a choir in middle school and uh did drama program in middle school and high school, and I started taking vocal lessons when when I was 14, and I joined the band when I was 15.
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SPEAKER_10: So uh that's that's been my journey.
15:42
SPEAKER_06: Nice.
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SPEAKER_08: For me, uh growing up, seventh and eighth grade, before I hit puberty and got a deep voice, which I remember like always wanting a deep voice, and then I and I was like, oh, maybe I don't want to do it.
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SPEAKER_08: Anyways, so I acquired in seventh and eighth grade, and that was good, and then yeah, voice changed and I didn't really touch singing at all.
16:05
SPEAKER_08: I remember I had a I met a friend in Missouri when I lived out there, and he was a very good singer.
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SPEAKER_08: I just would write songs and be like, he's gonna sing.
16:13
SPEAKER_08: He's gonna I'll just write songs so he can sing.
16:16
SPEAKER_08: Because I never thought like singing was gonna be a thing for me, but then like when I joined this band, it was like, oh no, like you can learn how to sing.
16:25
SPEAKER_04: You're gonna have to learn how to sing.
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SPEAKER_06: Well, yeah, because it seems like that you all kind of, like you said, came together with dance.
16:33
SPEAKER_06: So y'all are like, we already got the dancing part down, okay?
16:37
SPEAKER_06: We already know we can dance.
16:38
SPEAKER_06: Now we gotta figure out like how can we and match each other and and harmonize with each other, which is a whole nother skill in itself to sing as a group versus an individual.
16:52
SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
16:53
SPEAKER_07: Do you guys know?
16:54
SPEAKER_07: Are you guys aware of the convention NRG?
16:56
SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
16:57
SPEAKER_07: I remember taking one of the classes there and you had to sing while you danced.
17:03
SPEAKER_07: Good for them.
17:04
SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
17:05
SPEAKER_07: I remember telling everyone, I was like, I'm never gonna sing in my life, so I don't need to do this.
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SPEAKER_07: I'm not gonna sing, I'm just gonna do the dancing part.
17:14
SPEAKER_07: And then it bit me in the butt because as soon as I joined the band, I I never really opened my mouth and didn't really know I had a voice.
17:24
SPEAKER_07: And then uh I guess you call it an audition process, but they asked me, they were like, Hey, come over, we we just want to see how well you sing and stuff, but we want you, anyways.
17:34
SPEAKER_01: So what did you sing?
17:35
SPEAKER_01: Did you sing happy birthday?
17:36
SPEAKER_01: Like, yeah, what you sing.
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SPEAKER_07: What we really did was we uh Sean just sat me down, we he sat down on piano and kind of was going through my range.
17:45
SPEAKER_07: And he was like, Wow, you got a good range, and yeah, it then we kind of as soon as I moved in, then we started getting into like the Sean would be like, All right, pick a few songs and you can just sing them.
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SPEAKER_07: And yeah, so I didn't really start singing until I got into the band, which is crazy.
18:01
SPEAKER_06: You know what is kind of really inspiring?
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SPEAKER_06: I'm really glad that we like heard how you all got into singing and as and especially Ollie, your last mention of and and you and also like you're young still, only 17.
18:16
SPEAKER_06: Like you had that mentality when whatever how old were you when you took that class at NRG?
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SPEAKER_07: Oh, 15, 16 maybe.
18:22
SPEAKER_06: Oh, that was only like a few years ago.
18:24
SPEAKER_06: So, like you had that mentality then where you're like, I know I'm gonna probably be in entertainment, I know I'm gonna be a professional dancer, whatever you had in your head at 15, but you were so stubborn in a in a sense that like I don't need to sing, I'm not gonna sing.
18:37
SPEAKER_06: And I was exactly like you.
18:40
SPEAKER_06: I said the exact same thing.
18:42
SPEAKER_06: I was like, I'm a fierce dancer, I don't need to know how to sing.
18:45
SPEAKER_06: And now I live in New York City and do musicals.
18:47
SPEAKER_06: Like, hello, I wish I I wish I was not so stubborn when I was young because it bit me in the butt too.
18:54
SPEAKER_06: And that's why, like, it's I had to play catch up my entire career because I didn't sing when I was younger.
19:01
SPEAKER_06: I didn't take chorus in high school because I was like, no, I'm gonna be a dancer.
19:05
SPEAKER_06: Who needs to sing?
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SPEAKER_06: And like, I'm sure there's a lot of dancers out there that have that same mentality, like I did, like you did, like some of you did, which and now you're looking at yourself, looking back, and you're like, wow, I would have never thought I'd be in a boy band right now, and I need to know how to sing.
19:19
SPEAKER_10: That's so true because I remember when we were starting this band, like I was aware of so many incredible dancers, and a lot of the boys like were tone deaf.
19:29
SPEAKER_10: They were either tone deaf or just like nothing came out of their mouth, you know, no style.
19:34
SPEAKER_10: They had so much like style when they're dancing or with their fashion, but then when they open up their mouth, it's like no identity, you know?
19:41
SPEAKER_10: So I would definitely like encourage dancers, like just just be creative and just be inspired to sing and go through, yeah, dabble in other creative endeavors because you need to be well versed in many different things.
19:54
SPEAKER_10: Yeah, don't limit yourself.
19:55
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, it's only gonna get you more places, you know, more jobs.
19:59
SPEAKER_04: Right.
19:59
SPEAKER_04: Exactly right.
20:00
SPEAKER_04: You're so right.
20:01
SPEAKER_04: It's great advice, and it's great to hear, you know, Courtney and I are not we're not young people anymore.
20:06
SPEAKER_04: So it's nice to hear you young people like saying these things that we say as like elder spokespeople in the business, you know, that's somebody somebody made a difference on you, is what I'm saying.
20:17
SPEAKER_04: Like some people that taught you at some point, it got through your heads that you're this age and already saying that to other people and to younger people.
20:24
SPEAKER_04: So kudos to all of your your instructors.
20:27
SPEAKER_06: And with that being said, I want people to know that it's never too late to start singing.
20:32
SPEAKER_06: Like, like as we just heard from all five of you, you all started singing at different points in your career.
20:37
SPEAKER_06: It wasn't like that you were playing double duty and like in dance class and vocal lessons your whole youth.
20:42
SPEAKER_06: Like you weren't.
20:43
SPEAKER_06: You it's it sounds like you the primary focus was I'm gonna be at dance, I'm gonna train in as a dancer, I'm gonna be at these conventions, all of those things.
20:52
SPEAKER_06: And then you kind of dabbled in voice or you did a musical or you eventually started taking lessons, and now look where you're at at in in a boy band.
21:01
SPEAKER_06: So it is possible to start training in your voice later um in life.
