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At just 18 years old, singer, songwriter, and guitarist Rome Ramirez met the band that shaped his childhood--Sublime, never imagining he'd one day help carry their legacy after the tragic passing of frontman Bradley Nowell. Reborn as Sublime with Rome in 2009, the group went on to release four studio albums and ignite stages around the world, all powered by Ramirez's unmistakable voice and fresh creative fire. Beyond the band, Rome's talent has carried him into collaborations with a wide range of artists--from Selena Gomez to JLo, The Dirty Heads and Enrique Iglesias. Now, he's carving out a bold new chapter with his EP Gemini , featuring the breakout single 'Slow & Easy' with The Dirty Heads--a track that's climbed its way into the Top 10 on Alt Radio. Rome stopped by the LifeMinute studios to talk new music, new chapters, and what's next. This is a LifeMinute with Rome Ramirez.
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00:00What's going on, y'all? My name is Rome, and you are watching Life Minute TV.
00:04Take it slow and easy and don't worry about nothing.
00:10After 15 years fronting his favorite band, Growing Up Sublime,
00:14and writing songs for everyone from J-Lo to Selena Gomez,
00:19singer, songwriter, and guitarist Rome Ramirez is now flying solo
00:22with a fresh new EP titled after his Zodiac namesake, Gemini.
00:27Rome calls it a fresh new sound that meshes the worlds of where he's come from
00:31and what's up next.
00:32He stopped by the Life Minute studios to chat with me all about it and more.
00:36This is a Life Minute with Rome Ramirez.
00:40Rome Ramirez in the house. Woo-hoo!
00:42Thank you for having me.
00:43We're so happy you're here. Congrats on your new EP, Gemini.
00:46It's awesome. Sounds wonderful.
00:48Appreciate you. Thanks for listening.
00:49Tell us about it.
00:51It's been a long time in the making. I've been writing these songs.
00:53Really, at the start of the pandemic was the first time that Sublime with Rome
00:57really took any time off, as everyone else in the world at that point.
01:01So we were just sitting around, and I was live streaming a bunch to the fans.
01:06And man, I'd run through all the Sublime with Rome songs,
01:09the Sublime classics, a bunch of covers.
01:11And people were just like,
01:12do you have any music that you've been writing for yourself?
01:15And the answer was no,
01:17because I'd just been writing songs and producing for other artists for so long.
01:20And I think ripping the Band-Aid off for my own stuff was like,
01:23you know, I was like kind of avoiding that, I think.
01:25And, you know, when you're at home and you're like,
01:28don't have a job for a while,
01:29you can start to really get introspective on things.
01:32And I just started to pick up the guitar and write music
01:35without really thinking of who it was going to go to
01:37or where it was going to go or if it was going to go anywhere.
01:40Just writing to have fun and play the songs on the live stream.
01:43And in that process,
01:45I started to just really fall in love with like making music for myself again.
01:51And I started just, you know, compiling these songs.
01:54And it kind of got to the point when the world resumed
01:56and Sublime with Rome went back into business
01:59and we had tours and an album cycle.
02:01It felt like my heart was starting to shift away
02:03from what I've been doing for so long
02:05into, you know, wanting to try and, you know, a new adventure
02:10and put all my eggs in that basket.
02:12And that's just kind of how I am as a person.
02:14I've always felt like if you were to do anything great,
02:17you got to like give it everything you have.
02:19You know, when you kind of dip your toe in a little bit,
02:21like it doesn't really, at least for me,
02:22it's never really panned out that way.
02:24You know, it takes like everything I have.
02:25So yeah, I talked to my wife and I was like,
02:27I think I'm going to quit my job.
02:29I'm going to try and do this thing.
02:31And then that was a whole process in and of itself.
02:34But so we're here, you know, I've just been writing music
02:36and getting some of those songs.
02:39And then, I mean, I write like every single day,
02:41five days out of the week.
02:43And, you know, just pick like my songs
02:45that I feel like best represent who I am
02:47and where I'm going.
02:48And I decided to split them up,
02:50put them on two different EPs.
02:51And yeah, so we just dropped Gemini.
02:53And yeah, I'm excited to actually just get this music
02:55that's been in my head for so long
02:57out into the world now.
02:58And it's so good.
02:59I got a happy feeling listening to it.
