WEBVTT - MZUKI & ALLYAH - AUSTRALIAN IDOL - CHANNEL SEVEN 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:01.640 It's in the news today, but it was actually on 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:03.600 TV Reload, the podcast last. 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:03.960 Week that life. 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:06.880 Hey guys, welcome back to TV Reload. I want to 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:09.640 thank you for clicking and downloading. On today's episode with 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:14.960 Mazuki Alia, the first two eliminated booted contestants from Australian 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:18.760 Idol's Top twelve. The competition is really heating up and 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:21.919 after a nail biting first week of performances, it was 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:24.560 Anyone's guest on who was going to be sent home. 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:28.320 I genuinely think both of these girls have something really 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:30.480 special and I know that you're going to hear that. 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:33.919 In my chat today, Mazuki will talk about the online 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:36.360 trolling and how that affected her time on the show. 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:39.479 Alia will share how the songs were picked and what 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:43.200 producers wanted her to lean into. I find out about 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:46.120 the dynamics between this year's Top twelve and what the 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:49.120 girls think of the friendship that they now have with 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:52.120 the remaining artists left in the competition. You will get 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:55.160 everything from their thoughts on the judges, if the remaining 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:58.200 artists have the tenacity to match their talent, and what 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:01.400 part of the singing competition that doesn't count. But leaves 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:05.039 the audiences knowing what they're missing. There is actually so 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:08.040 much to talk about, with so many inside revelations as 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:10.639 per usual, So sit back and relax as we unpack 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:14.120 the wonderful world of austrain Idol, which returns this Sunday 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:15.600 night on Channel seven. 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:17.280 Oh hi Van, how are you? 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:20.480 I'm good? Have you been to bed? Live? TV is 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:20.959 a bitch? 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:24.240 Oh, isn't it? Isn't it? 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:29.640 No, I'm surprisingly doing quite well considering the outcome. 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:31.440 My head's pretty highest steels. 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:35.240 Congratulations though, And can I just say I have learnt 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:40.080 from you from watching you and your humble nature, your empathy, 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:43.560 your kindness. I just think, and I'm forty five and 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:46.360 so we're always learning. But I just thought, yeah, dled 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:47.279 that so well? 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:49.720 Oh thank you? No, that means a lot. 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:52.440 Yeah, look I again, like I have to look around 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:54.560 the room and see who I'm up against. And yeah, 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:57.760 like someone had to go home. Unfortunately it was me, 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:00.280 But I can happily look at top ten and go and. 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:02.520 Every one of them deserve that spot. Well. 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:04.560 I can tell you that my partner was still working 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:06.600 last night as the live episode was happening, and I 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:09.240 watched Australian idol, like people watch the Super Bowl a 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:12.000 lot of screaming, a lot of yelling, and he heard 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:14.440 both songs and he said to me, oh, well, you 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:16.799 clearly know who's going to win out of those two girls. 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:19.399 And I was like, no, you don't know. You don't 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:21.200 know anyway, you don't know. 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:23.760 Not with the public society, and you really never know. 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:25.600 It was shocking. I'm shocked. 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:28.799 No. I appreciate that, thank you, and that support things 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:30.880 means a lot, means you for something in me, So 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:31.519 thank you. 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:35.480 It's so strange because this particular season, it looks like 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:38.000 there's a bit of a genuine bond going on with everyone. 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:41.640 Is that manufactured for television or were you all getting 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:42.720 along like a house on fire? 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:47.720 I love this lot off camera, like I have a 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.720 genuine connection to these people. 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:54.040 You know, we have all bonded so quickly. 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:57.640 I was so fine with the verdict, like not fine, 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:01.040 but I mean excepted my fate being eliminated, and I 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:03.919 had I walked off, you know, with my head held high, 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:06.800 proud of what I had done out there, and I 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:09.920 kept it together until I walked into the room full 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:13.559 of the contestants. The minute I saw all their faces 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:17.080 was just the silence was loud. Everyone just stopped talking 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:19.800 and we had a little group cuddle. It was that 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:22.280 moment that I saw them and I realized, damn, like, 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:24.920 I don't get to see you guys and spend time 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:27.440 with you guys anymore. That really hit me and the 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:30.640 water work started from there. So it is a genuine 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:31.919 connection with these lots. 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:35.400 It's like the movie Speed where Sandra Bullock says relationships 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:38.280 based on in intense situations. On the way she says 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:40.320 in Speed that they don't work out, that's that's a 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:42.560 bad quote. Let's leave that way. 