Queer Eye's Jai Rodriguez

Welcome to younghollywood. com. We are hanging out here with Jay Rodriguez. You may know him as the culture vulture from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and Rent.

You're part of? Someone said to me the other day, I was like, 10 years ago if someone yelled at me, "Hey, it's the queer guy!" I would run. Now, it's kind of a compliment. It's like, hey, you're the queer guy. So I'll go back to the mall. I use to work in, I'll have people like come up to me and they automatically assume that you're going to critique them. How do I look? What do you think, dude? Uh? Uh? People ask my advice. I'm sorry, do you think like this one or this one? You know like, are you serious right now?

And you're in the studio right now, working on something?

Uh, the first single is called Broken. It was really important for me to do a song that kind of showcased my voice. You know, a lot of people don't know that I was a singer first and foremost. I'm just finishing up that record now. It's kind of a nice time for me to basically reintroduce who I am. The singer. Okay, ready? Yeah. I told my agent because I'd done one tap dancing show in high school. He said, can you tap? I said, "Well, I I've, yeah." And he then submitted me for Gypsy on Broadway. And I was like, "Yeah, I can go in." He's like, okay, now we're gonna call the guys in to teach you guys a tap combine, you know, combination. And I get in there and it's like all like the dancers dancers. And I was like, this is hard. Like they were all like. I get up there and I was the first to go. I was so far behind. I was doing this thing, you know, but I thought like, you know, kind of like seal the deal if I just ended correctly. So I knew the last thing was you had to be on your knees and with your hands out. He did his tap dancing. I just stood there and watched him and then I was like Needless to say, I didn't get it. So, so the first single off the album is called Broken. Sometimes the pain can steal the light that shines within my heart. Should I try to walk away? Should I run and try to hide? Uh, that's all I'm gonna sing for you. You'll hear the rest of it on my MySpace. Hey Young Hollywood, it's J Rodriguez. You're watching Young Hollywood.