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Gavin Magnus on Outpacing Jake Paul

Gavin Magnus on Outpacing Jake Paul

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Gavin Magnus is a modern-day triple-threat: he is a star on Instagram, on YouTube, and on TikTok! Dominating multiple social media platforms at once (and growing faster than established stars like Jake Paul) is no easy task, but this 13-year-old phenom has the drive and the energy, and we are here for all of it! Young Hollywood catches up with Gavin via Zoom to find out more about his online adventures as well as his emerging music career! He has been frequently compared to Justin Bieber, and we can see why, and he certainly would not be mad about it, but his true influence, he tells us, is the rapper Juice Wrld! He is actually able to blend these two artists together into his own musical style, and it's most apparent in his new single "Hearts on a Pendant"! Gavin also talks about what it's like to have most of his life constantly documented for the public, plus he reveals who he would love to collab with and plays a Game of Lasts!

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Young Hollywood

What's up? Hello. How are you?

Gavin Magnus

I'm good. How are you?

Young Hollywood

I'm awesome. I saw your little boomerang on your story. Meetings.

Gavin Magnus

That's me. That's me. A lot today.

Young Hollywood

Do you have a you have a lot today? Pretty packed day, yeah. Do you like when you have a packed day?

Gavin Magnus

I do. It's fun, yeah.

Young Hollywood

Yeah. And if you don't have If you don't have meetings and stuff, what would you typically be doing? Like do you wake up and like make content right away? Like how's your like morning and day go?

Gavin Magnus

Well, usually usually I wake up, get my Starbucks, and then I film some content, make some TikToks, Instagram stories, YouTube videos, it all depends. Yeah.

Young Hollywood

And what's your favorite? Do you like making TikToks most or what what content do you like making the most?

Gavin Magnus

I would say TikToks or YouTube videos. I can I can't decide. I'm going to ask you, what's your favorite social media platform? I'm like I don't really know. It's that's like asking who do you love more your mom or your dad. It's like you love them both. You love them all. It's the same. You connect with so many different people.

Young Hollywood

Okay, so as you probably know, your YouTube channel is growing faster than Jake Paul's, right?

Gavin Magnus

Yes.

Young Hollywood

How do you feel about that?

Gavin Magnus

That's it's it's a blessing. I'm honored, you know, it's crazy you know the world we live in. It's so it's so easy to be recognized nowadays, you know. Back then you had to work so much harder and I I back then was working so hard and I've been doing YouTube for about three years now and I'm really happy where I'm at and it's it's an honor. It's a blessing.

Young Hollywood

Okay, so yeah, you've been doing it for a while. Um would you say that like typically is there cameras always on you? Like someone always filming you when you're out and about?

Gavin Magnus

Yeah, so usually when I'm out and about or even in my house, I'm always on my phone or I'm always taking a story or something. Um even in public. There's always cameras around me whether I'm filming a YouTube video, Instagram, TikTok. Doesn't matter. All types of social media. There's always cameras on me. Except like when I sleep obviously, but

Young Hollywood

That would be really creepy so.

Gavin Magnus

Oh, that that's next. Yeah, I'm I'm I'm pretty out there. I'm pretty I'm out there in the public eye a lot. Yeah.

Young Hollywood

And for a lot of obviously your tags and everything are with crushes, girlfriends, and everything like that. What is it also like having you know your love life completely out for everybody to like absorb?

Gavin Magnus

It's um drama. A lot of drama comes with it, but uh it's fun. I mean, it's it's it's whatever, you know. Current relationship status obviously is unknown. I I've been getting asked a lot and you know, obviously those kinds of things, you know, cause drama people are like, what's your relationship status like? Are you single? Are you taken? I'm like I don't know and then and then that just causes so much drama, so I guess having your like relationship status all over the internet and all that. It's like it's crazy.

Young Hollywood

Oh, I bet. A lot of a lot of craziness. And speaking of relationship and everything, you have music coming out. Um

Gavin Magnus

I'm super excited obviously because this song, you know, it means a lot to me and there's a lot of hard work been getting put behind it and I'm just I'm super excited because this is my first like rap song that I've released so it's it's a big accomplishment for me. So I'm super excited. really pumped.

Young Hollywood

What rappers do you personally listen to?

Gavin Magnus

A lot of Juice WRLD. My favorite artists are Juice WRLD and Justin Bieber so it's you got the singing and you got the rapping.

