WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.200 Sxsw might be winding down, but the music is reaching peak level. 00:00:04.200 --> 00:00:07.100 Can I go talk to billboard about taking risks before he hit the 00:00:07.100 --> 00:00:12.600 stage at Waterloo Park with her. 00:00:12.600 --> 00:00:14.700 Shawn Mendes five things. 00:00:14.700 --> 00:00:17.000 You didn't know about them, including the new language learning 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:24.600 board meeting. 00:00:27.700 --> 00:00:29.500 It's Saturday at South by. 00:00:29.500 --> 00:00:32.300 I'm typically and I'm doing here by billboard dance director. 00:00:32.300 --> 00:00:33.500 Katie Payne. How's it going? 00:00:33.500 --> 00:00:34.400 It's going great. 00:00:34.400 --> 00:00:42.400 It's absolutely is the music on Music from country to Hip Hop 00:00:42.400 --> 00:00:45.000 to EDM. We got to talk about tiger. 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:48.800 We've got to talk to you yesterday. 00:00:48.800 --> 00:00:49.700 We had a long conversation. 00:00:49.700 --> 00:00:53.100 He talked about a lot of things including how is Idle Avicii 00:00:53.100 --> 00:00:56.000 helped him, set boundaries for himself, feel like one of the 00:00:56.000 --> 00:00:58.300 most important thing for me is, you know, 00:00:58.300 --> 00:01:03.000 my health is number one and my time off is very important. 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:06.000 And that's also because I want to do this for a long time. 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:07.200 I don't want to just like play, 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:09.400 you know, the show is going to get burnt out. 00:01:09.400 --> 00:01:17.000 Huge venues like Barclays. 00:01:27.600 --> 00:01:31.100 CNC projects. I felt like the the inspiration and motivation 00:01:31.100 --> 00:01:33.800 came back. So now I've been reading a lot of music. 00:01:33.800 --> 00:01:37.100 The last last 6 to 8 months, 00:01:37.100 --> 00:01:40.100 just released the song cold and feed. 00:01:46.500 --> 00:01:48.300 I had so much fun last night. 00:01:48.300 --> 00:01:51.600 It was a blast and I love how we close the show. 00:01:51.600 --> 00:01:55.100 He brought an eight-piece string section to play his biggest, 00:01:55.100 --> 00:01:57.100 hit Firestone and he said a grand piano. 00:01:57.100 --> 00:01:58.300 It was a really beautiful day too. 00:01:58.300 --> 00:02:00.200 And I feel like people got emotional. 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:11.300 Well by people, I mean myself and myself with all the personality. 00:02:11.300 --> 00:02:13.000 She was sharing stories. 00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:14.400 She played all the big hits. 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:25.500 Do El Cartel madrasa in Cali on the music and identity pan off. 00:02:25.500 --> 00:02:26.500 They got really emotional. 00:02:26.500 --> 00:02:29.600 They talked about being in lgbtq plus artist, 00:02:29.600 --> 00:02:31.200 but not wanting to be put in that box, 00:02:31.200 --> 00:02:35.900 but it's just, you know, a struggle sometimes. 00:02:35.900 --> 00:02:38.600 But when the conversation got interesting was when they talk 00:02:38.600 --> 00:02:41.300 about social media and, how everybody's different on different 00:02:41.300 --> 00:02:41.600 platforms. 00:02:46.500 --> 00:02:48.000 I'm happy on Twitter, is I'm sad. 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:48.900 Hear all of my thoughts. 00:02:48.900 --> 00:02:50.800 Everyone follow us on Twitter. 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:58.500 Please do. Thank you so much. 00:02:58.500 --> 00:03:00.600 South by have been on point when artists, 00:03:00.600 --> 00:03:02.400 I totally buy with his tone Stith. 00:03:02.400 --> 00:03:04.700 I sat down with him and he's still the Deets on his upcoming 00:03:04.700 --> 00:03:07.300 show with Chris Brown and touring with his producing partner. 