WEBVTT - WILLIAM, JAKE & JAYMON - 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 --> 0:00:05.160 TV Reload the podcast last week. That right. Hey, guys, 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:07.880 welcome back to TV Reload. Thanks so much for clicking 0:00:07.920 --> 0:00:10.559 and downloading. On today's episode, You're in for a very 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:13.880 good chat. I'm talking with William, Jake and Jamn, the 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:18.640 latest three contestants to be eliminated from Australian Idol, which means, yep, 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:21.960 the Grand Final is happening this Sunday night, and guys, 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:25.720 I am so pumped for that. This competition had been 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:28.560 seriously fierce this year. Jake had been one of the 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:31.960 best country singers I can remember seeing on Australian Idol, 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:36.280 and Jamn just the sweetest guy with a heart of gold. Honestly, 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:40.400 I'm still processing this week's results and seeing William Gough, 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:43.400 who is quite a number of your favorites, was actually 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:47.239 quite devastating to watch. A quick reminder, don't forget to vote. 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:49.920 This is it, guys. It is in our hands now 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:52.400 and there's very few reality shows that we get to 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:55.840 do this, so I'm honestly thrilled if Eilish Marshall or 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:58.880 Gizilla take it out. But before we crown the winner, 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:01.880 we've got the bitter sweet task of saying goodbye to 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:05.640 our top six. William chats to me about discovering his 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:08.680 love of swing music and what he thinks his debut 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:12.160 album could sound like. Jake gets real about being the 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:16.080 oldest contestant, the songs he wanted to sing but couldn't, 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:18.920 and how his tour might look a little different from 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:21.959 what we've seen on the show. And Jamen opens up 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:24.600 about going head to head with Gisella and what was 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:28.600 really going through his mind during that emotional elimination moment. 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:33.440 We have got backstage stories, emotional reflections, and some big 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:37.280 revelations about the standout performances. So sit back and relax, 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:40.200 get comfy. Let's dive into the world of Australian Idol 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:44.039 with the finale just around the corner. Hi, mate, how are. 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:45.640 You, hey, Ben? How's we go on? 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:48.360 I'm good. I'm quite excited to be talking to you 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:51.480 because all season long I've been saying to everyone that 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:57.000 I'm obsessed with your teeth. I can't stop looking. This 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:59.000 is going to be the weirdest thing that anyone says 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:02.600 to you throughout talking to the media. But I honestly, 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:04.960 I just have been waiting to talk to you. The 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:08.040 teeth are are they your born teeth? Are they real? 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:10.000 I don't know. They're the best teeth I've ever seen 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:11.680 on a human ever. 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:13.000 Oh, thank you. 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:15.000 They are like they And you know what, it's so 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:18.760 funny because calling on them, What are you doing with 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:19.240 your teeth? 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:19.680 What are you doing? 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:21.720 I'm like, I'll just brush them my mom. I might 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:23.640 use a bit of a whining tube place every now 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:27.480 and again. But yes, I'm very I've had a good Danders. 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:29.000 I have to I have to give a shout out 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:29.680 to my Dentercy. 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:30.600 He did a good job. 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:32.680 Well you're from Melbourne. I'm from Melbourne. I need to 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:34.000 go there. I need to go to that. 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:35.239 Ah. 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:37.160 I'll have to give you the details then. 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:39.000 I'll hit you up offline. 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:41.440 Thank you. 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:44.559 You know, you were one of the more unusual performers 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:47.200 this season in the sense that there was something very 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:49.720 unique and it was something that we hadn't seen on 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:52.919 idol since I guess that had come back on Channel 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:56.680 seven oh seven up. 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:03.120 Turn around. 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:18.880 See. I was it kind of good to have the 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:22.280 edge that you weren't really competing against another swing singer, 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:24.160 that you kind of owned that category. 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:24.919 I was great. 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:28.440 I mean and to be like the only swing person 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:30.680 and I was in my own lanes. So for me, 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:32.720 I didn't, I just I just had to focus on 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:35.400 being myself and having fun. And I mean that was 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:38.200 obviously definitely a bonus. But I mean for the other 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:41.040 contestants that the competition, I mean, this year has been 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:43.520 so good because everyone We've got so much. 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:45.680 Diversity this year, and you had rappers, you. 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:47.480 Had R and B, and then you had swing, you 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:49.680 had pop, so that that was the beauty of it. 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:52.000 And I think that it worked well for all of 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:53.960 us because we just got to focus on just being 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:54.840 ourselves and. 