21:05
SPEAKER_06: And don't be discouraged if, you know, it takes a little, it takes, you know, it's training.
21:10
SPEAKER_06: Like just as long as it took us to get to be like high quality dancers, it takes a it takes a little bit of time and training to become a high quality singer.
21:18
SPEAKER_08: Totally.
21:19
SPEAKER_08: Exactly.
21:19
SPEAKER_08: Totally.
21:20
SPEAKER_04: Yes.
21:21
SPEAKER_04: I want to hear about first of all, I want to hear about your competition experience, but then I want to get more into what you're doing now and how how competition has affected what you do now and what you want to do in the future.
21:32
SPEAKER_04: So just out of curiosity, can you just tell me all of you what what your favorite part of competition was back in the day and like I don't know, last year for some of you?
21:43
SPEAKER_11: I just loved everything about it.
21:44
SPEAKER_11: I've loved even just before getting to competition, I loved being with my team.
21:51
SPEAKER_11: I just love that dynamic.
21:53
SPEAKER_11: I like have such a special place in my heart for all of them.
21:57
SPEAKER_11: I think there's something really special about.
22:00
SPEAKER_11: Working really, really hard together.
22:02
SPEAKER_11: Like you get to see the best and the worst parts of each other, and then you get to go out and do something really cool for a minute and thirty, not a minute and thirty seconds, three minutes or more, and people like only just get to see that part of it, but you have such a connection with everybody else on the stage, which is just I think really special.
22:20
SPEAKER_11: And it's something I cherish a lot.
22:23
SPEAKER_11: Like I try to keep in contact with my team as much as I can just because I love all of them so much.
22:28
SPEAKER_11: So I think just the team camaraderie and being on stage and getting to perform in front of people was the best part because you really put your all into it if you care enough.
22:39
SPEAKER_11: Like there's some people who just go to show up, but you just it's just I don't know, there's nothing like it competing.
22:47
SPEAKER_09: I loved the community because I consider myself a pretty like shy mellow person.
22:52
SPEAKER_09: Um so it was definitely nice to have like a community that I could lean back on and just it gave me a lot of friends for sure.
23:00
SPEAKER_09: I mean if I if I wasn't a dancer, I don't know if I would be having a lot of friends, so I love the character part.
23:09
SPEAKER_10: Uh that was one of my favorite things.
23:11
SPEAKER_10: I I had a few mime solos.
23:13
SPEAKER_10: I like really okay.
23:15
SPEAKER_01: Everybody does the thing, yeah.
23:17
SPEAKER_01: Aber do you have video footage of this?
23:20
SPEAKER_01: I I would love to see.
23:23
SPEAKER_10: Um the videos are even crazier.
23:26
SPEAKER_01: Wait, which competition accepts mime?
23:29
SPEAKER_01: What was it, like an open or something?
23:30
SPEAKER_10: Like it was it was like hip-hop, but like but the character was a mime.
23:36
SPEAKER_10: Yeah, exactly.
23:37
SPEAKER_10: But like for some reason, every couple years I was a mime.
23:40
SPEAKER_10: You know, makeup or something crazy.
23:44
SPEAKER_10: But yeah, I think my favorite part, at least looking back now, is like the the team building and the character building was a big thing, and like finding my community, that was very important.
23:56
SPEAKER_10: And also like just the uncomfortability of like stepping out on stage.
24:00
SPEAKER_10: Like, I I I just remember like always being like nervous and so competitive.
24:05
SPEAKER_10: Like I was so competitive.
24:07
SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
24:09
SPEAKER_08: My favorite part about competition dancing or just being able to be on that stage with uh my team was just sometimes competition would stress me out because I'd be like, I can't forget any moves, and I'd get in my head a little bit.
24:22
SPEAKER_08: But the dances where there was a big storyline that I could portray, that was my favorite because I I loved making people feel a certain type of way, whether it was like sad or happy.
24:33
SPEAKER_08: I loved being able to portray a story through the moves I was doing, and that was something that I really loved about competition dancing and being able to get on those stages.
24:42
SPEAKER_07: Very nice.
24:43
SPEAKER_07: I'm gonna be honest.
24:44
SPEAKER_07: When I was younger, one of the only reasons why I stayed in dance for a while, and then I fell in love and dance, but the reason why I stayed in dance was because I loved being like that was one of the reasons why I started dance because I was like, oh, I just get to be around girls all the time, that's awesome.
24:59
SPEAKER_07: But then then I really fell in love with dance, and my favorite part of competition was definitely the comp I I guess like yeah, being out on stage, I loved when I did my solos, like sometimes I'd forget my solo and I just improv.
25:13
SPEAKER_07: And improving is my favorite thing to do.
25:16
SPEAKER_07: So like I would just I yeah, I just felt so comfortable like on the stage that I could just improv and I didn't feel like I was like messing up or anything, I just was like dancing, you know?
25:26
SPEAKER_03: So I love that.
25:27
SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
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26:48
SPEAKER_06: That's awesome.
26:49
SPEAKER_06: I mean, you're not the first person to say that you went into dance because you wanted to be surrounded by girls.
26:55
SPEAKER_06: Okay, so just it's a real thing.
26:57
SPEAKER_06: Like, you know, it's it the the ratio of of male to female in the dance room is more female than men.
27:04
SPEAKER_06: And like we were already impressed that there were three male dancers, four male dancers with hip hop Henry at the studio.
27:11
SPEAKER_06: So honorary member of the full circle boys, yeah.
27:16
SPEAKER_06: But yeah, it is it is a really special community, I think.
27:20
SPEAKER_06: It's a very unique space, the competition dance world.
27:23
SPEAKER_06: It's kind of a wild, like a very wild world that people don't even realize exists.
27:28
SPEAKER_06: And like I know some of you are from Utah, and and it is very big in Utah, like dance competition is very big in Utah, as well as California, you know, like it is cutthroat and good.
27:39
SPEAKER_06: It's not that it's just very good.
27:42
SPEAKER_06: Okay, correct.
27:44
SPEAKER_06: Everyone, so just to clarify, and I'm thinking I think this is correct, but if when you guys all competed, did you all compete solos at a point in time in your competition life?
27:54
unknown: Yep.
27:55
SPEAKER_11: Oh yeah.
27:56
SPEAKER_06: What are you like, isn't going on stage as it sounds like y'all love it, especially Jagger loves loves the stage.
28:02
SPEAKER_06: But isn't going out on stage by yourself absolutely terrifying?
28:06
SPEAKER_06: Or did you have no fear?
28:08
SPEAKER_10: I never enjoyed solos, honestly.
