00:00White trainers.
00:02If you know, you know!
00:05Hello, I'm Olivia Dean, and today I'm letting Elle ask me anything.
00:11Here we go.
00:12Which song of yours best represents you as an artist?
00:15That's a toughie, because I feel like all of my songs are quite different versions of my personality, depending on
00:22the day.
00:23I'm going to go with nice to each other.
00:24I feel like that one's a good all-rounder.
00:26She's fun, she's flirty, she's cheeky, but her overall message is joy and positivity, which I feel like is my
00:33vibe.
00:34What is your earliest memory of music?
00:36I was thinking about this the other day.
00:38I think my first kind of experience of falling in love with a piece of music was Pocahontas, Colors of
00:45the Wind.
00:45I would sit in front of the TV and watch it again and again and again and again, and my
00:49mum and my granny would get sick of it, and I just loved it.
00:52I wanted to be Pocahontas.
00:53Love you, sis.
00:55Is there a song that almost didn't make the tracklist for The Art of Loving?
00:58Many songs did not make The Art of Loving.
01:01Some because I just felt like they didn't fit the story, but also some because they were rubbish.
01:07There's one in particular that almost was on the album and didn't make it, but I might put it out.
01:12I don't know, I still like it, so I'm not going to say the name of it or anything like
01:16that, just in case I do.
01:17Describe the moment when Man I Need hit number one.
01:20I was in America about to go on the Sabrina Carpenter tour, and I think I was in the airport
01:25and we were having a pint, and we said, cheers.
01:28It was very surreal. I think the album went number one at the same time, and I was just like,
01:35either of these things happening separately would be crazy and felt like a very big life moment.
01:40What do you think is your most underrated song?
01:43I have a song called What Am I Gonna Do On Sundays from an EP that I put out called
01:48Growth, and I think it's before it's time, to be honest.
01:51I think it's a really sophisticated piece of music. I think it's heartbreaking. It doesn't fit in my normal style,
02:00but I think it's a great song.
02:02Well, I guess if you've been listening to me for a long time, my first song was a song called
02:06Reason To Stay.
02:07We haven't been playing that live recently, so I guess the day ones will remember that one, or White Trainers.
02:15If you know, you know!
02:19I don't think I've ever, I don't know, maybe I have played that live, not for a very long time,
02:23and I probably never will again, unfortunately.
02:26She's, she's a cutie, but she's old. Old. I'm enjoying the throwaway.
02:34Describe your pre-show ritual. I wish it was something more exciting.
02:38I normally am having loads of fun, and listening to like Usher, and Alicia Keys, and sort of like fab
02:45things like that,
02:46and then the music goes off, and it's classical music, and we kind of clear the room, and I just
02:51do my vocal warm-ups,
02:53and maybe have a sip of a beer, if I'm feeling it that night, otherwise a hot honey and lemon,
02:59and then just get out there, you know, and just have a good time.
03:03I wish it was something crazier, like all the, what do people do? All the green M&Ms or something.
03:08Which of your tour looks was your favourite?
03:11I've worn lots of amazing things on tour, and I'm so excited about all the new things I'm going to
03:17be wearing on tour,
03:18but I think whenever I look at photos back, I did a show in, was it Melbourne or Sydney?
03:25Sydney.
03:27In Sydney, and I wore this beautiful like baby blue David Comer dress, and it kind of had a high
03:34rise on one of the legs,
03:35and like feathers coming out, and I just think it was just gorgeous.
03:39I think fashion and my music and career right now feel very intrinsically linked.
03:46I love playing with clothes, I love working with Simone, my stylist, and I think it's kind of, aside from
03:51the music,
03:52my favourite part of the job.
03:54What's one song you wish you wrote?
03:56There are so many songs that I wish I wrote, but currently Midnight's on Zora Larsson, or Folded by Kid
04:03Lani.
04:03I think that answer speaks for itself, the best song I've felt right now.
04:07Name your dream collaborator.
04:09Stevie Wonder.
04:10Stevie Wonder would be really cool.
04:12Maybe just sort of standing next to Stevie Wonder while he's singing is enough of a collaboration for me.
04:17I would say probably him would be cool.
04:19What's the most Pisces thing about you?
04:21I think that Pisces have a real problem with boundaries.
04:25I'm like a sponge, so like anyone else's emotions around me, I'll have a bit of that.
04:30Yeah.
04:30You're feeling sad, I'm feeling it too. A bit of a emotional sponge, I'd say.
04:37Do you think a short school compatibility matters in a relationship?
04:41No, I don't think it matters.
04:44Remember in school when you do like the love calculator, like you'd put your birthday in and be like, oh
04:48we're a match.
04:50It doesn't matter. Doesn't matter guys.
04:52Describe your favourite memory from the Brit school.
04:55That time in my life was so joyful and I met all my friends there and I think it just
05:02really allowed me to blossom as an individual and kind of find myself.
05:07My favourite memory. I mean, I think just the shows we got to do, to be honest, like we would
05:13do these really big school shows in the music strand and it was like my first experience of like doing
05:19a proper gig and like playing with other people rather than just playing guitar in my room.
05:23And we did a show where everybody had to write their own song and then like put it together with
05:28a band and I played timbalay and it was just, I remember thinking like, wow, I'm in the music industry.
05:35When was the last time you were starstruck? Yesterday met Oprah Winfrey guys.
05:43Yesterday I went to the Chanel show and she came up to me and I was like, oh my God,
05:47it's Oprah. And I don't really remember what I said.
05:49I think I kind of blacked out, but there is a video of it somewhere. But yeah, it doesn't really
05:52get better than Oprah. So love you girl.
05:56What's a fashion trend you will never take part in? Listen, I like the tabby shoe. OK, I've got some
06:02tabbies. I can do two toes separated. I can't do all five.
06:06I can't do all five. I'm not going to be doing those shoes. They look really good on some people.
06:12Me, I look a bit aquatic or some sort of like little animal. So not that for me personally.
06:19What is your go to comfort show? At the moment I'm watching Narcos. Narcos. I don't know if I'm supposed
06:26to say it with a Spanish accent. Narcos. I'm really enjoying it.
06:31I never saw it when it came out and I love kind of like thrilling shows like that. And I'm
06:35learning Espanol at the moment. So it's going well for me with Narcos right now.
06:40Do you watch any reality TV? I do watch reality TV. I just watched Love Island All Stars and oh
06:47my God, what amazing television that was.
06:49Thank you, everybody involved for that. It really got me through the last couple of months and I loved it.
06:54No notes. Can't wait for the next season. Maya Jama, I love you.
06:59What does your dream acting role look like? Yeah, I think I would really like to be in a movie
07:04at one point, but maybe either like a movie musical so I can sing and like lean less on the
07:10actual acting because that is a real actual skill that people professionally do.
07:14Or a silent movie. Do you know what I mean? So I could just look really fabulous and like wear
07:20some fabulous clothes to some like gorgeous kind of Italian music, but I'm not talking.
07:24That's the last question. What is a hill you die on? Again, I have many of these, but will be
07:30here all day.
07:30So I'm just going to stick to one that I feel the most strongly about, which is that a carbonara
07:35should not have any cream in it.
07:37If you go to a restaurant and you look at the carbonara and you see under that cream, abort, don't
07:42even bother to order it.
07:43It's not going to be right. And there should never be peas in a carbonara. Okay.
07:48Thanks so much for watching and you can check out my Elle cover, which is out now.
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