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At the iHeartRadio Music Awards, Russell Dickerson chats with THR on the red carpet and talks about how his viral TikTok dance came to be. Plus, he dishes on what the fan response has been like for "Happen to Me" and teases new collaborations and his new summer EP.

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00:00So you're nominated tonight for the dance for this song, but how did the TikTok dance come about?
00:06Oh man, it was honestly kind of poking fun at the whole idea that you have to have a dance
00:11to
00:12have a hit, you know? And so I was in a hotel and I went down to the gym and
00:18I was just like
00:19working out and I was like, you know what? I'm just going to do every stupid dance move that
00:24I know what to do. I have my video guy chop it all up and woke up the next day
00:30and it was like
00:311 million, 2 million, 3 million views. And I was like, what the heck is happening? And it just kind
00:37of turned into this freaking phenomenon of like, it's like the anti TikTok dance, right? It's
00:44literally just like the most stupid. And I, I don't know. It's just kind of funny. Like the,
00:50the, the, uh, irony of the whole dance and now it's a hit and it's just, but I'm grateful.
00:57I want you to know, thank you for doing the dance. Thank you for listening. It just, I
01:01mean, that's why we're here. I mean, it worked and it's an amazing song. What is the fan love
01:06for the song happened to me been like for you? Oh my gosh. I mean, since the day it came
01:09out,
01:09my first show, my first show after the song came out was in Nashville and it literally like
01:16I played, so we played happened to me and that response, the song after it was already a number
01:23one, like one of the biggest country radio. I'm not saying this for me. I'm just saying
01:27one of the biggest country radio hits of like history. We played that after and that song felt
01:33like a dud compelled compared to happened to me. And so I knew like the week after it came out
01:39that
01:39it was something special. We just put out a little summer EP, a little spring break piece called
01:44Worth Your Wild. There's a few song on there, a few beach bangers for all you, all you peeps out
01:50there. But, uh, some collaborations we're working on, you know, that we're manifesting that are
01:57probably happening from things we've been teasing. If you follow me or other people outside of country
02:04me, I don't, I can't say too much, but I mean, I loved your Jonas Brothers collab on the song
02:08on the
02:09tour. Yeah. Can you expect more like pop collabs from you? Yeah. Pop and, uh, maybe hip hop, maybe
02:16stuff like that. I don't know what I'm allowed to say, but things might be moving in the right
02:21direction there. We're excited to hear it. And you got a tour coming up this summer, right?
02:26Yes. WrestleMania is coming to the Greek in LA. This is like my bucket list tour. Like we got Red
02:33Rocks,
02:34we got Greek. Uh, we're playing ascend in Nashville, like on my birthday. So we're throwing a little
02:41birthday bash. It's just, I don't know. We're having the fricking time of our lives. That's
02:45amazing. I mean, I feel like I've been wanting to see you on tour for a long time. So I
02:49need to be
02:50at the Greek. I need to be at this tour. Yes, you do. Who do we need to talk to?
02:54Get your publicist.
02:55We'll talk to her. She's coming to the Greek. Thank you. Get her to the Greek. Literally.
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