03:01It's like positive, almost like a reggae sound to it,
03:04almost like, you know,
03:05and those songs are always so happy.
03:07Totally. That's where I come from.
03:09I mean, I just, I've had such an amazing life
03:11being able to join my favorite band
03:13and tour the world for 15 years
03:14and meet my family and like my friends.
03:17And so to be at this point now
03:19where, you know, I get to create another chapter
03:22and it's on my terms,
03:23that's a lot of gratitude, like cooked into that.
03:25And, you know, I can,
03:27I just have a hard time feeling any sort of negativity
03:30about the life and the journey that I've lived so far.
03:33So I just want to kind of put that energy into the music
03:35and hopefully inspire people to, you know,
03:38they wake up in the morning,
03:39they decide to have a good day
03:41versus like, you know, the world's a terrible place.
03:44That's so good.
03:45And Gemini, why is it called Gemini?
03:46Well, I'm a Gemini, born in June,
03:48and two of my children are Gemini.
03:50And so, you know,
03:52I feel like that dichotomy is very real
03:55in me as like an artist and a performer.
03:57And, you know,
03:59because I am like so many different sides
04:01to my die, so to speak,
04:02but they all kind of revolve around the same essence,
04:05which is just who I am.
04:06But I feel like the world's known me from one side.
04:09And now this is like my chance
04:10to kind of introduce the whole other side of me
04:12that the world doesn't really know.
04:14And actually we were at a country fair in Indiana
04:17watching the 80s band play with my family.
04:20And I was like,
04:21I don't really know what to name the EP.
04:23And one of my cousins was just like,
04:24do you guys name the album Gemini, man?
04:27Because like, you're a Gemini.
04:28And then it all just made sense to me.
04:30I'm like, that's exactly what I'm going to do.
04:32So yeah, it's cool.
04:34This is all like family.
04:36It's all communal.
04:37And it feels that way.
04:38Awesome.
04:38Tell me about some of the songs on the EP.
04:40Well, the very first song that I wrote
04:42for the whole project was Got It Good.
04:51It's like acoustic, vocal kind of demo
04:53that I originally had.
04:54And I was playing it around for people.
04:56And, you know, they really liked like the sound of it.
04:59And so I felt like I was kind of hitting on something
05:01with, you know, a little bit of like where I come from
05:04with like the roots reggae, the rhythmic feel of that.
05:06But also, you know, what I listened to
05:08is a lot of like classic Motown and soul and folk.
05:11So the bridging of the two,
05:13I felt was in that song a little bit.
05:15Man, I've had this song in my head
05:17that I've wanted to write for many years.
05:18And it was like this version of like a summer song.
05:22And I wanted it to be like Uncle Cracker,
05:24follow me, everything will be all right.
05:26Right.
05:27And then I wanted to mix it with like Van Morrison,
05:30you know, like Brown Eyed Girl, you know,
05:31if I can just like mix these two records
05:33and make a summer song.
05:34And I tried and do that for many years.
05:36And I failed.
05:37And just, you know, this last year,
05:39I went in the studio and I was like,
05:41I'm going to try and write this song again.
05:43And I came up with Slow and Easy
05:45with my friend Nick Bailey.
05:53That I felt was the closest representation
05:55of what I've been chasing in my head
05:57of like marrying both worlds
05:59where I'm from and where I'm going,
06:01but also creating something
06:03that just sounds fresh to me.
06:05And I knew I hit it with that song.
06:07Like in terms of just, I love the song.
06:09Like I didn't know what it was going to do or anything.
06:11But I felt like I really love the song.
06:13And that's kind of where I'm at in my life now.
06:15I'm like, I have to like the stuff
06:16in order to go and do it
06:17because it's just not really worth
06:19being away from my babies, you know?
06:20Yeah.
06:21So I'm like, I better love the message
06:22and the music and everyone I'm doing it.
06:24Awesome.
06:25Yeah. Once, once we got Slow and Easy,
06:27like it started to like really make sense
06:29of the whole project.
06:30Then I was like, kind of had a target of like,
06:32okay, this is like the sound
06:34and the feel of like what I want to write.
06:35So there were a couple of songs
06:37like New Me that I wrote
06:38after the pandemic that I felt,
06:41you know, this was like
06:42as I was leaving Sublime
06:43and I was, you know,
06:44kind of going through this breakup,
06:45so to speak.