28:10
SPEAKER_10: Like personally, I had like eight years of solos and and they were always my least favorite thing to do.
28:16
SPEAKER_10: And it's not because of the choreo or the the idea of the dance.
28:19
SPEAKER_10: I just like I love to dance with others.
28:21
SPEAKER_10: Yes, and I love to be a part of the team.
28:23
SPEAKER_07: I agree.
28:24
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, I try to do that.
28:26
SPEAKER_07: Oh.
28:27
SPEAKER_07: See, I'm the complete opposite because I always felt like if I messed up, because I always did like mess up sometimes, and I could just while like if I was in my solo, I could just improv and it didn't look like a mess up rather than like in a routine.
28:42
SPEAKER_07: If I mess up and I start improving, I'll look so dumb.
28:45
SPEAKER_07: So like that was that was the whole thing.
28:48
SPEAKER_07: But I honestly, yeah, I I I loved solos.
28:52
SPEAKER_11: I I think my opinion on my solos have changed as time has gone on.
28:58
SPEAKER_11: As when I was in it, I loved every second of it.
29:02
SPEAKER_11: I was just like, oh, this is amazing, blah blah blah.
29:05
SPEAKER_11: But now when I dance by myself, uh it just doesn't feel right because I like feel like I need people around me.
29:12
SPEAKER_11: Cause I just I I feed off of energy, and when it's just you up there, it's hard to get energy unless you like I I don't even know how to get it.
29:21
SPEAKER_11: I don't know how I got it in my teens, but I always found a way to have energy on stage.
29:26
SPEAKER_11: But I think back in the day I loved it, but now I don't think I would I think it'd be really tough for me to do a solo.
29:32
SPEAKER_04: Well, and I feel like too, it's hard.
29:34
SPEAKER_04: Y'all, y'all decided to create a group, a team, not a solo artist for each of you.
29:40
SPEAKER_04: And so I think that's really telling.
29:42
SPEAKER_04: You know, we talk about it all the time on the podcast, and I'm sure you know you've heard this before, but like there's so many more jobs out there for ensembles and for backup dancers and for people who do have to work as a team that it almost seems like this the trend of solos at competition, it's like, why?
29:59
SPEAKER_04: That's not gonna there's this is the last time, you know, by the time you're 18, you compete your senior solo.
30:04
SPEAKER_04: That's that might be the very last time you do a solo.
30:07
SPEAKER_08: Yeah, you're on stage alone.
30:09
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, yeah.
30:10
SPEAKER_06: You're rarely on stage alone.
30:12
SPEAKER_07: I do gotta say, I used to be very nervous on messing up with the group, but I feel like this group, like, whenever we perform, like it doesn't it feels like comp like a competition, but it doesn't.
30:23
SPEAKER_07: Like it feels like more of just like an entertainment.
30:25
SPEAKER_07: Like I feel like when I was in like the competition realm, like they would be like, it was very cutthroat, like we need to win, we need to be better than this person.
30:34
SPEAKER_07: But like with this group, it's more like we just need to be ourselves and we need to like show have a performance, you know, entertain people.
30:42
SPEAKER_07: So I it's very different perspective, I feel like.
30:45
SPEAKER_07: So it's very like I don't mess up or I don't feel like I'm gonna mess up ever.
30:49
SPEAKER_07: So yeah.
30:50
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yeah.
30:52
SPEAKER_06: And I was going to to get to actually like ask you and the others that question of like, you know, you're saying that you uh like to do your solos because if you mess up, no one knows.
31:04
SPEAKER_06: And we've always we always say that, you know, if you keep if you mess up, keep going.
31:08
SPEAKER_06: No one knows your choreography.
31:10
SPEAKER_06: It doesn't matter, the judges don't know your choreography, whatever.
31:13
SPEAKER_06: But then I was thinking, like, well, he's in a boy band now that's probably all doing the same choreography.
31:18
SPEAKER_06: So what happens when Ollie messes up in the boy bandography?
31:23
SPEAKER_06: So has that ever happened?
31:24
SPEAKER_06: Have have you guys ever messed up the autography during a performance before?
31:30
SPEAKER_09: I mean, I feel like you made it work, like it looked good though.
31:35
SPEAKER_00: Oh, he's a little support.
31:40
SPEAKER_10: Number, but I would say this this calendar year 2024, we've performed at least 30 or 40 times.
31:49
SPEAKER_10: At least I would say yeah, and that that's um from churches to dance competitions to schools to uh like little festival school things, outlets, uh competition TV shows that never aired.
32:07
SPEAKER_10: All of the above.
32:09
SPEAKER_10: So it's it is yes, we we we've done a lot of different shows, like because I mean comparing it to dance competitions, like if you learn a dance and then you compete it a couple times.
32:20
SPEAKER_10: For us, we learn a dance or we learn we learn a routine, I guess we'll call it that, and then we perform it for like six to eight months right now, as of so far.
32:31
SPEAKER_10: Yeah, and every show, almost every show, something's different.
32:35
SPEAKER_10: Because we do we always do like short interludes, so like we'll do like a minute and a half of a song, and then it'll cut right into the next song.
32:44
SPEAKER_10: So comparing it to dance competitions, we're not up there for two and a half minutes, we're up there for two minutes and we're doing five to ten routines.
32:53
SPEAKER_10: Yeah.
32:53
SPEAKER_06: Right.
32:54
SPEAKER_06: And that requires a stamina, and that is very different than going out and killing it in your two-minute solo and then running off the stage, collapsing, breathing, changing your costume, having a moment to refresh and get back out for the next dance.
33:09
SPEAKER_06: Like it is a very different feeling and world.
33:12
SPEAKER_06: And with that, I have another question because it sounds like since you are all dancers and I'm in shape, doing conventions, doing tons of routines, you're learning all the authy, then you have to now add the layer of singing to it and breath support while you're dancing and singing at the same time.
33:34
SPEAKER_06: That is something because I again I am a not self-taught, I've taken many voice lessons, but like I've been playing catch up with my voice to be on Broadway.
33:43
SPEAKER_06: And when you get into a musical, that is, I think, one of the hardest parts.
33:46
SPEAKER_06: I don't know, Leslie, if you feel the same.
33:48
SPEAKER_06: That like understanding how to to be able to like stamina wise, have enough breath support to still sing the notes you're supposed to hit while you're dancing the ogre fool out in like a long production number or whatever it is, however long it is.
34:01
SPEAKER_06: Like that was a challenge for me.
34:03
SPEAKER_06: I don't know if y'all felt the same when you incorporated singing into your dancing.
34:06
SPEAKER_10: Totally.
34:07
SPEAKER_10: Most definitely.
34:08
SPEAKER_10: Yeah.
