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Speaker 1: Podcasting. Now we have a genuine superstar who joins us

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Speaker 1: on the radio.

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Speaker 2: At just twenty years of age. Our nex guest has

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Speaker 2: amassed multiple gold and platinum selling records, winning Best Solo

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Speaker 2: Breakthrough and Best Pop Artist of the Year at last

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Speaker 2: year's New Zealand Music Awards. She's also scored two hundred

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Speaker 2: and forty million streams on Spotify. Please welcome, Benny Ella.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk a little bit to you about

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Speaker 1: the fact that Elton John recently just said that you

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Speaker 1: were his next tip for next global smash his words,

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Speaker 1: there's a great photo of you and him. How's that feel?

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Speaker 3: Oh, it's pretty wild. I don't I still don't even

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Speaker 3: understand like that he has kind of listened to my music.

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Speaker 3: I still don't really get there. But it's insane and

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Speaker 3: I mean just just wow.

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Speaker 1: To be honest, did you when did you meet meet him?

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Speaker 1: Can you talk me through the interaction, like how it

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Speaker 1: all unfolded.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we came to ask for a day. Yeah, because

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Speaker 3: I wasn't going to get to meet him because he

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Speaker 3: was in New Zealand and he got really ill and

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Speaker 3: he obviously had to leave. Of course, he was like, oh,

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Speaker 3: you know, yeah, but he yeah, he managed to still

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Speaker 3: fit me in this guy much from six to sixty

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Speaker 3: m which was awesome, and he was just the sweetest man.

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Speaker 3: It was a nice, a nice time.

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Speaker 1: Did you drink like any ridiculous champagne or like eat

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Speaker 1: some epic food or something like that.

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Speaker 3: No, it was it was actually pretty quick like in

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Speaker 3: and out.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, So you walked out and Jua Lipa was

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Speaker 1: waiting to come in afterwards. He saying the same thing

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Speaker 1: about her as well.

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Speaker 3: So I think he just needed to go to sleep.

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Speaker 1: Well mate, Like you know, just having a look at

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Speaker 1: the size of some of the hits that you've had already.

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Speaker 1: Obviously Super Lonely has been even banging around in Australia

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Speaker 1: now it's top ten the area chats over thirty million

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Speaker 1: hits on YouTube. I actually, actually there's a couple of

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Speaker 1: things that have lined up for me here because when

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Speaker 1: I was researching you, there was I saw an interview

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Speaker 1: recently talking about a comparison between you and Billie Eilish,

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Speaker 1: and then I saw a lot of a lot of

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Speaker 1: quotes and stuff under all of your stuff saying that

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Speaker 1: like you were the new sort of like icon of

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Speaker 1: Generation Z, and you were tipping out bad guy that

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Speaker 1: super Loan is dipping out bad guys. The anthem for

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Speaker 1: jen Z, what's your like? I did hear what your

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Speaker 1: sentiments were about your comparisons with Billy, but can you

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Speaker 1: talk me through can you let the audience know how

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Speaker 1: do you feel about that?

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Speaker 3: I think I know the executive view that you're talking about.

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Speaker 3: And there was some mad clickbait on that one, and I.

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Speaker 2: Was like, hell, I am not.

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Speaker 3: A rival. Such a bad look. I'm like, I'm the

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Speaker 3: complete opposite, because I'm actually a fan of her music

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Speaker 3: and the whole kind of thing that she's got going on.

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Speaker 3: I think she's an incredibly talented musician. But I think

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Speaker 3: what I was trying to say was that, I mean,

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Speaker 3: it's crazy and very flattering when I'm being compared to

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Speaker 3: these kind of people like her, and I think it's

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Speaker 3: just for me. And I've talked to like a bunch

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Speaker 3: of my kind of you know, new muso friends who

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Speaker 3: are also kind of in the same position. It's like

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Speaker 3: when you're proud of like doing something that you think

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Speaker 3: is kind of you know, it's kind of different, and

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Speaker 3: you're like trying to get in there and do your thing.

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Speaker 3: It's kind of I think it can just be a

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Speaker 3: little bit off putting when all you get is like

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Speaker 3: you're a When I get called, I get you're like

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Speaker 3: a knockoff Billie Eilish, or you're an ugly jewel Lika.

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Speaker 3: I get there every week, and it's kind of just

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Speaker 3: like I think. I think. I just think it's like

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Speaker 3: a new artist. It's just sometimes not the nicest thing

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Speaker 3: to just be constantly compared to someone, not even like

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Speaker 3: sometimes comparing the music. It's just like, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, I've got one more thing I want to ask you,

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Speaker 1: which I'm sure you get asked a lot, but you

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Speaker 1: are new to our audience, so I think this is

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Speaker 1: something pretty phenomenal. But I'd like you to talk about

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Speaker 1: it a little bit more if you can. Hand you

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Speaker 1: have dyslexia, yes, can you just talk through some of

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Speaker 1: the challenges and maybe even like misconceptions in and around

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Speaker 1: what that's like.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think it was like for me,

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Speaker 3: kind of the struggle was in high school, kind of

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Speaker 3: having to do I loved English, and I loved these

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Speaker 3: kind of writing subjects and things that I would write,

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Speaker 3: like I would write paragraphs of stuff that made no

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Speaker 3: sense because I would write it, and I would think.

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Speaker 3: I would think that it would be really good, great story,

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Speaker 3: and I love writing stories, and I'd be like, this

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Speaker 3: is great, and then she'd come back and I don't

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Speaker 3: understand this. It makes no sense, so I think, yeah,

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Speaker 3: So I think it was kind of for me. It

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Speaker 3: was just that kind of struggling with like the whole

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Speaker 3: school system and really loving to write and be creative,

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Speaker 3: but kind of being limited of the way that you're

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Speaker 3: meant to write my school. And I think that that's

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Speaker 3: why songwriting has been so good for me, because you

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Speaker 3: don't actually have to make any sense like you could.

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Speaker 3: No one's gonna judge me because well they're gonna judge it,

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Speaker 3: but they can't tell me that I did it wrong.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because lyrics are so interpretive, like there's no it

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Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily need to be sequential or like story linear

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Speaker 1: story based stuff. You know, it's just whatever it makes

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Speaker 1: you feel. That's brilliant. You found the only place that

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Speaker 1: dyslexia doesn't affect your writing any well, it's been it's

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Speaker 1: been wonderful to chat to your mate see what you're hearing.

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