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Hey, everyone.
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I'm Izzy Escobar, and this is my most requested live
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Ask Me Anything chat. My new song, Hate To Be
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The One, is out now, and thank you so much
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to Romeo and iHeartRadio for having me on the show tonight.
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I had so many favorite artists growing up, but that's
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because my dad was actually a DJ when I was
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a kid, and so we had everything playing in the
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house from, you know, 60s, 70s, 80s, top hits, and
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I was also a classical violinist as a kid, and
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so I would play violin, and we always had classical
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music in the house.
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I would love to collaborate.
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With many people, but I think at the moment I'm
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going through a Dua Lipa, Lady Gaga, T Swift, Sabrina Carpenter,
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and then John Mayer and Ed Sheeran face. Hate to
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be the one came together with my dear friend, Diane Warren,
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which is still very crazy to call her a friend now.
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Cause I grew up really looking up to her and
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it was for the TV show hacks. And I'll never
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forget the day that she played the song for me
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for the first time we were at her studio and
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LA and the second that I heard the two piano
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chords in the beginning of the song, I was like,
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what is this? Well, I need to sing this. And
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then I sang it and cut it at her studio.
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And then I got a call that, you know, it
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was for the TV show hacks, which was the icing
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on the cake. So to, to hear how this all
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came together with Diane was, was a dream. Will I
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be doing any live shows?
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Yes.
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But I also just finished my first ever headline tour
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for my recent EP sunny in London.
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Was incredible.
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It was my first time touring and we got to
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go to Europe and we went to London and Paris
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and Germany and I had never been to.
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Germany so that was incredible.
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And we also did the US so I definitely am
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excited for where this next live performance aspect is going
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to take me.
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My summer has been amazing.
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You know I was on tour for most of the
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summer but this latter half I'm actually working on finishing
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up my debut album. So it's been a lot of
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really immersing myself in the creative world, going to places
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that inspire me, really studying films and visuals that I
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have always loved and really just finally delving myself into
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the world of the album. Do I have a nice
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set of wheels in New York city? My wheels are
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the subway or an Uber. Sometimes I'm bad. My music
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could be a part of any movie soundtrack. I'm going
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to have to say the Bond movies. I've always wanted
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a song in Bond. And in terms of shows, I
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don't know, this year has been super exciting. I've gotten
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to see my song in Devil Wears Prada, which was
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a dream. I got to see one of my songs
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in a new Amazon series every year after, and Hex.
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So I'm just really excited.
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I think music, film, and TV, and to be at
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the intersection of that as someone who writes very visually
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is extremely exciting, and I love doing it. Will I
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ever record a Christmas song? Well, I guess you will
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have to wait and see.
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Wink.
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How's everyone in my family doing? I should probably give
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them a call after this interview. But everyone is good.
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I feel very, very grateful that, you know, my family
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has always been extremely supportive and really instilled the mindset
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that with hard work and a love for something, you
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can really, you know, achieve all of your dreams. So
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I feel very, very grateful for that life lesson they
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instilled in me. And thanks to them, I feel extremely
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grateful to pursue music and what I love to do.
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My favorite T-shirt to wear. Okay, I have to think
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about this. I have a giant UCLA theater, film and
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television shirt that I got that was like an XL men's.
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And it's my favorite thing to just throw on and
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sleep in. So I'm usually in that and I've had
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it for like six years now. What do I do
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to warm up my voice? Great question. I have a
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warmup audio from Eric Vitro, who I've been taking voice
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lessons with. And I realized the importance of it, you know,
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like when you're on the road and you're, you have
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to get sleep and eat well and exercise and the
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voice is a muscle as well. And so I think
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it's super important to remember to warm up, especially some
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of the songs I sing are very intense from a
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vocal standpoint and breath standpoint. So I do my little
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audio recording that I have prerecorded in the green room
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about like an hour before. How old was I when
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I wrote a song for the first time? This one
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makes you think. I think I was like four or five.
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I've always been writing. I've never known anything else. And
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I just ran with it. Oh, I love this question.
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If I was in a lip sync battle, what song
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would I choose? I would probably choose something Mariah Carey.
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I would probably choose Always Be My Baby.
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Yeah, that's a good one.
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What's my dream house, dream vacation, dream car? Okay, let's
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break this down. Dream house, I'm gonna go with a
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New York City townhouse. And then separate house in Italy,
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if we're doing an actual house. So we have apartment
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in New York, house in Italy. I've always wanted to
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go to India and Egypt. I feel like it wouldn't
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be a vacation per se, but I would definitely, I
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love to go somewhere and learn about the history. I
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have kind of a hard time just like chilling out
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and relaxing. So if I'm going somewhere, I'm learning about
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the history and culture and then dream car, chocolate brown
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Porsche 911. Last vacation I went on was my dear
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boyfriend surprised me with the trip to Miami to see
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the Cape Verde Argentina game for the world cup.