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:55.920 Going out there and having fun. 0:03:56.080 --> 0:04:00.080 Honestly, it is the best lineup of any season. I 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:03.000 thing since season one, well, I remember the very season 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:06.440 you Weren't Born. I'm pretty sure nah that it was 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:09.560 so iconic because everyone owns sort of a bit of 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:12.000 a category, but they all have these big personalities, where 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:14.000 with you this here, I feel like I've gotten to 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:14.640 know you all. 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:16.760 Yeah, exactly, that's very true too. 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:19.920 And even the way that they portrayed, like those of 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:22.159 the stories and the packages that you see before we 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:24.479 go up had been fantastic And it's always fun to 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:26.760 film those things and then you know, we just show 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:29.080 Australia a little bit more of what we're about and 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:31.800 different sides, I mean, even ourselves. Like for me, I 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.080 learned I didn't even know that Giselle had a twin 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:36.320 brother until they said, you know all these things that 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:38.960 you that you uncover on the show, is it's so cool? 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:40.559 Well, I can tell you that one of my best 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:43.360 friends who is obsessed with this show, I was at 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:46.000 a movie premiere last night, so I had couldn't watch 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:48.599 it live, and and I could watch it when I 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:52.360 got home, and he was absolutely devastated that you're out 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:54.600 of the competition because you were his favorite. Has there 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:58.280 been an unusual reaction for people seeing you leave the 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:00.640 competition because I know a lot of people thought you 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:01.360 could take it out. 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:01.680 Yeah. 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:03.599 Look, I think a lot of people were quite quite upset. 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:05.720 I mean I've just had a very very brief looking 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.600 idea and they're quite full on, like, which is I 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.279 mean so special to know that there's so many people 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:13.719 that really wanted me to see me there in that 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:16.720 grand finale. But I mean, look for me, it's not 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:19.760 I'm not down, I'm not upset about it. I'm more 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:23.400 just just thankful and grateful and blessed that to come 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:25.760 this far and to be a part of just that group, 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:28.080 not even just the six, but the twelve and even 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:30.440 the twenty one. I mean, it's just a blessing. 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:31.719 Because to be a part of it, to do what 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:33.720 I love to do. And it's like I said last night, 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:35.599 I said, this is my dream come truy, my dream 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:36.320 has come true. 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:38.040 So I didn't expect anything. 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:41.240 I came to the competition not having any expectations. So 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:43.479 for me, I take this as a win, to be honest, 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:46.239 because it's just a celebration of accomplishing what I've always 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:47.320 dreamed of accomplishing. 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:50.239 What I love about you is your commitment to the genre. 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:53.560 When I saw you the very first time, I did 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:56.200 some stalking online to try and find out more about it, 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:58.279 and the thing that really shocks me about you is 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:01.440 that you were sort of this unusual character on stage, 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:04.040 but then when I could see your interactions with all 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:06.640 of your friends, you're kind of sporty and like this 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:11.120 footy guy that likes cars, and then you just turn 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:14.400 into this person by nighttime, like a superhero, does you 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:16.440 know what I mean? Like it's almost a bit of 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:19.159 an alter ego. Where did you find out that you 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:21.320 liked this genre of music? 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:24.159 I mean, I've always liked Ever since I was young, 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.480 I was always amused, like I loved music. I loved 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:28.440 I listened to it. I had all these inspirations. I 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:31.400 loved dancing aspects of it. I love the show aspect. 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:34.000 That's what I do. A great like Michael Jackson and 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:36.120 all these great performers that used to put on an 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.200 epic show. And then I think I just started listening 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:42.360 to Sinatra, Elvis Presley, like all those great then martyrs, 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:44.520 and I just sort of started thinking, oh my god, 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:46.920 this is really cool, like I like the style of music, 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:49.039 and then I started singing it. I think the first 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:51.360 song that I sang was my Way, and then ever 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:52.440 since it was the rest. 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:53.120 It's been easier. 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:55.240 I've just been I mean I remember every day used 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:57.520 to come back home from school, I mean, after you know, 0:06:57.560 --> 0:06:58.159 we used. 0:06:58.000 --> 0:06:58.640 To have sports. 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:01.440 I loved footing, and I just used to knuckle down. 