GIVĒON Opens Up About Being Confronted By His Exes | Blind Date | Cosmopolitan - video Dailymotion

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GIVĒON may be known for his heartbreak anthems, but on this episode of “Blind Date,” our hearts are anything but broken. While sipping white wine and snacking on cannolis, the Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter opens up to Cosmo Editor-in-Chief Willa Bennett about being confronted by exes, why his newest album is perfect for a breakup playlist, and his theory on staying friends with an ex. Our takeaway? Dating a singer might make you nervous to have a song written about you, but at least it means he cares.   Stream GIVĒON's album ‘BELOVED’ here: https://Giveon.lnk.to/BELOVED Get tickets for DEAR BELOVED, THE TOUR here: www.giveonofficial.com/tour   #Giveon #Beloved #BlindDate #Cosmopolitan

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00:00Have you ever been confronted by someone you've written a song about?

00:03Yes.

00:03She sent me a text and she was just like, really?

00:06I was like, what?

00:07My name is Willa Bennett and I'm gonna go on a blind date.

00:11It's time to put on my blindfold.

00:17Hello.

00:18You smell really good.

00:19What's your fragrance?

00:21It's Byredo.

00:22Do they pay you to say that?

00:23Mm-mm.

00:24Okay, so you don't have a Byredo deal?

00:26Not yet.

00:27Maybe I'll put it.

00:28Hmm.

00:29Do I smell good?

00:30Yeah.

00:31Do you know what's in front of you right now?

00:32It's a good time right now.

00:34Is this why?

00:35Yeah, obviously it's why.

00:36You thought we were gonna go on a blind date sober?

00:38This is my first blind date.

00:40Am I your type?

00:41Yeah, I mean, I don't have a type.

00:42I just like...

00:42Okay, you're one of those.

00:44I don't have a type.

00:46Yeah, especially...

00:46Everyone has a type.

00:47Funny.

00:48Funny?

00:48Yeah, I like funny.

00:49Well, that's convenient for you because I'm really funny.

00:52Tell me a joke.

00:53Knock, knock.

00:54Who's there?

00:55What's your name? Tell me quick.

00:58Yeah, I'm not smart.

00:58How's the bread?

01:00I'm not eating.

01:01You're waiting for me?

01:02Yeah.

01:02So you believe in chivalry?

01:04Yeah.

01:05And when you get to the restroom, I'm gonna stand up.

01:08You're gonna come to the bathroom with me?

01:10No, no.

01:11I'm not gonna go.

01:11You're gonna have to just be like, welcome back type of thing.

01:16Okay, wait.

01:17We're gonna eat now.

01:18Hello.

01:19Wait, are you supposed to do that?

01:20Yeah, I couldn't guess.

01:21Oh, okay, good.

01:22Oh, you're good.

01:23Wait, so did I win?

01:24There's no winning in dating.

01:26There's only love.

01:27Okay.

01:28All right, give me a welcome to blind date.

01:31So, are you gonna write a song about me?

01:33Yeah.

01:34Is it more offensive if you write about me or don't write about me?

01:37Don't.

01:38Because I mean, like, you did not matter.

01:41Because I'll write the song whether it's good or bad.

01:43So I gotta do something mean.

01:44No, no, no, no, no.

01:45That's what you heard.

01:46Yeah.

01:47How do you hear that?

01:49But you can write about me too, though.

01:51It's true.

01:52Yours will probably be like in a journal.

01:53Mine will probably be on stage and they'll all sing about me writing about you.

01:58So they'll take my side.

02:00What are you putting out into the world right now that you're really excited about?

02:02Vulnerable, honest, painful, expensive.

02:08Well, expensive.

02:09What does that mean?

02:10The sound of music that I'm making, it's just, it's all played live.

02:14And it's just a full band and it's just, it's just rich in sound.

02:18Peaches by Justin Bieber is one of my top songs of the year.

02:22This year?

02:22Yeah.

02:23I thought you'd like that.

02:25Yeah, I do.

02:26But sometimes, you know, like some of my bigger songs, I'm like, I don't want to hear this again.

02:30You're one of those.

02:31You're like, when it's mainstream, it's no longer cool.

02:33Yeah, I'm like, I'm Trarian, I guess the term is.

02:36Like, I like to pretend I'm underground, but I'm not underground anymore.

02:42Is that?

02:43I thought that was food.

02:44It's coming.

02:45Who is that?

02:46This is from 1987.

02:48I'm going to read you first date advice and you're going to say what you think.

02:51Oh, and look, I actually got you some food.

02:53Does he work here?

02:55Where are you getting this?

02:57Let's dig into it.

02:58Ladies first.

02:59If someone said they would donate a million dollars to charity if you went streaking, would

03:03you do it?

03:03Streaking?

03:04Yeah.

03:05Like completely streaking?

03:07Like, or just like-

03:08Yes, completely streaking.

03:09Don't edit the questions.

03:11Why not?

03:11You know?

03:12I'll do it.

03:13Would you be willing to reduce your life expectancy by five years to become extremely attractive?

03:20No.

03:21I'm already attractive.

03:22You really are.

03:23You know you're hot though, right?

03:25Yeah.

03:25What's that like?

03:26You know, waking up being like, I'm perfect.

03:28Well, I'm not perfect.

03:30I have a lot of flaws.

03:31Like what?

03:32I'm emotional.

03:33It's not a flaw.

03:34It's not?

03:35No.

03:35Tell that to my ex.

03:36What'd she do?

03:37What did she do?

