A Great Big World

A Great Big World
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Indie rock duo talks collaborations and fan encounters
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I just want to be a rockstar. Hey, we're a Great Big World and you're watching Young Hollywood Backstage Diaries. To hype up the crowd, I, I mean, I'm a big foot stomper. So I just, I don't know, just stomp your foot a whole lot. There are so many people I would love to collaborate with and so many people I would have loved to collaborate with, but if we're talking people who are alive, I think Beyonce would be amazing. You know, I practice the single ladies dance moves all the time and you know, one day I'll get to show her. If I can create the craziest set design in the world, it would be a cross between The Nightmare Before Christmas and The Little Mermaid.
Say something, I'm giving up on you. For all you up and coming starving artists, I would just recommend that you be as honest as possible and, and really dig down and share, share yourself with, with everyone. Before I belt, I feel, I feel a surge come up and then it comes out of my mouth. And then I'm belting, and then it's, it's just a big belting song. If I were to teach you to play piano for the first time, I would teach you chords and just, just triads and different inversions of triads, because I don't know. If you want to play pop music, it's all, it's all just chords and inversions. Say something, I'm giving up on you.
And I The coolest pair of eyeglasses I have is made by Punto Artico and it's, it's a wooden frame. It doesn't bend because it's made out of wood, and it's red on the outside and rainbow on the inside and it has my name engraved in it. If you count Disney movie musicals, my two favorite musicals of all time are Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King. We played a show in Huntsville, Alabama and a girl came up to me and she was bawling. She fell into my arms. And she thanked us for, for playing Everyone Is Gay and for spreading that message because her parents, who were sitting right next to her, don't approve of her lifestyle.
Um, she went on to say that they tried to give her an exorcism and love that we're spreading that message and it was one of my favorite experiences I've, I've had because it, it meant so much that, that what we're doing means that much, and that's why we're doing it.
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- Beyonce
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