00:03:07.300 --> 00:03:13.800 Her great-great. I actually just got here but it is been great 00:03:13.800 --> 00:03:16.500 went straight from the plane to soundcheck and it's all good 00:03:16.500 --> 00:03:18.400 man. That's a life to live in. 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:19.900 Not only did you just get here? 00:03:19.900 --> 00:03:21.000 You going to pop right out? 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:23.900 Right? Don't you have a show with Chris Brown tomorrow tomorrow 00:03:23.900 --> 00:03:27.500 at the Toyota Center to benefit concert with Chris Brown Monica. 00:03:27.500 --> 00:03:34.200 And yes, I had a really big moment recently. 00:03:34.200 --> 00:03:36.400 Something a lot of people want a viral moment. 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:38.600 You got fwm f with me. 00:03:41.500 --> 00:03:45.300 And everybody's posting your Tik tok's and everything. 00:03:45.300 --> 00:03:46.200 When did you know like man? 00:03:46.200 --> 00:03:47.200 I got a virus on here. 00:03:47.200 --> 00:03:52.100 So it happened like so the song came out and then you know, 00:03:52.100 --> 00:03:54.700 it's cool. So I dropped the project on my alright, 00:03:54.700 --> 00:03:56.200 cool. The song is buzzing a little bit. 00:03:56.200 --> 00:03:57.200 People. Are you all like the song? 00:03:57.200 --> 00:04:02.700 Like, like months later people started seeing me in person 00:04:02.700 --> 00:04:06.200 at like you sing a song. 00:04:06.200 --> 00:04:07.600 FW want to sell my playlist. 00:04:07.600 --> 00:04:12.100 Sw1 guy that I was, I all I got one. 00:04:12.100 --> 00:04:14.800 I got one wmep. 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:18.600 You worked a lot with her also went on tour with her. 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:20.800 What do you think of something you've learned from her that 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:22.400 you going to take with you man? 00:04:22.400 --> 00:04:24.300 Just, you know, when you hit that stage, 00:04:24.300 --> 00:04:26.600 you know, I'm saying you got to you got to know that you belong 00:04:26.600 --> 00:04:27.500 on that stage. 00:04:27.500 --> 00:04:30.800 So ever since that those moments I took that I had it at tomorrow, 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:32.800 you know, it's in my backpack will man. 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:34.900 Congratulations on all your success and thanks for speaking 00:04:34.900 --> 00:04:35.400 with us today. 00:04:38.500 --> 00:04:39.400 Thank you. 00:04:42.300 --> 00:04:44.800 I'm trying not to Fanboy over the fact that I was seeing Shawn 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:46.400 Mendes tonight, but it isn't in my blood. 00:04:46.400 --> 00:04:47.400 See what I did there. 00:04:47.400 --> 00:04:48.400 I hate me too. 00:04:48.400 --> 00:04:50.900 He said that would be aboard ahead of his show at the stage 00:04:50.900 --> 00:04:53.000 at Waterloo Park and said five things. 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:54.200 We might not know about him. 00:04:54.200 --> 00:04:56.000 But that was Shawn Mendes in. 00:04:56.000 --> 00:04:57.900 This is 5 things that you don't know about me. 00:05:03.500 --> 00:05:06.700 Number one thing that I have is I've been trying to learn Spanish 00:05:06.700 --> 00:05:08.600 for about 4 years now. 00:05:08.600 --> 00:05:10.700 Very slowly making progress. 00:05:10.700 --> 00:05:12.800 But I basically, I don't know if you can see, 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:14.800 but I have the language on my phone in Spanish. 00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:17.900 Another thing. You might not know, is that a week ago? 00:05:17.900 --> 00:05:22.100 I accidentally stepped on a sea, urchin and I survived it was 00:05:22.100 --> 00:05:25.000 scary because if you ever seen a real sea urchin, 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:25.900 they're like this big. 00:05:25.900 --> 00:05:31.100 They're basically the scariest thing you've ever seen and I stepped on 00:05:31.100 --> 00:05:32.900 it, but the sea urchin is okay, 00:05:32.900 --> 00:05:34.000 and I was also okay. 