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Bryce Xavier on Queer Artistry, Acting & Making Music His Way | Delulu with Ryan Lu #202 · Delulu with Ryan Lu

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I hate a wrong theory. I hate a wrong loud if you're.
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Gonna start a rumor, it better be true.
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Thank you. Like I want you to gag me.
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I wanna go online and I would be like I'm texting the group.
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Chat and I'm like. Leaking down on me.
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I love that. Honestly, that's I feel like you
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have been giving very rare takes that people have said on camera
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and on Mike unapologetically. And that's why I think you're
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also so successful. Thank you.
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Oh my God. Yeah, I know.
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I'm with it. Thank you.
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Welcome to do Lulu after dark. Hello, Delulu, and welcome back
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to Delulu with Ryan Liu, and a very warm welcome to our lovely,
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very special guest today. He is a singer-songwriter,
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actor, and actually an OG content creator who's been in
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the game for a really long time. And I really want to get into
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that with you because actually we're going to get into it.
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But please welcome extraordinaire performer Bryce
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Xavier. Hello.
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Thank you so much for coming on the show.
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Thank you for having me. OK, Bryce, I want to start by
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telling you a slight story. This is actually how we met.
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It's super cute. Do you remember?
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I I think I do. OK, because you, you and your
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boyfriend were like my saving grace.
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So I went to Vidcon for the first time last year.
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And I was I was walking in. I was walking in with your mom.
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And your mom was like, have you done Vidcon before?
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And I was like, this is my first time.
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And I was scared as fuck. I had never been invited.
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I was like a new content creator or something.
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So I was like, I have no idea what's going on.
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Everyone who's anyone is here. And it was scary.
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And then your mom was like, my son will be so like welcoming to
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you and warm to you. And I was like, okay, anything
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because I don't know a damn soul.
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And I don't know where my manager was at the time.
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And I was like puppy where I was like, okay, I'm going to go in.
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And then she we meet at the Instagram lounge and she
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introduces me to you. And literally to this day, I
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tell everyone this about you and MJ, your boyfriend.
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You both were so incredibly nice and welcoming, which is actually
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not that it should have been a shock to me, but it was a shock
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to me because you're both like so beautiful.
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I thought you're going to be like bitch ass bullies or
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something. But no really immediately so
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welcoming to me. And you really took me in and
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you made me feel welcomed and I was mad scared.
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And one thing about me is I do not get scared.
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I am a very fearless individual. But that environment girl, she's
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something. Influencers event that's that's
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the thing I tell people that all the time.
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Yes, yes, I'm like it's it's that's a different that's a
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different ballpark. Like it's a different vibe.
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Yeah, all yeah, no, I I remember it so well too Yeah and yeah no,
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it was it was so sweet. I forgot you were you were you
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were wearing shades. I think that I actually
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complimented that I like I was. Wearing shades and we were just
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talking about this before the show.
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They're your armor. Yes, got it, got it, got.
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It Why are you protecting yourself right now?
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Everyone shades. Right now, no, I'm protecting
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myself right now, but there's one I woke up with like the
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worst migraine ever this morning.
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Today I know I'm fine. I just when I wake up early, I
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feel like for some reason when it's really bright outside my
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like body is like caught off guard.
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I think I might be like vampire syndrome or something.
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Like that, you belong in like New York.
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Maybe honest you. Spent a lot of time this month
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in New York. True, true, true.
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I did. You did.
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You did. In the DCU, You had already.
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I did it. It's already been done.
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He winks by the way he's wearing shades.
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Oh my God. But you saw the wink.
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I saw the wing I how the. Hell, did you see the wing?
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I felt not armor enough, not protection.
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I gotta get darker. I get darker shades.
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Absolutely no. But you guys were so fucking.
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Yeah, no, it was. No, it was so good to be you.
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Also, this is one thing I'm going to say too as well.
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You also had the best energy and I feel like that's an easy thing
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to bounce off of when you you're also being so open to just
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having a great connection with someone and they're also in that
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same headspace as you also not coming in.
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Like I feel like there's so many people that feel the way that
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you do. So then they assume the way
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other people are going to treat them and then they start being
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that person. Like they start being the bitchy
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person, you know, But no, you like came in and you literally
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said exactly. You told me you're like, I don't
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know what the fuck is going on right now, but like, hi, hi.
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And you're like, hey. You guys are so sweet.
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Like I said, you were so accommodating to me and I really
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appreciate that because like I'm scared as fuck and actually I
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pinpoint it to both of you. Like if I didn't meet you guys
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immediately, probably of getting to Vidcon, I would be shitting
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myself the entire time because I think I found my footing.
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And then we ran into each other throughout the rest of the
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Vidcon out a bunch of different things.
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And you guys were always the fucking best.
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And your two friends were super sweet too.
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Hi. Yes.
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They were so sweet and everything was so cool and like,
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I really do appreciate that. And I honestly, you guys are
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like so much younger than me too.
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So for you to be like, for me to see you both be so confident and
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like own the space and just being in that environment.
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I mean, your mom said that you guys have been doing it for a
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really long time at that time. 10 years this year.
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Since I was 13 years. Yeah.
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I also thought we were the same age.
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No, we're not. Thank you though.
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Way. Let's tea.
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No, I love that I'm turning 29. I turned 29 in August.
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Oh shit. OK, wait, yeah, how's he
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belated? Thank you so much.
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I've got to come. OK, for context, Lulu, we are
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filming this in August. No, we're not.
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We got it. We got to give it to them.
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No, this is live and in action in September.
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We're This is being filmed today on the air date, which is
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September 18. +7 25 and. You just got back from your
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shows that you did in New York. Yes, and they were incredible.
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Yeah, it was. Yeah.
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It was so much fun. Fashion Week is always like my
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favorite time to be in New York in general, and I've been so
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privileged these last two years to have music opportunities
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there because. That a line too.
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Yeah, yeah. I feel like, I think the main
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thing that has been a little bit, I wouldn't say hard for me,
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but I'd say I'd have to have tactical thinking about is that
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because I do so many different things creatively for my
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business and what I do for work. And the fact that music has just
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been like really the main focus these last like 4 1/2 five
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years, that every opportunity that I feel like I used to just
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get like in the habit of doing. I'm more excited when music's
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involved now, you know? So going to Fashion Week every
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year is always phenomenal. It's amazing.
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Like, I love clothes, I love fashion, I love seeing my
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friends. Fashion icon.
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I love your style, notoriously. And I love how you dress
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yourself for events and everything where you're styling
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yourself. Yeah, you look incredible.
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Oh my God. Wait, can I ask you?
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So how was the Velocore show? It was so good.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah it. Wasn't it's a whimsical and
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romantic. So whimsical, so great, like.
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I wish I was there, but I'm so happy that you're able to.
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Yeah, yeah, no, it was such a great time.
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Definitely. Oh, my God, Yeah.
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I mean, that's one of my favorite brands.
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Yeah. So I'm jealous that you're able
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to go. What were all this shows that
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you saw that you loved? Tom Brown always says an amazing
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event, which was really great. Love seeing Tanner Fletcher.
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It's great to see them too as well.
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I saw their exhibit for the first time in last September and
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I got to meet the boys, which was so cool because they they're
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very just into the modern contemporary of it all mixing
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with street wear fashion of New York, which I think is such like
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a very interesting thing that like our generation is like
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brought back like wearing Jean shorts with like a tie, you
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know, and like a like a pillow. I.
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Feel like that's your uniform? It is, it is, it is.
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Am I wrong? No, no, Yeah.
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I love it so much because it's, it's such a funny thing because
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I, I bring that such a part of my fashion because like, I went
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to private school all of my life.
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Like I, I never got to decide what I wore to school, you know,
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So like I always had a uniform every single day for all of the
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years that I went to school. And I feel like some of those
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things that I used to get annoyed about and like, hey,
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like I've just merged with my actual like style kind of now,
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you know, it's like I used to complain about like having to
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wear a tie and now I'm like loving, you know, I pick up my
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ties. I'm like, I think I have like
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5050 different ties that I just like rotate and like switch
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through that. I'm like, wow, like child me
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would think that was the most insufferable thing ever for
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sure. Oh.
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My God, I'm literally going to start adding ties to my
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wardrobe. You should.
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They're so fun. They're.
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So fun. I feel like they elevate an
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outfit. And you know, it's so funny
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because like now too, since people already have decided
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that, they think that it's like an interesting thing on a day
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where I'm so lazy, I'm like, Oh my gosh, like I'll just put a
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random tie over this outfit and people will think I got that
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shit on. You know it's.
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So good. It's so good.
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Absolutely. I mean, honestly, it looks
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really good. And I think with what you're
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saying about the fashion evolution that you've been
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through. So when you were you went to
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private school. So what point were you like, OK,
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now this is where I'm going to start dressing myself, defining
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my own style. And then how did that evolve to
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where we are now? So it had.
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Evolved because of my anger towards my mother and let's
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start there. The reason why is I love my mom
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so much. She's my best friend.
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No, but this is my thing. I feel like so many people have
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like the same like experience of looking back at photos of you as
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a kid that your parents dressed you in and you think why the
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fuck would you put me in that outfit?
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Why would you greet like? That, that is so funny.
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And I got to a point where I was just like, so blindly, like
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trusting, like her. Well, this is the thing.
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It was collaborative, you know? OK, I needed.
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Her to tell me, blame her. I can't, I can't, you know, but
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I did for a time when I started making the switch, you know, I
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was like, why would you do this to me?
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And she was like, well, you would come out and you would
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tell me that you really liked these two things together.
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So like, I told you it looked good.
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And I was like, but you lied. And she was like, well, like, I
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think you look good in anything. And I was like, oh, brother,
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like, come on. Like I'm like, I love you so
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much, mom, But like, that's your job.
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Like you're supposed post to you now.
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Yeah, there's vultures out here. There's people on the Internet.
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I still see tik toks of people pulling up old outfits that I
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had on it and they're like, what the hell was he wearing?
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And I'm like, God, this is going to follow me forever.
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My friends think it's the funniest thing ever to pull up a
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photo of me on Google for 2015 with the worst outfit you could
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imagine. You.
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Were like what, 13? Yes, yes, it's fair.
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But on a red carpet though, did I?
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OK, but you know what? I'll argue.
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It's there forever. It is there forever, but you
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know what? I'll argue like when you look
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like Disney Channel servers in the early 2000s, when they're
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like, they got that thing on too, and they look like so.
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Do you think it'll be camp in 10 years?
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I think it's camp right now. No, really.
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Do you want to know my take on this?
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So talk to it. This year I decided that on
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carpets I am going to look ugly. So I was just talking about walk
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me through that with Brett. OK, So OK, few things.
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First, I promised myself the rest of this year I'm going to
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wear my merch every opportunity I can, every press opportunity,
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every carpet. Well.
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Well. Hey guys, please buy the
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marriage. We have plenty of it.
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Stealing this pillow. It's yours to take.
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It's yours to take. It's been paid for.
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Thank you. Well, so I decided I'm going to
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be ugly on it because you know what?
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You know those Vogue like my career in looks, right?
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Yeah, yeah. I'm so excited for mine in like
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10 years and I want to look back at this point in my career and
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be like, wow, that was camp. Going through your look book,
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Yeah. And I'm like.
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That was a decision I made. I was just on carpet a couple
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weeks ago and Brett had called me right before I walked in.
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I was like, we're going to pull the picture up right here and
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everyone was like in these beautiful gowns and beautiful.
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Gowns. Beautiful gowns, very, very
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beautiful gowns. Talented artists as well.
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And Brett calls me and I was like, Brett, I look like a
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fucking idiot, 'cause I'm in a fucking crop top jersey and like
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I was just, I look dumb and completely misplaced.
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And I was like, I'm not walking this, I'm not walking this.
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And then, but you did it. I did walk.
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It and you did it. I did and we're going to pull up
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that Getty right here. So lovely.
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I did walk it and it was very uncomfortable, but you're.
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Gonna have to show me this photo word.
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I'm gonna show you Oh my God, I posted it in my story.
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I looked bad like honestly, and you can even see in the videos
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like that the people next to me are in like beautiful dresses,
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beautiful gowns, beautiful gowns yes.
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So don't walk a carpet with me. You'll you'll out mug me and I
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can't do that. Right now.
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But you know. What?
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That's iconic though? Like look bad.
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But honestly, I think it's camp, you know, I see where you're.
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Coming from, I see where you're coming from.
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Yeah, 'cause it really is funny. Like we look at outfits from so
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long ago and it's like if someone wore it now, we would be
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like, take it off. But it's iconic that they did it
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back then. So, you know, maybe I haven't
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caught up to myself yet. We're going to, we're actually
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going to pull up some of your gutty from 2015 right here.
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Yeah, it's public domain it. Literally is though.
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Like that's the thing, that's nothing I can do about it.
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That's I literally asked Google the other day, 'cause I had some
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ugly ass pictures on there and I was like, I was like, how kind
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of get this taken down? And then they were like, listen,
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you can't I. Was like called.
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You can't. No, I was like, OK, great, then
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I guess it'll exist forever. I change my name when I start
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posing a little better. But that was that was my take on
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the that's. So funny though, because I also
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think there is some beauty about it too that I.
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I think because there are such wretched photos of me on the
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Internet that that's helped me not be an insecure person.
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I love that. Also, like when when not the
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most satisfying photos get taken of me, like Roy, just add them
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to the pile. Just add it to the, you know,
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it's not like it's like the world's ending moment.
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It's just like. Because then you could always
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show the gun and do better too, you know what I mean?
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I think carpets are my favorite thing about this entire career,
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and I like really, it is OK. I love that.
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Yeah. Wait, what were you?
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No, I love carpets. I love carpets.
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I. Feel like that's that's a rarity
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though, and really a lot of people say that I don't think.
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So you want to know why? So talk to me.
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I think I like carpets because it's just like it is what I
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envision in Hollywood to be is like the glam and the glitz.
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And I love when people are calling my name and I love when
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the lights are flashing and I love that.
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Oh my God, that last carpet. I was telling you about that,
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You know, Brett told me to walk. They I was, I'm marketing my
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show. So I was doing my pose and they
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literally were yelling at me to take my hands off my face.
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And I was like, you'll see it in the video that I took.
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Like I was like, oh. You're like, you don't get it.
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Yeah, I was like, wait, but. This is this is what?
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This is my thing. Yeah, I'm like, I'm promoting
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right now. So I was doing the cover art and
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they were like, they were like, get your hands off your face.
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And I was like, oh, OK. And I was like, do I chop a row
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in this motherfucker? So I was like, do I say
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something? Bless you.
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Thank you. But yeah, no, I took my head off
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So funny. No anytime they tell me like not
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to do something that I no I want the photo of I just ignore it.
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I just. Do it with a smile.
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Like snap, snap. Like snap, snap, snap.
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No, absolutely Wait. OK, what's your favorite thing
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about this entire thing? You've been in the game for so
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long performing. Oh, I.
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Love any of my shows. Yeah, it's which, which also is
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a rarity from like a lot of musicians that I talked to.
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Really. They don't like it, you think?
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No, I think, I think it's just not everyone's number one
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favorite thing. And I think also to like, that's
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like another conversation that I feel like a lot of people I feel
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like are starting to have more is that like, just because
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you're a musician doesn't mean you're a performer and doesn't.
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Think you could be a recording artist?
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Yeah, exactly. And I feel like a lot of
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musicians now are inherently that, you know, and I don't
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think that that's a bad thing, you know, like, because I feel
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like there is there was definitely spaces in my life
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depending on the type of music I was making that the writing
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process in studio sessions was my most favorite medium of them
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all. But now it's just like, I feel
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like it the works not done until I get to perform it in front of
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my like fans and like in front of people.
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You know, I think that's really when you get to temperature
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check the records, you get to really feel that.
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Reaction the live. Feedback absolutely.
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You know, like, I love singing my songs and I love performing
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them and. I love hearing them and we love
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watching it. Wait, what's your least favorite
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thing about this entire thing? My least favorite thing about
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everything? Entertainment.
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Every entertainment because you honestly cover so much of all of
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entertainment, Like what is it? I said it's a huge umbrella.
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Huge umbrella. Yeah, yeah, yeah, my.
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Least favorite acting auditions? Really, acting auditions are my
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least favorite thing ever. It's like nerve wracking.
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No, I don't even know if it's nerve wracking.
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It's just like I don't know. I don't, I don't know what it
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is. Let me let me actually hold on.
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Let me unpack this real quick. Okay, let's unpack it.
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Okay, I think part of it is I never actually feel like it's
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perfect. I think that's.
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The thing, it's like when I, when I walk into the space of
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every other form of work, even when I like book an acting role
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and I'm there on set, I, I'm comfortable with the fact that
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the directors knows what they need and what they want from me
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as an actor. Yeah.
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And whether or not I think it's good or not, if it's good enough
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for the project, I trust those people.
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You know, with an audition, I am the director.
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I'm the director, I'm the videographer.
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I'm doing everything and deciding when.
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Got it. And you don't, you don't even
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necessarily even know what they're kind of like completely
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looking for, you know, there's a lot of pressure.
