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Hey, what's up, Young Hollywood? It's Michelle Marie, and I'm here with multi-talented Blake Lewis.

Now you guys might remember him as the Beatboxing King on American Idol.

So what's been going on since then?

Lots of uh, touring and uh, producing other artists in Seattle.

The cool thing is that, you know, you had this great platform to just get your face out there, and you made a name for yourself on the show, and you continued on with the success and continued on with the fan base.

It's been really great.

Uh, you know, the fact that I can reach people just like Australia and all these fans, like Saudi Arabia.

Like I would have never, never would have thought I had fans out there.

It's so awesome to connect with so many amazing people.

Totally.

And you've been on tour with so many cool artists, you know, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, who's so huge right now.

What was it like being on tour with everybody?

Awesome experience.

I mean, the Grammys brought me out as their, their main host for all these uh, big shows they did, you know?

And I was the main MC and DJ and and did my, you know, one-man band show with my loop pedals and everything.

So it was great to be in front of those crowds and such different eclectic audiences every night.

You kind of dabble into different genres, but you make it all your own.

Yeah.

And to your own sound.

And with this album, it's called Heartbreak on Vinyl.

It's like electropop dance.

How do you like to describe the sound?

For this record I set out, you know, I wanted to make a dance record.

That's what I wanted to do the first time, but didn't get the chance to do it.

So, my style is more like more of a mid-tempo, down tempo kind of triphop.

It was all like getting together with the right producers to produce what I wanted and what I heard.

Well, I know with your single "Sad Song", to me it sounds kind of like an old school 80s joint, maybe like a Depeche Mode kind of sound.

This is a sad song, come sing with me tonight.

Just sing with me.

I don't try and go for 80s, it just naturally comes out.

I mean, I'm a child of the 80s, you know, and that's where like, thank you for the the Depeche Mode remark.

I'm very honored about that.

But uh, it just kind of just comes, naturally comes out.

Like, uh, all my melodies are organic and freestyled over a microphone.

How's that go again?

It all comes naturally, but I'm in love with, you know, synthesizers and just old keyboards and whatnot.

So cool that that's all coming back too.

And twist knobs and you know.

It I it's definitely, you know, it's definitely kind of like 2080s, which I've said before.

2080s, I like that.

You're a songwriter, you play the keys, drums, guitar, everything beatbox, of course.

What do you think makes up Blake Lewis?

Like what are the things that you are most passionate about when it comes to music?

That came from, you know, a jazz vocal freestyle world, you know, with hip-hop and I was writing hooks for, you know, MCs and stuff for their albums in Seattle and had some success in that uh, before American Idol.

You know, entertaining just in general and and doing it live, live.

That's what, you know, intrigued me about American Idol.

That's why I was okay with like coming on the show and, you know, I think why I got as far as I did is 'cause people liked, you know, my whatever I was doing.

You got a chance to get Michelle Obama to beatbox.

Now that's crazy.

What was that like?

Meeting her was just amazing, you know, and I don't ever get starstruck, but I mean, you know, here's this, you know, very influential, powerful woman and it was all women.

It was just like estrogen.

And I was just like, this is my kind of vibe, right?

You know, like, I can play to these women, but it was like some of the old ladies were just like staring.

What is this beatboxing about?

And Michelle got it and she beatbox.

And I got everyone to beatbox.

It was cool, you know.

The whole style that you got right right now is very cool.

How do you describe it?

The Blake style.

I just, I don't know.

You know, everyone's like, this guy goes, "Hey, what's up Flocksiegels?" as walking down the street.

I was like, "Yeah, this is the Flock Siegels deal.

I don't, you know, I guess."

And a lot of cool tattoos right here.

Yeah, I had this one when I was on the show, but I finally got this piece done.

There's just like kind of like my code of arms of my best friend.

But this coin.

I'm kind of obsessed with art and I love wearing it.