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So that was amazing. It was so adorable.
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He didn't tell me anything about where we were going
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and he blindfolded me in the airport. And so I
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had no idea. He was like, I'm not telling you
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where you're going. You have to put on earplugs on
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the plane. And then when we got off, I started
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seeing everyone wearing Argentina jerseys. And I was like, there's
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no way. So I just thought we went to Miami
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for fun. And then we got in the Uber and
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he surprised me and took me to the game. And
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it was the best experience ever. good boyfriend in what
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order would I rank these cereals I'm gonna be so
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honest with you guys I haven't had cereal in like
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eight years but I like coffee so for breakfast I
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usually just have a coffee the best picture of myself
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I've ever seen oh my gosh I mean I'm going
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back to like my childhood photos I feel like We
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all have really funny child pictures. And there's this one
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of me where my nickname as a kid was Hollywood.
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And for school picture day, you know how you could
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like go into the school picture forum and get a
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special background if you didn't like any of the backgrounds
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that they handed you on school picture day? Yeah, so
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I made my parents do that. And I found one
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with the Hollywood sign in the back. I was probably
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10 years old. And I wore this giant white flower.
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And it's me in front of the Hollywood sign. And
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then years later, when I was 18 years old, I
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went to UCLA and I lived right under the Hollywood sign.
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So maybe baby me was manifesting.
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Anyone I went to high school with that I want
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to give a shout out to, they totally know who
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they are. I still have my core girlfriend group from
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high school and they are still some of my best
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friends in the whole world. So you know who you
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are and I feel very grateful to, you know, have
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friendships that have lasted me like crazy over 12, 13 years.
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So I'm super grateful for those girls and they definitely
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keep me grounded. Did I eat hot dogs on July 4th?
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No, I'm vegan. Do I have childhood friends who come
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and visit me? Yes.
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One of my best friends from childhood, from high school,
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lives in the city. And my friends from college come
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and visit me all the time. I'm trying to slowly
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convince each and every one of them to move to
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New York. So that's my current mission. Ooh, my DJ
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or rapper name? DJ Esco.
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Drop the mic. I definitely, I think I text the
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most with a few people, but.
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My friend Hannah is coming to mind and she creates
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these amazing TV and movie ideas and, and she will
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share with me her creativity all the time. And I'm
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just fascinated by how many movie ideas she, she's always
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having and we're going back and forth on it. And so,
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so we'll laugh about those sorts of things and, and
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just creative ideas that will come to our mind. I
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think the emoji that I would use to describe myself
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as the mouse emoji or the squirrel emoji.
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I love animals.
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When I get some time off, well, first off, I don't,
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so that's exciting. And I think as an artist, there's
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genuinely no time off in the sense where I think, breathe,
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and live my life in all musical terms, and that's
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my lens in which I view my life and always
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getting inspiration for things. So no, there's no time off,
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and I wouldn't have it any other way. If my
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tour was pulled up to a 7-Eleven, A few things
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that I would buy are, I like to get just
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like a basic pretzel, probably some salt and vinegar chips, water,
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coconut water, and something with caffeine. But I don't know
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if I want 7-Eleven coffee, so I'll go with a
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yerba mate. First concert I went to, I actually think
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was Hannah Montana Jonas Brothers' The Best of Both Worlds concert.
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And guys, you have to understand that my dad and
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mom pulled up to a parking lot and I thought
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that we were going to like, I think it was
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like a McDonald's parking lot or something. And I thought
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that we were going to get food and I was
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excited and it was.
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Late at night.
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And they were like, guess what? We're actually going to
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see Hannah Montana. And I freaked out. Like you have
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to understand, like I had the wigs. I loved Hannah Montana.
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I was always singing her songs. And then we pulled
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up to the concert and my dad was like, do
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you want to rush the stage? And he hid me
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behind him. And we ran straight towards the stage for
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the end of the Jonas Brothers concert. And that still
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is one of my greatest memories. Also probably one of
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the best concerts I've ever been to. The coolest thing
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that I own is actually my dad has old vinyls
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because my dad used to spin vinyls when he DJed.
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And so he has many ones as well, specifically all
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of the Michael Jackson discography. So that is definitely one
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of the coolest things that I own besides my keyboard.