34:08
SPEAKER_10: Just for a little back background, when I was growing up in dancing, I had asthma.
34:13
SPEAKER_03: Oh.
34:14
SPEAKER_10: So when I started the group, well, not when I was 14, I'm fully plant-based.
34:19
SPEAKER_10: I'm fully vegan.
34:21
SPEAKER_10: No dairy, no nothing, no meat.
34:23
SPEAKER_10: And from that, I've now don't have any asthma.
34:26
SPEAKER_10: And especially when you're singing, you can't really perform sick.
34:30
SPEAKER_10: You know, we all do a lot of teas.
34:34
SPEAKER_10: We're always eating very clean, and we have to watch out for our bodies all the time.
34:38
SPEAKER_10: And uh my breath support is is so much better than what I remember at like 10 or 11.
34:45
SPEAKER_10: It's crazy.
34:46
SPEAKER_11: Yeah, I I I think there's a while there where we were told that we were gonna perform, but we weren't performing, so I was just doing stuff to be ready for when we were when it was finally gonna happen.
35:00
SPEAKER_11: So I I haven't done it in a couple weeks actually.
35:02
SPEAKER_11: I've been slacking, but I usually jump rope and sing at the same time.
35:09
SPEAKER_11: Like I'll put on our track list and I'll jump rope and sing at the same time.
35:13
SPEAKER_11: I will say though, it's impressive that you can dance and sing Broadway musicals because I feel like pop music is so much easier to sing than musical poppins.
35:24
SPEAKER_11: So I would like even in high school, like there were no good dancers at my high school.
35:30
SPEAKER_11: Let me tell you, when we were doing when we were doing musical theater, like it was the easiest dances on the face of the planet.
35:35
SPEAKER_06: What musicals did you do in high school?
35:38
SPEAKER_11: We did you got West Side Story right there.
35:40
SPEAKER_11: We did Mary Poppins.
35:41
SPEAKER_11: Yeah, we got West Side.
35:42
SPEAKER_11: We did Mary Poppins, West Side Story, and Little Shop of Horrors were the three that I made.
35:47
SPEAKER_04: So Little Shop's very not dance-heavy, not super dancey, but music touches.
35:54
SPEAKER_11: And then but West Side's hard.
35:57
SPEAKER_11: West Side's hard, and I was I was riff because there's no boy dancers, so they're like, we need you to carry the load, Jagger.
36:04
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, guess it's you.
36:06
SPEAKER_01: And you can sing.
36:07
SPEAKER_11: Yeah, exactly.
36:08
SPEAKER_11: So I was that was really tough because like cool, the song Cool is just he's very quiet, but then keeping his tone, but like being angry at the same time, and you're dancing really hard.
36:21
SPEAKER_11: So that's probably the hardest I've ever had to like figure out breath control.
36:25
SPEAKER_11: And then it got me ready for this because it's hard, but it's it's no musical theater.
36:31
SPEAKER_11: Like pop music is comes pretty easy.
36:33
SPEAKER_11: Like right.
36:34
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it's true.
36:35
SPEAKER_04: Well, and I feel like in with pop music too, or the pop whatever performances, like you're not trying to do fuites, you're not trying to do all kinds of crazy stuff, like sometimes on Broadway.
36:45
SPEAKER_04: They're like, do all these aerials, do all these flips, and also sing.
36:48
SPEAKER_04: But a lot of times, you know, you guys aren't gonna do full-on choreography.
36:52
SPEAKER_04: So that probably is a little bit easier on your voice.
36:54
SPEAKER_04: I don't know, y'all would be dancing.
36:56
SPEAKER_04: And and wait, are there fuites?
36:59
SPEAKER_04: Are there also like we dance really hard?
37:03
SPEAKER_11: Like, yeah, people will come up to us and be like, like we did this high school tour in in the spring, and one of the cities, there was another boy band there who are phenomenal singers.
37:15
SPEAKER_11: Their names are one more, they're amazing singers, and they danced a little bit too, but then we went on stage and we're our like our focus is not dance, but like we're really good dancers, like to tune our own more, like we know how to do, and then so we came off stage and their choreographer was like, That was insane.
37:36
SPEAKER_11: Y'all were compared.
37:37
SPEAKER_11: Yeah, they're like, We don't know how you did that.
37:40
SPEAKER_11: They're it was just yeah, so we we always say that we're gonna tone down the dancing, and then we never do because what makes you you, yeah, but also side note where were all the high school boy band tours when I was in high school?
37:55
SPEAKER_04: We didn't get that, and now there's two boy bands touring at the same place.
37:57
SPEAKER_04: Like, what that's cool.
37:59
SPEAKER_11: Oh, that's get us back there.
38:01
SPEAKER_11: You can come next time, yeah.
38:03
SPEAKER_11: Great, yeah.
38:04
SPEAKER_06: Let us know when you come through New York City and we'll be there.
38:07
SPEAKER_07: All right, we also went to um a in the UK there was a dance uh championship.
38:13
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, it was called UDO, and it was oh yeah, you know, UDO?
38:18
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, oh that's so cool.
38:19
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, no, we went there and we performed for the people, and like it was at the end of the whole competition, so everybody's kind of just having fun now.
38:27
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, and it was uh it was so cool because coming off stage people were like, Whoa, you guys are like actual dancers, like they just thought it was an artist, you know.
38:36
SPEAKER_07: And when artists come on, they'll do their little artist dance, you know.
38:39
SPEAKER_07: No shame to them, but like we were like full on like drenched in sweat when we come came off, like and people were like, yo, that was that was dope.
38:48
SPEAKER_07: So it was really it's really cool to see the uh dance community note us.
38:52
SPEAKER_07: No, I mean notice us.
38:53
SPEAKER_10: And yeah, yeah.
38:55
SPEAKER_10: Some of our favorite performances, at least my favorite performances this year, have happened within the dance community.
39:00
SPEAKER_10: Yeah, and uh Hollywood Vibes.
39:03
SPEAKER_11: Yeah, we performed at Hollywood Vibes Nationals both of them.
39:06
SPEAKER_01: Oh cool, I love that.
39:11
SPEAKER_06: Okay, okay.
39:13
SPEAKER_06: Okay, you know what I'll do a phone call.
39:15
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yeah, I'll make some phone calls, okay?
39:18
SPEAKER_06: We're there, we're there, we're there, and then you can come take my jazz class.
39:22
SPEAKER_05: Hooray.
39:26
SPEAKER_05: I'm curious to know who are are you able to share or or are you do y'all choreograph or do you have a choreographer?
39:33
SPEAKER_07: We all choreograph at the moment.
39:35
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, we yeah, cool.