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Yes. It's like, you know, you're
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getting material, you're getting material, you're getting the
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script, you're getting the bones of it and you are.
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You have to make it work your own own interpretation with it.
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There technically is no right or wrong answer that I know of.
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They might have a right or wrong answer that they don't need me.
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Yeah, exactly. So I think that's the biggest
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part of I leave audition tapes most of the time.
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I feel like that's just what's happening now after Kovid.
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Like Board, thankfully, and also not thankfully because I feel
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like if I was going in person, I would have less pressure about
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it. Yeah, but I probably have to do
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it 100 times. So I have 100 different videos
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and then I sit through all of them.
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So the whole day, a whole day of just looking over them and
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deciding. Which How long are these
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audition videos? I feel like 20-30 minutes.
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Oh my God, you're really in the trenches.
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I'm in the trenches, you are. I'm in the trenches, man.
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Do. You have any audition stories
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that were like any parts that you didn't get anything you felt
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like you were like, you know, I have one I'm so excited to
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share, but I want to know yours. Wait, yeah, no, I do have one.
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You go first. Should I go first?
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Yeah, you go first. OK, well, I auditioned for this
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role and I honestly made it to like the top two of the actors
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who were considered for the role.
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And I was so close to it and I felt like I embodied this
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character and I was super excited about it.
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And actually, it's a sad story because I didn't get it,
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obviously. But it sucks because I was a
18:10
huge fan of the person who got the role and now I feel like I'm
18:14
not. I can't enjoy them anymore.
18:15
Every time I see them I'm like, wow, that should have been me,
18:18
You know what I mean? That's such, I'm I, that's so
18:21
beautiful that you said that because I feel like a lot of
18:24
people like, don't like to like own up to that.
18:26
And when it's a thing that everyone feels, it's like, you
18:29
know, I felt that exact same way with like so many opportunities.
18:32
It's not that you're not happy for that person.
18:34
It's just really hard to compartmentalize the fact that
18:36
that was a dream that I wanted. Definitely.
18:38
That is like a catalyst of the fact that I didn't get it.
18:40
Yeah, absolutely. And it's like a big movie.
18:42
So like I see everywhere and I'm like so heartbroken over it and
18:46
I like. Should be me.
18:47
It should have been me, to be honest, but it's OK.
18:50
No be. Should I name who took the part?
18:51
Oh, my gosh. I didn't sign any.
18:53
That's you. I'm gonna name it.
18:55
Are we bleeping this? Should we bleep this?
18:56
Oh. My gosh, we'll say it to me.
18:58
At least I want to hear you can whisper it to me.
18:59
It was. It was the role of Galinda and
19:03
Wicked and Ariana Grande got it. Sick, sick to my stomach.
19:06
Right. Yeah, I'm devastated.
19:08
And your hair honestly is triggering me.
19:09
Is it really a little bit? Because when I pulled up, I feel
19:12
like you gave me a look like I saw it was like a bit of a I was
19:17
curious why. I just thought my beauty just.
19:20
I mean, it was a little, you know what, we're going to
19:21
address it right now was a little bit both.
19:22
It was a little bit both. I was like stunning, but also I
19:25
was like interesting coming from a Wicked audition.
19:27
Been there, been there. The good the bad, you got to
19:30
have them both to live life. I suppose so.
19:33
I mean, I made peace with it. Okay?
19:36
Wow. That's a That's a hard face to
19:38
avoid. It's a hard face to avoid.
19:40
Hard. Face to.
19:41
Avoid, definitely. And I haven't talked to her in
19:43
so long. Because of that, we follow.
19:45
No. It's sad, Yeah.
19:47
Oh. My gosh.
19:48
To be honest, I feel like I'm Glinda so I don't know why I
19:51
didn't get. The role, Oh my gosh, Jordan, to
19:52
tell you something worse. Tell me I'm scared.
19:54
You have the same vocal coach, you and Ariana.
19:56
Yeah, we. Do Oh my God.
19:58
That's like, I feel like I'm also bringing some of that
20:01
energy. Maybe that's also I triggered
20:02
you. It's I'm pretty triggered and
20:04
maybe maybe you're the the middle man who's going to be
20:07
able to heal my relationship with her.
20:08
Oh my gosh. Yeah.
20:09
Maybe we'll do it through selling.
20:11
OK, we'll do. We'll do define.
20:14
For good. OK, absolutely.
20:17
Which I wasn't casted for either.
20:18
She got it again, so whatever. I guess they wanted to keep
20:21
we're going to switch you out. They wanted to keep the same
20:22
actress and I was like, I guess, like, I mean, I'm available
20:26
y'all? Budget.
20:27
Budget. It wasn't about you.
20:29
It was budget. They were thinking about budget.
20:31
Constraints, you know. That's what I have to tell
20:32
myself. What's your audition story?
20:34
Gosh, I, I can't say the project, but I feel like, OK,
20:38
I'll give an explanation though, give it.
20:40
So it was during quarantine And the The thing is, this project
20:44
didn't end up happening like in general.
20:46
So it it was a sad thing too, because the contract, me and all
20:50
the other people that did get the role, we were locked in.
20:52
So you were casted for this? I was casted for this.
20:55
Big franchise project that was going to be filming outside of
20:59
the states for a like it's it's a legacy like type of like media
21:05
and it was really sad because it was one of my like dream roles.
21:07
Like it was like I and I was just having this.
21:10
Could it still happen? It could still happen, they just
21:14
are not obligated to cast me because the.
21:17
Contract. Term expired.
21:19
For the cast and it. Was really sad because like it
21:21
happened last year when it expired after like 3 1/2 years.
21:25
We all like texted in our group chat and we were like.
21:27
So what that might? Actually be official that we
21:29
don't have this, you know, oh. My God.
21:31
Yeah, it. Was it was the craziest
21:34
experience because every single and like I genuinely think I did
21:37
like 8-9 callbacks like of zoom sessions like during COVID for
21:42
this and like each one I was getting more anxious but more
21:45
excited because like I feel like the further you get through the
21:47
process, yeah, you're like. This is more real this.
21:50
Is mine for sure. Like you get more confident.
21:52
You're like, this is nice that they already know they want me.
21:54
They're just like humoring that other guy 100.
21:55
Percent because. They need to.
21:56
It's someone's. What the wicked casting
21:58
directors did to me. But yes, 100%.
22:02
Yes, yes, yes. But yeah, it, it was, it was a
22:06
really, really heartbreaking thing when they were like, yeah,
22:08
like we're like putting hold on production right now.
22:11
Because I, I think probably since I was like 7:00 or 8:00, I
22:15
was like, I want to play that character.
22:18
I think it's still happening. I had action figures for like.
22:22
The Lohena. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll find
22:25
out. Yeah, it was.
22:26
We'll find out about this project.
22:27
Yeah, yeah. So is it still like it's still
22:28
the project itself still just they didn't recast it or?
22:31
Anything. It just never happened.
22:32
I we've, it's been crickets about it, you know?
22:34
OK. I still think it's happening.
22:35
Yeah. Yeah, you're manifesting that.
22:36
Yeah, I'm I'm manifesting. Well, Bryce?
22:39
Maybe it'll Mighty Morphin to the future one day.
22:42
Oh. Shit.
22:42
Wait. Yeah.
22:45
Wait. What?
22:45
Wait, wait. No, I caught that.
22:48
I caught that. I caught that.
22:49
I caught that. Wait.
22:50
That's so sick. I can totally see that it's
22:52
still happening. It's still happening,
22:54
manifesting we were talking. About we're manifesting right
22:56
now OK, well we're gonna. Love that yes you get dimples to
22:59
do that. Now, anyone could do Lulu.
23:02
OK, fine. Well, Bryce, we got way, way,
23:04
way, way, way, way way ahead of ourselves here.
23:06
And I wanted to start with the Bryce lore.
23:10
So actually, I've known you for, I'm gonna say like a year and a
23:12
half now. I met you last year, but I know
23:14
quite literally nothing about you outside of your music and
23:18
your projects. Yeah.
23:19
So this is our opportunity to get to know Bryce.
23:22
I. Love this.
23:23
So tell us where you're from, where you came from, how you got
23:25
into content creation. Yeah.
23:27
Born in Orange County, got it grew.
23:28
Up in LA. Yes, I've always just claimed LA
23:32
because like, I was going back and forth up with my mom like
23:35
five days a week. All my friends that I made were
23:38
in LAII. Don't really, you know, Orange
23:41
County? Yeah.
23:41
It's very, it's a very interesting place for just like
23:44
a queer person to grow up, a person of color to grow.
23:46
Up. Oh my God.
23:47
Any person that's like outside of the box, I guess.
23:52
And I feel like I'm not even that far outside of it.
23:54
Well, maybe I am, but. Yes.
23:56
Definitely not the box that they want though.
23:57
Exactly, exactly so. And I've been there.
23:59
I never really related the most to it, so any excuse that I
24:03
could get to go with my mom to work, any excuse to find
24:05
something to do in Lai would spend time doing so.
24:10
My mom is the start of kind of all of this, really.
24:14
She. So you forgive her for the
24:16
fashion mishaps? Forgive her for the fashion
24:18
mishaps, but I will give her credit for any success I've ever
24:22
had in. Life, OK, she loves that.
24:24
That's a good fucking trade off, OK?
24:26
That's a good trade off. Thank you, Gigi.
24:28
Love you mommy. So my mother is a brilliant
24:33
musician and songwriter. She had one of like the first
24:36
like all female songwriting teams like out here like in LA
24:40
that was producing for majors. So I always would go to sessions
24:44
with her being around music and at that time I had no mindset
24:48
that I wanted to be a musician or do anything entertainment
24:51
field at all. My mother actually like really
24:52
wanted me to stray away from it, not because she wouldn't support
24:57
me if I wanted to. She just very, very, very
25:01
clearly showed me the good and the bad to it.
25:04
And a lot of the times you see the bad outweighs the good most
25:07
of the time. And I feel like even being in
25:09
this, you know, a decade in, as we both know, but sometimes it
25:13
can seem like that great cod won't go away.
25:17
So I saw struggling musicians. I saw people getting dropped
25:20
from labels. I saw people getting dropped
25:22
from management's. I saw bad record deals, I saw
25:24
bad contracts. I saw all of these things in
25:27
elementary school, in middle. School, I was going to say, as a
25:29
child, you're witnessing people's dreams being crushed.
25:31
These are exactly, exactly. And you know, and I think I also
25:35
have always had a good head on my shoulders with juggling to
25:38
also not be like a nihilist about it because I do have such
25:41
a really great, beautiful, grounded mother who told me this
25:45
isn't also the way that it goes for everyone.
25:48
You know, look at these people that are also in my life that
25:50
are excelling. And balance.
25:51
There. Yeah, exactly.
25:52
You know, The thing is, it's just don't fall for the fact
25:55
that just because it's your dream means that it'll be easy.
25:58
And that's the thing that I've always kind of just like stuck
26:00
with me, you know? So through most of those years,
26:04
I thought I was going to school for architecture.
26:05
Like my private school that I went to was a specific school
26:09
path that my mom got me in that was going to take me to this
26:12
other school that I was going to be able to go study architecture
26:15
at Stanford. Like that was like my plan, not
26:17
even a plan that she had for me, you know?
26:19
When did you decide that like as a child, you study architecture?
26:22
1st grade, 2nd grade or something.
26:24
Yeah. So one of my one of my friends
26:26
that I made, his dad was an architect and I just would spend
26:31
a lot of time with them. And just the beauty of people's
26:37
brains, being able to make these structures that are around us
26:39
all the time, that so many people, I feel like if we really
26:41
tried to put thought and comprehend how that building
26:43
happened and how it's there and how all those people made this a
26:46
thing and how someone like dreamt that up first.
26:49
And that's such a crazy thought to me, as crazy it is of like
26:51
making a song, you know? Yeah.
26:53
Something that just. Yeah, exactly.
26:55
Creative. It is.
26:56
It is really creative and you know, and a lot of numbers, a
27:00
lot, a lot of numbers, you know, so that was the path that I kind
27:04
of always thought I would go around in music and being
27:07
creative was just something that I really did for like leisure,
27:10
because I was like, that's moms job, you know, that's her thing
27:13
that she does, you know, right. So she took a break from music
27:16
for a while, started doing entertaining accounting for like
27:19
a lot of musicians and stuff like that.
27:21
Around the same time that I I started posting online when I
27:24
wasn't supposed to. So my moms one rule, my mom was
27:27
not really strict about many things because I feel like I we
27:31
had a really good trusting relationship.
27:32
Like I wasn't a bad kid, she wasn't an overbearing mother.
27:35
But she did tell me that she wanted me to wait till I think I
27:39
was in high school before I started posting, like on social
27:41
media. You know?
27:42
She was just like, I've seen a lot of people around me put so
27:45
much of themselves on the Internet as a young age and they
27:47
really regret it when they get older.
27:48
Like I'm talking about my bad outfits 10 years later, right?
27:51
Should have listened to. Mom, I mean their camp.
27:53
Thank you. Yes, so she was like, you know,
27:56
I really want you to get into a headspace where you're starting
27:58
to figure out who you are and know exactly what you want to
28:00
put out online. All I heard was blah, blah,
28:02
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
28:03
She's trying to censor me. Shut up, mom.
28:05
Oh, my God. Yeah, I'm to do it.
28:06
Anyways, so I was a bad little kid and I got a Snapchat.
28:10
No, not a Snappy. I got a Snapchat, I got a
28:13
Snapchat, I mean, and then my friends were like, well, if you
28:15
already have Snapchat, you might as well get everything else.
28:17
Like she's going to get equally as mad.
28:19
About every pressure, the one thing.
28:21
I know, I know. Gosh.
28:24
And you listen, and you listen, and now you're here.
28:26
Anything that was worse, but we're better, better or better
28:29
because I'm here. I mean, now you're here.
28:31
Yes, yes, yes. So I've been to Instagram, I
28:34
made musically at that time, I made all, I made a YouTube, all
28:38
of this stuff and I was like, I'm just going to start posting
28:41
for myself. Like truly I wanted to do it
28:43
because I wanted to connect with friends mostly was the reason
28:46
why I was getting the Snapchat. All right, it's like still
28:49
social media. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
28:50
But the rest of them, I was just like, you know, I'm going to
28:52
make this my video diary because I, I always knew that I was
28:58
going to excel whatever I wanted to do.
28:59
Like that was the thing I really always meet myself and I love
29:02
that. And, you know, I knew that I
29:04
wanted to be an architect, but I also knew that I really did have
29:07
a love for writing. Like if that was for other
29:10
people, if that was for myself. It was a songwriting or just
29:12
writing. Both, But, yeah, so I started
29:15
off with like, a lot of poetry I was doing.
29:17
So I had like an account where I was just posting, like, my
29:20
poetry and, like, reading it at lunch.
29:23
Like I was spending lunch by myself at this, like, random
29:25
stairwell at my school. And I was just like with my like
29:27
journal filming myself making these videos and then posting
29:30
them on Instagram, you know, And like back then, I feel like the
29:35
influence of of it all wasn't even like a mindset for most
29:37
people or. Anyone 2014?
29:40
15, yeah. So it wasn't a thing.
29:41
You know what I think? It's like YouTube, YouTube.
29:43
It's like if you're actively posting and even that I so it
29:46
was just like, it was such a far away thing that I was just like,
29:50
oh, no one's gonna see this. I have 0 followers.
29:53
I have like, I have like 4 followers and like one of them's
29:55
like my other account, you know? So I was posting these videos
30:00
and then randomly I was like, you know, I want to like sing
30:03
one of my favorite songs. I think it was like, I think I
30:05
did like love Yourself by Justin Bieber or something.
30:07
Oh my God, it's like. 2015 Yeah yeah, I'm not sure and I posted
30:12
the video and then I didn't post for like a week or two and then
30:16
someone at school came up to me and was like hey like did you
30:19
like see like your like Instagram?
30:21
And I was like. Oh my God, like my mom's gonna
30:23
whoop my ass like she found my Instagram like I was you got out
30:26
in my mom made a post and was like blocked myself.
30:30
Something like that I. Was like, gosh, like I don't
30:32
want to go home. I like went on they're my
30:35
friend's phone, 'cause I think my, my phone was actually dead
30:37
at that time. I remember I couldn't even check
30:39
it and the video had like, it was like, it's so Ellen like it
30:43
was, I always say it was my Ellen story of I was like just
30:46
waiting for her to e-mail me for me.
30:47
She was about to hit you up to be a gas.
30:49
Gosh, I don't know why she didn't.
30:50
I mean, you're here now and this is better than hell.
30:52
Yeah, this. There you go.
30:54
I I don't see Ellen still airing.
30:56
Oh good. The Lulu is rate the show 5
31:00
stars please. But yeah, no, I it had like a
31:05
couple million views, which was like insane for Instagram too.
31:08
It was just like that was like. Especially at that time, I know
31:11
virality wasn't a thing back. That was not a thing.
31:14
And I think I had like 20-30 thousand followers of strangers
31:17
and that was like scary to me. I was like, Oh my gosh.