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:03.440 Used to go into my little music room. I had 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.960 my own little room there. I used to just practice 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:09.000 and practice and practice, and then there you go. I 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:12.280 used to just refine my craft, have fun and the 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:13.119 rest of this story. 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:15.800 Really it should be really camp and it should be 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.480 really dagging. It should be, but somehow you made it 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:22.320 look so cool and so swamped. Every week I'm like, 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:23.640 I don't know how this guy's going. 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:26.200 It was so fun. 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:27.960 And then to do it, and like even to do 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:30.240 that Amy song, yeah, I mean to do that and 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:31.920 to perform it in front of it, And when we 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:33.800 were doing the arrangement, I was thinking, Okay, look, I 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:35.280 want to mess with the song too much, But at 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:36.680 the same time, I do want to mess with that 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:38.560 song like I want to, you know, really pushed the 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:41.000 boundaries as much as I can with this one, because 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:42.640 it only was a risk, you know, because she could 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:44.720 have turned around and said that was you just ruined 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:45.679 my song, but she didn't. 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:46.360 She loved it. 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:51.720 How then I stay, I'll we just find a more 0:07:51.800 --> 0:08:07.640 about me, tell about us out. 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:06.120 Come on girls. 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:07.400 You know. 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:10.640 We had the dancers there with the hands going through me, 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:13.720 and I was that was pretty cool. And then obviously 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:15.000 with all those twists. 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:17.600 That I've done, I did that Eagle Rock Ross Wilson ended. 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:18.120 Up seeing it. 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:20.680 So just I mean, it's crazy to know that there's 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:21.720 so many people. 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:23.120 That have been invested in it that have seen it, 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:26.240 and I loved it so and like every single time 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:29.520 that I've prepared for like a song and done me 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:32.559 rangement and done the staging when we all got down 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:35.040 together ideas on the drawing board, it's just been so 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:37.600 much fun. I've been like literally in my element. It's 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:38.320 it's so good. 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:40.920 I just don't know how you don't fall back into 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:43.480 singing the songs like we know them, because these songs 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:45.840 that you're singing so many of them, they have such 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:49.000 a unique they have a particular style, you know, they 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:51.600 sound a certain way. I would be like, if the 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:53.720 nerves got the best of me, I feel like I 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:56.240 would just I would stop the swing. I feel like 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:58.080 I would fall back into the way in which it 0:08:58.120 --> 0:08:59.839 sounds on the radio or the way that I was 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:02.240 used to it. Were you ever worried that you would 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:04.480 lose the arrangement and you would go back into the 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:06.079 traditional arrangement of the. 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:07.559 Song, Yeah, definitely. 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:09.640 I Mean there was always moments where I thought, oh, 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:11.680 should we go you know, should we pay. 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:12.680 More tribute to the song? 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:14.680 I mean I definitely had that with Eagle Rock because 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:17.439 it's such an iconic song, and I didn't want to 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:18.199 muck around with it. 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:19.360 That's why I kept it. 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:21.120 I mean, we sped up a little bit, but I 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:23.720 really wanted to keep the like the melody was the same, 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:26.400 the whole thing. So I think that was always especially 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:28.360 when you're taking on a song like that and you 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:30.800 have to be careful because then it can go two ways. 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:33.400 People will just say you just ruined this song. We 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:36.520 can't recognize it. And that's the thing when you're twisting 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:39.480 a song and almost making it not unrecognizable but not 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:41.600 you know, to what it's really known for, because people 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:43.320 know that song when it's played at the pub, played 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:45.800 at the wedding or whatever. The okay, that's biga rock. 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:49.200 You know, we're jamming to this song. So that was definitely, Yeah, 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:50.920 definitely crossed my mind for sure. 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:53.080 I loved talking to Scott Tweet the other day. I 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:55.679 was chatting to him and he said to me, some 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:58.080 of these artists, you know, there's so much nervous energy 0:09:58.080 --> 0:09:59.760 that goes into it. And then he was like, well, 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:03.760 you when he finishes the songs, there is sweat pouring 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:09.160 out of this kid's hands, Like, honestly, is that a 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:11.000 true story? Is he telling me a liar. Is that 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:11.600 what happens? 