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OMI, Silento, Jake Miller, Baddie Winkle, & More Talk Miley Cyrus at the VMAs

OMI, Silento, Jake Miller, Baddie Winkle, & More Talk Miley Cyrus at the VMAs

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YH is on the multi-colored carpet of the MTV Video Music Awards to catch up with some of the hottest acts and celebs who have all come out to celebrate the best of the visual side of music! We chat with Silento, OMI, Jake Miller, Lindsey Stirling, St. Lucia, JoJo, Michael J. Willett, the cast of "Scream Queens", Travis Mills (aka T. Mills) and even octogenarian Instagram sensation Baddie Winkle about whom they are most excited to see and what madness host Miley Cyrus has in store!

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Young Hollywood

What's up guys? It's Tracy with Young Hollywood. And Tony. We are here at the MTV VMA's red carpet. This is pretty much the most insane carpet I've ever seen. I mean, it is straight out of like the mind of Miley Cyrus, 'cause she's hosting tonight and it's going to be outrageous. We are sitting on a bunch of MTV's. I want my MTV. I want my MTV. What the moon is performing behind us right now. What the hell is going on? I mean, it's rock, it's awesome. Is young Hollywood? That's what it is, young Hollywood. That's what it is, Young Hollywood. That's what it is, Young Hollywood. This is like the craziest red carpet you've ever seen. It's pretty much. Yes, this is not even red. I don't know. Yeah. Whatever it is. Multi color. I thought I was going color blind or something. We're at Miley's party, what do you expect? When I see that tongue come out, I'm going to just die. I'm going to like lay on the floor. Can you even predict a single thing she's gonna do? No. Not gonna lie. She's gonna get something trending. I wanted to No, I'm not gonna say that. Everybody's like buzzing about Miley. Taylor Swift just got here and there's puppies behind me. I mean, I'm completely I'm dying. I'm dying. You're at the MTV VMA's. Tell us about 'cause you have like a crazy following, you're friends with Miley. How did this all come about?

Baddie Winkle

Well, uh all the kids, uh college kids, high school kids. They all just love me. Like, what do you expect out of her? I really don't think this is insane because I really want, I really was thinking about taking her to my prom.

Young Hollywood

Give us a little Nay Nay. Can I Nay Nay. Now watch me whip, whip. Now watch me Nay Nay. We're here with Sai La To. Sai La To. Okay, so how old are you? How old are you?

Silento

I'm seventeen. I'm a senior in high school, and I go to public school. And I'm a superstar.

Young Hollywood

And talk to us about like you uploaded the song and how it did and tell us what you did to get that song somewhere.

Silento

Oh, right now. I made a fifteen second video A Capello singing my song. I was posting it on Instagram. I got over two hundred comments, females tagging other females. So, from then and there, I knew I'm like I need to make this a song. So, I capitalized off of that, took it to my producer. I was asking him for about three months. He was not believing the song, period. And my official DJ he wasn't believing either. But when I dropped the song on SoundCloud that same night, I posted at least fifty videos. I started posting like eight hundred videos on my Instagram of my fans dancing to my song. And my song did.

Young Hollywood

Watch me, oh yeah, watch him. If you can sit next to anyone at the VMAs, who would it be? What would you say to them?

Jake Miller

Probably, probably Pharrell. He's very interesting. I really like him. I've met him, but I want to like get inside of his head. Maybe even collaborate with him. He's awesome.

Young Hollywood

You heard it here first. Pharrell. Jay, can Pharrell. Nicki Minaj.

Jake Miller

Yeah, Nicki Minaj. excited to see her live this weekend. He's killing it right now. So like him. Yeah. Justin Bieber, it's come back. I'm a big fan of Walk the Moon, who is playing right now. They're just playing like randomly on the red carpet. I was also in the middle of an interview and I was like, oh my god! What? I was like freaking out. Um, I have to say I'm actually, I'm I'm pretty excited to see Macklemore, because I think, um, I admire, yeah, we I just saw his new video yesterday and I was like blown away, like, I think it's a great song.

Young Hollywood

And let's talk about Scream Queens 'cause I am freaking out about it already. I've seen the trailers. I am like, I mean, firstly, like the fact that, I mean you're going to be working with so many awesome people. Like talk about, I mean.

JoJo Siwa

Jamie Lee Curtis is like the sweetest lady in the world. She was so nice. Um, Emma Roberts, yeah. Everyone's been so nice. Like, they're all so, it's like their first acting experience ever.

Young Hollywood

But, I'm a fan of Jake. I follow Jake's Instagram.

Jake Miller

Thank you.