31:19
I can't even. My mom's gonna.
31:21
Find out. That's all I was thinking.
31:22
All I was thinking is my mom's gonna find out and I'm gonna get
31:24
in trouble. I mean, guys like we, we really
31:28
are so locked. And I hate, I hate making my mom
31:30
mad. And like, I think she also hates
31:32
the doing. This Was she mad?
31:34
No, no, no. OK, you know twice because she
31:36
didn't know immediately. OK, really bad.
31:38
She kept hiding. It I kept this is a secret.
31:40
Oh no months. How does she not know months?
31:43
It was blowing up I. That's the thing.
31:45
It's just like back then, I don't even think now it's like
31:48
you get a viral thing. Everyone's texting you.
31:50
They're like, hey, I saw your video or like someone post your
31:52
video yadda yadda yadda yadda. My mom.
31:55
Wasn't using Instagram and going on there.
31:56
I don't think anyone really was. To search new people.
32:00
You're like they're just posting for themselves.
32:02
You're becoming famous and your mom had no idea.
32:04
No idea that's crazy. I had my first 100,000 followers
32:07
on Instagram and then I had my first like 400,000.
32:09
Followers. Wait, isn't that like 1314?
32:12
You're a 1314. Yeah, that's crazy.
32:14
Yeah. I was just turned 14 at that
32:16
point. That's insane.
32:17
I know. And finally, I was getting to
32:21
the point where I was getting a lot of messages from companies.
32:23
Like, it was like 1 of like, the first ones was Target, like,
32:26
like messaged me. And I was like, I literally
32:29
don't know what any of this means whatsoever.
32:32
Like, this is getting too out of hand.
32:33
Someone's going to stitch to my mom again.
32:35
That's only where my headspace was.
32:37
So I told her this double life you're living and.
32:40
But she literally like if you ask her this like she will laugh
32:43
while telling you that she said the exact same thing.
32:46
She laughed so hard and she was like wow like it took you 3
32:50
months to tell me. Like she was like, I saw the
32:53
video like a week after you posted it and I was like, she
32:56
saw the video before my friend saw it and I was like.
32:59
You both were so sneaky. I was like girl.
33:02
Dare she clocked her ass? No, yeah, but she told me she
33:04
was like, honestly, I've been so mad and silent and was working
33:08
through it that I'm not even mad about it anymore.
33:10
So she she was like, this was a good thing for you.
33:11
And I was like. Oh my God.
33:13
So she worked through it on her own.
33:14
So keep it a fucking secret. No, actually, I'm not telling
33:18
you guys. Don't do that kids.
33:19
I'm sorry, actually talk to. You, I mean, you're kind of
33:21
Hannah Montana, you know, I. Was Hannah Montana?
33:23
You were. You were, yeah.
33:25
And. It works out.
33:27
So literally it's just spiraled into this like huge, beautiful
33:31
and amazing thing from that. And you know, I still love
33:34
architecture. I still dream about.
33:37
I obviously I didn't go to college.
33:39
I started doing online school for high school because I was
33:42
traveling so much. Like I feel like back then paid
33:46
brand deals were you had to go to where the brand was.
33:50
Oh, right. So it's like my first really big
33:52
deal that like paid for me and my like mom's housing for like 2
33:56
years. Uh huh.
33:57
Was like that target deal that I did.
33:58
I was gonna say what? Happened target I had.
34:00
To go live in Minnesota, I had to go live in Minnesota for like
34:02
a month and some change. Like a long ass.
34:04
Deal. I designed a clothing line with
34:06
Target called Art class. What?
34:07
So like I had, yeah, there's like there's the pieces are
34:10
still like you can like search them up and find it.
34:12
Was like a whole can order some I.
34:14
Did but I worked with their design team.
34:16
I got to like actually go through the colors, everything
34:19
textures like sat with them and mind you like again, like I'm
34:22
like not even 15 like doing this.
34:24
Yeah, that's insane. So it was my life really changed
34:27
like inspired in the trajectory so quickly.
34:30
So my mom quit her job doing entertainment accounting and
34:34
started basically managing me full time.
34:36
And now, as you know, my mom owns her own social media and
34:39
music management company that she started and I was her first
34:42
client and we'll always have that together.
34:44
So yeah, we we really have been on this journey together.
34:47
But when I say it started with her, like it really was because
34:50
of her. And that's crazy.
34:52
I love that she really, like, went all in for you too.
34:55
Yeah. Yeah.
34:56
She's like, that's rare. Yeah.
34:57
You know what I mean? It is rare.
34:58
Most of the most of the people around, I mean, to do, most
35:02
queer people around me in general did not have parents
35:05
that would have supported them in the way that my mother
35:08
supported me. And that's why I think we are so
35:10
close, you know? That's amazing because I had a.
35:17
Thank you so much. Bless you, Bryce.
35:20
You know, sometimes you just have to sneeze out your
35:22
appreciation. Yeah, that's the way you express
35:25
it. So that was for you, Gigi.
35:28
But yeah, my parents, I love them so much.
35:32
And like, honestly, right now I feel like they're so, so deeply
35:35
supportive. But like, I was kind of, it was
35:37
kind of awful for me. It was like, you're going to
35:38
school, you're getting a career, you're doing like a big girl
35:41
job, right? And I was like, OK, cuz like, I
35:43
don't know, I've always wanted to do this, but like, I don't
35:46
didn't know how to do it. But I'm really grateful that I
35:48
also like, let myself rebel against that and then go with
35:52
what? You didn't also reinforce those
35:55
idea in your own brain where you're like, no, this isn't
35:57
meant for me. I need to.
35:59
Yeah, yeah. And it's so crazy because it's
36:00
just like the same people. And even, like, I, I'm not, I
36:05
don't talk to my dad's side of the family whatsoever at all.
36:07
And so many of them, when I first was getting started,
36:10
thought that it was like such like a waste of waste of my
36:13
smarts. They would say like waste of my
36:15
talents and academics and all of these things are like the same
36:19
people who have like the conversation like now, like so
36:21
many years later and they're like no job is stable anymore.
36:23
Actually, like we're all, we're all in the same.
36:26
Exactly that we are. You know, because that's the
36:28
thing that people always say when you want to do something
36:30
creative, it's like it's not stability, stability, stability.
36:33
And it's like I like am not here by chance to worry about being
36:38
stable. I'm sorry, you know, and it's
36:40
like. Most creatives aren't concerned
36:42
with that. Yeah, no, I'd rather be happy
36:44
and like unstable with where opportunities and these things
36:48
are coming for me because I think that made me a harder
36:50
worker. It made me a worker that didn't
36:53
just abide by what I thought the system wanted me to do and what
36:56
I was supposed to do. I had to get creative.
36:58
Like you have to get creative. You have to think outside of the
37:00
box. You have to think of yourself
37:01
outside of a business. I have to prioritize myself as a
37:04
creative first, but I also have to think about how is that also
37:07
going to help me through all these other stages of fun things
37:10
that I want to do, you know? And mixing my brain that was so
37:14
academic with my creative brain, I think is the reason why that
37:17
it's just like worked all these years, you know?
37:19
Yeah, and I actually, I should be a lot of that to myself too,
37:21
because then, you know, I tell my parents all the time where
37:23
I'm like, oh, you forced me to go to college.
37:24
I don't do anything with my degree.
37:26
But then they're like, you're able to connect with people the
37:28
way you are because you went to college.
37:29
And that's entirely true. You know what's interesting
37:32
about being a creative? And I feel like I would love to
37:33
get your take on this. I was just in a meeting
37:36
literally right before filming this.
37:38
And in the meeting they were like, let's be real, we just
37:41
want money. We all just want money.
37:43
And I sat there and I was so uncomfortable because I was
37:45
like, I don't want to argue with these people, but I was just
37:47
like, in my head, I was like, I actually, I just want to create.
37:50
Like I really just want to entertain.
37:51
And I was like, I was like trying not to open my mouth and
37:54
say it because I was like, I know it's going to create
37:56
discourse in here if I disagree. So.
37:58
And I, it's funny enough, I told Mina before we took this
38:01
meeting. I was like, you got to keep me
38:02
calm, girl, because I can't go, I can't go off right now.
38:06
But I just want to create like genuinely and like money is so
38:10
welcomed and would be so great, of course, but like, if I can
38:13
create something cool and I can be proud of that and like I
38:16
think that's fulfilling for me too.
38:18
But that being said, I brands hit me up Target.
38:21
Yeah, Yeah. Well, this is the thing.
38:23
It's just like, you know, I am. It's such like a very, very,
38:29
very slippery slope with the money conversation, you know,
38:32
because I feel like The thing is, it's very hard sometimes
38:36
working with people who are not creative themselves, but find
38:39
themselves in creative fields and are only focusing on the
38:43
monetization of that creative, you know, and I have been in so
38:48
many conversations like with just like label deal offers that
38:50
I'd like didn't go with their managements and all these
38:52
things, you know, and those similar conversations do come up
38:54
And honestly, good on you 'cause The thing is, I wouldn't say
38:57
anything because that's not your, that's not your, you're
39:00
not going to change their mind. That's the thing.
39:02
That's what you have to realize when people really do have that
39:04
view and mindset about money, specifically when it's in a
39:06
creative field, it's, you're not going to change their mind.
39:09
You need to just protect your own energy.
39:11
And it, it, it teaches you a lesson that you have the
39:14
decision of which path you go. And.
39:16
I'll be learning right now so. You know, and hey, it's open
39:19
book. It's open book, it's open book.
39:21
So book girl. Yeah.
39:22
So I, I've had that. I've wrestled with those same
39:26
thoughts myself, you know, where it's just like, oh, yeah.
39:29
Like I hope this job makes it so I get to be like, so rich, not
39:35
even for myself, but like to do all of these things for like, my
39:38
friends and like, also start these spaces for like creator
39:41
communities for musicians and stuff.
39:43
You know, like it's most of the thoughts that I've ever had
39:45
about it hasn't even been like about like selfish.
39:47
It's just like, oh, like I want to take these opportunities that
39:50
I get and I just like want to help people and want to do
39:52
things for like my community. That's the reason why I'm in
39:54
this position. But working with people who are
39:57
not creative themselves, they don't get that other attachment
40:00
that you have to it, you know, and I feel like that's where a
40:03
lot of people don't get that ads the creative.
40:04
You really do have to make sure you're steering your own chip
40:07
and your own direction because some people might say they get
40:11
it, but they they won't truly like ever get it if you don't,
40:15
if your brain's not wired that way, you know, and there's some
40:17
people who's. Brains aren't, and I think that
40:19
that's a beautiful, great thing in their own respect because our
40:21
brains will never be wired the same way they are.
40:23
You know, I think it's great to have people on your team that
40:26
are objectively thinking about how to make you successful in
40:29
1°. But I also think that that
40:31
should never over shadow the love of why you're doing it.
40:33
Because then at that point just go get any other fucking job.
40:36
But yeah. Then go make money.
40:38
Right. Yeah, yeah.
40:39
Yeah, 'cause it's never a guarantee, you know?
40:41
Yeah. And it's, it's the beauty of it
40:44
to me. I love that it's, I love that
40:46
it's not a guarantee. I think if I knew everything was
40:49
going to work out for me, like I wouldn't have that hunger inside
40:52
of me to like, be better for myself.
40:53
You know? It's like I'm always trying to
40:55
figure out new ways to like just be like a better creative
40:58
inversion of myself to like make opportunities.
41:01
Like even if it's not fitting an opportunity that I didn't get
41:05
that I'm like, fuck, like if I was better, I should have got
41:07
that. No, it's just like, oh, OK,
41:09
cool. I need to just keep developing
41:11
to a point to where that opportunity is not even like on
41:14
like my like mindset. It's not even in the rearview.
41:16
You know, I love that. And I feel like those like
41:19
feelings have really just like taken me to like where I am now.
41:22
Absolutely it is. Everything's working.
41:24
Out. Yeah, it's just like even my
41:25
like new music team that I started working with like last
41:29
year. It's so funny because my project
41:32
that I put out, which is the reason why they started working
41:34
with me, was like the least streamed thing that I've ever
41:37
put out, like. The one from last year, yeah,
41:39
it's been a good. Game last summer, yeah.
41:41
And it's like, again, it did great.
41:43
It did good. But when you're constantly
41:45
comparing it to things that you've done in the past, when
41:47
you've been in it for so long, it's hard for it to always be.
41:52
You know, honestly, being creative is like a business.
41:54
It's going to be up and down. It's not always going to be
41:56
consistent. And that's something that I
41:57
think everyone needs to like. If you're going to get into a
41:59
creative field, it's going to be like that.
42:01
Yeah, yeah, exactly. And it's just also, again,
42:05
realizing that yourself, because when you're creative, like, it's
42:07
hard to not be like, wow, like, my stuff's not good, you know,
42:10
It's like, like, if it was good, it would work.
42:12
Right. I mean, you would think
42:14
logically, you would think logically, but there's so many
42:16
more factors that go into it and a lot of things are out of your
42:18
hands. I think at the end of the day,
42:20
if you create something that's awesome and you stand by it, you
42:22
feel confident about it, I think that should always just be good
42:24
enough and then we'll let the universe handle the rest.
42:26
Yeah, exactly. And it's like you know that
42:28
project is the reason why I'm working with.
42:30
Some of the doors for you. Best amazing people and music
42:33
yeah the last like year and all of these opportunities that have
42:36
happened to me this year have been because of me keeping my
42:39
head down going with it I went with it you know I I fully
42:43
committed and went with the project and I was like hey you
42:46
know it might not have did good as good as this other thing but
42:50
I'm happy with it I'm happy with it I had a great time creating
42:53
it I'm a better artist now that it's like out and done it's a.
42:55
Great perspective. And then the next release I did
42:57
of course, like did like so great.
42:59
And I was like, see, I was like, imagine if I just would have
43:02
been like sulking, like that's just what.
43:04
You've kept it going, Yeah. You can't let yourself, like,
43:07
stumble backwards. Yeah.
43:08
It's about pushing forward, yeah.
43:09
Would you? Which we both do and I feel like
43:11
that's a good thing that you also should recognize with
43:13
yourself too, you know? Yeah, 'cause like it's, I think
43:15
any of us that are doing this, like you have to do that or we
43:18
would all crash, burn and fall every Tuesday.
43:21
You. Know we have such different
43:22
motivations though, because to be honest, for me, I'm so
43:24
motivated by pettiness and like what I'm doing right now is
43:27
quite literally out of the pettiness.
43:29
And I'm like, oh, you'll see. You will see.
43:32
Hey, you know, find your engine. Find your engine.
43:35
Let your motherfucker find your engine.
43:37
Well, would you say that you're a big risk taker?
43:40
Yeah, easy. Really.
43:42
That's so interesting. I was just on another show, baby
43:46
gay with PJ love that. And I actually talked about
43:49
being very risk aversion. Like I'm not a big risk taker.
43:53
If I don't immediately see like a plausible ROI, I'm not going
43:56
to go after. And this goes to everything like
43:58
not even just business like. Personal life too.
44:00
Personal life like you know, I don't like taking risks I don't
44:02
like going after things so like what makes you feel like you're
44:05
confident about like being willing to make that jump
44:07
because you've always been like that you made that jump when
44:09
you're when you're kid too I. I, I wish it was some internal
44:15
thing that I could say, but like it's really all the external
44:18
shine for my mother. Like I just she, she's lived
44:23
such an amazing life and has no regrets for it, which is why she
44:27
was such a good mother. You know, she raised me so fully
44:30
unbiased because she just truly wanted what was best for me
44:35
because of me. You know, it wasn't because she
44:37
was trying to live through me. It wasn't because she wanted me
44:40
to like have a compliment so that she didn't have time to
44:42
get, you know, no, she just like lived her life to the fullest
44:45
and still does every single day. Like it's like my mom's the type
44:48
of person where like I'll be on phone with her and like she's
44:51
like in Mexico randomly and then like on the next week, like
44:54
she's in Europe and she's like not returning my call back, but
44:56
like on FaceTime with my boyfriend and like they're like
44:58
kicking like she's like shaking her like.
45:00
Drink like on a work trip. Funny and I'm just like wow,
45:02
like I always think and like we always say me and it spread to
45:07
my entire friend group, management team, everyone.
45:10
We're like if Gigi could do it, what are we complaining about?
45:13
Like that's what we think like she did do it.
45:14
Don't get out. She has the same amount of hours
45:16
in a day that anyone. She's on Beyoncé's clock.
45:19
Clearly, clearly, clearly, you know, so I feel like just
45:22
watching my mom like, and things have always worked, worked out
45:26
for her. They've always settled.
45:27
And it wasn't because of chance. It wasn't just because of life.
45:29
It was because she made it happen for herself, because she
45:33
just was like, really free with it.
45:35
And I feel like it was just such a great thing for a specific
45:38
person like me, you know? Yeah, I see that.
45:40
Yeah. I was like, I have these
45:42
conversations with people sometimes where I'm like, you
45:44
know, maybe if I was a different kid like that, I, that wouldn't,
45:48
I wouldn't have taken a lot from that.