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:39.700 So another one which is really cool is for almost a year. 00:05:39.700 --> 00:05:43.600 I've been doing monthly meditations with a good friend of mine 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:45.800 named Jay Shetty and we've been studying, 00:05:45.800 --> 00:05:47.900 an ancient scripture called the Bhagavad Gita, 00:05:47.900 --> 00:05:50.300 which is a beautiful, beautiful scripture. 00:05:50.300 --> 00:05:54.900 And if you're interested in spirituality, highly recommend 00:05:54.900 --> 00:05:56.200 diving into that. 00:05:56.200 --> 00:05:58.200 Another thing is that 00:05:59.400 --> 00:06:00.700 About a year ago. 00:06:00.700 --> 00:06:06.300 I realize and I was I was told that my entire family refers 00:06:06.300 --> 00:06:09.400 to me as Grandpa and this is not a joke. 00:06:09.400 --> 00:06:12.000 This is what they refer to me as behind my back. 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:15.400 So it because I don't like to stay up very late at night time, 00:06:15.400 --> 00:06:17.100 which is pretty, Grandpa gave me. 00:06:17.100 --> 00:06:19.600 But yeah, so they call me grandpa. 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:21.900 I think I I think I like it actually. 00:06:23.200 --> 00:06:29.900 The last thing I wrote down for this is that about a year ago 00:06:29.900 --> 00:06:33.700 to my mom and I we we figured out that we both share the 00:06:33.700 --> 00:06:36.600 same nervous tick, which is weird because my whole life I've 00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:38.800 done this and we never spoke about it. 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:41.300 But we basically do this thing where we like, 00:06:41.300 --> 00:06:43.600 it's hard to explain but as we're like, 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:47.600 we like to keep our fingers like this back and forth and as we're 00:06:47.600 --> 00:06:48.900 doing this you can't see it. 00:06:48.900 --> 00:06:50.900 But right now my toes are doing the same thing. 00:06:50.900 --> 00:06:53.200 That's like big toe second or third. 00:06:53.200 --> 00:06:56.400 Tell last tell in sync with myself. 00:06:56.400 --> 00:07:00.100 And then the last last part of this is using my teeth. 00:07:00.100 --> 00:07:06.300 So front, tooth s tooth, it's really intense and complex. 00:07:06.300 --> 00:07:07.400 But yeah, it's like a nervous. 00:07:07.400 --> 00:07:08.200 Take his money was. I 00:07:08.200 --> 00:07:10.000 was doing it one day and my mom was like, 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:12.200 what are you doing on my God to do the second nervous taking 00:07:12.200 --> 00:07:14.500 she's like, I'll do you mean the big tall finger thing? 00:07:14.500 --> 00:07:16.300 And I said, yeah, the big tall finger things. 00:07:16.300 --> 00:07:20.800 So those were five things you may or may not have known about 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:22.300 me. I hope you enjoy it. 00:07:23.200 --> 00:07:25.500 Southwest is the perfect place to catch up on new music. 00:07:25.500 --> 00:07:27.900 I got a chance to sit down with the front woman of GrooVe 00:07:27.900 --> 00:07:34.300 album should have been on the Batman soundtrack. 00:07:36.900 --> 00:07:38.900 Give me about sxsw so far. 00:07:38.900 --> 00:07:41.900 It's been truly amazing. 00:07:41.900 --> 00:07:44.400 I have probably eaten 25 Taco. 00:07:44.400 --> 00:07:51.400 Our first question is about your band's new. 00:07:51.400 --> 00:07:54.500 Music. How would you describe the sound of your new album head? 00:07:54.500 --> 00:08:02.100 Full of sugar, is a psychedelic pop rock record. 