03:38You already taken my side.

03:39I like you.

03:40Nah, she didn't do anything.

03:41When did you last cry in front of another person?

03:44Oh, her, probably.

03:46That's in that book?

03:47Yeah, in college.

03:47What was going on in the 80s?

03:49People are crying.

03:50Okay.

03:50Okay, this next one's fun.

03:52I'm not.

03:53Okay.

03:54You have anything else to say?

03:55It just sounds scary.

03:56It's just us here.

03:57Don't worry.

03:58Have you had satisfying sex within the last three months?

04:02Mm-hmm.

04:04Really?

04:06Three months?

04:07Yeah.

04:08The last person who was here said she took a whole year of celibacy.

04:11A year?

04:12I'm about to choke.

04:13I think it's not a year.

04:15Okay, how many different sexual partners have you had in your lifetime?

04:18Would you prefer to have had more or fewer?

04:20Because I feel like now you're just asking me stuff you want to know.

04:23Yeah, I'm just like obsessed with asking you all this.

04:26No, I don't really think about it.

04:28So you would say it's about quality, not quantity.

04:30There you go.

04:32What do you think about marriage?

04:33I love marriage.

04:33I want to be married.

04:34Kids?

04:34Kids, yeah.

04:35I want three daughters.

04:36Three?

04:37I have a big family.

04:39Wow.

04:39Benjamin, I keep calling him something else.

04:43All right, you completed the Cosmo quiz.

04:48I got you a canola.

04:49This is insane.

04:51Thank you, Bob.

04:52Okay, so these are blind questions from Cosmo readers.

04:56Yeah.

04:56So I've never seen them before.

04:57So if they're scandalous...

04:59Ooh!

04:59Here you go, Angel.

05:00I don't have a fork.

05:01Brat.

05:04Thank you, Brat.

05:05Are you for or against staying friends with your ex?

05:08Well, I have this theory, right?

05:09If you could be friends with your ex,

05:11you either never loved them

05:13or you're still in love with them.

05:15Whoa, I'm processing that.

05:17What songs or artists are on your post-breakup crash-out playlist?

05:21I feel like my newest album, Beloved, will help a lot.

05:23Because it just goes through all the waves of just the relationship in general.

05:26Not even just the...

05:27Because I feel like you shouldn't just mourn the breakup.

05:31I think you should sit and process the whole relationship

05:33so you can know what you can do different next time.

05:35And there's 14 songs on there, so I'll say that's the playlist.

05:38It's really beautiful.

05:40Complicated, textured, like, deep.

05:43I love that word.

05:44That's my new favorite word.

05:45Willa.

05:48Have you ever been confronted by someone you've written a song about?

05:51Yes.

05:52She sent me a text and she was just like, really?

05:54I was like, what?

05:55Because I have a song called Still Your Best.

05:57And it's just pretty much saying, like, oh, you have a new boyfriend, but you...

06:01Come on.

06:02But that's when I was, like, you know, a little more...

06:04I had a little more hubris, a little more bravado.

06:07I'm more settled now.

06:09How did you get settled?

06:10You know, I matured a bit.

06:12You go to therapy?

06:13Yeah.

06:13Well, sometimes.

06:14Not all the time.

06:15Because music is, like...

06:16Music's my therapy.

06:17Yeah, it's my therapy.

06:18I get to express myself.

06:20You're like, I don't need professionals.

06:21You know?

06:22If your last partner wrote a song about you, what would it be called?

06:27Blocked.

06:28Care to explain?

06:29I'm blocked.

06:30Oh, blocked.

06:31Yeah.

06:31I thought you said locked.

06:32Almost.

06:33You're missing a B.

06:34Right, Brandon?

06:36You've been accused of making male manipulator music.

06:40Do you think you deserve to be thrown into the genre?

06:42Why not?

06:43What's the most embarrassing way that you've been rejected by someone?

06:46Embarrassing?

06:47Nah, I don't really...

06:48I don't get embarrassed.

06:50No, I don't...

06:50Stop.

06:51I just...

06:51I mean, I get rejected.

06:53I just do it in such a low-stakes way to where if it's rejection, it's just like, oh, he just

06:58said hi.

06:59First date in New York.

07:00Where do you go?

07:01I feel like New York, you stack it.

07:03That's the difference between, like, LA and New York.

07:05LA, you just go somewhere.

07:07That's where it is.

07:07But New York, there's a lot more options to just bounce around.

07:10There's a trend called stack dating where you literally stack your dates.

07:14So multiple dates in a day?

07:15But, like, stacked, like, 8 to 9, 9 to 10, 10 to 11.

07:19That's how bad he's got?

07:20Not for me.

07:22What's the biggest red flag you've missed or ignored?

07:25Passive aggression.

07:26I have to guess what's wrong with you.

07:28Or guess if something's even wrong.

07:30Like, just say it.

07:31But I've also grown to realize sometimes I create the environment where they didn't feel comfortable

07:36expressing it.

07:38So you're working on yourself, you'd say?

07:40Yeah, I did the work.

07:41Brady?

07:42Brady!

07:43I got you with me.

07:44Yeah.

07:45But you got another blind date with me?

07:46I'm down.

07:47Cool.

07:48But I got to stack a couple dates after this and see what I'm going to do.

07:51By the way, he actually has a penis.

07:53Say swear.

07:54What is it?

07:54He's in here, Brian.

07:56Yo!

07:57He's in here, Brian?

07:59I'm fucking weak.

08:01That's funny.

08:02He's in here.

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