45:49
You know, it doesn't mean that I was meant to also be a risk
45:52
taker. You know, I think I just
45:53
happened to I end up with the personality that's very similar
45:57
to my mom and seeing what she did with that was like a really
46:02
good starting rounds for me. You know, we're very different
46:04
in so many ways, but I feel like just trying and trying without
46:09
much thought sometimes. I love it.
46:12
I. Wouldn't strength and sometimes.
46:14
I'm too strategic to do that but like it's honestly working out
46:17
for you and to be honest both of you are probably just really
46:20
good at manifesting. You know what?
46:22
Maybe. I mean it.
46:23
Has to be, you know, I believe that honestly think.
46:25
About the scope of your entire career, like even starting so
46:27
young with social media and then venturing into acting and then
46:31
performing and then singing and then everything that you're
46:34
doing and continuing the social media career.
46:35
Like you have to be good at it, you know?
46:37
Thank you. I mean, you're excellent at
46:39
thank you. No, Congrats.
46:41
Honestly, can I? OK, to be honest, a social media
46:43
career, they're so like the life spans of them are so short.
46:47
Like when I started in 2020, I even acknowledged I was like, I
46:50
think I maybe have a good year to make something happen using
46:53
like whatever attention I have right now.
46:55
And I'm so grateful because I'm about to start my 6th year to
46:59
catch up to your 10. Hell yeah.
47:01
But it's a lot. And it's a lot to keep up with
47:03
and staying relevant through all of it, you know?
47:06
So be grateful for those ugly red carpets that you did.
47:09
Yes, yes, no, I am. I am as much as I like, will
47:13
forever complain about them. I mean fair.
47:17
I am I am really grateful. I am I I also truly do believe
47:21
that like every every loss, every win you get is moving you
47:25
into the direction that you're supposed to be.
47:27
And I think another skill of mine that I really do love about
47:30
myself is like my ability to pivot and just like realize it's
47:34
like even even like. I love a pivot.
47:36
As you know, these last couple of months have been a little
47:38
crazy, even like with like my house, my poor baby house, my
47:42
first baby that I bought a couple years ago, I literally
47:45
woke up into the middle of the night and my ceiling was
47:47
collapsed on the floor because like a random yadda yadda yadda.
47:51
And I was really freaking out about it for like the first
47:53
couple days I was. Just like I would.
47:55
Too, Yes, yes. Well, yes, fair.
47:57
But I feel like I always am really able to just like see it
48:02
as the point where it's like, yeah, this is not the most ideal
48:04
situation that's happening, but it's like, I'm fine.
48:07
Like I'm going to be fine. And it's like me 3 weeks now
48:10
forward from the incident, it's still stressful.
48:12
He's heard me complain about. It I mean you're.
48:15
Fine, but like I'm fine and like I'm okay And it's like, you
48:18
know, I really feel like if you just remind yourself that those
48:22
thoughts I have, I've had anxiety since I was like sick.
48:26
I think I did God diagnose that it's not going to go away.
48:29
And that's not a bad thing. That other voice inside of your
48:32
brain that's telling, you know, this is something you should be
48:33
stressing about. This is scary.
48:35
This is unfamiliar to me. I'm trying to save you.
48:37
I just like that voice is valid. Like I'm like, it is all those
48:40
things you're saying are so true and I understand that, but we're
48:43
going to figure out how to keep moving along with it.
48:46
You kind of have no. Choice but to and that's
48:47
something I'm realizing right now too, like in whatever
48:51
situations I land in it's kind of like I'm at the point where
48:54
it's like what can I control here and if I can't then we'll
48:59
just. The time's going to pass
49:00
anyways. Fuck it, we ball.
49:02
Fuck it, we ball. That's.
49:03
What we could do at that point, the time is going to pass
49:06
anyways. I really do like that because I
49:07
find myself being very impatient for things.
49:09
But to be honest, yes, the time's going to pass.
49:12
It's going to go by, it's going to, it's going to be a season.
49:15
And then when I, it's so funny, I remind myself when I'm in a
49:20
really good era and like a really good time of like the bad
49:23
era that I had, because I feel like it's really easy to just
49:25
like gradually fall out of it and you're not thinking about it
49:29
anymore. And I was just like, you know,
49:31
shit, like a year ago around this time, I was so stressed
49:35
about XY and Z and all those boxes got checked and I'm not
49:39
even thinking about them anymore.
49:40
It's crazy. I want to think about them right
49:42
now. I'm going to recognize the fact
49:44
that you got through. I was in such a different place
49:46
and because of that mindset got me through it to this point.
49:49
And yeah, I've 10 new problems, 10 new.
49:52
Very, very. You'll reflect on those.
49:55
Exactly. And then in a year from now, I'm
49:58
going to be selling out even bigger concert venues.
50:01
And stuff like that. I'm going to be like, damn, I'm
50:03
going to be like, my ceiling was on the floor last year, you
50:07
know? But we fuck it, we bucket, we
50:09
bucket, we ball, and now we're fine, Yeah.
50:12
Exactly. You know what, You're wise
50:13
beyond your years, to be honest, for reflecting on all of that.
50:15
You're way better than me. Oh my God, you're so therapy,
50:19
young therapy, I'm telling you. Well, congratulations on all
50:24
that, especially because like I want to talk about your journey
50:26
as a queer artist. So you actually put in your
50:29
Spotify bio that you're a 110% queer and you just did a run of
50:33
pride shows and then your newest release, I Love You Boy is like
50:37
just very, very, very gay. So I think your queer identity
50:42
as an artist, like and the things that you're doing and
50:44
you're manifesting the shows and you're getting bigger of it.
50:47
How much does it define you as like you make your music?
50:49
How much do you want to integrate?
50:51
It every fiber, every fibre of my being in it.
50:55
Yeah. I I am so grateful for my song
51:00
Romeo that came out in 2021 during a time where I feel like
51:06
there was not a lot of music from young male artists talking
51:10
about same sex love. And very explicitly like not
51:14
making a little slide into window that people are like
51:16
they're going to look on TikTok and on Twitter and they're like,
51:18
they said that about this, you know, it was very just like,
51:22
Nope. Like this is about like a guy
51:24
take it or leave it. You love it or hate it.
51:26
You know, I'm really grateful for that song because I was the
51:30
first song I ever wrote like that.
51:33
And that was only four years ago, you know, And it's like I
51:36
came out publicly 3 months before that record came out.
51:39
But like, I've been like out, I'm pansexual.
51:42
I've been out all my life damn near like my mom and I have
51:47
again, have just had such a close relationship that I never
51:50
was really, I never thought much about my identity.
51:53
I was just like, oh, like, that's just like me, you know,
51:55
like I, I have my ex girlfriends, I have my like ex
51:58
boyfriends, you know, like that's just like Bryce, you
52:00
know, totally. But then when it was like, OK,
52:03
like so many people are like asking these questions online.
52:07
Like there was like there was one video that I saw and it was
52:09
like when MJ and I first were posting together before we said
52:12
that we were dating and it got like 100,000 like likes and like
52:15
almost 1,000,000 views. And like it was this person like
52:17
zooming into photos and stuff. And I was like, damn, I was
52:19
like, these pictures are nosy as shit, you know?
52:22
Oh my God. I was like, fuck.
52:23
I was like, you know, usually I think like it's not anyone's
52:25
business, but I was like, I'm getting irritated because
52:28
they're getting info wrong. Now you.
52:29
Know like let me go right? It's like, actually we didn't
52:32
meet that month. No, I don't know him from this
52:35
friend. Like what are you talking?
52:36
About they're making little theories about your
52:38
relationship. And they were wrong.
52:39
I hate a wrong theory. I hate a wrong loud if you're.
52:42
Gonna start a rumor, it better be true.
52:43
Thank you. Like I want you to gag me.
52:45
I want to go online and I would be like texting the group chat
52:48
and I'm like, cool, you know, they were just being, they were
52:53
just awfully loud and wrong. So I was just like, you know, I
52:57
want to be open about myself. And then MJ was not out to his
53:01
parents around that time at all. And his parents are the exact
53:05
opposite of mine. You could guess.
53:08
So very, very religious, very not pro right queer.
53:16
Yeah, it was a different upbringing.
53:18
Very, very, very, very different upbringing.
53:20
And it's also so crazy because it's just like, you know, it's
53:22
not like we're from insanely different worlds.
53:25
Like he grew up in San Diego. Like that's like not even an
53:27
hour and a half from like my hometown, you know?
53:29
But yeah, yeah. But it's, but it's so different.
53:31
But it's very funny because it's like OC to LA, very different
53:35
vibes, you know? So it just really is crazy how
53:38
close that you could grow up to very different way of, like,
53:43
upbringing when it comes to progressiveness, you know?
53:46
And I feel like that is such a California shelter.
53:48
I, I always forget that that's like a thing that still happens
53:51
here. You know, I'm like, oh, this is
53:52
my blue utopia. Yeah, like every every,
53:55
everyone's rocking with a gaze here.
53:57
You know God, no. Yeah, so when we came out
54:01
publicly, and when I was talking about Romeo being my like, first
54:05
outwardly queer song, that was also his time where he came out
54:08
to his like, entire family, which was a doozy at that time
54:12
too, you know, which also reinforce the force, the idea of
54:15
why these songs are so important.
54:17
They are so important because it shouldn't be shocks that they're
54:20
happening. It shouldn't be shocks that
54:21
people are. Making it shouldn't be
54:22
sensationalized. It's just like you're in a queer
54:24
relationship. Your record, it's like, oh duh,
54:25
we have their songs in 2025 and 2021 and 2022.
54:28
Like it's, it's just. And thankfully, you're making
54:30
them. Yes, exactly.
54:31
So it was really, really grateful for that song because
54:35
it's just given me over the years more and more
54:38
comfortability and courage to just be very candid, which has
54:41
made my songwriting better in my opinion.
54:42
Because when you're constantly thinking like, I shouldn't word
54:46
it this way because I'm going to hurt this group of people or
54:48
this, this people, they're, they're going to be like upset
54:52
by the thing that I'm saying. And it's like, why am I like
54:54
filtering myself? I would just say it for.
54:57
Yeah, it's like what? It's like, what am I doing?
54:59
It's like, no, like I'm not going to do that.
55:01
I don't want those people as fans anyways.
55:03
I don't want those people as listeners.
55:04
I don't want 100%. I don't want you.
55:06
I don't want you. You're not wanted, you know?
55:08
So it's just like you, you get, you get me in my music on stage,
55:15
online. Right here.
55:17
This is Bryce. You love it or you love it.
55:19
And you know, if and I respect you, if you hate it, I still
55:21
respect you. I love it.
55:22
It's not for you. But, you know, I want to make it
55:25
clear where I am, you know, so people are clear with how they
55:28
feel about me. I fucking love that.
55:30
And I honestly, I would like to be like very polarizing too.
55:33
And I love how you're saying it because, like, it's important
55:35
that you stand firm in your identity.
55:37
Yeah. And can I tell you something?
55:38
Please do. Oh, my God.
55:40
I love you, boys. So fucking beautiful.
55:42
Thank you. It is so gorgeous.
55:44
And I that's that's your Best Song.
55:45
Thank you. Honestly, do you really think
55:47
so? I do and also I love you boy
55:49
harder. Thank, yes.
55:52
Yeah, it's been out for a month now.
55:53
I. Know it's it's it's really
55:55
insane that it's out because making that version after.
55:59
I mean, it's so drastically. I know they're so different.
56:02
They're so different, Yeah. And it's, it's a little tease.
56:05
So like what this like albums gonna be like, which I'm like
56:08
really excited about because I, I made harder first.
56:14
No, but like a lot of the influences of harder, like we
56:16
made it, it's a completely different song.
56:18
And then we were just like, you know, these lyrics, the way that
56:20
I wrote the song, it wants to be a ballad and I want to let it be
56:23
that. But then afterwards, once we had
56:25
it out, I worked on harder a bit more and like showed it to like
56:29
my like team, like the NT label. And they're like, you know, we
56:33
really love this too. They were like, we really love
56:35
this. And they're like, it might be
56:36
like insane. We don't know what they both
56:38
people are going to think about this.
56:40
Yeah, they both exist. And again, I think that's why I
56:44
am still able to do what I do after all these years is that
56:48
like I really do think I have like an audience and listening
56:50
group of people that like really just like support me as an
56:53
artist and the music that I do. So I never really feel like too
56:56
pressured to like be in a box or like keep making the same type
56:59
of song, same type of music, same type of stuff.
57:01
And honestly, there's a lot of evolution in your music, too,
57:03
from Romeo to where you are today.
57:04
Yeah, yeah. And everything you have coming
57:06
out. So I want to clear the rumors.
57:09
We can set the record straight right now.
57:10
So I Love You Boy is about your boyfriend, MJ, Correct.
57:13
Can you tell us a story about writing I Love You Boy because
57:15
it's such a deeply personal song to work your story with each
57:18
other. Yeah, it's so beautiful.
57:20
So the day that I wrote I love you, boy, I was just at my like
57:26
main executive producer for the project that works on
57:28
everything, it seems. Drew Pearson.
57:30
I love that man so much. He we start every session just
57:34
like talking mostly and like catching up, even though we see
57:37
each other so many times in a model.
57:39
Oh, he's. Incredible.
57:39
He's working with Ke$ha. Yes, yes, yes.
57:41
I was like, that name's so familiar.
57:43
Yes. Yeah, he just, he just worked on
57:45
Ke$ha's record. Yeah.
57:46
And with rabble, like so, like so many amazing people.
57:49
Yeah. And we, we made so, so, so many
57:53
of these, like 90% of the albums and songs we made together.
57:57
Oh my God, that's incredible. So we start every session just
58:02
like catching up with each other, talking about stuff.
58:04
I feel like we both lead really crazy lives, really funny
58:06
stories. And then that day we just were
58:09
really talking about the fact that like we felt like the
58:11
record needed pretty song. Like we were just like an
58:15
undeniably like pretty song. We were talking about like what
58:18
it should be about, you know? And he was just like, like when
58:20
you think of like it's so fucking cheesy.
58:23
And he was like, when you think like what?
58:24
When you think pretty, when you think beautiful, like what comes
58:26
to mind? I was like my boyfriend, you
58:28
know, I was like, that's like the like the first thought that
58:31
Jen, that's like a. Journal.
58:32
Entry. I know, I know.
58:34
That's why I'm like, it's so cheesy and I was like, no one's
58:36
gonna take me serious but. I, like you, just own.
58:39
It it really. I'm trying.
58:41
I mean, Bryce, that was a bar thing, yeah.
58:47
Yeah, so, so we he was just like, let's stay there.
58:50
And like we stopped. We stopped talking when he when
58:53
we both feel like we got the thing, we stopped talking
58:56
because we're like, let's not overcomplicate it and try to
58:59
change our mind and idea like if it makes sense, let's start
59:01
there. He went over to his Juno,
59:03
started playing with that synth and started playing that like
59:06
intro, like first like couple like chords that you hear.
59:09
And I just was like, oh, like, there's nothing more beautiful
59:13
to me in my life than like the story of my relationship.
59:15
Honestly. Like we, we've went through so
59:19
much to be together. Like his, the Internet, his
59:23
family life during a global pandemic.
59:27
Like there was just so many things that were like against us
59:30
working and we made it happen at 18.
59:34
Like it's like we're like, we're both 23 now.
59:36
It's like our five years is about to grab it.
59:40
And yeah. And it's just like, really,
59:45
really, really, really beautiful.
59:47
And I'm really proud of us just as people that through such core
59:51
stages of our life, we were able to find a way to grow together.
59:53
And that's why I say it in like the second verse, you know, like
59:56
we like, both were able to like, grow and build this foundation
59:59
while we didn't even know who we were.
1:00:01
Like, like, we didn't. I didn't know who I was at 8.
1:00:03
I. Still barely know who I am now
1:00:05
is 20. Three, you shouldn't know who
1:00:06
you are right now. That's the thing, I feel like we
1:00:08
both accept that. I think a lot of people don't
1:00:10
accept that. They always want to feel like
1:00:11
they're in control of their life, like in charge and stuff.
1:00:14
And I really am free with the fact that everything is always
1:00:18
changing. Yeah, same.
1:00:19
I have no idea what the fuck is going.
1:00:20
On. I don't know why I think that's.
1:00:23
I have no idea, no clue. I have nothing else to say
1:00:26
except for that I don't know what's ever going on and what's
1:00:28
happening. Yeah.
1:00:29
And I feel like I think we need to know.
1:00:31
We don't need to know. We don't need to know.
1:00:33
And I think that's like the mystery of life for us.
1:00:35
You know, it's like I also want to experience my days for the
1:00:39
first time instead of just making, instead of trying to
1:00:42
plan ahead and sort of trying to think ahead of like all these
1:00:44
things and overcomplicate it, you know?
1:00:46
So I think I'm really proud. I know I'm really proud of both
1:00:50
of us for being able to do that. And this song was just like my
1:00:53
love letter to that. It's so beautiful and I love
1:00:56
them, my boy. I love that you're throwing it
1:00:57
on like these scenes with these shows and the movies, 'cause
1:01:00
they're honestly like they're synchronized so well.