Young Hollywood

All over your Instagram. I saw that you were on, you had the the the wheels, the the new thing that everybody, what do they call those things? Gliders. What do you think about those?

Jake Miller

I love them. I'm disappointed that I didn't bring it today. Yeah. I kind of forgot how to walk actually. No, it's awesome. That those things are so cool. It's the future.

Young Hollywood

Does somebody just give them to you, or how how did you end up getting them?

Jake Miller

Yeah. And I I know some people who uh have some connections at the the business, so. It's really cool.

Young Hollywood

And you just moved to LA, right?

Jake Miller

Yeah, like three days ago. That's what I'm saying. Uh, I've spent a lot of time here the past few years recording, but I finally made the move, so I'm excited.

Young Hollywood

Wait, my I have a niece named Amber, okay, who I when we interviewed him, she is she's a fan girl. Huge fan girl. She's like I don't know fourteen or something. Very she's young. But she's obsessed. Obsessed with him. Her name is Amber. Hi Amber, I love you. We also have, we also have to get a shout out to our Y H fan girls. Yes. They love you.

Jake Miller

Hello, Y H fan girls. I love you too.

Young Hollywood

Literally, is it me and you bunch of cheerleaders, or is it like they're a metaphor of something you represent with cheerleaders?

Jake Miller

No, I'm never a literal guy. You know, there's always something deeper. There's always a deeper meaning. Um, a cheerleader's basically anybody who's that support system for you.

Young Hollywood

A lot of people might not realize that your song was out like three years ago in Europe, right? And it just now became a hit in the U S.

OMI

It's it's old. It's pretty old. Yeah. But, you know what, um, I think good songs are very, they're timeless, really. You know, so um, that's kind of like my trick.

Young Hollywood

I just want to point out too that it's the first Reggae song, right? To be number one for like over twenty years. Which is crazy.

OMI

We've broken a lot of records, you know. So, it's a good thing we're making we're making them at the same time. It's a triple, it's three singles, um, and then the album is to follow.

Young Hollywood

What's the meaning? What's the sound?

OMI

Well, I wanted there to be like three different vibes on there, without, you know, without giving everything away, because I have a album I'm super proud of as well.

Young Hollywood

I like this outfit. You gotta get a look at this dude's outfit that he's got on. Wow, what? What are those shoes?

OMI

Givenchy. You got that. Givenchy. Let's get it. The glasses kinda like my style, 'cause my eyes are very sensitive to the light. You know, so I get to I have an excuse to wear them on the inside.

Young Hollywood

I was gonna say, there's there's some people who can pull off like they just want to wear sunglasses inside to be cool, but like. You're doing it well. You're doing it well. You're pulling it off. Oh my gosh, I love it. Okay, first of all, you almost adopted a fan. Let's discuss that story because that could be one of the craziest like fan girl out of control stories I've ever heard.

Jake Miller

It was the it was the craziest fan experience I've ever had. Uh, I was literally mid-signing this paper. I didn't know what it was. I figured it was just like a receipt or something. I don't know. It was dark, loud, chaotic. I didn't know what was happening. And as I was signing it, I heard someone say in the background like, oh, adoption paper. I'm like, wait, what? And so I had my manager come over, they shine shine a light on it. It was completely legit. Lawyers signed it, parents signed it. Yeah, he ripped it up, the girl started crying. It was a bad bad news.

Young Hollywood

Like her parents were they okay with that?

Jake Miller

I mean, maybe she forged it or something, but it was just a really weird situation. Like, she was hysterically crying in front of like hundreds of fans. And like it was really quiet, and it was really weird.

Young Hollywood

Broke her heart.

Jake Miller

I think so. I'm sorry if you're watching this.

Young Hollywood

Let's talk about the fact that you are the definition of young Hollywood. If anyone can be Young Hollywood, it's Baddie Winkle. I'd like to be an inspiration to older people. No, it's not easy at all. So you're gonna be great. They don't do much and they should get out and live. So what is your message out there for Young Hollywood? Have a good time. What is your message out there for Young Hollywood? What's your advice to them?

Guest

Okay, my message is to be always true to yourself. Be kind to everyone. Put a smile on your face because if you have a smile on your face, people will smile back.

Young Hollywood

Oh, it's been amazing. I mean, I think it's been such a cool switch in the industry to see that no longer are there gatekeepers that kinda control what is popular and what's not. Like now the people decide like anybody has the opportunity to put stuff on the web and use social media to make a career happen. And it's um it allows for so much unique and amazing content to be done that never would have been done before.

Guest

True. It's like a whole another generation, a whole another world of how things are done. And you're like leading it. You're one of the one of the people leading it.