06:46And I wanted to kind of write
06:47about that pain and sort of that journey,
06:50but very ambiguously.
06:51So I kind of kept it in the realm
06:53of like a relationship almost.
06:54The last song was Black and Blue,
07:06which was the very first song
07:07that really started this whole thing.
07:09I wrote that in the pandemic.
07:16It's definitely like every song
07:17has a purpose and a meaning
07:19and I'm kind of doing it the old school way
07:22where it's, you know,
07:23I have more shows booked
07:24than I'm able to like put out music,
07:26you know,
07:27and that's because of being in a band
07:29like Sublime for so long,
07:30you know, I only have like five songs out,
07:32but you know, I have like a full tour.
07:34So I'm like writing the music,
07:37performing it,
07:38getting the response,
07:39going back home
07:40and going like,
07:41okay, I think this song sucks,
07:43but this one's awesome.
07:44Let's record this one.
07:45And I don't feel like a lot of artists
07:47really get to do that anymore
07:48because, you know, the way it is,
07:49it's like you got to put out music
07:50every six weeks
07:51and you're just pretty much,
07:53everyone's just putting out
07:54the last thing they wrote,
07:56but I'm having fun
07:57just writing the music
07:58and trying them live
07:59and picking the best ones
08:00and putting that music out.
08:01I usually start with chords.
08:03Like I'll find like a chord progression
08:04I really like
08:04and then it's the melody.
08:06A lot of my words come to me
08:07while I'm doing like just dad stuff,
08:09like washing the dishes
08:10or sitting outside
08:12or watching the kids play basketball
08:13or, you know, going on a walk
08:14and I'll just be in my own head.
08:16I know I should probably be present,
08:17but I'll be like in my head
08:18like thinking about this song
08:19and I was working on this line
08:20and I'm like, oh man,
08:21I've got these words
08:22that might go like this
08:24and then I'll write it.
08:25Sometimes I'll ask the kids like,
08:26hey, what should rhyme with this one?
08:27It's like, this is what I'm trying to say.
08:29What would you say?
08:30And they'd be like,
08:30oh, I'll put the ball on his butt
08:33and I'm like, all right.
08:34But you never know.
08:36Sometimes.
08:37I have to ask you about some line.
08:39You're 20 years old when you...
08:4119.
08:4219.
08:42Yeah, 18 when I met him.
08:4419 when we started touring around the world.
08:46A baby.
08:47Yeah.
08:47What was it like getting thrust into that
08:50and obviously under those circumstances
08:53it must have been...
08:54It's like a movie.
08:55I mean, I come from very humble beginnings
08:58and a pretty troubled household.
09:00By the time when I met Sublime,
09:02I was homeless, living in my van
09:03to then be thrust into amphitheaters
09:06and arenas and sometimes stadiums.
09:08It was just an absolute...
09:10Magic is real.
09:12From a very early age,
09:13it kind of taught me
09:14like anything is possible.
09:15If you can join your favorite band,
09:17like you can pretty much do anything.
09:19How did that even happen?
09:20Like how did you meet them?
09:21I moved down south.
09:22I was...
09:23I'm from up north in Northern California
09:25and I was like recording
09:27and writing music every day
09:28that I first touched guitar.
09:30I was like 12
09:30and then I was like hooked.
09:32So that's like all I would do.
09:34You know, I played a million places
09:35in the Bay Area
09:36and I tried to start
09:37a million different bands
09:38and eventually it just kind of
09:40got to the point where like,
09:41you know, I was like,
09:42I think I need to move down to LA,
09:44you know, and make it big.
09:46And all my friends were telling me too,
09:48they were just like,
09:48dude, you got this,
09:49go down there
09:50and get the hell out of Fremont.
09:51You know, that's where I'm from.
09:52So I moved down to LA
09:53and within nine months,
09:55I met like a producer
09:56who was working with Sublime
09:58or who worked with
09:59the bass player in Sublime.
10:00I went to his studio
10:01and the first thing I saw
10:02was like his big gold record plaque
10:04for the self-titled Sublime record.
10:06And I just remember thinking to myself,
10:07I'm like,
10:08okay, I'm in the right place.
10:09The universe is universing.
10:11I'm where I'm supposed to be.
10:13So I just, you know,
10:14did the only thing I knew how to do,
10:15which is just roll up my sleeves
10:17and get to work, you know.