1:01:03
Yeah. Someone, someone made an edit of
1:01:05
it to heart stopper and I was like oh that's so sick.
1:01:07
So I was like I want to make one.
1:01:08
I love making edits guys. That's that's my guilty
1:01:11
pleasure. I don't have an edits account.
1:01:13
I don't. I make $0.00 from it.
1:01:16
Honestly, it deducts dollars from me because of the amount of
1:01:18
hours I spend on it. And I will find my little gay
1:01:22
cheesy ROM cod. You put a gay ROM cod in front,
1:01:25
you put anyone in. You put shitty TV in front of
1:01:27
me. And I'll watch it.
1:01:28
You're gonna. Eat that shit up.
1:01:28
I will never on the last drop, you know, So I'm it's just like
1:01:34
picture me just like on my stomach, like legs up in bed and
1:01:37
I'm just like editing like heart.
1:01:39
Stuff kicking your feet. Editing Red, white and royal
1:01:42
blue, Young Royals. I'm like all the gay stuff and
1:01:46
I'm like my song, my song. But then I sort of boosting
1:01:49
them. They were getting like hundreds
1:01:50
of thousands of views and it's like now my song streaming and
1:01:54
doing very well, I mean. They need to start syncing the
1:01:56
song. Too.
1:01:58
I know, let's. Make that happen manifesting.
1:01:59
That you know that that is what I'm manifesting because I'm just
1:02:02
like, the people want it. How do people want it?
1:02:05
Like, yeah, the proof is in the pudding.
1:02:06
Proof is literally like music supervisors for Netflix and
1:02:10
Heart stopper go to the numbers don't lie.
1:02:13
I know you guys love your number.
1:02:16
Let them know. Yeah.
1:02:16
Please contact Gigi so we can get something going.
1:02:19
Yes. And honestly, you should.
1:02:22
I don't know. Have you considered this?
1:02:24
I don't know if I've seen it, but have you synced it to your
1:02:27
character on Mind Your Business, AJ?
1:02:29
You know, it didn't happen in Season 1, Season 2, but the
1:02:33
futures. Well, let's talk about your
1:02:35
acting, the future. Yeah.
1:02:37
So you're on mind your business right now.
1:02:39
And the new season just started. Yes.
1:02:41
Yes. So what's that like playing this
1:02:42
character? Obviously, you're so deeply
1:02:44
involved as an artist. Yeah, but you also act.
1:02:47
Yeah, yeah. So it was honestly, this is one
1:02:51
of the easiest rules I've ever done because let me walk you
1:02:53
through it, OK? A few years ago, yes.
1:02:56
I get a call from a casting director that I knew.
1:02:59
And she was like, hey, are you free in an hour?
1:03:02
I want to get you on this Zoom. And I was like, yeah, like, I'm
1:03:06
free. I, in fact, was not free.
1:03:08
Like, I'm a be free. I was like, on a shoot at that.
1:03:11
Point for a video. And I like told them, I was
1:03:13
like, we're going to we're going to move lunch.
1:03:15
I was like, we're going to move lunch, mind you.
1:03:17
Lunch is in an hour it. Was like, it was like 930, ten
1:03:19
in the morning when I had to do this.
1:03:21
I was like, we're going 2-3 hours early, we're moving lunch,
1:03:24
it's breakfast. OK.
1:03:26
I took this meeting and basically I was with the
1:03:29
writers, I was with the director, I was with two of the
1:03:31
producers and they told me they were like, Hey, we wrote this
1:03:34
character around you. They were like, we, we like, we
1:03:38
are fans of like your work and like like TikTok and your music
1:03:41
career and all of this stuff. And we were like, oh, we need,
1:03:44
we want a character that's like Bryce Xavier, you know, and they
1:03:47
were doing these castings and they were just like it.
1:03:50
It's like my little like toot my horn moment.
1:03:52
They were like, why don't we just get Bryce Xavier?
1:03:54
Like they're like, they were like, like.
1:03:56
Why? Don't we just get him instead of
1:03:58
having someone do it? I was like, guys, you should
1:04:00
have just started there. But anyway, I was like these
1:04:02
poor boys. Flashbacks to wicked auditions.
1:04:07
I know. Go ahead.
1:04:09
Our drama. That was us.
1:04:11
Like it's OK, it's forgiven. Now damn, I'm the villain in
1:04:17
other people's story. You're the villain in my story.
1:04:20
This show's actually a confrontation.
1:04:21
Oh, my. Yeah, You've done a lot of
1:04:24
damage to me. Too soon.
1:04:29
Sorry. You know girl.
1:04:31
I'm still dealing with it. Yeah, yeah.
1:04:33
Maybe we'll get through this press roll out for the next
1:04:35
movie, and then I'll start make the jokes.
1:04:36
OK, we'll do it then. Sorry, I get on this call and
1:04:40
they're telling me they're like, hey, this is this is basically
1:04:43
the run of the show. They were like, we want this
1:04:45
like character that's like young helping his family with the
1:04:48
family business, but helping them with the approach of social
1:04:50
media because that is what so many family business are doing
1:04:53
right now. That wasn't a thing 20 years
1:04:55
ago. They didn't have to worry about
1:04:56
Yelp pages and Tik Toks and Instagram and making marketing
1:04:59
campaigns, you know, So like we want to showcase that type of
1:05:02
character because that's probably what's happening for
1:05:05
all of these companies, you know, and they're like, we want
1:05:08
you to do it. So they had me read that day and
1:05:10
then like the next day they were like, you got it.
1:05:12
And I talked with my music team and I was like, hey, I was like,
1:05:15
I don't think this is going to conflict.
1:05:17
Do you know? I was like, it's not like I have
1:05:19
to get like in a really like insane headspace.
1:05:20
Like they want me to be Bryce. Like that's I'm getting paid to
1:05:24
be a different version of myself, you know?
1:05:26
Absolutely. But I feel like.
1:05:28
Within the character and within Aji get to experiment with
1:05:33
things I would do. Like I get to like to approach
1:05:36
things in a way that I actually wouldn't, but maybe like an
1:05:38
alternate timeline Bryce Xavier would, if that.
1:05:41
Makes sense. It's like.
1:05:41
This Me and the Multiverse did it, you know, Right?
1:05:44
Yeah. Me and the DCU.
1:05:45
OK. Yes, and the Duluth Cinematic
1:05:46
Universe. You could be with whoever you
1:05:48
want to be. Yes, exactly.
1:05:50
So I get to have fun with it too.
1:05:52
Like I, I it's like an extension of myself.
1:05:54
It's like a friend that's very close, but not too close, yeah.
1:05:59
You're like, I know him though. But I know him right?
1:06:02
Oh my God are going to be more acting projects.
1:06:04
Hopefully, you know, there's Oh my gosh, let's let's do some
1:06:07
manifesting. Let's do it.
1:06:08
Beast Boy, Beast Boy, Beast Boy is on my list of that.
1:06:11
You're so beast boy. I would love that.
1:06:13
That would be. So cool, I could see you doing
1:06:15
talk to me. I can see you as like a power
1:06:18
Ranger. All my would you be down?
1:06:22
I would be so down. I'm like getting a vibe.
1:06:24
It's like a drum roll for you. Does.
1:06:25
That really give you OK, OK. I got I have a I have a feeling.
1:06:28
If I was one, yeah, I would want to be like the first black red
1:06:32
Ranger in a movie. That would that would be that
1:06:35
would be really sick. You are yours, you know.
1:06:37
Yeah. Yes, yes, I feel like it was
1:06:39
already mine in a life. I feel like.
1:06:45
It was still yours. I feel like it's still.
1:06:47
Yours, you know, Thank you. Yes, we're.
1:06:49
Going to see you doing exactly that.
1:06:51
Yes, this project will manifest. It's going to happen.
1:06:55
It really happened. Congratulations.
1:06:57
Thank you. Yeah, thank you.
1:06:58
I'm actually on my press tour right now.
1:06:59
This is, what, a tour? Yeah.
1:07:01
Oh, my God. So power just was lovely.
1:07:03
Tell us about being the first black Red Ranger.
1:07:07
Such a thrilling experience. I'm sure.
1:07:09
Oh my God, and you were so excellent in it.
1:07:11
I know, did you like my kicks? I loved it.
1:07:13
I just kicked. My drink over, I kicked both of.
1:07:18
Them over that was a that was a good kick.
1:07:20
So Power Rangers casting directors, you saw it right
1:07:23
here. One of Bros hit me up.
1:07:26
Let's circle back. Let's circle back to that.
1:07:29
Let's touch base. Let's.
1:07:31
Touch base. Yes, yes, yes, absolutely.
1:07:33
Hit up Gigi. Yes.
1:07:34
OK. Well, congratulations on all of
1:07:36
that. And honestly, with AJ and
1:07:39
acting, so how would you differentiate from your music?
1:07:41
So you said AJ is essentially still you.
1:07:43
Yeah, yeah. Your music is entirely Bryce
1:07:45
Xavier, though. So when you're doing your
1:07:48
projects like, how are you separating that?
1:07:50
Well, it's so funny because I've really got to be Hannah Montana.
1:07:53
Like my hair gets dyed on the so it's temporary brown dye that I
1:07:56
put in every single day. So like I would show up during
1:08:00
filming most times blonde and then I would leave brunette.
1:08:05
That's. Crazy show up and I'm Bryce and
1:08:06
they transform me and I'm like OK I'm.
1:08:08
Locked. Wait, are they covering her with
1:08:09
tattoos? Yeah, OK.
1:08:10
That's why I noticed. Too Tattoos all got covered up,
1:08:13
hair was changed. I'm playing 16, almost 17 so.
1:08:16
Got it, got it, got it. Bless you, Bryce.
1:08:22
Thank you. That was also for you, Gigi.
1:08:26
Sneeze is for her. And you be sneezing on this
1:08:31
show. Absolutely.
1:08:33
Well, shout out, Gigi, but yeah, I noticed that right now you
1:08:37
were in a pink era. Could we talk about this pink
1:08:39
era? Yes, yes.
1:08:41
What's? Going on over here.
1:08:42
I It's just everything's better in pink.
1:08:45
Everything's better in. Pink.
1:08:46
Yeah, it just really everything's better in pink
1:08:48
yeah, I really agree with that. I.
1:08:50
Can you like extrapolate on that?
1:08:52
What does that mean I. Pink to me and me having pink
1:08:57
hair period in general is just like a guy, like a person.
1:09:01
Like it's so funny because I feel like I'm in such a world of
1:09:06
I'm in a box. I'm in a box when I'm on my
1:09:08
Internet, when I go on my TikTok and I'm posting my videos and
1:09:11
there's 10s of thousands of people that are like down with
1:09:14
what I'm doing. Yeah, yeah.
1:09:15
And then I also remember like, oh, yeah, cool.
1:09:17
But like there's like millions of people that like, don't know
1:09:20
who the hell I am. And I'm just that random boy
1:09:22
with a prank pink Afro, like walking in the grocery store.
1:09:24
Yeah. And I get looks from so many
1:09:26
people like you. Oh, gosh.
1:09:29
It's really, you wouldn't think, you wouldn't think in LA.
1:09:31
You would not think in LA whatsoever.
1:09:33
But it's like, I live in the Valley.
1:09:35
So it's like it's, it is a little bit of like a difference
1:09:38
and even like my neighborhood's really quiet, really chill, very
1:09:41
much like families and stuff like that.
1:09:43
But I'm spotted. I'm I'm spotted.
1:09:48
I mean, you're meant what? You confusing me with you get
1:09:50
what I'm telling you What? I'm just walking.
1:09:52
I don't know any other pink outfit half of a person.
1:09:55
It's Bryce Xavier. It's Bryce Xavier, you know, so
1:09:58
I feel like it, it's won a statement for me.
1:10:01
That's so cool where it's just like, you know, a part of that
1:10:03
brand recognition where it's just like, oh, like I, I love
1:10:06
being seen too. Like like, like as much as
1:10:08
you're like to be seen, There's so many guys that I see that
1:10:10
will give me dirty looks. It's like they're looking at my
1:10:12
hair, look at my outfit, one of my nails painted most times and
1:10:15
I'm like. I never got.
1:10:16
Them like really? No, I'm like I love it.
1:10:19
So that was Gaggy. Clip that, clip that into him.
1:10:27
You heard it, Brad. You heard it, Brad.
1:10:28
Yeah, yeah. No, but it, it like it fuels me.
1:10:32
That's my pettiness. Maybe that's my engine.
1:10:34
It fuels me when someone's being petty to me and it doesn't work
1:10:38
'cause I'm like, Oh no, you thought I love petty.
1:10:40
You thought I was different. No, I'm like, wow, like I really
1:10:44
bothered your day by being me. Being polarizing is the best,
1:10:49
genuinely. It's so good, it's so great.
1:10:51
But yeah, this pink era is about being seen.
1:10:55
It's about being me. It's about my favorite colour.
1:10:58
My favorite colour is pink, and it's always been my favorite
1:11:00
colour. And I, I wouldn't have had the
1:11:03
guts to do this as a kid, you know?
1:11:04
Kids are great on you. Kids are rude, you know.
1:11:06
Oh. Yeah, they're Rudy Patootie.
1:11:07
They're so rude. My biggest fear is kids so.
1:11:10
I don't blame you. Yeah, fuck them kids.
1:11:15
I stand on that. I don't give a fuck.
1:11:16
I hate kids. I mean I I am a big fan of Kidz
1:11:23
Bop season 27. Wow, wow.
1:11:26
You really just pulled that out of here.
1:11:29
You really just did. I love we.
1:11:30
Love kidz bop. Well, specifically 27.
1:11:35
We love Greg Kanoki. Ohhh yeah hi Grant Kanoki.
1:11:40
Hi Mrs. Kanoki. She's so cute, she comments on
1:11:44
his. Episode no So.
1:11:45
Gigi Gigi should comments on this episode.
1:11:48
No, she should, she should, she will.
1:11:49
She also loves Grant and his Mama.
1:11:51
Ohh too. Yeah, great.
1:11:53
Oh my God, this is so fun. We're having a little baby.
1:11:55
Gay alum I. Know like you guys don't even
1:11:59
know what's happening on the other side of the camera.
1:12:02
We got another piece. We got another piece of the
1:12:04
puzzle. Here, there's a lot of lore
1:12:05
going on here. Besties, after we finish this
1:12:07
episode, go watch Grant's on Delulu and then also watch Bryce
1:12:11
and I and Grant on Baby Gay. Please do.
1:12:16
OK, Well, I feel like this pink era that you're in, honestly,
1:12:20
you've been Easter egging it. You've been kind of ambiguous
1:12:22
with it. So I'm just going to ask, is
1:12:23
this tying into your music? Yeah, Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:12:28
I, I think it's like the, it's always been the coolest thing to
1:12:31
me when like an artist like drops like a new hairstyle and
1:12:34
like, you know, shit's coming. Like, you know, shit's coming.
1:12:36
I feel like, like, like in like the early 2000 tens, like a lot
1:12:39
of it would always be a coloured Bob.
1:12:41
I, I don't know, like I don't know what it would be.
1:12:43
Jessie J, Katy Perry, all these girls, It would be like a purple
1:12:45
Bob. They show up.
1:12:46
On a carpet and a new hair colour over 1 gag Yeah over
1:12:50
it's. Coming Jessie about to be like.
1:12:51
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
1:12:53
On the V, it's about to be crazy.
1:12:55
That's what you got to do for the speaker.
1:12:57
That's I'm like I. Love you but but but.
1:13:02
So I was talking to my team and I was like, you know, I was
1:13:04
like, I, we, I've changed my hair so much, like even probably
1:13:09
since you've noted me, I've had so many hairstyles, like I do so
1:13:12
much to my hair. And I've got a lot of errors,
1:13:14
yeah. I have and I was like, you know,
1:13:15
what's my favorite? What does the music sound like?
1:13:18
What does the music feel like? And what do I think it would
1:13:21
look like if someone was listening?
1:13:22
Because, yeah, I feel like it's like my job as an artist and a
1:13:25
creative when I'm putting out this body and piece of work.
1:13:27
Like, I really do want the story to make sense and I want it to
1:13:30
all be cohesive together. And I really, really do just
1:13:33
have so much pride into that. And Pink just was the thing that
1:13:38
just kept settling on, you know, we went over some, like, cover
1:13:41
art shit for, like, some stuff coming.
1:13:45
Yeah, some records. Oh my God.
1:13:48
Yeah. So I have the next single coming
1:13:52
out which is like. Next month, right?
1:13:54
October. Yeah, it's the one.
1:13:55
I'm like, I'm really stoked. Hold on real quick.
1:13:58
I'm gonna, I'm just gonna show you something.
1:14:00
OK? Please show me.
1:14:01
I'm just gonna show you. Well, I'm gonna tell you while
1:14:04
you're pulling that up as a creative, I'm a giant fucking
1:14:07
fan of world building. And what you're describing right
1:14:09
now with the pink, like creating that world, like I love it, like
1:14:12
I want to live in it, You know what I mean?
