1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:04,040 Speaker 1: Fitz and with Kate Ritchie podcast, Hey what I pursue us? 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:10,280 Speaker 2: Truly? Jason Dula? When you let's. 3 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 3: And you're listening to no brand new single, judge on 4 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:21,919 Speaker 3: the voice, he's taken over the country. 5 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 2: Jason Derula, welcome, young, thank you. 6 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 4: I have to start by apologizing we brought you into 7 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 4: the studio and we're playing a new single. Fitz is 8 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:34,320 Speaker 4: trying to chit chat with you and have small talk, 9 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 4: and I'm not I don't know whether to get involved 10 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 4: or whether are we being rude talking over the song? 11 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 4: Are we meant to be sitting here silently just gazing 12 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:44,879 Speaker 4: at the ceiling? 13 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 2: No, are you kidding? 14 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:48,560 Speaker 5: I'm sure you've probably heard it already. 15 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:51,560 Speaker 2: Hopefully, Jason. 16 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 3: One time, Ricky Martin come in and I don't know 17 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 3: how nervous is nervous it is for you when you 18 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 3: bring out a new single. But Ricky Martin had his 19 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 3: laptop with him and he said, do you go always 20 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:02,520 Speaker 3: want to hear my you single? Opened up He's that 21 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 3: top and started planet and it was really good. But 22 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 3: how nervous he was to see our reactions to his song, 23 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:12,560 Speaker 3: because you don't when you bring out a single, obviously 24 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 3: you don't know how people are going to react to it, 25 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:18,160 Speaker 3: So I mean, you pass that now, you've been in 26 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:19,320 Speaker 3: the industry for a long. 27 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 2: Time, you know what I mean. 28 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:22,920 Speaker 5: Of course you want people to like it, you know. 29 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:26,000 Speaker 5: I mean, it's it's hard work that you put into 30 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 5: material like this song, for instance. I worked on it 31 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 5: off and on for a couple of years, So of 32 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 5: course I want people to like it. But at the 33 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:37,080 Speaker 5: same time, at this point in my life and my career, 34 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:41,400 Speaker 5: I really do a lot of it for myself, and 35 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 5: I make music all the time, and it's my favorite 36 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:46,840 Speaker 5: thing to do in the world, you know, So I 37 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 5: don't put so much pressure on every single song. I 38 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 5: pretty much just kind of led him out to the 39 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 5: world and just keep putting on material, just keep putting 40 00:01:57,160 --> 00:01:58,800 Speaker 5: on more and more, more and more songs. 41 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:01,360 Speaker 4: Yeah, do you have a heart a harsh critic though, 42 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 4: you know, And there's always someone in the family. I 43 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 4: don't know if you've seen the Lewis Capaldi documentary, and 44 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:10,640 Speaker 4: there's this brilliant scene where he's releasing this new song 45 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 4: and he's letting mom and dad listen to it for 46 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:16,240 Speaker 4: the first time, and Mom's like, I think you've done 47 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:21,640 Speaker 4: better than I think I think your lyrics used to 48 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:25,120 Speaker 4: be better. And you can see this, Paul Lewis's face 49 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:27,799 Speaker 4: is crumbling, like, is there someone in your life who 50 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:29,919 Speaker 4: you know? You know, because I'm sure there are a 51 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 4: lot of people around here who think you're great, they're 52 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:34,839 Speaker 4: telling you great all the time. Is there someone who 53 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:37,800 Speaker 4: you know is going to always be one hundred percent honest? 54 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 5: My brother and my cousins are pretty brutal. 55 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:41,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know as well. 56 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:44,400 Speaker 5: So I mean they would never like let me put 57 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:47,639 Speaker 5: out something that that they didn't think was really really 58 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 5: good themselves. So coming from my mom, daw would hurt me. 59 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:57,720 Speaker 2: What about little Jason? What about your son? He's brutal, 60 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:00,720 Speaker 2: actually brutal. Yeah, because he'll. 61 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:03,239 Speaker 5: Be like Daddy's song, Daddy song, and then I'll play 62 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 5: one of my songs. 