10:18So I just told the owner,
10:19I'm like,
10:19whatever you need from me,
10:21I'll mop floors,
10:23pick up cheeseburgers,
10:24get you guys cigarettes,
10:24whatever you need.
10:25Like, I just want to be around
10:26in the energy in the studio.
10:29And eventually,
10:30hanging out in the studio,
10:31I got to meet the bass player
10:32and he started inviting me
10:33to his parties
10:34where he'd play Sublime songs
10:35every once in a while.
10:36And he asked me
10:38if I wanted to play one
10:39because he knew
10:39I was a big-ass fan.
10:41And then we played this one party
10:43where we played like
10:43three or four Sublime songs
10:44and everyone in Long Beach
10:45was like talking about it.
10:47And one thing led to another
10:48and the agents
10:49and the managers
10:50and they were like,
10:51oh, you know,
10:52this could be a big thing.
10:53Right before that happened,
10:55I wrote a song
10:56for a band called the Dirty Heads.
10:57And if we all ride
10:59so safely,
11:00baby,
11:00you can lay me down.
11:04Lay me down.
11:06That song,
11:07Lay Me Down,
11:08went number one
11:08and it broke like
11:09Foo Fighters record
11:10for the longest number one
11:11alternative song
11:12from an independent label.
11:13Right before I played
11:14my first show with Sublime,
11:16like I signed this publishing deal
11:17and I was writing songs
11:18for like Jennifer Lopez
11:19and like Rihanna.
11:20And then Sublime happened
11:22and then it was like touring
11:23and then I get off the road
11:24and then go back in the studio
11:25with Selena Gomez
11:26and then I go back
11:27and so it was just
11:28like a movie.
11:29And it was just like
11:30how much fun
11:31can you possibly have
11:32in this like amount of time?
11:33And I don't know,
11:34it's like it hasn't stopped.
11:35You know,
11:35the opportunities change
11:37and stuff,
11:37but the doors of fun
11:38just like keep opening
11:39and you know,
11:40I took a couple doors
11:41that were just for money
11:42and that didn't pan out
11:43and I kind of learned my lesson.
11:45Just do things that sound fun.
11:46Couldn't happen
11:47to a more beautiful person
11:48for you.
11:49We're having fun.
11:49That's awesome.
11:50And powerhouse producer Dan Huff.
11:55He said something
11:56I thought was neat.
11:57It's his job to make the music right
11:59for whoever calls me.
12:00Sometimes an artist
12:01doesn't quite know
12:02what he or she is yet,
12:03but you know.
12:05That's cool.
12:05I love Dan.
12:06Yeah, he's like a country music badass.
12:10And like my music isn't country,
12:13but you know,
12:13he's just like a really killer musician
12:16and you know,
12:18songwriter and like guitar player.
12:20He just hears magic
12:21and in any genre
12:22and we got introduced
12:23by a mutual friend.
12:24He showed Dan my music.
12:26It was just demos at the time.
12:27We had lunch.
12:28He was just like,
12:29do your music.
12:30Like, I don't know what to call it.
12:31Like, it's so good.
12:32He's like,
12:32I hear you're looking for a producer.
12:33He's like,
12:34I'd love to spend a day.
12:36We'll record a song
12:37and if you dig it,
12:38you know,
12:38we can like keep going.
12:39You know,
12:39he was saying like,
12:40he's thinking about going
12:41into retiring,
12:42but this is something
12:43that was exciting.
12:44And I like beat off
12:44of that sort of energy.
12:45Like people who are excited
12:46about what I'm doing,
12:48like that's who I want
12:49to team up with
12:49regardless of how much money
12:51they're throwing or whatever.
12:52Like, I'm just like,
12:53you're excited.
12:54I'm excited.
12:55Something good's going
12:55to happen from this.
12:57And we locked in
12:58and he heard my music
12:59and we started putting it
13:01all together.
13:01And I mean,
13:02he just knows like
13:03exactly what it is
13:05that I'm trying to record.
13:06He'll just make it sound
13:07that much better
13:08and just make it
13:09a little tighter.
13:10And it's a really
13:11great relationship
13:12because I'm so hands-on
13:13by default
13:13that it's nice
13:15to have someone
13:16that I can trust
13:17like Dan
13:17to just give
13:19the songs to
13:20and be like,
13:21what do you think?