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:15.240 Oh, that is that's true. I just because I've put 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:17.280 it all on the stage, like I don't leave anything. 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:18.439 I don't believe it's not. 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:23.640 Literally like I mean, I'm always because I just. 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:24.520 I have much fun. 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:26.640 I think it's just any adrenaline. And yeah, I mean 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:31.120 especially on the results and doing it quite sweaty, because 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:33.320 you're very very nervous. 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:35.920 But your face look like it's all. I don't know, 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:37.760 maybe all the sweat glands have moved to your hands. 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:41.679 I don't know, because you look it's. 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:44.640 So strange to me. And also you could tell that 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:47.320 this genre of music is something you're very passionate about, 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:50.679 because I could see other contestants this year, you know, 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.920 trying really to stay with their choreography, where with your 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:57.760 choreography it's so specific to you it almost feels like 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:00.280 it almost I never sounds strange, but I almost felt 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:02.600 like when I would watch you, I imagine that's what 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.000 you'd be like as a kid, dancing around your lounde 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:06.679 room to this sort of music. 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:08.480 But tually, and that's what it is, and that's what 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:10.720 I've done, like the whole thing, and that's what they 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:12.880 told me that to just be William like and that's 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:13.360 what I've done. 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:16.560 Like even with HEP You Rock, I didn't care if I'm. 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:18.599 Going to let's do a twig, let's turn around, and 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:21.640 let's let's run across this stage, and I just whatever 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:24.560 came to my whatever happened in the moment I get. 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:26.240 I didn't think think it twice. 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.240 I mean, I think we've I said, high, it's a 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:30.160 bit more you know, Okay, we're going to start you know, 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:31.760 in the center. Then we're going to move up here 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:34.320 with the dancers. So that was a bit more you know, choreographed. 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:36.280 But for the majority of the part, I just said, 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:39.000 let's just have fun because I think that's what people like. 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:39.280 You know. 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:41.880 Obviously I want to still have a polish performance, but 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:44.280 I feel like, you know, it just brings out the 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:46.560 best of me when I just when I'm William, when 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:48.760 I'm there and have fun and I don't really care 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:51.679 about you know, what happens is whatever happens happens, and 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:54.280 it brings out the character that I want to show 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:56.640 with especially for some of those songs, like for egor Rock, 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:58.920 that's the character I wanted. It's that song that it 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:00.960 comes on in the part, and then you know everyone does, 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:02.280 you know, their job, their decks and everything. 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:04.000 Not that I was probably going to do that, but 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:07.400 I thought, let's just have fun with this one. 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:11.880 Yes, just so amazing too. I think these days, you know, 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:13.760 there's a lot of trouble in the world. You know, 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:14.400 we want to be. 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:15.600 Happy, you know what I mean. 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:21.280 Like and you you particularly, you just exube this joy 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:24.199 and I think that is really important to have when 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:26.040 it comes to entertainment at the moment. 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:28.959 And I think that's probably why you've been there right 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:31.160 to the end. And look, I'm going to sound really 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:32.679 old when I say this, but I remember I used 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:35.160 to buy my music at a music stories to go 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:38.880 into brashes insanity. Ask your mum, she'll tell you, you know, 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:40.640 but I used to buy my music. And I remember 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:42.920 a friend of mine got a job working at Sanity 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:47.840 in the nineties and it was when Michael Bublay became big. 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:50.480 It was just as Michael Boublay's first album came out, 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:52.760 and I remember I had no idea, I said, who 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:54.680 is Michael Bubble? Like I was so out of the 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:57.920 loop with it. But these albums were flying off the 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:01.560 She was like Ben we cannot stock this album. We 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:04.120 are selling it out all the time. To me, I 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:06.280 feel like that's where you are. I feel like if 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:09.400 you were to drop an album at the moment tomorrow, 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:11.960 more so than anyone else that's in this competition, I 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.000 think it would fly off the shelf. 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:14.400 Yeah. 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:16.280 I mean even Amy said that to me last night. 