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:47.240 I already yeah, we're already planning trips to go to 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:50.320 peopful states and you know, have a little catch up 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:53.400 after the show, because yeah, I just can't let these 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:56.320 people go. We would just forget that I spent all 0:03:56.360 --> 0:04:00.000 this time with them and we experienced things together. Definitely 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:03.040 be making an effort outside of the show to see these. 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:03.680 People for sure. 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:05.640 What do you think about the way in which they 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:07.760 split the groups, because like back in the day, we 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:10.040 just had to do like a four hour episode. I mean, 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:12.440 I'm exaggerating because that's me. That's on brand for me. 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:15.120 But like you know, they would put everyone together and 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:17.280 everyone had to sing against each other. But we're splitting 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:20.800 people in a very different strategy. I would say, for 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:23.040 how the episodes rolled out on a Sunday on a Tuesday, 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:25.360 how do you think that that affects the way in 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:27.479 which people go home? Or do you think it does? 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:30.760 I definitely think that, you know, having the two separate 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:35.559 heat does alter the overall public vote for sure. 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:36.280 For sure. 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:39.280 I actually didn't know that that's how it went. I 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:41.960 thought that, Okay, I understand that there was Heat one 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:44.640 and Heat two, but I thought when it came down 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:47.360 to the voting that it was everyone overall together. 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:50.640 So that was actually surprise to me to find out that. 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:54.480 It was split into But well, definitely, I think that 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:58.680 has a lot to do with the results. 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:01.360 And I also think it's interesting because like with the 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:04.120 way in which it happens, you get like a save 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:07.159 me song, but people have already been voting. How much 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:10.240 do you think that saved me song affect the way 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:12.320 in which the outcome was? Do you think that saved 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:15.080 me song factored in? Because in this situation, and I 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:18.120 love both of you girls like I I mean, I've 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.000 been rooting for both of you, but it was very 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:22.840 clear to me that your song was better, which makes 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.600 me think, how much does that save me song factor? 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:27.520 In should be. 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:31.120 Completely straight up with you save me song has absolutely 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:34.920 no bearing on a decision that was already made before 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:37.520 we came out of the stage and saying that saved 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:39.800 me song. So I know it seems a little bit 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:43.040 like pointless in a way, like why would we do. 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:45.240 A save me song when it doesn't save you? 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:49.360 But I think if I look at it glass past four, 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:52.000 I was super proud of the performance that I put on, 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:56.119 and it was more so a second opportunity to show 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:59.440 my fans and the public what a great performer I am. 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:04.479 And that performance I feel like, will assistance follow. 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:07.600 Me of my journey outside of the Bible. 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:34.920 Had a role and you went away not you know 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:43.680 round no one. 0:06:50.200 --> 0:07:14.320 Not know because it was one of your best performances. 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:16.640 I mean, I I mean, you never did a bad performance, 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:19.320 if you ask me. Every single time we saw you 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:22.240 come out right from the start, like you know, Angel 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:24.160 of Mine. I think you know, God is a woman. 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:26.120 Oh my god, I can't I can't remember them all 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:27.920 and figured me if you're not remembering them all, But 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:31.720 anytime you came out and sung something, I was like, shit, 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:34.760 this person really has it, Like thank you. 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:38.520 Yeah, I think I even knowing that song had no 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:41.360 bearing on the decision that was already made, I still 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:42.800 was going to go out there and give it one 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:45.600 hundreds and ten percent because again I knew it was 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:48.960 just another opportunity to show the public wide I should 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:52.560 support me outside of idle. And you know I was 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:56.000 saying this, but the gross I've made from audition up 0:07:56.080 --> 0:08:00.640 until my last performance, it has been tremendous. I have 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:04.920 improved leaps and bounds, and I'm finding my confidence and 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:09.560 when being on stage, so going out every performance, find 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:12.720 myself getting more and more comfortable, more and more confident. 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.960 And I think that was proof of last night's performance. 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:19.160 You know, it's just again another step up, another opportunity 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:22.120 to perform. And yeah, I was in flight flight broad 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:25.160 you know, I still wanted to fight for that spot 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:28.280 and show people what it should have been me And hear. 