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Jason Derulo Talks 2Sides EP, DMs, and Thirst Trapping

Jason Derulo Talks 2Sides EP, DMs, and Thirst Trapping

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Young Hollywood has been following Jason Derulo since Day One, since the filming of his "Whatcha Say" music video a decade ago, and all these years later he is still the same exciting artist tearing up the music scene! We catch up with him at The Argyle in Los Angeles where he is reflecting on ten years of success and stardom in the music industry and celebrating his latest EP, '2Sides'! He shares with us his favorite memories and music videos over the course of his career, including a little mishap while shooting his "Swalla" video, plus he explains the meaning behind one of his newest bops off his latest record, "Talk with Your Body", and spills all the tea on THAT thirst trap pic on his IG!

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Young Hollywood

What up young Hollywood? I am here with Jason Derulo.

Jason Derulo

What's happening?

Young Hollywood

How many times do people do that?

Jason Derulo

Uh, enough times to be annoying as shit. And like and like sing it off key, all of it. All all that and in the back. Listen, way too many times. Just know that.

Young Hollywood

I love it. Okay, first and foremost, you look like money.

Jason Derulo

I appreciate that man.

Young Hollywood

Like a lot of it.

Jason Derulo

Yeah, man. It's it's a beautiful it's a beautiful thing. Tonight is is a special night. That's a 100 million.

Young Hollywood

190 million, but who's 190 million records sold?

Jason Derulo

Yeah, man. That is gnarly.

Young Hollywood

Yeah, crazy, man. What the fudge? How do you feel?

Jason Derulo

It's unbeli You know what, man, it's it's an unfathomable number. I mean, you can't really put that in words, man. I mean, uh I've been in the industry 10 years as well. So we're also celebrating that.

Young Hollywood

Congratulations. Clink, clink, clink, clink, clink.

Jason Derulo

Yeah, man. So yeah, you know, I should take the time to thank all the all the fans out there, man. Thank you for the support through all these 10 years. It's been an amazing 10 years and it's been an incredible journey.

Young Hollywood

That's what's up. Now, thinking about your overall career and all the music videos that you've done, is there one video that you're like, yo, that is my baby?

Jason Derulo

You know what? I gotta say, um, uh my most recent video, which is Mama Sita, man, uh which I directed myself.

Young Hollywood

Excuse me.

Jason Derulo

Yeah, I did. I did. I did.

Young Hollywood

What?

Jason Derulo

And you know, and for a lot of reasons, right? Like I feel like from from a performer's perspective, it just spoke to, you know, spoke volumes. Very sexy video, uh very high energy dance video. Yeah. Um, so yeah.

Young Hollywood

And you were speaking a little little Español.

Jason Derulo

Yeah, little Español.

Young Hollywood

Was that hard? I'm from Miami, so I should be fluent in Spanish.

Jason Derulo

You should be.

Young Hollywood

Yeah, but I'm not.

Jason Derulo

But you're not?

Young Hollywood

No, I'm not. I'm working on it though. Fair. Now, is there any music video that you've done in the past that there were some sort of like crazy mishaps like anything?

Jason Derulo

Yeah, during Swalla. I bust my ass during Swalla.

Young Hollywood

How so?

Jason Derulo

Yeah, so we had the bright idea to put water on the floor so that, uh, you know, we had like the splash going on while I was performing. Um, and it was not even while I was performing. Like I was just walking off set and it was like

Young Hollywood

And you weren't even performing? Just like walking off set. And bust your entire ass.

Jason Derulo

Yeah, definitely. Not a vibe.

Young Hollywood

Yeah, definitely not. Okay, really quick. We have to talk about this. I was doing a little stalking on your IG. Uh-huh. And your latest post. Jesus Christ. Thirst trapping all day. What are your thoughts? What was what was going through your head when you posted that?

Jason Derulo

I'm going to be complete. I did not I did not expect that response.

Young Hollywood

You're such a liar.

Jason Derulo

I promise you, I did not.

Young Hollywood

You're such a liar.

Jason Derulo

I did not expect my most liked photo to be this morning.