13:22You know,
13:22like, is this too long?
13:23Like, should we
13:24change the chord here?
13:25And coming out
13:27with the product
13:27and just being like,
13:28man, there's no way
13:29I could have done this
13:29on my own.
13:30So, yeah,
13:31I love Dan.
13:32That's cool.
13:33And the studio too,
13:34you did it at La Grange.
13:35That's right?
13:36Yeah, we did half of it
13:38in this really cool studio
13:40in Franklin, Tennessee.
13:41It once belonged
13:42to Al Capone.
13:44It's in a castle
13:45and they turned it
13:46into a recording studio.
13:47But it looks like a castle
13:48like when you're
13:49driving past it.
13:50It looks like,
13:50you know,
13:50the knights and kings
13:51used to live there.
13:52But instead,
13:53it was like an Italian gangster.
13:54But yeah,
13:55so they turned that
13:55into a recording studio
13:56and we recorded
13:57half the album there
13:58and then half of it
13:58at my studio
13:59in Leaper's Fort.
14:00Oh, nice.
14:01So you always knew
14:02you wanted to be a musician.
14:03What about the guitar?
14:04Are you self-taught?
14:05Did you ever?
14:05Yeah.
14:06Self-taught.
14:07I tried to take a lesson
14:08when I was first starting out,
14:09but it just wasn't like...
14:11Now I would really want
14:12to get some lessons
14:13and learn more.
14:14But I think just starting out
14:15as a kid,
14:16it was just a little too...
14:17Like the guitar was the one thing
14:18that I could do
14:19when I wanted,
14:20if I wanted,
14:21how I wanted.
14:22It wasn't homework.
14:22It wasn't sports.
14:23It was like just my thing.
14:26You know,
14:26my parents,
14:27they weren't musicians.
14:28So they were like,
14:28hey, you can play your guitar.
14:29You know,
14:30I took one lesson
14:31and it was like really regimented
14:33and I wanted to learn
14:34a Green Day song
14:35and they were like,
14:35you can learn your scales.
14:36And I was like,
14:37no more homework.
14:38The guitar isn't homework for me.
14:40It's like the opposite of that.
14:42So I just taught myself
14:43from that point on.
14:44Wow.
14:44That's amazing.
14:45I mean,
14:45you know,
14:45I got some room to grow.
14:47Please.
14:47It's not like I'm like
14:48Carlos Santana or nothing.
14:51Who were your influences?
14:52You told us a few.
14:53But...
14:53Santana,
14:54growing up in the house.
14:55Absolutely.
14:56Stevie Wonder,
14:57The Supremes,
14:58Four Tops,
14:59Bob Marley.
15:00It's like the earliest
15:01musical memory I have.
15:03Otis Redding.
15:04And like a little more contemporary,
15:05like, you know,
15:06I love like Leon Bridges.
15:07I love Chris Stapleton.
15:09I'm a 90s kid,
15:10so it's like genres
15:10like wide open.
15:12You know,
15:12Weezer,
15:13Green Day,
15:13all that stuff.
15:14Yeah.
15:15How did you get into music?
15:16Sublime.
15:17Yeah,
15:18I was like always a fan.
15:19And then I took
15:20a summer trip
15:21down to San Diego
15:22with my family.
15:23One of my uncles
15:24gave me a Sublime CD
15:25and he was like,
15:27you're going to love this.
15:28And he was right.
15:29That summer I came home
15:31and I like asked
15:32my mom and dad,
15:33I was like,
15:33can I get a guitar?
15:35I think I want to be
15:35a guitar player.
15:36After hearing Sublime.
15:38So like,
15:38and they were like
15:39my favorite band
15:40after that.
15:40Like,
15:40I literally had like
15:41eight Sublime posters
15:42on my wall.
15:43I know everything
15:44about those guys.
15:45I knew everything about them
15:46before I joined the band.
15:47For me,
15:48it was just like
15:49the ultimate
15:50band VIP experience
15:51every day
15:52for 15 years
15:53and the job
15:54in and of itself
15:55to go out there
15:56and sing
15:57my favorite band.
15:58That's the sickest job
15:59that I think anybody
16:00could ever ask for.
16:01You know,
16:02it's like the journey
16:03of a lifetime
16:04that I just,
16:04it's so hard
16:05to not like,
16:06you know,
16:06think that like magic
16:07is real
16:07when you get to like
16:08join your favorite band
16:09and tour the world.