Young Hollywood

How do you feel about his album? Juice's.

Gavin Magnus

Juice's? Um I listened to it too much and it's an addiction. Yeah.

Young Hollywood

What's your favorite favorite song from the album?

Gavin Magnus

Can't choose. Can't choose. Every day it's a new favorite. I love all of them.

Young Hollywood

Who would you want to collab with in a rap song?

Gavin Magnus

Uh, I would say Juice WRLD but probably I want to do a collab with Ian Dior. Ian Dior seems like a really cool artist. Yeah, he seems like a really cool artist.

Young Hollywood

He's been on the up and up too. I I like

Gavin Magnus

Yeah, he is. He's sick. I've been listening to him a lot recently.

Young Hollywood

What's one of your favorite lyrics from the song?

Gavin Magnus

Probably you left me in the dark still winning because it's like like you broke up with this girl. She left you like she left you in the dark but like you're still winning like you're pushing through. That lyric for me hits the hardest. Yeah.

Young Hollywood

Where do you get your do you get all your inspiration from real life things that have happened to you?

Gavin Magnus

100%. It's um it's actually really crazy because everyone's like he's 13. There's no way he can he's experienced all this stuff but it's like I've experienced so much that I most 13-year-olds probably haven't, you know, I surprisingly got my heart broken a few times. Um it's yeah, it's a crazy life we live in nowadays.

Young Hollywood

So I was going to ask you about that because a lot of people I feel like would be like, okay, you're 13 dude. Like have you really had your heart broken and stuff like that? But like do you think people still even though you're always on camera, is there still a lot in your life that people don't know about even though they think they do?

Gavin Magnus

Um yeah, there's a lot that people don't know about me. Um but other than that, I have a pretty like my supporters and like everyone who follows me on social media they know pretty much everything about me because I'm really I'm really open to my fan base and my supporters. So they know pretty much everything about me, but there might be like a few fun facts and stuff like that that they might not know but other than that, I'm pretty open.

Young Hollywood

And you have already filmed a music video, right?

Gavin Magnus

Yeah, we have.

Young Hollywood

Is it sick? Do you are you excited for people to see it?

Gavin Magnus

It's pretty sick. It's insane.

Young Hollywood

Who came up with like the visuals for the music video and the idea behind it?

Gavin Magnus

Nayab Ramos. I think that's how you say it's name. He's awesome. Yeah.

Young Hollywood

And when you like reach out to work with people and stuff like that or just like people you work with in general do you usually do it like through DMs? Do you have like your team do it?

Gavin Magnus

Usually I'll do it either through DMs or I'll have my team do it.

Young Hollywood

And then what was your like I'm famous moment? Like even if it was like a long time ago, but it kind of hit you you're like, okay like I can make this.

Gavin Magnus

Probably last year when I released my original called crushing and it had like a million views in like the first day. It's crazy. And then that's kind of what got me started. And then I started working with um my good friend Piper Rockelle and then we start we just we blew up together. So that was when I was kind of like, all right, like this is cool like I can make something out of this. So that was kind of like when I was like, yeah.

Young Hollywood

Yeah. Like this is it. Okay, then we're going to play a quick game. It's called the game of lasts. Okay.

Gavin Magnus

Okay.

Young Hollywood

And if you if you don't like know, just like think about like just think about it. Okay. Last song you listened to?

Gavin Magnus

Probably an unreleased Juice WRLD song. I think it was Put Me Down by Juice WRLD, the unreleased song.

Young Hollywood

Last person you remember texting?

Gavin Magnus

Last person I remember texting. Can I check?

Young Hollywood

Yeah. You're allowed. I didn't know if you had your phone right there.

Gavin Magnus

I think it was probably my mom. I think I text her this morning.

Young Hollywood

If you're in the house, do you and like you're too lazy to get up to go see her, do you just text her or call her?

Gavin Magnus

Yeah, I'll usually so like how it works is I'll be like doing my hair. I'll be like, mom, like, I don't know what I'm wearing today. Can you like set out my clothes? And I'll call her or text her. And that's kind of how we communicate in my household. We're we're really big in technology. Um so that's kind of how I get my point across. I'm like, hey, mom, you know, can you get me my hairspray? It's in your bathroom and that's it's it's it's it's it's funny. We're a funny family like that, but that's how it works.

Young Hollywood

Uh last person you remember DMing?