Young Hollywood

Well, thank you.

Young Hollywood

I feel like I've got a good solid people that you know, a group of people that I've been learning with to do this process.

Travie Mills

It's been amazing.

Young Hollywood

Travie Mills. What's up, man? How are you doing?

Travie Mills

I'm just hanging out.

Young Hollywood

How's your night going? Good. Last time we saw you was at the El Rey. We did the backstage thing.

Travie Mills

Yes. Backstage diary. Yes.

Young Hollywood

What's up, dude? I heard you're uh you're doing some hosting yourself now.

Travie Mills

I got uh my own radio show with Apple and Beats One. It's called Request with Travis Mills. Um yeah, man. I got a new single with T I that just dropped that's called Young & Stupid. It's on iTunes right now. And then I just booked uh this Netflix original series called Flaked.

Young Hollywood

Oh, yeah. We love that. Dude, I knew it when I met you, man. I was like I could just you could you can get into all facets of the industry.

Travie Mills

I appreciate it.

Young Hollywood

Your interview with you doing with us was very charismatic. It had it had a lot of love and you're also talented.

Travie Mills

Thank you.

Young Hollywood

Let's talk about your outfit because you are like the hippest grandma in the world, I think.

Baddie Winkle

You think so? I think so. Oh, no. I think my answer would be.

Young Hollywood

You look beautiful in the cover art. What do you what are you wearing right now? What are you wearing?

Baddie Winkle

This is a hand-beaded design by these Indian designers, Jaani and Kosla. And um thank you. Thank you.

Young Hollywood

Yeah. You're welcome.

Baddie Winkle

This is Anthony Franco. Yes. And my Brian Lichtenberg boots. I don't know if you can see them.

Young Hollywood

What went into putting this together? A lot a lot of thought, right?

Baddie Winkle

A lot of thought. Yeah. I just wanted to wear something colorful and fun, 'cause this is a fun event.

Young Hollywood

I mean, it's like Is this like a normal outfit for you or is it just

Baddie Winkle

No.

Young Hollywood

Okay. Any new tattoos lately?

Baddie Winkle

My last tattoo was this little one.

Young Hollywood

What does it say?

Baddie Winkle

It's uh it's just has the thirteen in there. I got it on Friday the thirteenth.

Young Hollywood

Sweet, dude. Yeah. What's the craziest whip Nay Nay story? Like has a fan done something insane just like randomly coming up and doing the dance? Like there's gotta be some crazy story.

Silento

Okay. Um, well, my fans, they come up to me and they give me big hugs. That's the most awesome thing that I ever got right there. All that matters.

Young Hollywood

Huggin' it up. Huggin' it up. You already know what Hollywood stands for. We love you.

Silento

Young Hollywood. Young Hollywood, love you. Omi, fan of my fans forever. And I'm out.

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PEOPLE MENTIONED

  • JoJo Siwa

    Interviewed on the VMA red carpet

  • Jake Miller

    Interviewed on the VMA red carpet about his career and move to LA

  • Taylor Swift

    Mentioned as arriving at the VMAs

  • Miley Cyrus

    Host of the VMAs, discussed by various interviewees

  • Silento

    Interviewed on the VMA red carpet about his hit 'Watch Me'

  • OMI

    Interviewed on the VMA red carpet about his music and success

  • Lindsey Stirling

    Mentioned as attending the VMAs

  • St. Lucia

    Mentioned as attending the VMAs

  • Michael J. Willett

    Mentioned as attending the VMAs

  • Baddie Winkle

    Interviewed on the VMA red carpet about her fashion and life advice

  • Travis Mills

    Interviewed on the VMA red carpet about his new radio show and acting role

  • Jamie Lee Curtis

    Mentioned by a 'Scream Queens' cast member as being sweet

FAQ

Who was the host of the MTV VMAs mentioned in the video?+
Miley Cyrus was the host of the MTV Video Music Awards.
What song did Silento discuss during his interview?+
Silento discussed his song 'Watch Me' and its viral success on Instagram.
What record did OMI mention his song broke?+
OMI mentioned his song was the first Reggae song to be number one for over twenty years.
What advice did Baddie Winkle offer to Young Hollywood?+
Baddie Winkle advised Young Hollywood to be true to themselves, be kind to everyone, and always smile.
What new ventures did Travis Mills mention?+
Travis Mills mentioned having his own radio show called 'Request with Travis Mills' on Apple and Beats One, and booking a Netflix original series called 'Flaked'.
Where was Young Hollywood conducting interviews?+
Young Hollywood was on the multi-colored red carpet of the MTV Video Music Awards.

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