Young Hollywood, what's going on? We're here at Life is Beautiful. Yes, we are. With the beautiful Alessia Cara. I'm sorry if I seem uninterested, or I'm not listening, or I'm indifferent. Truly, I ain't got no. What's the experience been so far for Life Is Beautiful?

We flew here, and been here, and we've just just performed, and it was awesome.

Yeah?

Yeah.

What was the crowd like?

They were great. I was like really surprised that they knew the songs and they were holding up like posters and like, it was really cool. I was really pleasantly surprised.

That is really cool. So, it so your, we were talking earlier, your family, are they, are they proud of your success? tell me about your family and how, how they're reacting to your success.

Yeah, my family, like they're, they've been amazing. They're so supportive. And you know, I think initially they were kind of iffy about what I'm pursuing because, you know, as, as a family and especially as an Italian old-school family, they're like, maybe get like another job, you know, another hobby, but they were so like, now that they realize that I'm serious about it and it's not just like a little phase that's gonna go away. Like I'm doing this, you know, they're so supportive and it's great.

I asked myself, what am I doing here? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. And I can't wait till we can break about here. Who introduced you to music in your family or did you just pick it up yourself?

Um, I've always just, I picked it up myself. It was just something that I always did. I was always singing, I was always like trying to play instruments, but I never knew how until I was like 12 or 13. I never really learned how until I was 12 or 13, but singing, I was just always doing it. It was just something that was in me and I was always trying to write stories, poems, songs, and it was just something that was kind of there. But I didn't actually start professionally writing music until like two years ago.

How long did it take you to write here?

Here took, uh, it was one studio session. So one studio session probably like seven or eight hours. So I'd say in seven or eight hours we got the demo written and recorded.

What's here about? Like why, what inspired you to write it? Why did you write it?

Ah, yeah, so it's about a party that I went to like two years ago and I felt so weird at it, uncomfortable, and like, I don't know, certain situations are social situations make me feel kind of small and vulnerable and that was one of them. And I didn't know why. I was like, this is supposed to be fun. Why am I feeling so weird? And like I didn't understand why I couldn't blend in, you know? So, I went to the studio, started ranting about it to like the producers and Sebastian Cole, this guy I was working with, this writer, and we just started turning it into the song. The rant eventually just turned into the song naturally. Yeah.

What was the first song you ever wrote?

First song I ever wrote? This isn't really count as like a real song. But the first song I ever wrote when I was like a kid was the song called Let Me Be Your Friend. And it was horrible. And it was like, it was just about me wanting to be someone's friend.

Is that other one? Is that anywhere in the

Oh, you'll never find it ever, ever. The first real No, no, no, no, no. The first song I ever, I think it was probably the song called Only Human. That no one's ever heard either. But it was when I was in the studio and like we were working with my production company and we wrote the song called Only Human. And that was the first time I ever dabbled in like just learning how to, how to be a songwriter, just observing and then kind of learning how to do it.

Okay. When was the first time I heard here on the radio and like who was around you and what was that experience like?

First time I heard here on the radio, I was in Florida and we were on a promo tour, and this radio station was like, go in the car at this time and we'll play it. Cuz they heard that I'd never heard it before. So I was like, okay, turned it on and it just played and it was like such a weird cool experience. It just felt so weird and

Who was in the car?

Um, it was my dad and some people from Def Jam, my label.

You guys were just going crazy?

Yeah, we were like, we were all filming it and like singing it and

Social media, right?

Yeah, it was like proud parent moments for all of us. Yeah.

And life is beautiful. This girl just killed it at life is beautiful.

Thank you. I'm sweaty. I swear this is not sweat, it's just water. I promise.