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Thank you again for watching my Ask Me Anything chat
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with Romeo and Most Requested Live. And my song Hate
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To Be The One is out now.
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Hey, everyone.
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I'm Izzy Escobar, and this is my most requested live
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Ask Me Anything chat. My new song, Hate To Be
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The One, is out now, and thank you so much
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to Romeo and iHeartRadio for having me on the show tonight.
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I had so many favorite artists growing up, but that's
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because my dad was actually a DJ when I was
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a kid, and so we had everything playing in the
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house from, you know, 60s, 70s, 80s, top hits, and
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I was also a classical violinist as a kid, and
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so I would play violin, and we always had classical
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music in the house.
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I would love to collaborate.
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With many people, but I think at the moment I'm
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going through a Dua Lipa, Lady Gaga, T Swift, Sabrina Carpenter,
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and then John Mayer and Ed Sheeran face. Hate to
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be the one came together with my dear friend, Diane Warren,
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which is still very crazy to call her a friend now.
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Cause I grew up really looking up to her and
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it was for the TV show hacks. And I'll never
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forget the day that she played the song for me
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for the first time we were at her studio and
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LA and the second that I heard the two piano
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chords in the beginning of the song, I was like,
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what is this? Well, I need to sing this. And
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then I sang it and cut it at her studio.
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And then I got a call that, you know, it
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was for the TV show hacks, which was the icing
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on the cake. So to, to hear how this all
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came together with Diane was, was a dream. Will I
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be doing any live shows?
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But I also just finished my first ever headline tour
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for my recent EP sunny in London.
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It was my first time touring and we got to
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go to Europe and we went to London and Paris
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and Germany and I had never been to.
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Germany so that was incredible.
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And we also did the US so I definitely am
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excited for where this next live performance aspect is going
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to take me.
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My summer has been amazing.
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You know I was on tour for most of the
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summer but this latter half I'm actually working on finishing
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up my debut album. So it's been a lot of
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really immersing myself in the creative world, going to places
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that inspire me, really studying films and visuals that I
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have always loved and really just finally delving myself into
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the world of the album. Do I have a nice
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set of wheels in New York city? My wheels are
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the subway or an Uber. Sometimes I'm bad. My music
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could be a part of any movie soundtrack. I'm going
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to have to say the Bond movies. I've always wanted
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a song in Bond. And in terms of shows, I
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don't know, this year has been super exciting. I've gotten
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to see my song in Devil Wears Prada, which was
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a dream. I got to see one of my songs
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in a new Amazon series every year after, and Hex.
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So I'm just really excited.
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I think music, film, and TV, and to be at
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the intersection of that as someone who writes very visually
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is extremely exciting, and I love doing it. Will I
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ever record a Christmas song? Well, I guess you will
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have to wait and see.
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Wink.
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How's everyone in my family doing? I should probably give
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them a call after this interview. But everyone is good.
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I feel very, very grateful that, you know, my family
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has always been extremely supportive and really instilled the mindset
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that with hard work and a love for something, you
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can really, you know, achieve all of your dreams. So
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I feel very, very grateful for that life lesson they
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instilled in me. And thanks to them, I feel extremely
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grateful to pursue music and what I love to do.
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My favorite T-shirt to wear. Okay, I have to think
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about this. I have a giant UCLA theater, film and
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television shirt that I got that was like an XL men's.
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sleep in. So I'm usually in that and I've had
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it for like six years now. What do I do
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to warm up my voice? Great question. I have a
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warmup audio from Eric Vitro, who I've been taking voice
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lessons with. And I realized the importance of it, you know,
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like when you're on the road and you're, you have
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to get sleep and eat well and exercise and the
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voice is a muscle as well. And so I think
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it's super important to remember to warm up, especially some
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of the songs I sing are very intense from a
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vocal standpoint and breath standpoint. So I do my little
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audio recording that I have prerecorded in the green room
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about like an hour before. How old was I when
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I wrote a song for the first time? This one
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makes you think. I think I was like four or five.
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I've always been writing. I've never known anything else. And
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I just ran with it. Oh, I love this question.
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If I was in a lip sync battle, what song
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would I choose? I would probably choose something Mariah Carey.
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I would probably choose Always Be My Baby.
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Yeah, that's a good one.