39:37
SPEAKER_10: We haven't had a choreographer in like two plus years.
39:40
SPEAKER_11: But yeah, I was just I I don't know if I'm allowed to say who, but I'll just say it we're this week at the time of recording.
39:48
SPEAKER_11: Tomorrow we're starting rehearsals for two music videos that will be coming out next year, and we have some really cool choreographers doing it.
39:57
SPEAKER_11: And I I'll tell you after like the record button's off, but it's gonna it's gonna be cool.
40:04
SPEAKER_11: Like, I don't know if we're allowed to spoil it yet, so I'm just gonna say yeah, teaser, yeah, teaser.
40:08
SPEAKER_04: Then that way if you have a teaser, want to follow and follow up.
40:12
SPEAKER_04: Um, also speaking of current things, you have a new single out.
40:15
SPEAKER_04: Tell us about that.
40:16
SPEAKER_08: Yes, yeah, call my name.
40:19
SPEAKER_08: No and me and you, which we just dropped two days ago.
40:23
SPEAKER_08: Yes, three days ago.
40:25
SPEAKER_08: It's super good.
40:26
SPEAKER_08: It's kind of like that Daft Punk vibe, a little like pop, you know.
40:30
SPEAKER_08: But so far we've had a great reaction from the fans.
40:34
SPEAKER_08: Uh they're loving it, some are loving it more than our last single we just dropped, too.
40:37
SPEAKER_08: So we got two bangers out right now from Us Five.
40:40
SPEAKER_08: Yeah, so it's pretty awesome.
40:41
SPEAKER_10: Very cool.
40:42
SPEAKER_10: Podcast, we should have the music video out as well.
40:45
SPEAKER_10: So check that out on YouTube or on all streaming platforms at Full Circle Voice.
40:50
SPEAKER_10: Boom.
40:51
SPEAKER_10: Amazing.
40:52
SPEAKER_06: Love.
40:52
SPEAKER_06: I love, love, love that.
40:54
SPEAKER_06: That is so awesome.
40:55
SPEAKER_06: And this is this is so cool to just like hear all about your journey and and so I I'm impressed that y'all are doing some of your own choreography.
41:04
SPEAKER_06: Is there anyone taking do y'all collaborate well together with that?
41:07
SPEAKER_06: Or do you each like take a different section and call it your own and then teach it to one another?
41:12
SPEAKER_06: Or is it like a one person take the lead, or how does it work in the choreographic process?
41:17
SPEAKER_06: Because you have to obviously like you know your dancing styles best and what suits each of you best or what would work best matching the song, and you know the music so well that it like it makes sense to have you choreograph it if that's in your skill set, so like why not?
41:32
SPEAKER_06: I I kind of I'm here for it.
41:34
SPEAKER_11: It the process is always changing over time.
41:38
SPEAKER_11: At the beginning, we did at the beginning of this group of five, we did we released a project called the FC 2.0 The Mixtape, and it was just a bunch of covers, and there was five songs, so each one of us took a song, and like it was just our choreography all the way through.
41:56
SPEAKER_11: And then when it came time to go on tour, we kind of just used we used that choreo, so it was like we didn't really need to collab much.
42:04
SPEAKER_11: We did collab, but we didn't need to do it a whole lot, I guess.
42:08
SPEAKER_11: And then when it came time to call my name, that's when we really started.
42:13
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, we all wanted it to be very equal, and like because we were like, we want like this to be all five of us, you know.
42:20
SPEAKER_07: So we all went in the garage where we just kind of started off beginning to end, and it worked out perfectly.
42:27
SPEAKER_10: Like we all collaborated, collaborated so well together, and we all had the a shared vision of what we wanted Choreo to look like, like references, shout out West Side Story.
42:38
SPEAKER_11: Yeah, Westside was a big inspo for call my name.
42:40
SPEAKER_01: It was oh my god, I love that so theatrical.
42:45
SPEAKER_11: Yeah, yeah.
42:45
SPEAKER_11: If you watch like Sean was saying, if you watch the music video, it looks like once you get told that it's inspired by West Side's story, you're like, that makes so much sense.
42:55
SPEAKER_01: I love that.
42:57
SPEAKER_11: Yeah, but and there's never really any I don't I don't think we've ever thought about choreo.
43:02
SPEAKER_11: There's just days where we're not feeling it, like it's just not coming out.
43:06
SPEAKER_03: It's not flowing.
43:07
SPEAKER_11: Yeah, it's normal.
43:08
SPEAKER_11: Like we try for like 30 to 40 minutes and then we all kind of just look around at each other and we're like today's not the day, yeah.
43:15
SPEAKER_11: Sooner.
43:19
SPEAKER_04: Okay, so that's that's really cool to hear that there's not there's not a lot of fighting, but have there been any sort of growing pains that have just you know, because obviously working as a team like this is is can be challenging sometimes, the different personalities and everything.
43:32
SPEAKER_04: So have there been any growing pains that you want to talk about?
43:35
SPEAKER_08: I mean, there's more try trial and error because the other thing is is we're with each other 24 7 and it's like a brotherly bond.
43:43
SPEAKER_08: Um, so we'd be lying if we'd say we don't get annoyed with each other, yeah, because we definitely do.
43:48
SPEAKER_07: But it's but it's also like what I love about our relationship right now is that it's not like we are all fine right now, and then later on we're gonna explode, is once there's a Comes time for a problem, we sort it out then and there, you know.
44:03
SPEAKER_07: We make sure get out all the kinks and stuff so that we can uh keep on going, you know.
44:08
SPEAKER_08: We gotta have good communication, something we always talk about.
44:11
SPEAKER_08: If you got something to say, you gotta say it.
44:13
SPEAKER_10: Yeah, so it is they should study us on the amount of collaboration we do and the little amount of conflict we have, like it's incredible.
44:23
SPEAKER_11: Yeah, I will say when there is conflict, it feels like the end of the world just because it doesn't it doesn't happen that much.
44:31
SPEAKER_12: So when there is conflict, it's like I'm quitting, I'm going home.
44:37
SPEAKER_11: Um but no, it's a it's a it's definitely been an interesting thing because I grew up, I was obviously older than Dawson and Ollie, so like I wasn't around them as much as at the studio as I was with Shout Out Hip Hop Henry.
44:51
SPEAKER_11: Um but I was it was just interesting, like I would see them here and there, and we're like all fine and dandy, like we were like rows and everything, and then when we moved in together, it was like I've never been around them this much in my entire life, and it was just like a really interesting thing because we know each other at the dance studio and at conventions and stuff, but right how each other acted inside a house, yeah.
45:15
SPEAKER_11: And so it was interesting to like figure out what everybody likes, what annoys somebody, what doesn't, like just like boundaries and stuff like that, and then roommate life, yeah.