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:18.800 I said the omen crisis like I'm calling it if 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:21.600 you do a swing album of color, And that's really 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:24.400 has opened my eyes. And now I'm thinking, Okay, you know, 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:26.040 what can I do? I've got I've got so many 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:28.120 like original songs. But at the same time, I know 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:32.920 people love me changing and twisting iconic songs and you know, 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:36.160 pop songs and rock songs and whatever. So there's a 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:38.360 lot going through my mind now where I'm thinking, Wow, 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:41.559 this is this can truly be something, especially where people 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:43.800 are going to get all over it by the album, 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:45.480 you know, listen to it played. 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:47.000 I want people to play. 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:48.679 It at their weddings, play at their parties, you know. 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:50.680 Like that that's for me, Like every time I've gotten 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:53.160 on those stage, I just want people to have fun, enjoyed, 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:55.000 And like you were saying, then, you know, people just 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:56.600 want people to be happy. You know, we need more 0:13:56.800 --> 0:14:00.360 happiness in this world. Yeah, yeah, exactly, that's what I 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:00.880 want to bring. 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:03.520 I think that album and don't don't ask me because 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:05.520 I'm not a music producer, but I just think in 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:09.440 at original song as is your leading track, and then 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:13.080 get the rights to see if you see what some 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:15.280 of these songs that you've covered, you're allowed to get 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:17.480 the rights to and throw that out as soon as 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:20.680 possible because people are talking about you now. You know, 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:24.160 people want to go hands with you now. So I 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:25.720 just hope you don't give up with this because this 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.600 is like like this is in your DNA, this is 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:29.560 what you were born to do. 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.200 So look literally and that's how I feel every time. 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:36.320 It's just like like I'm saying, I'm in my element 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:37.360 when I'm doing this stuff. 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:38.640 It's just that I love it. 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:41.160 Well, can we talk about your parents, because like, your 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.280 mom looks like the swinging lady in the world, Like, 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:45.840 how did she cope last night? She looked very excited 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:47.720 to see you get up there and do your swing. 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:51.920 Do you think and I don't know, she just connected 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:54.000 with the audience. I saw so many people online saying 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:56.160 about how sweet your mum is. What was her react 0:14:57.520 --> 0:14:59.200 os parents are. 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:00.560 I think there was just more supportive. 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:02.440 I think Mom was just so happy to see me 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:04.640 up there and having fun and doing what I love. 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:06.480 Because she knows this is what I love. This is 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:08.120 me Andy. 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:10.000 And I remember, you know, when I was singing that 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:12.560 second change like that solo. When I did that solo, 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:15.280 I looked at her and I just saw her smile. 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:17.520 I'm like, you know, this is it was just special. 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:21.200 Even when I did Happy Sunday Night, I just looked 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:23.560 at her all my family, my brothers and dad and Mum, 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:26.560 and I remember just thinking to myself, this is truly 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:28.680 special to have my family there, and they've been there 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:31.600 every single week. Every time I look up at them 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:33.640 and I see them there, It's just it's so touching. 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:35.920 And Mom is just so supportive because she knows this 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:38.640 is what I love. And regardless of the results, she 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:40.560 knew and I would be happy either way. I mean, 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:42.480 even if I didn't make it to top twelve or 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:45.080 whatever I was, I was just yeah, so happy. And 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:47.560 I'm just lucky to have a mom that you know, 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:50.040 loved me so much and the supportive of what I do. 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:52.360 It's it's so obvious though and like from the moment 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:55.280 I saw it, Yeah, this kid comes forward. These kids 0:15:55.360 --> 0:16:00.280 has good parents, Like they've never done a thing. Oh honestly, No, 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:01.160 She's done. 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:03.840 Fantastic and just sacrificed so much for me. So I 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:07.120 just couldn't have asked for more her for this journey. 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:10.240 Well, before you go, ask everyone, what are something from 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:12.480 behind the scenes, Like, do you have a behind the 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:15.680 scene from your time on the show. You know so 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:18.240 many people want an audition and get on the show 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:20.680 that may never get to stand on that stage. Is 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:23.240 there anything that you can share that's kind of you know, 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.000 what it's like to be a contestant on a show 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:26.280 like this. 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:28.080 I mean it's I mean, it's so cool. 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:30.360 I remember in Top thirty week, I mean we were 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:32.200 all so nervous and you know. 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:33.240 It's our first topic. 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:35.240 You know, we've got the gold ticket and there's dirty 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:37.280 of arts and everyone was just so good. And I 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:40.960