16:10What did your uncle say?
16:12Oh,
16:13he's been to like
16:13a million shows.
16:14We're actually fighting
16:15right now,
16:15but that's Mexican family,
16:17you know,
16:17that's how it goes.
16:18Italian still.
16:20What does music
16:20do for people?
16:22I like to think
16:22that music is like
16:23a form of therapy.
16:24Because it is usually
16:25for the artists
16:26that write it.
16:27But if anything,
16:29it's just like,
16:30you know,
16:31helps you escape.
16:32I mean,
16:32that's how I used music
16:34as a child
16:35and then as a writer
16:37and now as an adult,
16:38you know,
16:38I still use it
16:39the same way.
16:40I was like,
16:40I find my best songs
16:41are those songs
16:42where I'm like,
16:43I don't know
16:43if I should say this.
16:45It's like,
16:45definitely say that
16:46because the world
16:48doesn't need another,
16:49I met you at the bar
16:50and we hopped
16:51inside my car.
16:51You know,
16:52we need more substance.
16:54We need more depth.
16:55We need stories.
16:56We need,
16:56you know,
16:56and that's the only way
16:57we learn.
16:58So I try and write music
16:59from that standpoint
17:00and that keeps things
17:01fresh for me
17:02because life,
17:02if you're doing it right,
17:03it's ever going,
17:04you know?
17:06What would your current self
17:07tell your younger self?
17:09Just buy real estate,
17:10probably.
17:11Keep having fun.
17:13Just keep having fun.
17:14I had my little fair share
17:16of like little troubles
17:17and instances
17:17and stuff like that
17:18but I never got too far
17:20into the muck
17:21and it's because
17:22I had good people
17:22around me.
17:23So I would go back
17:25and tell my younger self
17:26like just keep doing
17:28what you're doing.
17:29Keep having fun.
17:30You're going to meet
17:30the love of your life
17:31and have three beautiful kids.
17:32Oh my God.
17:32That's like literally
17:33what I would tell them.
17:34How do you make that all work
17:35with three little kids
17:36and Torrin?
17:37Any tips for that?
17:38Like balancing?
17:40Balance.
17:41Yeah.
17:41I mean,
17:42you know,
17:42you hear two sides of the coin,
17:43right?
17:43People are like
17:44balance don't exist
17:45and you know,
17:46but I mean,
17:47it does for me,
17:47you know,
17:48I treat my music
17:50very much like a job.
17:51Like I work really hard at it.
17:52Like nine to five,
17:54I go and I write songs
17:55even if they don't
17:56have anything in me.
17:57I show up every day,
17:59blank slate,
18:00try and pull my cup out
18:02and hope that something
18:03falls in there
18:04and then come three o'clock
18:05I pick my kids up
18:06and then it's like
18:07dad and husband mode
18:08until they go to bed
18:09and then I pull my laptop
18:10back out
18:11and I continue working
18:12on what I do.
18:12And it works,
18:14you know,
18:15for now.
18:16It constantly changes.
18:17You know,
18:17if you have a family,
18:18you know this,
18:19like the dynamics change.
18:20Just when you get it down,
18:22it changes again.
18:23That's the beauty of life.
18:25It shows that you're
18:26constantly working
18:26and you're caring
18:27and you're maintaining
18:28and you know,
18:30I'll always make time
18:32for the people
18:33and the things
18:33that I love to do the most
18:34and lately in life
18:36that are intersecting
18:37and I'm very grateful for that.
18:38Awesome.
18:38What's next?
18:39Album.
18:40I got an album
18:41that I'll be dropping
18:41next year.
18:42A bunch of festivals,
18:43more music videos.
18:44Yeah,
18:45a lot of good stuff.
18:46A lot of good stuff.
18:46Awesome.
18:47What was it like
18:48to work with J-Lo?
18:49Did you do that?
18:49Oh yeah.
18:50J-Lo is really sweet,
18:51really talented.
18:52Yeah,
18:53it's cool.
18:54Who else
18:54did you like to work with?
18:56Selena?
18:56Did you work with her?
18:57I worked with Selena.
18:58She's a sweetheart.
18:59Enrique Iglesias,
19:00he's like one of my
19:00favorite people on earth.