1:14:14
Yeah, yeah. It is better in pink.
1:14:16
It's. Everything's better in pink.
1:14:18
Everything's better in I. Would say OK I have to show you.
1:14:21
Oh my God, wait. Wait.
1:14:22
OK, you have to. You have to bleep this, though.
1:14:25
You have to bleep what I'm going to say right now.
1:14:26
OK, so the song's called The Lulu.
1:14:29
OK, and then this. Oh my God, I fucking wait.
1:14:34
We're not, we're not showing. I'm.
1:14:35
Gags No no. I fucking love that.
1:14:39
I love that I had a very similar concept for season 2 of Tululu.
1:14:43
We're not doing it anymore. Oh, sorry.
1:14:45
Well, no, you could do it. OK.
1:14:47
I'm giving you. No, you should do it.
1:14:49
OK. You have to.
1:14:49
You have to do it the other way, though.
1:14:50
OK. Got you.
1:14:51
You know what? Got you?
1:14:53
Got you. You know, You know.
1:14:54
Yeah. I am gagged everyone when you
1:14:56
see it when you're. It's coming soon though, yes.
1:14:58
Yes, it's. Coming soon so you'll see it.
1:15:00
It's so sick. What do you see about the
1:15:01
crumbs? You can't.
1:15:03
You can't give them. Can't give it all, can't give
1:15:05
it. All can't give it all.
1:15:06
We need a 5 second intro. We need a four point we.
1:15:09
Need a wow that and that's that's the five second intro
1:15:12
that that is the 5 second intro song.
1:15:14
It is. It is this one that is, that is.
1:15:17
That's we were talking about this right before we started my
1:15:19
team. 'S like arguing about a 5 second
1:15:20
intro for like the last three fucking hours in the group chat.
1:15:24
I had to mute it. I had to mute it because I'm
1:15:26
like, guys, it can't be that serious.
1:15:27
You know what I said we should cut it, but now I'm on board of
1:15:30
keeping it there. You.
1:15:32
Go, that's why you argue with your ANR.
1:15:33
That right? No, I'm literally that's why you
1:15:35
argue with your ANR. You gotta you gotta double down
1:15:38
because double they might not see the vision at 1st.
1:15:40
And now I got you in. Absolutely.
1:15:41
I got you into the I mean, it's your vision.
1:15:42
You know what's best? You know, you're like, no T, no
1:15:46
shade. No T, no shade.
1:15:48
I mean, you're the one in the pink.
1:15:49
Yes, yes, there you go. You gotta do pink.
1:15:52
I'm gonna do pink Wait please no dead ass.
1:15:54
I told my hair person I was like, next time I come in we're
1:15:56
going to do like strawberry blonde highlights, which I
1:15:59
should have done for this. OK, yeah, I love that.
1:16:01
OK. So you're going to go brighter
1:16:02
with that? I definitely am.
1:16:03
Yeah. You know, I wanted to go like
1:16:04
this, like I'm wearing a hat right now.
1:16:06
But yeah, I did my hair like darker for season 2, which is,
1:16:09
which is what you're on right now, which is Dilulu After Dark.
1:16:11
And it's meant to be like darker edgier, like villain era, you
1:16:14
know what I mean? Like, if they want me to be the
1:16:16
bad guy, I will. So here we are.
1:16:20
And we'll, we'll see what's up. I.
1:16:25
Already know he's he's going to be editing this episode.
1:16:29
He's back there. He's fine.
1:16:32
OK, good, good, good, good. OK.
1:16:34
So I love the pink hair. I love this pink era.
1:16:37
We're so excited. So this song is coming in
1:16:39
October. Do we have a date yet?
1:16:40
Can we talk about that or we just know October?
1:16:42
October, October and and some other fun stuff along with.
1:16:45
It, I mean you performed it when you were doing your shows in
1:16:47
September, right? I didn't actually I.
1:16:49
Didn't. Why not?
1:16:50
I was a whole. It was a holdout.
1:16:52
It was a holdout, yeah. But but I do, I do have another
1:16:54
show that's coming up still like in in a week from now actually,
1:16:58
and that'll be the first time performing it live.
1:17:00
Who would debut? Yes, I did perform a lot of like
1:17:05
a good amount of unreleased music though in New York for
1:17:07
those shows though, which was really fun.
1:17:09
I love when I'm deciding on what is or isn't coming out to just
1:17:13
perform it like that's always my go to.
1:17:16
So I'm like, just do it. See the response.
1:17:17
You really, really can tell so quickly.
1:17:19
Like what? What gets people like what
1:17:22
doesn't, you know? Totally.
1:17:23
I'm on the fence about it. It's like I'm fine to cut and
1:17:26
move on, you know? I have so many songs.
1:17:28
I made 121 songs for this album, for this project to cut down to
1:17:34
12. Yeah.
1:17:35
Shut the hell up. Yeah.
1:17:36
In the last year. Oh my God, that's crazy.
1:17:38
It's like killing your darlings. Yeah, I know.
1:17:41
Me and Drew, we, we, we were, we were just having so much.
1:17:44
Fun wait is I love you boy. This is for sure on the project.
1:17:46
Yeah, yeah, 100 percent, 100%. That was that was my favorite
1:17:50
song that Drew Drew and I ever made.
1:17:52
Yeah, it wasn't even, it wasn't even the first song that maybe
1:17:54
it was probably like the 14th, 15th song or something that we
1:17:57
made, but it was our first release together.
1:17:59
Yeah, which has been so great. I love that man.
1:18:01
Oh my God. Yeah.
1:18:02
And that song's so good. I'm happy it has a home because
1:18:04
I I. Want using a home?
1:18:05
No it will. It's not going anywhere.
1:18:08
So I need to tell you this about your last project.
1:18:10
It's been a good game. The rollout that you did for it
1:18:13
was so good. Thank you fucking visually and
1:18:15
artistically. Like I was, by the way, I
1:18:18
witnessed this rollout in real time because I was following
1:18:20
you, of course, and I was watching you do it and I was
1:18:22
like, this is so fucking thank you.
1:18:25
The visuals, everything. You're such a great artist, just
1:18:28
in the world and just in the sense of world building.
1:18:31
Yeah. Thank you.
1:18:32
Yeah. And I want to give you your
1:18:33
credit for that. Thank you.
1:18:34
No, that one was so much fun. Like that concept was like like
1:18:39
4 years in the making. It was like the longest thing
1:18:41
and it wasn't. It wasn't even because I was
1:18:43
like wrestling with the fact if I was going to do it, yeah, I
1:18:45
was just like, when I do it, I know how I want.
1:18:48
I want it to be done right, you know?
1:18:49
So I was like. So I was like looking for my
1:18:51
right director and I, my director found me actually for
1:18:55
all of those videos and stuff like you don't take your track
1:18:57
DM D me and was like, Hey, like I want to work and do something.
1:19:00
And I was like looking at his work.
1:19:02
Roberto, I love you so much. And I was like, you are exact.
1:19:05
That's exactly what I need. That's exactly what I wanted.
1:19:08
You know, we did that first see me like her video, which was
1:19:10
like so beautiful duality of man video afterwards were so great.
1:19:14
And I just I'm really grateful that I have a team that trusts
1:19:17
me to creative direct myself, because there's a lot of teams
1:19:20
that are like, no, just be the artist.
1:19:22
We're going to hire someone and bring someone in, you know, and
1:19:24
that wasn't type of thought and question that I was having with
1:19:27
my team a lot about they were like, you know, maybe we bring
1:19:30
someone in so you don't have to worry about him.
1:19:32
Like, no, like I it's not a worry.
1:19:34
Like I love this. Like I love doing this shit.
1:19:36
Like this is a big part of it to me, you know what I'm saying?
1:19:38
Like it's me being in it and being invested with it, you
1:19:41
know? Yeah, because at the end of the
1:19:42
day, like no one's gonna know the intricacies of my brain.
1:19:45
Yeah. And also it's kind of an art and
1:19:46
it's you and you're front facing.
1:19:48
Yeah, I love that. Yeah, it was.
1:19:49
So much fun. My favorite part of it was the
1:19:51
Fortnite map like that was that was crazy like they like reached
1:19:54
out to me and they were like, hey, someone on the team like
1:19:56
loves the music and like we would love to make Fortnite map
1:19:58
for you and I was like. This is insane.
1:20:00
My game and this is like a thing that like I don't even post
1:20:03
about like I game every single night with my friends like me
1:20:06
and my best friends like totally.
1:20:07
Manifesting on the low low. I, I said that year I couldn't
1:20:13
wait till like I got my like Fortnite map and like skin and
1:20:16
like all this. Maybe you were laughing about it
1:20:17
'cause I was just like, yeah, like I'm sure like maybe I'll
1:20:19
get like a song like in the game or something like that.
1:20:21
And they're like, no, like we would have make this full map
1:20:23
for you. We'll create a bat and put the
1:20:24
whole record inside of it. And I got to sit and work with
1:20:27
the entire team and like develop a map for like eight months of
1:20:32
like exactly what I wanted it to be everything.
1:20:35
Like I, it was really beautiful too, because like I told you
1:20:38
about like me, like wanting to be like an architect.
1:20:40
I like used like some like softwares like designed the map
1:20:43
like how I wanted the buildings and stuff to look for it and
1:20:46
then gave it to the team. So it was really, it was really
1:20:48
collaborative and it was really, really fun to do.
1:20:50
And it was fun because like all of my best friends got to like
1:20:54
be a part of like my roll out. We did like a like it was my
1:20:57
first gaming stream like with like fans playing the like Matt
1:21:00
for the first time and we were listening to the songs all
1:21:03
together on release day. So yeah, that.
1:21:06
That all of that. I love A roll out.
1:21:07
That it was so fun. I love.
1:21:08
That's going to be better though.
1:21:09
I'm super. That's going to be better.
1:21:11
Because like you set the bar really high with.
1:21:13
More physical, tangible things. That was my thing.
1:21:15
I didn't have the last one because it was an EP and it
1:21:17
wasn't going to be an album, but I was like, you know, I like.
1:21:20
I want you're going in I. Want all of these, like I want
1:21:22
these things that people can hold and take with them through
1:21:26
the many stages of their life because I have those for my
1:21:28
favorite artist, you know? Like, I've moved eight different
1:21:31
houses with things as like my favorite artist that I've
1:21:33
carried with me all these years, you know?
1:21:35
It's a lot of merchandise towards like this era.
1:21:37
Yeah, yeah, I'm a big fan of merch.
1:21:38
So guys, if you want to get your delulu merch you can too.
1:21:43
I'm checking on the link in my bio and I'd appreciate if you
1:21:45
would support. Please, I'm buying when I get
1:21:48
home. Thank you.
1:21:48
Oh my God, you don't have to. But right now, please actually
1:21:51
do. You don't have to, but fucking.
1:21:54
Do it. I would never pressure anyone to
1:21:56
buy the merch but Lincoln Bio. Yes.
1:22:00
What kind of suggestion? I wouldn't, I wouldn't stop you.
1:22:03
I would never stop you. OK, Well, Bryce, I, I don't know
1:22:06
how to phrase this question because I do have it, but I want
1:22:09
to say lottery music. I don't even want to say your
1:22:11
lottery music is queer coded because it's just you and it's
1:22:14
you telling your truth and your story, right?
1:22:17
But now when you have your queer music and you're doing the Pride
1:22:20
shows, would you say the Pride shows are like your favorite
1:22:22
ones? Because I think the energy there
1:22:23
is like incomparable, just being in the audience.
1:22:25
By the way, I've never performed the Pride.
1:22:26
Show. Yeah.
1:22:26
No, no, no. I.
1:22:29
You're like, fuck them. No, no.
1:22:30
No, no, no, no. You know, it just got so gagged
1:22:34
in terror. He said he was going to do it,
1:22:36
guys, I'm telling you, he warned us.
1:22:39
And I've been thinking of the guts, but I should have known.
1:22:41
Tululu Tulu. No, no.
1:22:45
And This is why you don't challenge gay people.
1:22:48
This is that was that was literally your last fun
1:22:50
straight. You're welcome.
1:22:52
You're welcome. Tululu.
1:22:57
Wow. Bryce, can you?
1:22:58
Say, why would you call me that? He asked me to be on this show
1:23:01
and that's what I get it called. That's actually why we asked you
1:23:04
to be on the show. He was like, you're doing too
1:23:07
good humbles. Honestly, I needed been there.
1:23:13
No, I love, I love it. I my my reasoning was because I
1:23:16
think they were my favorite shows, not even because they
1:23:20
were pride shows. I think it was because they were
1:23:23
shows that like I just have wanted to do like like if that
1:23:27
makes sense. Like the shows that were on my
1:23:29
main list wasn't this? Your first we hope ride.
1:23:31
Yes, Oh my God, Congrats it. Was my first time going to We
1:23:34
Hope ride and I got to like perform.
1:23:37
I thought it was like it was, it was just really, really, really
1:23:39
cool to get like such like a great offer.
1:23:43
From my music did it. Yes, yeah, we did.
1:23:45
It was yeah, we, we. It was so funny because like we
1:23:49
had very similar summer, beginning summer schedules.
1:23:53
Like he was in London working and doing shows.
1:23:57
The like couple weeks before I got there, we had two hours.
1:24:02
We were both in London at the same time and he was at
1:24:05
Heathrow. He was at the airport and we
1:24:06
were on the same time and we were texting and I was like I.
1:24:09
Was like the. Miss.
1:24:10
Each other. The fates didn't want us there
1:24:12
at the same time that they didn't.
1:24:14
They didn't. They were like, you just see
1:24:15
that. Just see that other gay when you
1:24:17
get back to LA. OK, well, look at that everyone.
1:24:20
I know Delulu and Baby Gay alum guests are doing very well.
1:24:24
We're doing. Phenomenal.
1:24:26
No, honestly, I'm not performing prize this year.
1:24:28
Wait, are you really? Yeah, next year.
1:24:30
Oh hell. Hell yeah.
1:24:31
Thank. Thank you, Thank you, thank you,
1:24:32
thank you. I'm so excited.
1:24:34
I love that hey. Are you gonna come watch?
1:24:35
Duh. OK, great.
1:24:36
Thank you. What?
1:24:37
Yeah, of course I'm gonna be screaming.
1:24:39
I'm gonna be screaming with my merch on.
1:24:40
Yeah, I'm gonna have my merch on.
1:24:42
Oh, my God. Thank you.
1:24:43
Yeah. No.
1:24:43
So. Yeah.
1:24:44
Also so proud of Grant. Like, so proud of all of my
1:24:46
friends. Like so many of my friends.
1:24:48
You had such a damn great summer, A great summer.
1:24:50
And we deserve it. And I'm so proud of like,
1:24:53
everyone has just been killing it.
1:24:54
But yeah, it it was so much fun because I always wanted to
1:24:59
perform. We hope Pride.
1:25:00
Like, I was like, it just would be like, such.
1:25:01
It's a gay initiation. You literally manifested that.
1:25:03
Yeah, so it was just, I think that's why it was like my
1:25:06
favorite run. I got to do that.
1:25:08
Got to do Santa Monica Pride, which is really fun.
1:25:10
Did SF Pride then went to New York.
1:25:12
Did New York pride. Suzanne Barsh does like a
1:25:15
Barshland like pride party that she does at the standard at the
1:25:19
line like Boom boom room, which like is always been like an
1:25:22
iconic place that I wanted to perform.
1:25:25
Like I remember seeing videos of like FK twigs, like douche cat
1:25:28
and all these people like jumping up on the bar just like
1:25:30
drunk like dancing. And I got to have my little
1:25:32
superstar moment. I was.
1:25:33
Going to be like and now Bryce Xavier.
1:25:35
It was so good because everyone was down to have fun.
1:25:39
Those are the best shows is when every everyone just wants to
1:25:42
have a good time and they were just down and you give them
1:25:45
energy, they'll give you back energy.
1:25:47
And it was just so great. I I had such a great summer.
1:25:50
I need to tell you something. So your stage presence is
1:25:53
insane, like the way that you're so comfortable with your body
1:25:56
out there. I hope you know that.
1:25:58
Thank you. You're incredible.
1:25:59
Like when you perform, like you're really in it and I love
1:26:02
that it feels so natural and like watching it is so like
1:26:05
entertaining 'cause like you're really owning it.
1:26:07
I have fun. Like, I really like, honestly,
1:26:09
like I really just have so much fun up there like that.
1:26:11
That's why it is my favorite part of the process.
1:26:14
Yeah. Because I'm like, it's like, I
1:26:16
feel like a kid showing my, like mom, like my like little dance
1:26:19
routine and like my, like, my like, little songwriting.
1:26:22
I like prepared. And I'm like, you guys like it.
1:26:25
I'm like you guys really like. It that is so fucking cute.
1:26:28
I love that. So it's it's so it, it's, I feel
1:26:31
like the. Show's a lot of play.
1:26:32
Yeah, like people are like, damn, like, but on such a great
1:26:35
show for us, I'm like you guys, you like this for me.
1:26:38
Like I just like I this is for me, honestly.