63 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:07,840 Speaker 2: He's like, I don't like this. It's true. I'm like, 64 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:10,960 Speaker 2: I'm like, how do you know what you like? Yeah? Yeah, 65 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 2: he would like, you're not that one the other one? 66 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:18,079 Speaker 2: No trumpet. You don't know that you like what Daddy likes? 67 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:21,679 Speaker 3: Okay, he would love your TikTok account. Now will I mean, 68 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:23,519 Speaker 3: you're you're the messed what are you know? 69 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 2: You're up? 70 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 3: To about fifty eight million followers on TikTok, which is 71 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:30,240 Speaker 3: my kids love it as well, which which is which 72 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:34,080 Speaker 3: is amazing for the kids. Now you've well, you've catapology 73 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 3: career to another level, guys through TikTok. 74 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 2: Yeah. 75 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:39,920 Speaker 5: I think it really connected the dots. You know, for 76 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 5: a lot of years, you know, I had all these 77 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:45,480 Speaker 5: songs and I don't know that people like connected who 78 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 5: the song was, like who were singing the song? 79 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 2: And I was like, well, damn, I mean I. 80 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 5: Just like two hundred and fifty million records later, like damn, 81 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 5: I can't steal. Yeah, but social media is so important. 82 00:03:56,680 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 5: It's like it's like the the it's like everything altogether final. Yeah, 83 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 5: And I just always sucked that social media. And during 84 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 5: the pandemic, I was like, I'm gonna make it my 85 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 5: business to figure this thang out. 86 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 2: And I just thought it. 87 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:16,800 Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you've done okay, But I did it 88 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:21,720 Speaker 4: in a way that kind of allowed me to learn. 89 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:23,320 Speaker 2: So I've just posted a ton. 90 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:26,280 Speaker 5: So I was posting six times a day and trying 91 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:28,480 Speaker 5: to figure out what was working and what was not working. 92 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 5: And then that's you know, one of the things that 93 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:32,280 Speaker 5: you know, catapulted the whole. 94 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:34,839 Speaker 3: Can I just connecting with children? Can we just say 95 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:37,159 Speaker 3: as well, Jays spent one of your early interviews that 96 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:40,280 Speaker 3: you did with us, you recorded something for us and 97 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 3: tell me our executive producer over here he plays this 98 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:46,440 Speaker 3: to his daughter Mimi every night before she had this slice. 99 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 2: She's five. This helps her get to sleep every single night. 100 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 6: Twinkle twinkle little stuff. How I wonder what you are? 101 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:07,600 Speaker 6: The clouds so high like a diamonds in the sky, twinkles, 102 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 6: How wonder what. 103 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:15,440 Speaker 2: You so you're you are putting her to sleep every night? 104 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:21,039 Speaker 2: That's a compliment. Thank you, Jess, so sweet good. That's 105 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:21,800 Speaker 2: really sweet. 106 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:24,120 Speaker 3: Tell us about the Voice Mate you've been you've been 107 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 3: recording with the Voice. Are you quite surprised with some 108 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:29,800 Speaker 3: of the talent that we have here in Australia? 109 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:31,159 Speaker 2: Man, I'll tell you what. 110 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 5: I came here and you know, I expected to hear 111 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:39,200 Speaker 5: great people, but I've just been blown away. Man, it's 112 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:42,719 Speaker 5: really been incredible. I think there's like really some next 113 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:45,919 Speaker 5: level talent. And they've been saying this is probably the 114 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:48,119 Speaker 5: best season that they've ever had in terms of talent, 115 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 5: and and I believe it because I was just like, 116 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:52,600 Speaker 5: what is going on like these people. 117 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:56,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, just mind blowing talent. Oh good mate, we're really 118 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:58,640 Speaker 3: looking forward to it. The brand new single Glad You 119 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:01,280 Speaker 3: Came is out now. It's always a pleasure to get 120 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:03,719 Speaker 3: you in the studio mate, Thank you so much. Absolutely 121 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:04,960 Speaker 3: no worries. 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