19:02He's amazing.
19:03Jason Derulo,
19:03super talented.
19:04He goes in the booth
19:06and just exactly
19:06like you hear on the record,
19:08he sounds like
19:08right in front of you.
19:09That's such a gift
19:10as a producer
19:11and a songwriter
19:12to work with people
19:13who can just actually shred.
19:14You're just like,
19:15yes.
19:16But yeah,
19:17I mean,
19:17there's so many talented,
19:18just wonderful artists
19:19that I've gotten to work with
19:21and honestly,
19:22I can probably think
19:24of one person
19:25who is less than ideal
19:26to deal with.
19:27Most people are just
19:28so grateful
19:28to be doing this
19:29for a living.
19:29Aw.
19:30Well,
19:31you're awesome.
19:31Are you going to play
19:32for us a couple songs?
19:32Yeah,
19:33I got some songs
19:33that I could jam
19:34for you guys.
19:34All right,
19:34woohoo!
19:36This song's called
19:37Black and Blue.
19:38Yeah,
19:38baby,
19:39it's true.
19:42Got a lot of bad habits,
19:44yes,
19:45we do.
19:48But even the good
19:49folks are black and blue.
19:53Whatever it is,
19:54darling,
19:55we gon' make it through.
19:58Cause I'm not like you,
20:00I got a heart,
20:02baby,
20:03yeah.
20:03Love makes me do things
20:06that are so crazy.
20:09But I know one thing,
20:11don't tell me you're mine.
20:14And act like that,
20:16don't say you're leaving.
20:20And run like that,
20:22cause I'm such a fool.
20:25Yeah,
20:26act like that,
20:27don't say you're leaving.
20:29Let me run like that,
20:32you know that it's true.
20:37This will be weird for me,
20:39not you.
20:42Through the concrete jungle,
20:44baby,
20:45it blooms.
20:46But this is the type of love that I refuse.
20:51Darling,
20:51you promise it,
20:52you put me loose.
20:54I'm not like you,
20:55I got a heart,
20:57baby,
20:57yeah.
20:59Love makes me do things
21:01that are so crazy.
21:04But I know one thing,
21:06don't tell me you're mine.
21:08And act like that,
21:11don't say you're leaving.
21:15And run like that,
21:17cause I'm such a fool.
21:21And act like that,
21:22don't say you're leaving.
21:24Tell me what you want me to do.
21:41I'll walk with you
21:44till the end,
21:46till the end,
21:48yeah,
21:49yeah.
21:50Don't tell me you're mine.
21:53And act like that,
21:56don't say you're leaving.
21:59And they run right back.
22:02I'm such a fool.
22:05That's a fair.
22:07Don't say you're leaving.
22:10And they run right back.
22:13Yeah,
22:14yeah.
22:18Hold up from afar.
22:20Black and blue.
22:29That's what we are.
22:32Oh,
22:33yeah.
22:35Come on.
22:35Mm,
22:37mm,
22:37mm,
22:38mm.
22:41Something like that.
22:43Thank you guys.
22:45Woo!
22:46This song's called Slow And Easy,
22:50and it's my newest song,
22:51and it's top ten radio.
22:52Trip on that.
22:53tough times with the soft top down baby let's not make this harder sit back and let the waves
23:12crash maybe we can live like water turn off the six o'clock news open the shades enjoy the view
23:21don't matter what you're going through what you say me and you just take it slow and easy don't worry
23:30about nothing no good reason to be mad about something these days are a little bit crazy
23:39maybe what you say right now take it slow and easy and don't worry about nothing
23:47we've been working all day and night maybe we need a vacation dirty ads on the radio loud yeah
24:00don't you touch that station we're living in the wild days maybe we should get away ain't nothing wrong
24:09with another song saying we're all gonna be okay let's take it slow and easy don't worry about
24:17nothing
24:34don't worry now yeah yeah don't worry now
24:41yeah sit back and let our minds slip away
24:49this will be spinning faster faster faster yeah
24:58let's take it slow and easy
25:03let's take it slow and easy
25:07let's take it slow and easy
25:11don't worry about easy don't worry about nothing
25:16no good reason to be mad about something
25:20these days are a little bit crazy
25:22let's take it slow and easy
25:39let's take it slow
25:43something like that
25:45thank you guys thank you for listening
25:47thank you thank you
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