1:26:41
Thank you. I'm beeping for like a week
1:26:43
after this. I was gonna be doing this
1:26:45
anyways. You're just here.
1:26:47
It was gonna be my living. Room where I do this every day.
1:26:49
Baby, it just happened. We just happen to have an
1:26:52
audience. Yeah.
1:26:52
And it wasn't my boyfriend this time in my cast.
1:26:55
I love that. Oh my God, wait, that's so
1:26:57
exciting. Yeah, so, so much fun.
1:26:59
So excited for so many more shows to come yeah and yeah,
1:27:02
I'm, I'm excited for the beginning of next year.
1:27:04
So many cities so. Many things where we're looking
1:27:07
forward to, and we're going to come see you.
1:27:08
Yeah. Yay.
1:27:09
OK, Bryce, we're going to play a little game here.
1:27:12
Oh, gosh. So this is WWADGD.
1:27:15
What would a Dulu girl do? OK, so the bestianas have
1:27:18
submitted their questions, concerns, dilemmas and problems,
1:27:21
and they want our Dulu advice on it.
1:27:23
So let's do whatever advice you have for them.
1:27:25
Let's. Let's enrich a life right now.
1:27:27
OK. Let's do it.
1:27:27
OK so the first question is from an anonymous bestie.
1:27:31
They ask my boyfriend who is now my fiance.
1:27:34
Congratulations, proposed to me with a very expensive ring.
1:27:37
But it's super ugly. I don't want him to feel bad
1:27:39
because I love him but it's ugly.
1:27:40
What should I do? I'm like vain and shallow and
1:27:47
like materialistic. So I would say, baby, we got to,
1:27:50
we got to fix that. Yeah, this is my thing.
1:27:53
It's just like I'm trying to find a nice way to.
1:27:56
Face, this is like. I would never just accept it if
1:28:00
I being completely honest, like it being expensive, like damn,
1:28:03
that sucks. Like you know, like I feel like
1:28:05
damn, that sucks. Like, I really do feel bad, but
1:28:07
this is something that like you're going to have to wear.
1:28:09
Yeah, forever, if you want me to wear that.
1:28:12
The goal? Is for you to have that forever
1:28:13
and be with this person and you have to look at it.
1:28:16
Don't condition yourself to tolerate something that's
1:28:19
supposed to be. That's what I'm.
1:28:21
Signifying totem of your like love forever, you know.
1:28:24
OK, I don't know if this is controversial of me to say, but
1:28:27
I feel like if they truly knew you they would have known what
1:28:30
kind of ring. Daggy because that was the first
1:28:32
thought that came to my brain. Controversial.
1:28:34
My man would never have to worry about me getting a ring that he
1:28:36
would have liked. Just saying.
1:28:37
And I'm so sorry to you because that was really rude and how
1:28:40
that just came out. But what I meant to say was
1:28:43
redacted, Redacted. You don't actually have to
1:28:46
redact it, but right, you're the bad guy.
1:28:49
I think that there could be an open conversation of maybe we
1:28:55
pick this next one together because clearly maybe I
1:28:59
presented myself in a way that is far off for me that you would
1:29:01
get this ugly ass ring and let's try to work it out.
1:29:05
We'll fix it. We'll fix it.
1:29:07
Yeah. We we'll fix you together.
1:29:09
That's relationship. I love that.
1:29:12
But bestie, to be honest, like, yeah, don't settle.
1:29:14
Genuinely don't settle. It's fine.
1:29:15
They love you. They'll understand.
1:29:16
They'll completely understand. Really does love you wouldn't
1:29:19
they're not gonna they're gonna they they.
1:29:21
They want you to love it, they want you to love it, they want
1:29:23
you to love it. OK so this one is from a friend
1:29:27
of mine actually they said my friend and I went to dinner.
1:29:31
She told me that it was $20.00 so I paid her $20.00 but then
1:29:34
she said she made a mistake and it's actually $80.00.
1:29:37
I don't think I owe her any money though because she
1:29:39
originally said a different price.
1:29:40
What do I do? OK, so many things unpack here.
1:29:44
Yeah, let's unpack #1 lots to unpack.
1:29:46
She's still enrolled in school for how bad that math was.
1:29:49
That's my number one question. That's just my 1st 20 to 80.
1:29:53
I mean it's. How do you?
1:29:56
It's a drastic jump. 1 might be like that's outrageous, right?
1:30:00
She needs. Gas I like.
1:30:02
There has to be something good. Really.
1:30:03
This friend is being egregious. Yeah, well, my response would be
1:30:08
I would just be like, Oh yeah, sure, no worries.
1:30:10
Can you just send me the receipt so I know what the difference is
1:30:13
for? Oh yeah, let me see an itemized
1:30:15
list on what we're paying. For right now, Doug, because
1:30:18
clearly you had the receipt to reference.
1:30:19
If you do, I would do $60.00 more.
1:30:21
Well, to be honest, on the principle of it, I'd be like,
1:30:23
girl, you told me it was 20. I paid 20.
1:30:25
Like, I'm sorry, Like we're not, we're not doing takesy backsies.
1:30:29
Yeah, Yeah, yeah. That's.
1:30:30
Crazy. Only a crazy person would ask.
1:30:33
I'd always reflect the ignorance back because then when they we
1:30:35
have to like ingest it the second time, they'll be less
1:30:39
likely to do it another time, you know?
1:30:40
I'm a big fan of making people, like, understand where it's
1:30:44
like, hey, you're being unreasonable and like, let's
1:30:46
make sure we're both acknowledging this.
1:30:47
Right now I. Love that.
1:30:49
Yeah, I'm very petty, Betty. Oh my God.
1:30:51
I think my worst thing about me is like, I have such a wicked
1:30:54
tongue. Like I speak to cut, like I
1:30:57
speak to heart. Like if I'm saying something, it
1:30:59
needs to like, have an impact on them.
1:31:01
I need them to think about. I need them to be in the shower
1:31:03
and be like, wow, that really, really got me.
1:31:05
Wow, that's evil. Yeah.
1:31:07
Yeah, no, that's evil. But hey.
1:31:08
That's what I think. Engine.
1:31:10
Whatever find you feeling me, find your engine.
1:31:13
It'd be feeling me. Oh yeah, no, I'm literally, I'm
1:31:17
not even kidding. I think the pettiness like makes
1:31:18
me go so much harder with my career.
1:31:21
I love that, honestly, that's that.
1:31:23
I feel like, again, I feel like you have been giving very rare
1:31:26
takes that people have said on camera and on Mike
1:31:30
unapologetically. And that's why I think you're
1:31:32
also so successful. Thank.
1:31:34
You. Oh my God.
1:31:36
Yeah, I know. I'm with it.
1:31:37
Thank you. Welcome to do Lulu after dark.
1:31:40
So I love to hear it. Thank you.
1:31:42
You know what's funny? I was just on a different show
1:31:44
and I was telling the host I was like, I'm in my villain era.
1:31:47
And you brought off my brought out my soft side.
1:31:49
It was baby gay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:31:53
That's so sweet. But I'm on my set now, so hi.
1:31:58
But now I'm on my. Where's baby gay?
1:32:02
At where? At the Black Cat Historic Queer
1:32:04
bar in Silver Lake, CA Everyone please support and stream Baby
1:32:10
Gay. OK to my friend who asked this
1:32:14
question, you don't owe them shit.
1:32:16
Sorry. OK cool, that's my take.
1:32:19
All right, last question. My best friend and my other
1:32:23
friend are fighting and I'm caught in the middle.
1:32:25
But low key, my best friend is in the wrong.
1:32:27
But I like her so much better. Should I still side with her?
1:32:30
Yeah. I'm really big on loyalty.
1:32:33
Absolutely. I don't care if my best friend
1:32:34
is wrong. I don't care.
1:32:35
You're right to me, I don't give a fuck.
1:32:37
This is. My thing.
1:32:39
This is my thing, especially if it's a thing that has nothing to
1:32:42
do with you. That's my first thing that
1:32:44
caught my attention, that it doesn't matter.
1:32:45
I'm out of it, period. Like I'm like, I have.
1:32:47
I have nothing to do with that. What's?
1:32:49
I'm such a ride or die. I'd be like.
1:32:50
Is the friend asking you to like, get involved?
1:32:53
That's the that's what we don't have.
1:32:55
Do you get what I'm saying? Yeah, there's nuances.
1:32:56
If like if like saying like the other person was like, then
1:33:00
being disrespectful, even if I knew my friend was wrong, I'd be
1:33:02
like all right, calm down, you're doing too much like but.
1:33:05
You generally don't want to be involved.
1:33:07
Yeah, I don't like being involved, no.
1:33:09
I feel like for me, yeah, I would ride like I would have to.
1:33:13
I'm I, no, that's great. So much loyalty from the people
1:33:15
in my life that to be honest, I would expect them to ride for
1:33:17
me. So really.
1:33:19
I would ride if you were wrong though.
1:33:20
But what if you didn't know you were wrong?
1:33:22
Oh, wait, Hold on. OK, let's do this you a
1:33:24
question. I love it.
1:33:25
Yeah. So if you didn't know you were
1:33:28
wrong, OK? Like you truly were in the
1:33:29
mindset that I'm so right about this.
1:33:31
Would you want your friend to tell you that you were wrong?
1:33:34
I would honestly, I take feedback really well.
1:33:35
So genuinely, I would love for someone to be like, hey,
1:33:38
honestly here's the situation. And I'd probably be like, OK,
1:33:40
but to be honest, I'm headstrong.
1:33:42
So I'd be like, I don't care if I was wrong.
1:33:44
Like honestly I could be wrong but I don't care and I'm going
1:33:47
to stand on this. But would you hear your friend?
1:33:48
Out of? Absolutely.
1:33:50
So see, OK, yeah, let's switch back to the question.
1:33:52
Switch it back. So this is my thing.
1:33:54
Yeah. If I told my friend, yeah, who I
1:33:56
love so much. And I'm like, hey, girl, you do
1:33:58
it too much. I currently think you're wrong
1:33:59
in this situation. She's like, yeah, I probably
1:34:01
could be. But just like out of principle,
1:34:02
like I'm not doing backing down. I'd be like, respect it.
1:34:05
And then I'm uninvolved. I'm like, I did my thing as your
1:34:07
friend to inform you, OK, that you might be perceived this
1:34:11
duty, but I'm not going to judge you if you want to go off that
1:34:14
spite. That's personally not me, but
1:34:15
I'm so big on principle. Yeah, for me it's quite
1:34:18
literally this principle. I'm like, I don't give a fuck if
1:34:19
I'm wrong. Like the principle of the
1:34:21
situation is why I'm going to. Stand up also the difference
1:34:23
too. I feel like This is why I don't
1:34:24
get involved because I feel like these things are always so
1:34:27
complex where someone could start off right and then they do
1:34:31
something that makes them wrong and then both people are wrong
1:34:34
and then it's a whole messy thing, you know?
1:34:36
Like I've seen friends like approach situations wrong and
1:34:39
I'm like, I probably would have did it that way.
1:34:40
And then the other person and like comes back times 10 and
1:34:44
then now it's like, all right, bitch, like you did too much
1:34:46
now, like you're you're doing too much with that.
1:34:48
Interesting. And that's why you're so
1:34:49
balanced about this. Yeah.
1:34:51
OK, Interesting. No, I think, let's say if it was
1:34:54
me and I was wrong, don't give a fuck.
1:34:55
Like, I don't care. You got a ride for me.
1:34:57
That's what it is. If my friend was wrong.
1:35:00
I would ride for that, I told you.
1:35:01
I would ride for apologetic like I mean, that's the thing.
1:35:05
My biggest like quality like thy appreciating people is loyalty.
1:35:08
So it's like if I'm giving my loyalty, you need to give me
1:35:11
your loyalty. You know what I mean?
1:35:12
So. And I could be wrong for that,
1:35:15
but I don't care. I'm going to stand on it.
1:35:16
Yeah. You might be, but you might not
1:35:19
be. Well, this is my thing.
1:35:21
I think as good friends, your good friends should try to make
1:35:25
you not look crazy. OK, That's my thing.
1:35:28
That's loyalty to me is I will never let my friends look crazy
1:35:30
and I hope they won't do the same for me.
1:35:32
So I'm never going to let anyone embarrass you.
1:35:34
That's one thing if someone if someone's trying to put you on
1:35:36
blast, whether you were right or wrong in the situation.
1:35:38
And it's like in a public setting in this, I'm always
1:35:41
like, talk to your friend in private.
1:35:43
Don't ever address it in public in front of like a bitch.
1:35:45
You don't know. Oh my God, grimy stuff that I
1:35:47
don't like. Wait, I have something for that
1:35:50
for me. No, I know, scary.
1:35:52
Scary for. Me, when people do confront me,
1:35:55
okay, it's not that I love it, but I'm always like, it's not
1:35:59
that I love it, but I'm like, Oh my turn, see.
1:36:04
See, you're ready. You're just, no, you're ready.
1:36:06
You're ready. That that's the thing.
1:36:08
You're always ready. I'm always ready, That's what
1:36:10
I'm saying. I'm like, I really wish people
1:36:12
would stop challenging me. See.
1:36:13
But that's my thing. When I do cut, I know I cut deep
1:36:17
and I know it's not good for anyone involved and it's very
1:36:19
hard to come back from it. So I would like it not to get
1:36:22
there with anyone. That's my thing.
1:36:23
Oh, I'm like actually the worst I'll cut.
1:36:25
And I'll cut. I'm going to leave a scar and
1:36:27
then I'm going to show up the next day.
1:36:28
I'm like, hey, what's up baby girl?
1:36:31
Hey. OK, wait really quick.
1:36:35
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Brett, am I ever wrong?
1:36:41
Brett says I'm never wrong, and that's a loyalty I expect.
1:36:44
So do we agree? Do we agree with that price?
1:36:48
I'm going to say. I agree because the way he
1:36:51
agreed very quickly makes me scared who might be on your
1:36:55
payroll and I'm not getting followed home today.
1:36:57
So you are correct, I am wrong. Oh my God I love that because I
1:37:01
do got shooters. Fuck.
1:37:03
I mean save. I mean, I agree.
1:37:08
And whatever you say, Ryan on. Board, I'm down.
1:37:11
I'm fine. Good answer.
1:37:14
Good answer. OK, that was and you will be
1:37:18
getting home safely tonight. Yay.
1:37:21
OK. That was our WWADGZI.
1:37:24
Don't know if any of that was helpful.
1:37:25
I'm feeling very villainous today.
1:37:27
I will. I will pro face that.
1:37:29
Not pre face pro face period. So like the pro biotic?
1:37:33
Yes, not the pre biotic, yes, yes, we're very like like Angel
1:37:37
and demon like it's very that's where the vibes are and the
1:37:39
viewers are in the middle. We're on the shoulders.
1:37:41
Totally. And whose side are we choosing?
1:37:43
Viewer. Baby, you kids, please just pick
1:37:47
us for safety. I'm OK.
1:37:49
I'm fine. No, I'm OK.
1:37:51
Over here alone. It's alright.
1:37:52
If you're instilled in the studio right now, I'm just
1:37:55
insane. Whoa.
1:37:57
OK, we'll bring it back to Bryce Xavier interview.
1:38:00
So with that being said, we've learned a lot about you today,
1:38:03
Bryce. I know.
1:38:04
I'm so happy about it. I feel like this was a great
1:38:06
deep dive into you and honestly, I've done my research, but one
1:38:10
thing that I omitted to find was your Zodiac sign.
1:38:13
So you're going to guess the Zodiac sign right now.
1:38:14
Your Zodiac sign besties. You've been listening.
1:38:17
We got a lot of information from Bryce.
1:38:19
Go ahead and take a second think about what you think his Zodiac
1:38:21
sign is. I feel like I have a guessy
1:38:23
Bessie. I wrote down a note earlier.
1:38:26
Oh my gosh. Okay, wait.
1:38:27
I'm actually really curious if you're going to get this.
1:38:29
Right, okay, wait, I'm going to get it right.
1:38:31
It's okay, my note is so meaningless, It's so useless.
1:38:35
I wrote not perfect and I remember writing this down for
1:38:38
my Zodiac sign note. I don't know what this means, so
1:38:41
I don't know why I wrote this down, but I remember being like
1:38:44
this is my note that's going to remind me.
1:38:46
OK, so Zodiac sign fuck. OK, I'm it's toughy because
1:38:51
you're kind of mediator where you're like, I don't want to be
1:38:53
informed balance. So it's giving Libra and pink is
1:38:57
very Libra, but pink is an era and I don't want to be wrong
1:39:00
about this. I'm going to go with You're not
1:39:02
a Libra. I'm not a Libra.
1:39:03
OK, good. Ate that.
1:39:05
Ate that. Ate that up.
1:39:07
Ate that up. OK, I know what you are.
1:39:10
Besties. You have a guess.
1:39:11
Go guess. Oh.
1:39:12
My gosh, I'm shocked. OK.
1:39:13
Ready. Yeah, you're an Aquarius.
1:39:16
I am an Aquarius. I eat that.