45:27
SPEAKER_11: And with these two, that's all I've ever known because I knew Sean, like I knew Sean prior, but like barely, like we'd only like hung out for a week and then that was it.
45:37
SPEAKER_11: When the band first started, me, James and Sean moved in together, and that was a lot more trial and error than me and Dawson and Ollie, just because I knew I knew Dawson and Ollie's personalities, I didn't know these two's personalities, and they didn't know mine.
45:54
SPEAKER_11: So just throwing us in a house in Florida together was very much a lot of trial and error, but uh it's worked out, I think.
46:01
SPEAKER_10: Yeah, yeah, and from James and our James and my perspective, like I I had spoken and I vaguely knew Dawson and Oliver, but the first time I met them, they were moving into my house.
46:14
SPEAKER_04: Welcome.
46:16
SPEAKER_10: It went from like there was no like friend period, it was like brother, yeah.
46:21
SPEAKER_06: Oh, yeah.
46:23
SPEAKER_06: They're skipping the friend period.
46:25
SPEAKER_07: The weirdest part for me, and my mom noticed this too, is that since I loved being around girls so much, that's all I was around, like growing up with girls.
46:34
SPEAKER_07: So it was really, really weird being thrown into a house with four other boys.
46:38
SPEAKER_07: No, yeah, that's true.
46:40
SPEAKER_07: Like, I like some days, like I used uh it doesn't really happen anymore, but some days I'd be like, I just like miss the female interaction.
46:47
SPEAKER_07: Like I like would go crazy in my mind.
46:49
SPEAKER_04: I don't know why, but vibes are just different.
46:53
SPEAKER_07: That's true.
46:54
SPEAKER_07: That's true.
46:54
SPEAKER_11: That's how me and James were when we first um like started talking.
46:59
SPEAKER_11: We just didn't know how to talk to each other.
47:03
SPEAKER_11: Be in the car and it would be complete silent.
47:06
SPEAKER_11: Yeah, because he was on a team of all girls.
47:08
SPEAKER_11: I was on a team of all girls and Henry, and they uh like literally just being in the car with James, we'd be sitting there like, so you like food?
47:20
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
47:22
SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh, that's so cool.
47:24
SPEAKER_00: I love it.
47:25
SPEAKER_06: I love he I love chatting with y'all.
47:26
SPEAKER_06: You guys seem like such a great bunch, and like it seems that brotherly love is there, I feel it.
47:31
SPEAKER_06: It feels like you all like have really great little personalities, and I'm curious to know if where I mean, for some of you, it was only a few years ago when you weren't adults.
47:43
SPEAKER_06: Some of you aren't aren't even officially legal adults yet, but I'm curious to know, like, did you ever think that you would be in a boy band?
47:51
SPEAKER_06: And where did you see yourself being in your career if you weren't in a boy band?
47:55
SPEAKER_06: What did you have your eye on when you were training as a dancer or a competitive dancer?
48:00
SPEAKER_06: Did you want to sing?
48:01
SPEAKER_06: Did you want did you have aspirations?
48:03
SPEAKER_06: I want to be a boy band.
48:05
SPEAKER_06: I know, I know Jagger, you said you want to be Justin Bieber.
48:08
SPEAKER_06: But like, or did you want to become a doctor and then boom, a boy band fell into your lap?
48:13
unknown: Yeah.
48:13
SPEAKER_06: Where would you where do you think you wanted would want to go or had dreams of?
48:17
SPEAKER_11: For me, it was it was constantly changing.
48:20
SPEAKER_11: I went through a phase when I was younger where I wanted to be Justin Bieber.
48:24
SPEAKER_11: And I went through a phase where I wanted to be movie director.
48:29
SPEAKER_11: And then by the time when high school was wrapping up, I was like dead set on I'm gonna be I'm gonna be an actor.
48:37
SPEAKER_11: Even though I like spent all this time with dance and all that, I was like, I'll always have dance, but I'm I want to be an actor.
48:44
SPEAKER_11: That was the that was the plan, that was the goal.
48:46
SPEAKER_11: If I was to go to college, it was gonna be for acting, or if I wasn't gonna go to college, I was gonna move to LA or New York and try and get on a Broadway show or try and book some type of film role out here in California.
49:01
SPEAKER_11: And so I think I probably would have ended up somewhere in New York.
49:07
SPEAKER_11: I feel like that's where I would have ended up was probably more Broadway.
49:11
SPEAKER_11: But when the pandemic happened, I think everybody's plans changed and everything, and as it was going on, I was like, you know what, I'm gonna record a Christmas album.
49:24
SPEAKER_11: And then I released a Christmas album and I was like, I like singing.
49:27
SPEAKER_11: And then that that ev that album came out, and Sean that's when Sean was like, Hey, I see that you're starting to sing.
49:34
SPEAKER_11: What do you think about being in a boy band?
49:36
SPEAKER_11: So I think just everything happens for a reason, and I like maybe one day I'll act, but I even though it wasn't the plan to be in a boy band, I'm very thankful to be here.
49:48
SPEAKER_09: Um when this opportunity was thrown at me, I was like, after I was like, absolutely not, because this is I didn't think like this lifestyle was for me, and especially like getting out and seeing in front of people, I feel like that's such a vulnerable thing to be able to do.
50:05
SPEAKER_09: And yeah, I was in like my last year of dance, I think.
50:10
SPEAKER_09: And that's when Sean was like, Do you want to be in a boy band?
50:13
SPEAKER_09: And I was like, I don't know.
50:15
SPEAKER_04: And did you take him seriously?
50:17
SPEAKER_04: Because to me that question just sounds like, yeah, whatever, I'll be in your boy band, and then it just won't go anywhere.
50:22
SPEAKER_04: But like, how did you know he was serious?
50:24
SPEAKER_04: But this was a serious thing.
50:26
SPEAKER_09: I'm a pretty serious thing.
50:27
SPEAKER_09: Yeah, when he came in, I was like, okay, like this is a this is a serious thing.
50:30
SPEAKER_04: If he's saying it, it's legit.
50:32
SPEAKER_09: Yes.
50:33
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52:01
SPEAKER_09: But yeah, it's just it's wild that I'm in a boy band because never in a million years did I think I was gonna be what would you be doing if you weren't?
52:11
SPEAKER_09: Um yeah, I was on track to be going to college, so I did want to, I still do, but not right now.
52:18
SPEAKER_09: I want to become an orthodontist.
52:20
SPEAKER_09: I want to be a dentist.
52:22
SPEAKER_09: Yeah.
52:22
SPEAKER_04: Love that.