Young Hollywood

Okay, I didn't know it was the most liked, but come on.

Jason Derulo

It was my most liked, most commented. It was like, it's crazy.

Young Hollywood

You were like wet and in your underwear like literally it made me want to like live in the gym.

Jason Derulo

It's it's not even a pick that I took yesterday. It's like a pick that I took months ago. You know what I'm saying? So it's not like, yo, I'm keeping this in the vault so I can post this in a month. I was like, Okay.

Young Hollywood

That's what it sounds like right now.

Jason Derulo

I was like, I need something to post today. I'm gonna post this. Good morning. And then it was like, okay.

Young Hollywood

Okay. That's what's up. You never get like nervous when you like post pictures like that? Like, oh my God, what if like my cousin or like my little niece sees it? Cuz I do. I freak out.

Jason Derulo

No, I didn't I didn't get that vibe at all, but I did get hit up by my by everybody.

Young Hollywood

Oh my God. Like, who? Who was like the first person to hit you up?

Jason Derulo

Um, I mean, I had cousins hit me up. Like, what? What's this? My my DM's is blowing up like your DM's is blowing up? Let me check my DM's. Oh, damn. Oh my God. Well, what? Okay. Well, wow. That is gnarly.

Young Hollywood

Wait, really quick. Now speaking of DM's, what's like the craziest DM that you've received?

Jason Derulo

I mean, you know how DM's are, man. I mean, you could imagine. The DM's is crazy.

Young Hollywood

I'm sure.

Jason Derulo

Like, it's like a whole porno in my DM's.

Young Hollywood

Oh my God. I'm done. I'm so done. But you can kind of see You can kind of see like before you open it up like what what it's gonna be like. Um, Do you like open it up with like one eye? Like and click.

Jason Derulo

No, I open up with both eyes cuz

Young Hollywood

Fair enough.

Jason Derulo

Yeah. Okay. Cuz I'm I know what I'm clicking. So like you know, I'm not really going to click on what I don't want to click. So if I'm clicking on your stuff like chances are I want to see what's there.

Young Hollywood

That's what's up. Now the new album Two Sides. Yeah. Talk with your body. That song slaps. It literally does.

Jason Derulo

I appreciate that. Thank you.

Young Hollywood

Now, there was one line, actually two lines in the song. It was when you tell me to pipe down, it makes me want to lay the pipe down. I don't know what that means. What does that mean?

Jason Derulo

You know what that mean?

Young Hollywood

I have not a clue. I wanted to ask you.

Jason Derulo

So, uh when I don't know. when the lady tells me to to be quiet, I know exactly what she's saying. She's telling me to be quiet cuz she wants something different. You know what I'm saying? So like okay, I'm gonna shut up right now just so I can make this happen for the both of us.

Young Hollywood

Fair enough. Did you come up with that line?

Jason Derulo

I write my song, of course.

Young Hollywood

I love it. I love it. That is legendary. Listen, I am so super excited for you and happy that you A 190 million records sold.

Jason Derulo

Hey. Yeah, man. Not too many people can say that.

Young Hollywood

No, definitely not. That's incredible.

Jason Derulo

A blessing and thank y'all again.

Young Hollywood

Absolutely. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Pam out.

Jason Derulo

Yeah. You got it. Yeah. hey.

Young Hollywood

See you guys.

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How many records has Jason Derulo sold?+
Jason Derulo has sold 190 million records over his career.
Which of his music videos did Jason Derulo direct?+
Jason Derulo directed his most recent music video, 'Mama Sita'.
What happened during the 'Swalla' music video shoot?+
Jason Derulo slipped and fell during the 'Swalla' video shoot because water was put on the floor for a splash effect.
What is the title of Jason Derulo's latest EP?+
Jason Derulo's latest EP is titled '2Sides'.
What is the meaning of 'Talk with Your Body' by Jason Derulo?+
According to Jason Derulo, the line 'when you tell me to pipe down, it makes me want to lay the pipe down' implies that when a lady tells him to be quiet, she wants something else to happen.

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