1:39:18
I eat that you want to. How I knew.
1:39:19
Wait, why? Throughout this entire time
1:39:21
talking to you, you're just like so free spirited and you're kind
1:39:24
of loosey goosey and you're like, I'm just doing it.
1:39:26
You're like, I'm just 20 minutes, like I gotta take the
1:39:28
risk and I'm like, OK, like no bounds here.
1:39:31
Very Aquarian of you. Do you feel like you're an
1:39:33
Aquarius? I have through and through
1:39:36
anything I hear, anything I know, any posts I see, any
1:39:39
combo, any of it I'm like. Are you super into astrology?
1:39:42
That's honestly not as much as I wish I was.
1:39:45
Yeah. Like I, I'm always receptive to
1:39:47
it, to any information that I hear.
1:39:48
Like we had to go to like talk about it when we first met,
1:39:51
actually. Yeah, that's right.
1:39:53
And it's so funny too, because now I'm thinking about it.
1:39:56
We didn't talk about our signs like I don't even know yours do.
1:39:58
You want to guess. No, honestly, because it's going
1:40:02
to be, and this is my thing that I've learned as someone who does
1:40:05
not know astrology, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:40:06
Dude, don't. Guess OK dude?
1:40:07
What? Because it's.
1:40:08
Going to be rooted wrong. Not rude, but what's the what's
1:40:10
the most evil sign you can think of?
1:40:12
Scorpios. They are evil Scorpios and
1:40:14
August Leos. Oh. 02 of us caught strays right
1:40:18
now. Wait, Wait, wait, wait, wait,
1:40:20
wait, wait. No shit.
1:40:22
I mean honestly, Scorpios are evil.
1:40:24
Wait, what are you? Oh, I'm not an August Leo, I'm
1:40:26
an August Virgo. Oh.
1:40:27
Oh, love Virgos though. That's totally different.
1:40:30
Totally different. No, that's actually.
1:40:32
Totally nothing like those Scorpios.
1:40:33
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
1:40:35
By the way, I love Scorpios and. Again, that's that's my thing.
1:40:38
I don't know much about it to even say.
1:40:39
That's the reason why I just keep a tally of the signs of the
1:40:42
people that piss me off and they just happen to be in those
1:40:46
categories. August Leos, what's your fucking
1:40:49
problem with me? I don't know what it is.
1:40:51
You know who you are. Wait a minute.
1:40:53
You know who's in August? Leo.
1:40:55
Wait. Who?
1:40:56
Grant. Wait, no, is is it?
1:41:00
No, that's not the cusp. Are you sure he's on a Virgo?
1:41:02
So he's actually directly on the Cus is he really?
1:41:06
He's literally directly on the. Cus Oh my gosh, yeah OK.
1:41:08
That's why he annoyed me sometimes when we were kids.
1:41:10
I'm. Joking.
1:41:11
That's a lot of. No, I'm actually joking.
1:41:14
Oh, wait, no, that's crazy. Yeah, OK.
1:41:16
No, I Oh my gosh, I thought it was Virgo this whole time.
1:41:18
No, I mean, honestly, he's right there on the.
1:41:20
Cusp. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:41:21
And honestly, also, happy birthday, Grant.
1:41:23
Happy, happy. Belated Grant.
1:41:25
Happy belated Grant, we're almost twinsies.
1:41:28
Shit, yeah. I mean he is in August Leo
1:41:30
though. Wow.
1:41:32
He gives Leo. Sorry I just dragged you but.
1:41:35
You're like, it was kind of well, well earned.
1:41:37
That's so funny because I actually think I've like, I, I
1:41:40
think I've dragged August Leo's a whole bunch.
1:41:41
Like he's, he definitely knows my stance.
1:41:44
He knows my stance. And he's been silent for a
1:41:45
reason. You've been, you've been silent
1:41:47
to not let me know that because you thought I was going to lump
1:41:49
you in with them. That's the thing.
1:41:51
But see, there's an outlier. The Bryce after girl, that's
1:41:53
why. I don't get involved with
1:41:54
astrology that much because I feel like there's always,
1:41:57
there's always that person that's like the light shining
1:42:01
because another, another one. People hate Geminis and I have
1:42:04
so many Geminis that I love. Oh.
1:42:07
Wait, no. You know Gemini.
1:42:09
Oh, I know, Geminis. Oh shit.
1:42:12
I know like you know, Gemini. Oh, they know me, babies.
1:42:16
Oh nice, I. Do not like Gemini men
1:42:19
notoriously what are. Your favorite signs Then give me
1:42:22
big three. OK, Don't include yourself.
1:42:25
I would never my. Favorite song a broker was going
1:42:27
to include? Themselves, I have, well, they
1:42:30
deserve it. OK, my favorite 3 signs right
1:42:34
now, like they're based on people right now.
1:42:36
Like Scorpio because of Brett. Brett's a Scorpio.
1:42:39
Oh my God, I I got do right now. I'm that's what I said I.
1:42:43
Was like, I didn't know. Who, you were saying, caught
1:42:45
Strange. The studio catching Strange
1:42:47
right now. No, I mean.
1:42:51
Oh. Gosh.
1:42:52
Don't do me dirty, don't do me dirty, and then you'll be that
1:42:55
light shining in that sign for me.
1:42:57
I I try to protect you. I threw my body in front of you.
1:43:00
But yeah, you caught, you caught a stray or two.
1:43:04
They landed a few. A few have landed.
1:43:05
I fear strays were. Coffee.
1:43:08
But I like Scorpios right now, and I also like Leo's right now.
1:43:13
Not today. I do like Leo's, right?
1:43:17
Literally saying 2 out of your favorite 3 is crazy I know.
1:43:21
And I like aquarium aquariums right now.
1:43:24
There you go. Yay, they change.
1:43:27
Or something else? I do have Leo in my chart too.
1:43:28
I have Leo and Aries in my chart.
1:43:30
Oh, little beefy then. Yeah, yeah, I can see the fire.
1:43:33
I think it's a Leo rising, I think.
1:43:35
Oh my God, I think that's why you're like putting heads with
1:43:37
them. Maybe.
1:43:38
Maybe. Totally.
1:43:40
Oh my gosh, maybe that's why. Can you and Grant please work it
1:43:43
on the remix on my show please? Yes, yes, I don't.
1:43:45
Want to get involved? Yes, the one sided beef that I
1:43:48
just made-up after like 14 years of friendship.
1:43:51
I'm like, I just found out you're in August.
1:43:54
And friendship is over. Yes, Gosh, you worked it out.
1:43:58
It's fine. Yeah, we did.
1:43:59
We I just worked it out. You did.
1:44:02
OK, well, let's get into you being a big fan of Sia.
1:44:04
What's your what's your favorite Sia song?
1:44:07
Gosh, Chandelier. Really.
1:44:10
Oh. God, I sing.
1:44:13
Yeah, literally. You just stripped on my.
1:44:15
Show Yeah yeah, well I know that's why you put fucking sia
1:44:18
and like you asking me why my. Artist was.
1:44:21
Sia, I knew it. Wait, wait, can we can we review
1:44:24
the notes? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:44:25
Why is your favorite artist Sia? It wasn't Take your clothes off
1:44:28
on Delulu. OK wow wow.
1:44:31
I hope we got footage of the clip before we talked about it.
1:44:35
I don't really know my side right now.
1:44:38
Unfortunately, the listen hopefully helps.
1:44:41
Me out. Please.
1:44:43
Your favorite artist? No.
1:44:45
No way. To see you but.
1:44:47
No, you just love the song. No, no, I just got a.
1:44:52
Chandelier. Chandelier.
1:44:53
Because you're a. Fantasia and the song.
1:44:55
Has. A chest.
1:44:57
Got it. My best friend is my tattoo
1:44:59
artist and he designed it for me like he designed and he showed
1:45:02
it to me and he was like. You're like, I want that.
1:45:03
He was. Yeah, we had a conversation that
1:45:05
we were, we, we were at one of those like bougie like West
1:45:08
Hollywood chandelier shops where like they're like $80,000
1:45:11
chandeliers. And we were looking around.
1:45:13
I was like, wow. Like I just like wanna fuck you
1:45:15
chandelier one day, just like in the middle of my foyer.
1:45:18
Yeah, nothing. Just that big ass chandelier.
1:45:21
And they look and they're like, that's where all the money went.
1:45:23
All the money went right there. You know, Oh my God.
1:45:25
We and literally like 2 days later like he like sent me the
1:45:28
design and it was like I love you talking about chandeliers
1:45:30
and I was like yeah I. Was like throw that shit on me.
1:45:32
Throw that shit on me. Oh my gosh.
1:45:34
OK, well. So not sea related at all, but I
1:45:37
knew. I just knew exactly I knew what
1:45:40
you were talking. About Can you Can you sing a
1:45:42
little bit of the song for us? I'm gonna swing from the
1:45:48
chandelier. Thank you.
1:45:50
That was actually like very good.
1:45:52
I wanted to be comical, but you you kind of ate.
1:45:54
You kind of ate a little bit. I can't not.
1:45:57
I mean, the talent's there. The talent.
1:45:59
I can't not No, no, no. I'm.
1:46:01
Sorry. I mean, you ate that well.
1:46:02
Thank you so much for sharing the Chandelier lore.
1:46:05
And stripping on you're. Welcome.
1:46:07
I mean no very much. Thank you so much for that.
1:46:10
We are censoring it for the Spotify version, but the passes
1:46:13
version, you can find it. Oh my.
1:46:16
Gosh, not you freaking me out. I'm just kidding.
1:46:20
Spotify version you also get it. Guys, please watch the video
1:46:23
version of the show. I don't.
1:46:24
Even show nips it even I didn't even make it to my nips.
1:46:27
OK. Can we didn't even see the top
1:46:28
of the shoes. Can we actually do it again, but
1:46:30
a little bit more nip? No, no, no.
1:46:33
That's a setup. That's a setup.
1:46:35
I'm smarter. I'm smarter in learning.
1:46:38
OK, well, you don't have to do that.
1:46:39
I noticed a few other tattoos that we might have missed.
1:46:41
Yeah. You'll get the one on my fucking
1:46:43
leg. I got the upper thigh tattoo.
1:46:47
Oh my God, we're getting Scandalulu.
1:46:48
Here my. Scandalulu, I love that.
1:46:52
Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
1:46:55
Well, it's been very scandal Lulu around here.
1:46:57
We'll get into it off camera, but Bryce, we close out every
1:47:02
show by manifesting together. I had such a great time with
1:47:05
you, and you have so many dreams and ambitions, and you're doing
1:47:07
so well for yourself in your master manifesto period.
1:47:09
But what do you want to manifest right here on the show?
1:47:11
What's coming up for Bryce? What are we speaking to?
1:47:13
Existence. The universe is listening.
1:47:15
Yeah, first thing that came to my brain was like, I see my,
1:47:18
like Greek Theater show next year.
1:47:20
I'm so excited to go. Yeah, I've never been to that
1:47:22
venue. It's my favorite.
1:47:23
I've seen every single one of my favorite artists.
1:47:26
I've seen that and. We're gonna see you there.
1:47:28
Every single time, like I always felt like it was like a piece I
1:47:31
took with me to like be able to like just put back when I'm on
1:47:34
that stage. So Oh my gosh, I'm really, I'm
1:47:36
really excited to tell. That story when you're on the
1:47:37
stage. I will.
1:47:38
I will. I'm gonna say yeah.
1:47:40
This is my first time talking about OH.
1:47:41
My God, when you announce it, we're gonna clip this exact
1:47:44
thing that you're manifesting and then yeah, it's gonna be.
1:47:46
Thank you. I love full circle moments.
1:47:48
Yeah, yeah. And the Lulu alum are super
1:47:50
success successful. I've noticed a lot of people
1:47:52
who've come on the show like do really big things after and I
1:47:55
don't want to take credit for it, but it's entirely because
1:47:57
they can want to lose. Everyone needs a a starting
1:47:59
point. Everyone needs a launchpad.
1:48:00
There you go, and you're launching us into success.
1:48:03
You're welcome, and ourself. Well, I'm happy to do it.
1:48:06
I do. I do want a 5% royalty.
1:48:08
Fine, thank you. OK, I'll talk about the GM.
1:48:13
OK, so we're manifesting the Greek.
1:48:14
Yeah, we're manifesting the Greek.
1:48:15
We're manifesting this like this album that comes out next year,
1:48:19
just like reaching so many new people like that.
1:48:22
That's it. Yeah.
1:48:23
Not no number really. Like inside of my brain.
1:48:26
And I feel like I'd never work for the arts.
1:48:28
Yeah. I'm just, I'm just excited for
1:48:30
ears to listen to like all these things that like me and my team
1:48:33
really have been putting so much work towards and like I've been
1:48:36
spending a lot of hours on. So I'm manifesting just to be
1:48:40
able to keeping a beacon for all of the beautiful messages I'm
1:48:43
trying to put out. I love that, Yeah.
1:48:45
And it's honestly so resonating. Like I said, I love you, boy.
1:48:47
It's so fucking beautiful. And we're so excited for what's
1:48:50
coming next cuz that was the taste of this project.
1:48:52
Yeah, and the pink. Is so definitive of a color like
1:48:56
we're ready we're ready we're ready we're.
1:48:57
Ready's better in pink. What else?
1:48:59
Anything else you're manifesting?
1:49:02
I'm manifesting more health, OK love for everyone for everyone
1:49:08
forever is yeah. For for everyone watching for
1:49:12
everyone listening for for you, like for everyone in our life.
1:49:15
Like I feel like we the world is so scary right now.
1:49:19
So many things are happening and like, it's it's a scary time to
1:49:22
be a creative person. Like when like the world's on
1:49:24
fire, like around you and you're just like, I'm still trying to
1:49:26
just like, play myself always like make my music.
1:49:29
Listen girl. So I got it.
1:49:30
It's really easy to not be the most mentally healthy during
1:49:33
this point. And I'm just like, I'm
1:49:35
manifesting just better clear head spaces for everyone to just
1:49:38
like keep moving along. We got it.
1:49:40
We got to keep doing it regardless, so.
1:49:42
I love that. Yeah.
1:49:43
That's so empowering and that's so beautiful.
1:49:45
And that's a really considerate of you to like manifest for the
1:49:48
collective. Yeah, I'm manifesting $17,000
1:49:51
specifically. Another zero.
1:49:53
Oh, I will actually more than that.
1:49:55
Let's do 17,000,000, period. Let's go 17,000,000 if we're
1:49:58
going. To do it, period.
1:49:59
And then can I get 5% of that? So thank you so much for joining
1:50:04
the show, Bryce Xavier, you have been an amazing guy.
1:50:07
Fine, that was the Lulu of me to think he would agree to that.
1:50:12
Oh, yeah, baby, don't negotiate. Sorry.
1:50:18
Bye. Well, we're so happy that you
1:50:20
came on this show. Thank you so much.
1:50:22
This was so much fucking fun. This really was fun.
1:50:23
And honestly, I was having a really bad night prior to this
1:50:26
and I was having a really bad day prior to this.
1:50:27
But you really have brightened it up and.
1:50:29
The light in the tunnel for you. You were and PJ being here too.
1:50:32
Like honestly, off camera is PJ, who I was a guest on for Baby
1:50:37
Gay and Bryce is a guest on for Baby Gay.
1:50:39
So we're watching. This please do.
1:50:41
Yours is a real tearjerker. I really felt that one.
1:50:45
Yeah, thank you. I'm always crying.
1:50:47
I guess. I didn't cry today, though.
1:50:49
We were. We were so uplifted.
1:50:50
We were so uplifted. Lifted and laughed.
1:50:52
I don't want to spoil anything, but like, can you tap a little
1:50:55
bit into that story about how you broke into a museum and you
1:50:57
stole that bust? Yes, yes, yes.
1:51:00
That was a really crazy dream that I had where I did that.
1:51:04
And I was. Telling that story that the
1:51:05
dream it was just so insane. I was just like wow like I'm
1:51:09
stealing from museums that's so crazy.
1:51:11
I would never do that, you know, because price Xavier real life
1:51:14
would never do that right, The dream yeah correct.
1:51:17
Okay. Fair enough you want the full
1:51:19
story go watch it on Baby gay. But thank you guys so much for
1:51:22
watching the show and this was your healthy dose of delulu so
1:51:25
you can go live your true Lulu. Bryce genuinely thank you so
1:51:29
much for being a guest. Where can the bestie Lulu find
1:51:31
you? You could find me everywhere at
1:51:33
Bryce Xavier BRYCEXAVIER, listen to my music, watch my show, mind
1:51:38
your business. And yeah, just like, come into
1:51:41
the world. Everything's pink.
1:51:44
All the things pink. Follow Bryce, you know every
1:51:46
upcoming show so you can go watch and we're all going to see
1:51:49
him at The Greek. Correct.
1:51:51
Hey Greek 2026 baby. Greek 2026.
1:51:54
Let's do it. Yeah.
1:51:56
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1:52:29
Thank you guys. Stay do Lulu yay evil era.
1:52:34
We killed that. That was so good.
1:52:35
We killed that.