52:23
SPEAKER_04: Well, listen, that's a like you said, it will always be there.
52:25
SPEAKER_04: Boy band is right now.
52:26
SPEAKER_04: Orthodontia, you can have that.
52:29
SPEAKER_06: And you weren't scarred from your time wearing braces as a youth, it sounds like.
52:35
SPEAKER_08: Any comment on that?
52:36
SPEAKER_10: Braces comment?
52:37
SPEAKER_10: No.
52:40
SPEAKER_06: I hated my braces.
52:41
SPEAKER_10: I feel like most of the I'd say like 90% of the time growing up, if you told me you're gonna join a boy band, I would have believed you.
52:49
SPEAKER_10: So I feel like this is this is pretty on par with what I thought was like was something musical, something dance related.
52:56
SPEAKER_10: But I joined I joined the band when I was 15, and so I really haven't had a lot of time to think about like other options.
53:04
SPEAKER_10: So yeah, I don't I don't really have an answer to that.
53:07
SPEAKER_08: I was not planning at all.
53:09
SPEAKER_08: I mean I remember like everything was coming to an end with like my senior year in dance, and I knew I didn't I didn't want to dance after because I just I knew I didn't want to dance behind someone because sometimes dance stresses me out remembering all the moves, like just who I am, like I get so nervous.
53:27
SPEAKER_08: And so I was planning to go on a mission and then after my church, and then once I got back, I was gonna go into cardiology and I was gonna become a cardiologist so I could help people who have like the same heart issues me.
53:41
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
53:43
SPEAKER_08: That was the route, and it was that's what I thought it was gonna be, and then I had a heart checkup before I left, and I had to get heart surgery, and I got asked a week before my heart surgery by Jagger if I wanted to be in the boy band, and it was like everything was happening for a reason, and so I'm gonna.
54:01
SPEAKER_04: And you're like, let me think about that while I'm under anesthesia.
54:04
SPEAKER_04: I'll get back to you.
54:06
SPEAKER_08: That's why I hit above.
54:07
SPEAKER_08: Literal, literal month later, uh a month after, like it had barely it hadn't been a month yet.
54:13
SPEAKER_08: I was out in California living at the house.
54:16
SPEAKER_06: No way! After your surgery?
54:18
SPEAKER_08: Yeah, it was yeah, I healed really quick, which was a blessing.
54:21
SPEAKER_08: Wow, good.
54:23
SPEAKER_08: Two weeks it'll be here if you moved out here.
54:25
SPEAKER_06: Really?
54:26
SPEAKER_06: Oh my gosh, and your um, so your heart condition, is it like you had to have the heart surgery to because of the condition?
54:35
SPEAKER_06: I'm as I'm assuming this is a condition that you have to live with the rest of your life that it wasn't fixed with the surgery.
54:40
SPEAKER_08: Yeah, it was when I was born.
54:42
SPEAKER_08: I got went into a surgery when I was born.
54:44
SPEAKER_08: Well, I have a bad aortic valve, and so they just replaced it and got it all fixed up, and now I can do whatever I want.
54:50
SPEAKER_08: But yeah, it was not in the picture.
54:53
SPEAKER_08: I was like playing because I knew I was gonna get surgery at some point, so I was like, get surgery, and I'm gonna start playing sports, because I'm I'm super competitive with sports, and I was like, I wanted to give that a try.
55:04
SPEAKER_08: But then this happened, then I was like, boom, it's great.
55:06
SPEAKER_08: But I remember when I was joining, like thinking in my head, like thinking about the first time we were gonna perform, I was like so scared, I was like, oh, I'm gonna find myself.
55:14
SPEAKER_08: But now I'm gonna perform, I don't even get nervous.
55:16
SPEAKER_08: It's just it's happening so much, it's just fun.
55:19
SPEAKER_08: Yeah, it's just fun.
55:21
SPEAKER_08: But this is definitely what I was meant to do.
55:23
SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
55:24
SPEAKER_03: Aw.
55:25
SPEAKER_08: Alright.
55:26
SPEAKER_07: So it really started.
55:28
SPEAKER_07: I knew about full circle before I joined.
55:31
SPEAKER_07: Jagger would come to the studio and I would make fun of him so much for being in a boy band.
55:40
SPEAKER_07: I would have like, I just tease him, you know, like I like I wasn't super serious, like I wasn't bullying him, but I just teased him.
55:46
SPEAKER_07: I was like, oh, how's full circle?
55:48
SPEAKER_07: How's full circle, huh?
55:49
SPEAKER_07: And then uh, because I never really understood the like the bigger picture, but then I was like, then I got on a team with Dawson, and me and Dawson were like our best friends.
56:00
SPEAKER_07: We've been best friends since like yeah, for a long time.
56:03
SPEAKER_07: So like, and I as soon as I moved to California and I started at Pave, dancing at Pave, like I think I went to Raddox and that was the only competition I went to.
56:14
SPEAKER_07: But then Dawson hit me up and was like, You want to be in a boy band?
56:17
SPEAKER_07: And from Dawson, like, he I remember he had a talk with me, and he's like, dude, this is like he just had a such a meaningful meaningful talk, and we just like he just kind of explained like what was going on, and it made so much sense in my brain, and he and I know when it comes from Dawson, he's serious and he had he has such a big passion that like I knew it was the right thing.
56:38
SPEAKER_07: So I was like, and it it was so hard because it was literally the middle of the competition here.
56:43
SPEAKER_07: So like I only performed once with my team, I was in a lot of front spots, so like they it was hard to cover me, like what is it to fill me in.
56:53
SPEAKER_07: Like, so I felt so bad, and it's it's hard like moving, like kind of just like going away from your studio because like you don't want them to hate you, you know, because they have to fill in your spot and everything, but it was awesome.
57:07
SPEAKER_07: I I loved it.
57:08
SPEAKER_07: It was perfect thing for me joining this boy band.
57:12
SPEAKER_07: Uh what I would be doing if I wasn't in a boy band.
57:15
SPEAKER_07: I remember talking that year about going being a Beyonce backup dancer.
57:20
SPEAKER_07: That's what I wanted to be so bad because I love Beyonce.
57:23
SPEAKER_07: So I was like the spice girls, you know, like I just loved every every little yeah, anyways.
57:29
SPEAKER_06: I love that.
57:30
SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
57:31
SPEAKER_06: Those are great, these are all great dreams and goals that you had, and now look where your life has has led you into this wonderful band with one another that is thriving and so up and coming, and y'all are gonna be uh stars, you're gonna be performing at like the VMAs and Well in the world needs to be every other boy band.
57:49
SPEAKER_04: It's been a minute, yes, you know what I mean?
