Jason Derulo's Tips to Getting to "The Other Side"

What's up, Young Hollywood? It's your truly Jason Derulo, here, back to make it happen in the studio. Apparently, there's a bar inside the Young Hollywood studio. It wasn't a bar last time I came here. What up! Hey! How are you? Good to see you. Oh my gosh. Look at your bling. Where's the bar, though? This way. You see that? That's crazy. Come on. That's a crazy one.

One, two, three. I'm here with Jason Derulo. So great to see you.

Oh, likewise, likewise.

You haven't been here for a while.

It's been a couple of years. It's been a couple of years. They got a bar here, guys. They got a bar.

Okay, so we're asking celebrities, so we're gonna ask you. What's up? What's the Jason Derulo drink? Because when people come in and we say what's what are we what do you have on the menu? We want to say what's the Jason Derulo, what would be your drink? What's in it?

I'm a I'm a vodka soda kinda guy.

Keeping it simple. Are you throwing lime in there? Lemon?

Oh yeah. I throw a little lime, a little lemon. That just gives it an extra little zing.

So you've had a lot going on. I did. You are back, though.

I'm back.

And you walked in and I'm like, okay, you've had, you know, you've been through this neck injury, and you are in incredible, incredible shape. Better shape than most people. So I know you've talked a little bit about like sort of coming back and how you sort of kept strong and how you you know, mentally, I'm sure it's really really tough to stay positive. Did you have a lot of people around you helping you? Was it more like an internal thing?

I think it was a a combination of of my family being there, my loved ones and then being able to make a music at the same time. Every day, you know, it was me in the studio, which probably prolonged my my recovery process because I'm a mover. So like if I'm in the studio, I'm just like and that's not what you're supposed to be doing. You're not supposed to be doing this when you have a neck injury. Yeah. But at the same time, I mean, that was like helping me cope with everything that was going on. Um, so yeah, crazy little experience there.

So the other side, your new single. It's so fantastic. Every I can put it on for 10 seconds and it's in my head the rest of the day.

Oh, that's awesome.

So this the song is about taking a girl out of the friend zone, moving it into the romantic area. Yeah. So what is your biggest tip for a guy out there or maybe a girl that's in the friend zone that wants to move to the other side? Well Is it the wine? Is it a date? Is it a loud?

I mean, wine always helps, of course. Okay. But like during conversation, like you know, just like a simple like putting your hand on their knee. You know what I'm saying? Like a little whisper, like if it's louder in the club, if you're in somewhere, like little whisper like that, you know, just kind of slowly takes things a little closer, you know, some something kind of like in that little bubble that you wouldn't normally uh you just sort of do something you wouldn't have done before.

Now, do you always have to have that little sign from the girl, though? What if you weren't getting that signal? Do you still go for it?

No, you don't you don't need the sign. Yeah.

Really?

No. I mean, as a man, I mean, you kind of want to take control and and make it happen sometimes, you know?

You know, we've interviewed you so many times. We've kind of been following your the evolution of your career and we have a clip from a interview that you did with us a couple of years ago.

No you don't.

And you sort of talked about the evolution of in one of your albums. So it's behind you on the monitor.

Oh, great. What can we expect from all the other songs on it? Expect reinvention. I try to try to reinvent myself every time. So like, you know, if you're at a red light, you're listening to Jason Derulo. Somebody may think you're listening to like a techno artist. If you stop at the the next red light, you know, it's gonna be totally different.

Wow. I love the red light theory, by the way. Is that still a goal sort of ever having everything from album to album having your sound evolve and within the album?

Absolutely. Um, well, it was easier to evolve this time because of my accident. And the fact that my life kind of just like flipped, took a totally different route. So, so the things that I'm writing about is are totally different. It's definitely more personal. I wanted people to get to know me. You know, it's it's not chasing a hit on this album. It's it's really a personal record.

I know you're gonna be performing at Wango Tango. Yeah. It's the Ryan Seacrest event. There's gonna be so many great artists there. Like Maroon 5, Britney Spears, Bruno Mars. I mean, you. Yeah. It's cool. Do you like cuz I know in the past you've toured with Gaga, and do you like when you go to these events or you go and you perform with other artists, are you ever like the guy like a nerd like a fan guy that sees somebody and goes, oh I wanna hang out with that person? Or do you kind of just do your own thing?

You know, I'm I'm a very uh to myself kinda guy. I'm I'm just like that naturally. It's it's not it's not because I don't want to necessarily. I don't know for some reason, I'm just kind of like to myself and I I'll just be chilling in my dressing room and and that's okay.

Have you been starstruck by anybody? Either an actor, a musician. Who sort of have you met that?

Um, we went to um Quincy Jones's birthday party. Two tables down was just Will Smith. Like that was crazy to me cuz I mean, I grew up watching him, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Every single day, I would watch his show every single day and um still to this day, he's one of my favorite actors.

And I know you're gonna be on Dancing With the Stars. And then there's the E! story is coming out that you're story. Yeah. The untold story. The untold story. Can you tell us anything about the untold story?

Well, I mean, I I just always felt like, you know, people felt that, you know, they know Jason Derulo as the guy on the radio. Um, but don't necessarily know who he is as a person, don't know his background, don't know where he's come from. Um, so this was uh my way of, you know, kind of giving them my whole story, my whole backstory and, you know, how I got to be where I am today and uh also with my injury, you know, through the recovery process, you know, all of that stuff was kinda crazy. So

Yeah, cuz you've been doing it since you were a kid. So what is the key to sort of keeping it going?

It's uh to continue to to grow. You know, if you think you have it, if you think you're good, that's when you start to fall backwards. You know, and if you're at a a stop light.

I love it.