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:30.720 What you're saying, but I honestly would say to you, 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:33.560 you are the type of artists that we will be 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:35.800 talking about in twenty years, Like you are not a 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:39.040 reality TV show artist. If you ask me I genuinely 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:42.040 think there's something very special, Like if you look at 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:45.040 a few of them that have been in IDOL over 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:47.000 the years that don't make it all the way through 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:50.120 the competition, but stay in the chart. That's who you are. 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:52.880 You're in your bones, like every time you came out 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:55.000 and sound, feel that you're in your bones, Like I 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:56.600 don't have enough that's saying yeah. 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:59.480 Yeah, no, I definitely, I definitely feel that. You know, 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:01.720 obviously well, being so new to me, I was like, 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:03.640 oh god, how am I going to go being on 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:06.880 camera and you know, sharing my whole personal life to 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:09.280 the world and playing with a live band the first 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:11.440 time of being on stage and having a spotlight, like 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:13.360 I don't know how to deal with all that, and 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:16.600 to see how naturally it all came to me. It 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.319 comes down to as what you said, like it's in 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:22.440 my bones, within my DNA to do this. I'll hold 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:24.680 on to that for sure, and I'm definitely going to 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:26.160 keep going with music. 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:27.640 I've got a crazy good candise. 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:29.680 I think if you like a Matt Corby, because like 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:33.240 Matt Corby is of course an Australian IDOL, you know, yes, 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:35.600 he's an alumni. Yeah, and you can't take that away 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:37.880 from any of the alumni, but in the same breath 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:40.640 of saying that he went on and transcended beyond it, 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:42.920 And that's kind of where I see your trajectory going. 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:45.480 Yeah, no, for sure, and I'll take. 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:49.360 Ricky leeas even a massive insortation for that as well. 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:52.760 You know, obviously she didn't win either, but look at 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:53.440 what she's doing. 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:55.680 She's better, She's doing better than some of those winners. 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:59.120 So it's just it's it's what I do with this 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:02.400 experience and platform that I've been given is going to 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:04.600 determine my fate moving forward, for sure. 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:07.079 Well, you shocked by some of the Saves this week 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:09.800 because we've got Marshall and Elish and both of them 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:13.120 are amazing artists in themselves. I mean, it's almost a 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:15.880 personality story going on with them as well. It's not 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:18.599 just a great voice. There's like a full something or 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.400 rather going on. Were you shocked by the choices in them? 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:23.000 And do you think that a large part of their 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:25.560 choices in keeping them there is because there is a 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:28.160 little bit more of a personality story going on. 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:34.559 I actually wholeheartedly agreed with the Saves, both Eilish and Marshall. 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:37.560 I know Marshall was in My Hate and Our Calum 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:40.840 on the bat and said, yeah, like so beal like 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:44.120 they should have picked you, Like he's something very special, 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:46.640 and so is Eilish. I think that performance that she 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:50.840 did the Top twelve was wildly good. I obviously understand 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:56.320 that having the full package is part of being a star. 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:57.959 You can't be a great performer. 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:00.880 I mean, shit bricks when they were the camera in 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:04.280 front of you, doesn't you're gonna. 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:05.439 Talk a bit of gray hand in hand. 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:09.240 And I think that both Marshall and Eilish are phenomenal 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:14.800 on an off camera and I don't actually don't think 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:20.240 that their stories or anything had any bearing on them 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:23.640 making it through. I wholeheartedly can say that the performance 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:24.520 is that they put. 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:26.080 On all well deserved to be pushed through. 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:26.560 Yeah. 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:27.240 Top ten. 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:30.640 I mean there were some moments in Eilish's song where 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:32.800 I was like that that's a choice to how like 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:35.240 that in a song that it really worked. I was like, 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:37.760 I'm it really works. Yeah. 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:41.240 I love seeing Eilish come alive, like she's so sweet, 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:45.840 she's such a cute opportunity off the camera and on camera, 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:48.719 and then she just her alter ego takes over when 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:50.880 she gets on stage, and I feel really proud of her, 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:54.800 like her young girl to do what she's doing, like 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:55.760 like she deserves that. 