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What's my dream house, dream vacation, dream car? Okay, let's
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break this down. Dream house, I'm gonna go with a
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New York City townhouse. And then separate house in Italy,
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if we're doing an actual house. So we have apartment
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in New York, house in Italy. I've always wanted to
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go to India and Egypt. I feel like it wouldn't
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be a vacation per se, but I would definitely, I
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love to go somewhere and learn about the history. I
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have kind of a hard time just like chilling out
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and relaxing. So if I'm going somewhere, I'm learning about
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the history and culture and then dream car, chocolate brown
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Porsche 911. Last vacation I went on was my dear
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boyfriend surprised me with the trip to Miami to see
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the Cape Verde Argentina game for the world cup.
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So that was amazing. It was so adorable.
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He didn't tell me anything about where we were going
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and he blindfolded me in the airport. And so I
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had no idea. He was like, I'm not telling you
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where you're going. You have to put on earplugs on
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the plane. And then when we got off, I started
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seeing everyone wearing Argentina jerseys. And I was like, there's
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no way. So I just thought we went to Miami
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for fun. And then we got in the Uber and
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he surprised me and took me to the game. And
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it was the best experience ever. good boyfriend in what
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order would I rank these cereals I'm gonna be so
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honest with you guys I haven't had cereal in like
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eight years but I like coffee so for breakfast I
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usually just have a coffee the best picture of myself
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I've ever seen oh my gosh I mean I'm going
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back to like my childhood photos I feel like We
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all have really funny child pictures. And there's this one
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of me where my nickname as a kid was Hollywood.
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And for school picture day, you know how you could
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like go into the school picture forum and get a
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special background if you didn't like any of the backgrounds
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that they handed you on school picture day? Yeah, so
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I made my parents do that. And I found one
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with the Hollywood sign in the back. I was probably
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10 years old. And I wore this giant white flower.
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then years later, when I was 18 years old, I
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went to UCLA and I lived right under the Hollywood sign.
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Anyone I went to high school with that I want
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to give a shout out to, they totally know who
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they are. I still have my core girlfriend group from
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high school and they are still some of my best
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friends in the whole world. So you know who you
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are and I feel very grateful to, you know, have
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friendships that have lasted me like crazy over 12, 13 years.
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keep me grounded. Did I eat hot dogs on July 4th?
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No, I'm vegan. Do I have childhood friends who come
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and visit me? Yes.
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One of my best friends from childhood, from high school,
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lives in the city. And my friends from college come
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and visit me all the time. I'm trying to slowly
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convince each and every one of them to move to
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New York. So that's my current mission. Ooh, my DJ
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or rapper name? DJ Esco.
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Drop the mic. I definitely, I think I text the
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most with a few people, but.
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My friend Hannah is coming to mind and she creates
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these amazing TV and movie ideas and, and she will
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share with me her creativity all the time. And I'm
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just fascinated by how many movie ideas she, she's always
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having and we're going back and forth on it. And so,
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so we'll laugh about those sorts of things and, and
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just creative ideas that will come to our mind. I
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think the emoji that I would use to describe myself
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as the mouse emoji or the squirrel emoji.
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I love animals.
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When I get some time off, well, first off, I don't,
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so that's exciting. And I think as an artist, there's
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genuinely no time off in the sense where I think, breathe,
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and live my life in all musical terms, and that's
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my lens in which I view my life and always
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getting inspiration for things. So no, there's no time off,
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and I wouldn't have it any other way. If my
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tour was pulled up to a 7-Eleven, A few things
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that I would buy are, I like to get just
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like a basic pretzel, probably some salt and vinegar chips, water,
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coconut water, and something with caffeine. But I don't know
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if I want 7-Eleven coffee, so I'll go with a
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yerba mate. First concert I went to, I actually think
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was Hannah Montana Jonas Brothers' The Best of Both Worlds concert.
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mom pulled up to a parking lot and I thought
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that we were going to like, I think it was
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like a McDonald's parking lot or something. And I thought
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that we were going to get food and I was
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excited and it was.
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Late at night.
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see Hannah Montana. And I freaked out. Like you have
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to understand, like I had the wigs. I loved Hannah Montana.
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I was always singing her songs. And then we pulled
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up to the concert and my dad was like, do
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you want to rush the stage? And he hid me
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behind him. And we ran straight towards the stage for
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the end of the Jonas Brothers concert. And that still
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is one of my greatest memories. Also probably one of
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the best concerts I've ever been to. The coolest thing
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that I own is actually my dad has old vinyls
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because my dad used to spin vinyls when he DJed.
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And so he has many ones as well, specifically all
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of the Michael Jackson discography. So that is definitely one
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of the coolest things that I own besides my keyboard.
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Thank you again for watching my Ask Me Anything chat
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with Romeo and Most Requested Live. And my song Hate
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