00:08:02.100 --> 00:08:09.000 The sound that I think is really exciting and different 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:12.100 and new for us and it's 35 minutes. 00:08:12.100 --> 00:08:14.500 No fat nothing but head. 00:08:14.500 --> 00:08:18.200 It's meant to be played loud and enjoyed, 00:08:18.200 --> 00:08:20.500 you know, just with the people. 00:08:20.500 --> 00:08:28.700 I have jammed out to a lot of DMX. 00:08:28.700 --> 00:08:32.500 Maybe people wouldn't think that but that was like for a long 00:08:32.500 --> 00:08:35.700 time like my signature like pump up music. 00:08:36.900 --> 00:08:38.300 If you in a movie where you listen to do, 00:08:38.300 --> 00:08:41.800 you make this taking you to a level girl going? Like 00:08:41.800 --> 00:08:51.900 the fact that we've been making this a joke about one of 00:08:51.900 --> 00:08:55.600 the songs on the new album that it would be really good in the 00:08:55.600 --> 00:08:57.900 new Batman. I actually said it onstage. 00:08:57.900 --> 00:09:02.000 I was like this was supposed to be in the new Batman but they 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:02.900 went with Nirvana. 00:09:02.900 --> 00:09:08.200 Instead. What is something you're looking forward to this year 00:09:08.200 --> 00:09:10.600 for our record head full of sugar. 00:09:10.600 --> 00:09:15.100 It comes out May 6th car show at Webster Hall in New York May 00:09:15.100 --> 00:09:19.200 12th. May is going to be is going to be a fun month. 00:09:19.200 --> 00:09:19.500 Yeah. 00:09:20.300 --> 00:09:23.400 Billboard in Samsung created this amazing space here at the Galaxy 00:09:23.400 --> 00:09:26.100 house. And I've been using my Galaxy s20 to all week. 00:09:26.100 --> 00:09:27.100 Here's why you should check it out. 00:09:27.100 --> 00:09:30.700 What better way to capture your experience at sxsw in with the 00:09:30.700 --> 00:09:32.000 new Galaxy s20 Ultra. 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:35.200 We love a photo of this dive right into all these pictures. 00:09:38.800 --> 00:09:40.700 First of all, I love how sexy this phone is. 00:09:40.700 --> 00:09:42.100 It's so Sleek in my hands. 00:09:42.100 --> 00:09:42.900 This green is beautiful. 00:09:42.900 --> 00:09:44.300 But let's check out the feature. 00:09:44.300 --> 00:09:46.800 This phone has Samsung's fastest processor ever. 00:09:46.800 --> 00:09:49.000 That means great battery, life and the camera quality, 00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:51.300 even on the front facing camera is out of control. 00:09:53.400 --> 00:09:56.000 And always keep the video table. 00:09:56.000 --> 00:10:01.100 I love this phone has something that Samsung calling this dark 00:10:01.100 --> 00:10:03.900 room with Crystal basketball, whose in a canoe and my friend 00:10:03.900 --> 00:10:06.700 still look amazing working ladies. 00:10:06.700 --> 00:10:08.300 I mean, this looks amazing. 00:10:08.300 --> 00:10:10.400 It's pulling out all the light you can though. 00:10:10.400 --> 00:10:13.700 It's dark in here are the photos on this or epic and we got to 00:10:13.700 --> 00:10:14.600 talk about the S Pen. 00:10:14.600 --> 00:10:16.800 It's so easy to grab and you can't lose it. 00:10:16.800 --> 00:10:17.600 I lose everything. 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:20.300 It's like a pen on paper and it does so much more. 00:10:21.300 --> 00:10:23.400 And we're Billboards over all about our music, this 00:10:23.400 --> 00:10:25.600 past perfectly with your Galaxy buds. 00:10:25.600 --> 00:10:27.700 Are you thirsty for the coolest phone out there when you can 00:10:27.700 --> 00:10:29.400 get the Samsung Galaxy s20 Ultra. 00:10:29.400 --> 00:10:31.700 Now, what are week? 00:10:31.700 --> 00:10:34.500 Thanks to everybody that came out in billboard in Samsung 00:10:34.500 --> 00:10:36.600 so much love and created a memorable. 00:10:36.600 --> 00:10:38.800 Sxsw. Can't wait to do it all again. 00:10:38.800 --> 00:10:41.700 When I get down for you always don't touch with Kelly for billboard 00:10:41.700 --> 00:10:41.900 news.