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:57.760 Is she gonna make it though? Like it? I mean 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:00.320 could she be the person? Because I mean, if you 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:02.280 look at the artists that have survived in Australia, like 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.600 Kylie Minogue will tell you the historian, there's tenacity and 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:08.800 there's talent, and Kylie talked about the tenacity of being 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:13.280 able to ring people, put tracks down and never give up. 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:16.320 Like a large part of being a successful artist is 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:18.839 not winning a reality competition or is not having a 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:21.240 number one single. Is the phone calls that you make 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:22.920 off the back of that. I mean there's something in 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:24.840 this figure as well, do you know what I mean? 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:27.400 Like you want to put that work in? Can I 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:29.360 lash do that? I mean, is she going to be 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:31.400 able to pick up those calls and fight for it? 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:34.960 I think if I was telling the right team behind her. 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:38.160 Obviously she's quite young, you know, she's probably wouldn't even 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:40.800 know what direction what road to take, you know, So 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:43.560 I think if she's got the right team behind her, 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:44.679 because there's definitely. 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:45.720 An audience for her out there. 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:46.959 Yeah, they love her. 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:48.720 You know, it is justinitely an audience. 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:51.640 But I think being so young, she wouldn't even have 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:54.480 a clue what direction to go. So I think with 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:57.920 the right team behind her, she could do really, really 0:12:57.920 --> 0:12:58.840 great things. 0:12:58.600 --> 0:12:59.839 She's phenomenal. 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:01.360 And the last thing I was going to ask you 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:04.440 about in regards to this competition was about the song choices. 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:07.800 The song choices for me are really interesting. So these 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:10.360 the songs that you would put out, is this the 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:12.720 artist that you are? Were you happy with the way 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:14.840 in which you could choose these songs or are these 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:16.480 songs kind of attributed to you? 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:20.560 Good question, So I would say that, yeah, I would 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:23.120 say my picks that I've done on the show are 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:28.000 a very good representation of maybe half of the artist 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:31.000 that I am. I am sing the show really wanted 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:34.240 to sort of tap into that old school ninetieth R 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:37.000 and B vibe, which is absolutely part of me. 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:39.079 That is like, that is still a part of you. 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:41.640 Yes, that's on my playlist. That's what I'm Jemmy in 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:43.600 a card to his old school R and B. 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:46.880 That's what I grew up around my parents from lasting 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:49.040 two back and stuff on the weekend. 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:50.280 So that is. 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.800 Absolutely my vibe. I feel like there was my other 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:57.200 more modern R and B that I would have probably 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:58.120 loved to show. 0:13:58.000 --> 0:13:58.480 A bit more. 0:13:58.520 --> 0:13:59.959 I did gul a taste of that when I got 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:03.480 in the Weekend pull out my Name, So that was 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:07.040 really fun when I did that song. But I definitely 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:10.480 probably would have loved to showcase my other R and 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:13.280 B side, the more modern R and B side, because 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:14.199 I do both. 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:16.040 Of course you do. I mean I think that call 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:18.960 out my Name by the Weekend, I think is when 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.960 you transcended with the audience. And I think that there 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:25.720 is something about singing something current. You know, you have 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:28.360 to work twice as hard on an older song because 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:31.200 for starters, sending office time after time is such an 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:34.560 iconic song. We are attributing how that song sounds that way, 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:37.440 and that doesn't a use song. It in some ways 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:39.960 better than she ever did. But that's a really hard 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:41.760 space to be in, do you know what I mean? Like, 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:44.120 that's a really hard space when you're working with older 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:47.800 tracks versus stuff that's very you know now. 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:50.120 Yeah, And you're gonna upset someone out there. 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.360 You're gonna upset someone when you put your flip on it. 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.040 And I respect that, and you know, I try to 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:59.120 respect the integrity of the song as much as possible, 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.480 but faking it my own as well. 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:03.200 But yeah, you're absolutely right. 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:08.320 It's those old school classics that people have loved over 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:11.000 the years and got used to the way that that sounds. 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:13.680 So when you put your own little pin on it, 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:16.880 sometimes it's not received well. But I don't know if 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:21.160 that had a bearing on my outcome. So I can 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:24.760 look back at my performance and I personally think that 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.680 I did a really good job and that that was 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.760 one of my best performances. I'm just every week coming 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:32.880 more and more out of my shell and feeling more 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:36.080 and more comfortable on that stage. 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:47.600 Now, I helped you mat of. 