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What happens in Vegas definitely doesn't stay in Vegas. Alright, maybe for some average Joe and Sue, but in Caroline Hjelt and Aino Jawo's world? What happens in Vegas will take them beyond their wildest dreams.

This first installment of I AM ICON is, rather appropriately, a warm-up, taking the band from one debaucherous night in Sin City, to Omaha, and on to Chicago. The stage is set, and the crowd (one that's grown exponentially over the past year) is waiting. The professional pop star's life is more than just glitter, glamour, and fame. It's whiskey voice, tour families, and lack of S.O.s because, really, who needs romance when you have fans?
Transcript
00:00I have to thank Vegas for the whiskey boys let's party and I'll be like
00:07okay
00:13but also I think we we just made pop history
00:44so
01:00We are on our way to the studio and we're gonna record a song.
01:08I'm very excited to record it.
01:10I hope my voice will be with me in spirit at least.
01:14My body's a little bit tired today.
01:22I think I had my fans now for a while.
01:25I was way too much to handle.
01:30Oh my god!
01:35We travel so much and we need to stay creative so we record wherever we are.
01:44Let's do it!
01:45Do we have two headphones in there for them?
01:47Cool, here we go!
02:01When they're in the studio they really fold into each other and I could have swore when they're both in
02:06the booth and you look over there you see one unit, you see one being.
02:09They have the same charisma.
02:12I'm never coming down down now that you saved me baby.
02:16Thank you chorus!
02:17Here we go!
02:18Here we go!
02:23They have just unbridled energy.
02:25And in the studio that's really important.
02:27And they're musical.
02:28They can really sing.
02:29They're real musicians.
02:30Oh, I did a bluesy.
02:32Sorry!
02:32I did more than ever.
02:34You!
02:35My head goes through the clouds and by the rain and I'm never coming down down now that you saved
02:43me baby.
02:44She's feelin' herself.
02:46She is in the booth.
02:48She is feelin' it.
02:48That's rocking.
02:49Turned up.
02:58Oh my gawd.
03:02One more.
03:03Hi Biu!
03:10Oh shat.
03:12So what a fucking day, he just recorded like the best song ever made and it was so nice recording
03:19And he had so good moves
03:20Such good moves and such good energy
03:23I think you just witnessed a baby getting born
03:26Born in Vegas, born and raised in VV
03:31In VV
03:42In VV
03:42In VV you draw this?
04:09Yes
04:16They're so cute and so awesome, and I like them, and I'm so excited for their concert.
04:20We are icons!
04:24I'm Oscar.
04:28I played with them for like a year or two, and then they fired me as a musician, but
04:33then they rehired me as day-to-day manager.
04:37I'm younger than them, but I'm still their dad.
04:41And their son.
04:43And their brother.
04:47It was a lot easier in the beginning when things wasn't as big and complex.
04:52Then it was just, we were like three people on the road, and we did everything together,
04:57but now when there's so many people involved, it can be really complicated to be like their
05:02friends, but at the same time be someone who's trying to make the best out of their career.
05:10It's so great.
05:11It's so great.
05:12I love you guys so much.
05:16Hi.
05:18I'm drawing a name here.
05:19The first winner is Nicole.
05:33Shayla.
05:34Yes!
05:37I got to meet at Botapop today, and it was the best moment in my entire life.
05:42And I'm so excited, like I can barely stand.
05:45I've never felt so loved in my whole life.
05:51Fuck guys, we have fans.
06:24It's our party and we do what we want to.
06:29It's the first time that they've had structure in their show and spots that they have to hit and movements
06:35that they have to make and not choreography, but it's staged.
06:43And we're all the way down stage, right?
06:46And it's grown. It's come a long way.
06:51Everything has been going so quickly so you can see change every month, learning how to cope with all the
06:57pressure and all the stress, you know, becoming professional pop stars.
07:03It's my first tour with them.
07:04I think they were really in the beginning apprehensive.
07:07You're working with a whole new staff of people, all Americans, nobody you know, and we're with each other 18
07:17hours a day.
07:21It's a family.
07:23A-Rig is live. B-Rig is live.
07:28Actually, I have a pretty nice view.
07:30I'm trying to get your hair cut, but that's weird.
07:32Oh, God, no.
07:37It's getting there now. Everything is falling into the right place and everyone's doing what they should.
07:45They're playing to 15,000 people a night. Who has an opportunity like that?
07:49One, two, three.
07:52Yeah!
07:56You want to watch them grow and grow and keep growing so that they're doing what Miley's doing.
08:01And they deserve it. They work really hard.
08:04It couldn't happen to two nicer people.
08:13We got the world!
08:24We got the world!
08:28One, two, one, two, three.
08:32You

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