00:00 ♪ Tell it to my heart ♪
00:02 ♪ Tell me I'm the only one ♪
00:04 ♪ If it's really love I'm just a game ♪
00:08 ♪ Tell it to my heart ♪
00:10 ♪ I can feel my body rock ♪
00:12 ♪ Every time you call my name ♪
00:16 With 80s and 90s hits like "Tell It to My Heart", "Prove Your Love" and "Love Will Lead You Back",
00:22 her music defined a generation.
00:24 And she shows no sign of slowing down.
00:27 Currently touring all over the country, we are thrilled to welcome Miss Taylor Dayne.
00:31 Yes!
00:33 Hello beautiful.
00:34 So excited to have you here.
00:35 Yes, thank you girl.
00:36 Okay, Taylor, we actually last spoke to you in January and you bravely shared your colon cancer diagnosis.
00:44 Yeah.
00:45 How are you doing now?
00:46 It's a year right now, right now where we are since I had the surgery, since I was diagnosed.
00:51 And I am fully in recovery and I feel so grateful and just so filled with love and support.
01:00 It's been an amazing journey.
01:01 That's wonderful.
01:02 So many of us were so hopeful for you and just to have you here is awesome.
01:06 And you know, I should always say thank you.
01:08 Yeah.
01:09 Because we're never guaranteed.
01:10 That's right.
01:11 Exactly.
01:12 Well, it has been 35 years since you released "Tell It to My Heart" and it is still requested at every bar and on every radio station.
01:20 And you even tried to teach your son the dance on TikTok.
01:23 How did it go?
01:24 Okay, is this Levi?
01:25 Oh my goodness.
01:26 There he is.
01:27 Well, there he is.
01:28 That's the product of me.
01:29 Look at him.
01:30 That's called being a fool and cutting the monkey.
01:33 We're in our kitchen and I'm just, you know, he will always just be like, "How do you do it?
01:36 How do you do it?"
01:37 And try not hard to.
01:38 I go, "You know this dance better than anybody."
01:40 Look at him.
01:42 He's like, "Eh."
01:44 I'm going to make you look bad.
01:46 I know.
01:47 I'm going to make you look bad.
01:48 I love it.
01:49 I'm going to make you look bad.
01:50 But you know what?
01:51 You got to be part of one of the most iconic tours, obviously, with the one and only Michael Jackson.
01:56 Yes, the back tour.
01:58 That was major.
01:59 Look at that hair.
02:00 That's major.
02:01 Do you have any favorite memories that you can share?
02:04 I do.
02:05 His manager at the time, the iconic Frank DiLeo.
02:08 Do you remember the short Italian?
02:10 He was in "Goodfellas" with that one photo of Michael and his manager like this.
02:15 And I'll never forget, he came up behind me when we were on stage.
02:18 And I was watching Michael's performance.
02:20 And he goes, "Michael told me I need to fire you."
02:22 And I said, "Really? Why?"
02:24 He goes, "Because she's exhausting the audience.
02:26 She's exhausting my audience."
02:28 I said, "I'm exhausting his audience?"
02:30 I go, "This is when they were hosing down fans and he had all that pandemonium."
02:34 So it was, you know, that's my memory of the beautiful Michael Jackson.
02:38 That's a huge compliment, actually.
02:39 I thought so.
02:40 But I mean, it had to come with a flip.
02:42 You're getting fired.
02:43 But you didn't get fired.
02:47 You didn't get fired.
02:48 Frank goes, "Don't worry. I'll manage you when we get back to the States."
02:50 And he did.
02:51 I love that.
02:52 And you've been doing amazing things since then.
02:54 You actually have a new partnership with Wacol for their Fit for the Cure event.
02:59 Tell us all about it.
03:01 It was incredible when they reached out to me.
03:03 I was in recovery, obviously.
03:04 We discussed this.
03:05 My cancer was in hardly remission.
03:08 I got it stage one and I'm here.
03:11 It seemed like such an incredible fit for them to come to me
03:14 and then actually want me to do this campaign, Fit for a Cure for Wacol.
03:18 It's just an awareness.
03:19 It's a brilliant awareness for women, breast cancer, and the Susan B. Komen.
03:23 You can see that.
03:24 And the fittings that they give to women and offer at such a reasonable price.
03:28 And I just think--and here you see the campaign with my daughter.
03:31 It was really an incredible thing to share with her.
03:33 And we launched, I guess, this September.
03:36 I mean, we're almost in fall already.
03:38 You look absolutely beautiful.
03:40 Those pictures are beautiful.
03:41 Scars and all, you know.
03:43 Wear it proud.
03:44 Wear it proud.
03:45 Do you know how many women don't actually know their correct bra size?
03:49 I think probably 99% of people don't.
03:52 Well, we all were just given that training bra and we never wanted to talk about it.
03:56 But there is such a proper way to fit.
03:58 You know that.
03:59 Have you done it?
04:00 Of course I did.
04:01 I did it prior to this.
04:03 And then, of course, they actually took us in as a celebrity.
04:06 And they just said, "We need to do a proper fitting with you."
04:09 And that's all part of that campaign.
04:10 Really educating the consumer and these women.
04:13 And women, you know, we wear such ridiculous--my own daughter, I had my finger around her back strap like three times.
04:20 I go, "This is not a fitted bra."
04:22 Yeah.
04:23 Oh, my gosh.
04:24 That's me.
04:25 I'll put my finger around that.
04:27 They're next.
04:28 Well, you're so busy touring the country right now.
04:30 And we hear you have new music in the works.
04:33 I do.
04:34 I just got great word today.
04:36 Cash Cash, an incredible production team.
04:38 We have a single coming out mid-September.
04:40 So, look forward to that.
04:42 New music as well.
04:43 Yeah.
04:44 Your voice is absolutely incredible.
04:45 I know.
04:46 We got to talk about "Don't Rush Me."
04:48 "Don't Rush Me."
04:49 That's one of my favorites.
04:50 That's your jam?
04:51 I like that one.
04:52 I know you and Mario are supposed to come to the freestyle.
04:54 I know.
04:55 How do I do a freestyle show and then go out with Kylie Minogue?
04:57 That's the interesting thing of my career.
04:59 After 35 years, I'm just like, "Who am I playing with tonight?
05:02 Who is on this tour with me?"
05:04 It's been a very interesting and beautiful ride.
05:06 I know.
05:07 I'm really, really grateful, really, really proud of it.
05:10 I love it.
05:11 One of the songs I auditioned for for the girl group 3LW was "Love Will Lead You Back."
05:15 It's a tough one.
05:16 It is timeless, and I'm obsessed with it.
05:19 So, every time I see you, I'm like, "Oh, I love you."
05:22 It's always great chatting with you.
05:24 Thank you for stopping by tonight.
05:25 Thank you, Aja.
05:26 Love you, girls.
05:27 Taylor is currently on tour.
05:28 Check out her website and social media platforms for more details.
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