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:51.080 The broken place you gave me. 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:56.640 For you. 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:03.680 List a boot you won't up, A boot. 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:04.520 You won't up. 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:08.240 I claims, you're so proud and no. 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:11.160 To come in. 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:29.040 I kid you, so tell me want I pt you. 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:37.120 I want it, OK, I can't. 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:40.800 I love. 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:58.040 I loved it. I'm just gonna tell you right now, 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:00.200 I'm in your audience. I think there's a lot of 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:03.120 people watch the show that are in your audience, Like 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:05.399 this is just the start. This is like a jumping 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:06.120 off point this. 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:09.600 Is like you, Oh, thank you so much. That means 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:10.399 the world. Thank you. 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:12.520 Just like going to the pool and not wanting to 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.080 dive in, but then just taking a small dive and 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:18.120 then at the end winning, Yeah, picks. That's the vision board. 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:22.160 That's where we're going. You know, before I let you go, 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:23.960 I have to ask you this question, which is what 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:26.119 I ask everyone who runs the podcast, and that is 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:28.800 something of what is a behind the scenes moment? And 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:30.399 is it really hard to do with these behind the 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:32.800 scenes moment of what you're allowed to say? But is 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:36.159 there What I'm interested in asking you is when you 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:39.040 look back at this experience, what do you think is 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:42.359 the moment? Like we all look back at experiences, whether 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:45.040 it's high school, a job that we've had, and there's 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:47.600 a moment that we go that's sort of what we remember. 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:49.440 What do you think in ears to come that you'll 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:52.720 look back at and think that was my idle experience 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:54.040 sort of summed up at that moment. 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:56.800 Oh, I think the goal of a ticket moment for 0:17:56.960 --> 0:18:01.119 me was such such a shot. I really did not 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:03.560 think that I was going to get through, and it 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:09.040 was almost like that validation that I needed. And that's 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:13.560 that was the beginning of that self doubt slowly fading away. 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:17.480 From that day, that self doubt just slowly started fading 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:21.760 and I became more and more. I came into myself. 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:26.320 I found myself, you know. But that moment was the 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:29.240 start of finding myself. So I'll hold on to that, 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:32.679 you know, for sure. And having having all three judgers 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:36.000 give me yesters and also walk out to come and 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:38.600 tell my family and friends that I got three yesters 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:41.040 like that was a standout moment for me as well, 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:43.440 because they don't get up out of their seeks to 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:46.080 walk out with every contestant, so that was. 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:48.199 Very, very near and dear to me. 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:50.840 I was like, oh, okay, I've impacted them in a 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:51.800 way that I can't. 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:56.560 Even imagine, Like it's happening. Yeah, it's happening. Yeah, that's 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:57.440 who unfold baby. 0:18:57.440 --> 0:18:59.720 Girls. I just want to say thank you so much 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:01.840 for being so generous and talking to me today. You know, 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:04.119 I really have enjoyed watching you on this show. I 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:06.480 think you've done such a fantastic job. Yeah, and I 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:08.000 can't wait to see what you do with this whole thing. 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:09.320 I think it's going to be quite exciting. 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:12.080 Oh, thank you so much. The pleasure talking to you. 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:15.040 Thank you for your kind words, and I'm. 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:16.920 Your HiPE girl. Just call me when if you wake 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:18.440 up any day of the week, any day of the 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:20.520 week and you're having a bad day, slide into the 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:24.040 DMS and I'm just like, whoop, whoop ah. 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:27.320 My head's my head's so big. After the conversation, how dare. 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:30.760 You What a fabulous chat I had with a liar? 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:33.959 Some really good insights there, I'm sure. Now we are 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:37.080 going to unpack the Australian Idol journey with Mazuki, who 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:39.679 I'm sure is going to also have some pretty exciting 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:41.640 tales to tell. Hi. 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:42.560 Ben, how's it going. 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:44.280 I'm good mate, how are you. 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:46.200 Good? 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:50.480 Thank you congratulations on making it into the Australian Idol 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:53.000 Top twelve. I don't think it would be the same 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:55.600 thing if it wasn't for your contribution. I'm just going 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:56.960 to say that, Oh. 0:19:56.840 --> 0:19:59.400 That's really sweet. I really appreciate that. Thank you. 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:02.840 It's it's a really hard thing as an artist to 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:05.400 be able to sing the sort of music that you sing. 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:07.400 I'm just going to say that because I'm in awe 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:11.080