57:51
SPEAKER_04: Since there's been this kind of boy band, like there's been a few here and there that are very not much like the ones you saw back in the 90s, but like not to compare you, but you know, y'all are young, you're hip, you have an interesting concept where it's dance-led, and like that is really interesting and fresh, I feel like now.
58:08
SPEAKER_06: So and rewind back to like how we started the conversation and how I said I asked my and this was my teen class at convention, and I was like, you know, who are some of the boy bands?
58:20
SPEAKER_06: And at first they said One Direction and the Jonas brothers, and I was like, totally not.
58:26
SPEAKER_06: I'm like, no, like what about right now?
58:28
SPEAKER_06: Like, who are the boy bands in your life right now?
58:32
SPEAKER_06: And that's when they said full circle.
58:34
SPEAKER_06: So I was like, Oh, okay, let's go.
58:36
SPEAKER_06: Because I was truly trying to rack my brain on what other boy bands are out there right now, you know?
58:41
SPEAKER_06: And like those are they're like old news.
58:44
SPEAKER_06: No offense, Jonas Brothers and One Direction, but we are the only ones.
58:49
SPEAKER_11: We're the yeah, it's super weird because that is cool though that One Direction and the Jonas Brothers have that relevancy still, though, that they're that the team room was like that they were truly racking their brain like there are none, but that's the only ones we can think of.
59:03
SPEAKER_06: You know what I mean?
59:04
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, yeah, we need to get that that thought out of here.
59:08
SPEAKER_07: And we want to attack the dance world as much as possible because that's where we grew up, that's our community.
59:14
SPEAKER_04: Well, and I feel like there were, I mean, and I haven't listened to a ton of your music, but you know, hopefully it is usable for those spaces, and that becomes the pro, you know, and I'm sure you guys know, like, you have to find the appropriate music, you have to make sure you're playing things that are positive and uplifting, and like if that's what you're putting out there, of course that community is gonna embrace you, you know, and that's that's an exciting thing.
59:34
SPEAKER_07: That's what we always talk about.
59:35
SPEAKER_07: I'm like, I always say that like the moment I can say, like, or at least that I feel like we we made it, was when I hear our song playing at a convention, like during like a week or something.
59:48
SPEAKER_07: That will always like if I hear that, I'd be like, I made it!
59:52
SPEAKER_11: I made it a song that's coming out after me and you.
59:59
SPEAKER_11: I remember when we first heard it, we were like, Oh, this is gonna be played at a convention.
1:00:03
SPEAKER_12: Like that exactly where our brain went.
1:00:06
SPEAKER_11: We're like, total, this is gonna be a convention song, and it's gonna be sick.
1:00:10
SPEAKER_06: That's awesome.
1:00:11
SPEAKER_06: I love it.
1:00:13
SPEAKER_06: Well, y'all, this has been such a fun chat.
1:00:15
SPEAKER_06: I've loved getting to know you all, and congrats on all of your success already.
1:00:19
SPEAKER_06: I cannot wait to continue to follow your journey throughout this entertainment world as the up the next up and coming boy band out there.
1:00:27
SPEAKER_06: Y'all get into it, listeners.
1:00:29
SPEAKER_06: Give them a listen on all of the streaming platforms Spotify, Apple Music.
1:00:34
SPEAKER_06: We'll link in the show notes everywhere.
1:00:37
SPEAKER_06: And anything else y'all want to give a shout out and uh tell the world about?
1:00:41
SPEAKER_11: Go stream me and you out now.
1:00:45
SPEAKER_11: Uh the music video is probably out now that when this episode comes out, so go watch the music video, go listen to the acoustic, go listen to the original, happy holidays, yeah, and be happy.
1:00:59
SPEAKER_08: Love always wins.
1:01:03
SPEAKER_04: Excellent.
1:01:04
SPEAKER_06: And I'd love if anyone wants to, optional.
1:01:08
SPEAKER_06: Final thing to lead us out.
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SPEAKER_06: And each of you can do it, or just one of you, whoever wants to say anything.
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SPEAKER_06: Anything you'd like to share to the dance world, any advice you'd like to give to young aspiring dancers, whether whether they want to go into the entertainment community, maybe they're just dancers right now and have dreams of doing what you're doing one day.
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SPEAKER_06: Anything that you want to say back to the dancers that may be listening out there.
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SPEAKER_07: Everyone say one.
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SPEAKER_07: I'll just say, I'll just say take as many opportunities as possible.
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SPEAKER_07: Just that's because it's things will be thrown at you and just try it, you know?
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SPEAKER_08: Don't say just don't just say no, just try it.
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SPEAKER_08: One thing that I wish I would have realized more when I was dancing is that the little moments where you feel like oh, I'm so bad, or like when you messed up, like those don't matter.
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SPEAKER_08: Like you're gonna move on, and literally within a week you're gonna forget about it.
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SPEAKER_10: So just don't be afraid to mess up and keep it like I feel like something that would have been helpful for me to hear uh or to know when I was younger is like perform more.
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SPEAKER_10: Like because I was very like sheltered.
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SPEAKER_10: I was like, I wanted to be performing on the stage, you know?
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SPEAKER_10: Like instead I should have been like performing in practice or just always always turning it on, you know?
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SPEAKER_10: Because now we do it so much that like every time it happens, like I'm super present, and I'm never nervous to go on stage, no matter where we are or what we're doing.
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SPEAKER_10: I'm always present and happy.
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SPEAKER_10: And remember, dance is an art, so you're entertaining, and and if you're not having fun, then nobody else is gonna have fun.
1:02:39
SPEAKER_09: I always say believe in yourself because if you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.
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SPEAKER_09: And also, don't limit yourself because you never know where life is gonna save you.
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SPEAKER_09: Amen.
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SPEAKER_09: Amen, brother.
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SPEAKER_11: For all of the kids that are still competing, I would say enjoy it while you can because it's not gonna be there forever.
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SPEAKER_11: I remember when I was about to leave competition.
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SPEAKER_11: I remember it was the next day after my final competition.
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SPEAKER_11: I I didn't enjoy the moment enough because in my brain I was just like, I'm gonna see all of them tomorrow.
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SPEAKER_11: I'm gonna get to do this again.
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SPEAKER_11: You're not gonna get to do it like that ever again.
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SPEAKER_11: Like you there'll always be other opportunities, you're always gonna get to be a dancer no matter what, but there's nothing quite like the experience you're going through right now.
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SPEAKER_11: So I think just enjoy it, be present with it.
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SPEAKER_11: Because I found myself looking a little too far into the future at times and wasn't present enough.
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SPEAKER_11: And I look back at that, that's like one of the only things I regret in life.
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SPEAKER_11: So don't just live it up.
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