Gavin Magnus

Actually, I don't even know. A lot of people DM me. The last person I probably DM was probably a supporter.

Young Hollywood

Do you try to like go through them? Do you have like a certain point in the day where you're like, okay, I'm just going to like for the next 30 minutes answer people or just really depends.

Gavin Magnus

Yeah. So I take I take segments out of my day or not even that. I'll I'll what I do is I go on social media. Like I'm always on social media. Like I'm always on my phone. Like obviously like not in interviews and all that, but I'm always on my phone like I love my phone. So like I'll be on Instagram and I'll like go to my DMs, scroll through them and I'll be looking through my fan DMs and I'll answer much of my supporters and my fans. So

Young Hollywood

Last YouTube video you remember watching?

Gavin Magnus

Last YouTube video I remember watching was probably I feel like it was one of David Dobrik's older vlogs because I went to go check if he had uploaded and I was like, all right, I'm going to watch one of his older vlogs. So yeah.

Gavin Magnus

Uh, last time you watched one of your own YouTube videos? This morning.

Young Hollywood

Do you go through and watch them a lot?

Gavin Magnus

Not really. Personally for me, it's like my editor Brian, he's always like he's like, Gavin, come watch your new video and I'm like, it depends on the video but I'm like, oh like I like I can't watch myself do that sometimes. I'm like, oh no like I can't. But like I'll I'll always end up watching it like on my own time. But it's like sometimes if I do something that I like regret doing I'm like, oh like I can't watch it. Like I like I cringe myself out. Like I'm like, Gavin, that's cringey. But um usually usually I I watch a lot of my YouTube videos. Yeah.

Young Hollywood

Uh last Netflix show you remember watching?

Gavin Magnus

I don't watch Netflix. Probably Stranger Things two years ago. Yeah.

Young Hollywood

You don't watch Netflix? Do you watch a different like Hula or Hulu?

Gavin Magnus

Everyone's like, you don't watch Netflix? I'm like, I'm literally a YouTube guy. Like I have so much I don't have time for Netflix. I'm like, I'm like, dude. YouTube YouTube is literally the new TV.

Young Hollywood

Last time you listened to Hartson's Unconditionally?

Gavin Magnus

Yesterday. Yesterday. I listened to it yesterday.

Young Hollywood

Last time you took more than 30 minutes to do your hair?

Gavin Magnus

This morning.

Young Hollywood

How long does it take?

Gavin Magnus

Like you can see I'm probably my mom just got mad at me for not fixing my hair but I'm having a really bad hair day. Well, I guess not but it's like Okay, she's getting mad. I'm just kidding. But no, probably this morning because my hair is sometimes well it's really long right now. Like it doesn't look long. It looks actually really short, but it's really really long right now. So I kind of need like I need to cut it.

Young Hollywood

And what's one thing we need to keep an eye out for from you besides like the song and music coming out. Like what's one thing you're looking forward to happening soon? What's on the radar?

Gavin Magnus

Uh, my new EP. I'm dropping an EP soon. So that's a huge accomplishment for me. And I'm really excited.

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PEOPLE MENTIONED

  • Justin Bieber

    Listed as one of Gavin's favorite artists

  • Jake Paul

    Gavin's YouTube channel is growing faster than his

  • Juice WRLD

    Listed as Gavin's favorite artist and musical influence

  • Ian Dior

    Artist Gavin would like to collaborate with

  • Nayab Ramos

    Directed Gavin's music video

  • Piper Rockelle

    Friend Gavin blew up with on YouTube

  • David Dobrik

    Gavin watched one of his older vlogs

  • Brian

    Gavin's video editor

FAQ

What is Gavin Magnus's new single called?+
Gavin Magnus's new single is titled "Hearts on a Pendant" and it is his first rap song.
Who are Gavin Magnus's favorite musical artists?+
Gavin Magnus's favorite musical artists are Juice WRLD and Justin Bieber.
What social media platforms is Gavin Magnus active on?+
Gavin Magnus is active on Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok.
Who does Gavin Magnus want to collaborate with?+
Gavin Magnus expressed interest in collaborating with Ian Dior.
What was Gavin Magnus's 'I'm famous' moment?+
Gavin Magnus's 'I'm famous' moment was when his original song "Crushing" garnered a million views in its first day, leading to his work with Piper Rockelle.
Is Gavin Magnus planning to release more music?+
Yes, Gavin Magnus is planning to drop an EP soon.

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