justine skye: Collide, CANDY & creating her own lane - ep. 21

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and justine sitting with us because our camera died but we're splitting this into two parts because it's too long and welcome to part two of justine we love you you came up at a really interesting time tumblr youtube covers your purple hair the internet wasn't what it is now and you started posting before people did it so strategically so do you remember what your first youtube or tumblr and my or myspace post was do you have myspace oh yeah i had myspace hell yeah i did too what i loved my myspace i love i like don't remember my myspace i just remember that there was like top fives and no i remember because my gangbanger boyfriend oh throw back strikes again he did not cut in that first part he didn't have me in his top he had me he had top two and he had me and another bitch shut that and i was number two and i was really sad about that and i was like but i thought you were my boyfriend and who the fuck is this girl also he had someone else's his number one yeah it was giving corbin from love island it was sincere sincere could you imagine if we still have that like on your instagram number one imagine if you could still put like your top fire no and i used to be like coding like changing the html me too i would hide everything on my page i actually miss i miss it i put music i would hide everything on my page hide the music thing and i had so i was like in love with soldier boy like i was like all the soldier boy songs um my first tumblr post i don't remember what it was but it was probably something like stupid like i used to before my hair was purple i would i was trying to like find my thing and experimenting or whatever so i would wear i remember actually like was obsessed with gucci man's like wife her name is like kisha k or and she like had this line of lipsticks that were just like very vibrant colors and no it's i like have white lipstick and then i really got locked into blue lipstick that was my thing before purple hair really wow i actually feel like i've seen a photo of you with blue lipstick well you're thinking about the fourth of july insert here blue yeah blue no that was really crazy but it was like this limited edition like mac peacock peacock peacock peacock it was called peacock it was like mac like lip gloss that was blue was it baby blue or dark blue no it was like midnight blue no it was just blue oh it was like a denim kind of blue like okay but like a dark wash kind of denim yeah it was so nice and that was my thing and then i dyed my hair purple and i was like no more lipstick what made you dye your hair purple like what inspired you what what was it well i actually don't like the color purple and people think that that's my favorite color yeah and it was like i actually like even like sometimes i think like oh should i get purple nails and then i look at the color purple i'm like ew so what happened you have that on your head for like years because my mom didn't let me dye my hair any other color and purple well no because i was like she knows i hate the color purple so i was like can i dye my hair purple and she was like yeah because she didn't think i would do it and then i come home and my hair is purple oh and then it just was like and then it became your whole brand yeah i would never wear like i don't wear purple like have you guys ever seen me in purple i've never seen anyone in purple if you think about it barney barney back in the day i would see him what was your first cover it was headlines by drake no way no way it was and i was wearing a fedora i need to see that no i think i i think i archived the video i was like i'm so embarrassed i need i'm like wearing like leggings and like will you show it to me like archives on your page and i'm just like sitting i'm like no no i hate fedoras fedoras burn them fedoras please burn them you see me i'm like yeah they know they know yikes i love that honestly yikes not good shit okay justine your sound has evolved so much how would you describe you right how would you describe your sound early in your career versus today before i got signed i was like experimenting and i actually was doing more like alt r&b things and then i got signed and they were like no you're a black girl from brooklyn you're doing like strictly traditional r&b and i was just like okay you guys know what's when i was 17 to my first like record deal and i was just like singing songs like they kind of like stopped me from writing my own songs and i was just like singing songs that were like given to me because i just felt like i don't know i didn't like i feel like a lot of the times like most especially like most of the artists that i know and like my peers that i look up to like they kind of had like their own crew of like friends that they like grew up with and like obviously i have friends but like all my friends like are doing their own things like i didn't have friends like in my in like music yeah until i got like older i was just listening to my label because i'm like they're the record label they know exactly they know how to make me like pop they know how to do this and that and then it was like a couple years go by and i'm just like guys like what are these songs like i felt like i was just doing like a science project and not like something that i actually was like in love with yeah and what was the question um describe your sound oh yeah so i i felt like a lot of the songs most of the time were like throwaway songs that were for other like bigger artists and i didn't really know what my sound was i just knew i wanted to sing yeah mama i want to sing you guys don't get that joke that's like that's an inside joke that i have oh i repeat it i said mama i want to sing she was like what is that joke she said yeah mama i want to sing but you slurred over that remember me so you guys i've had one drink but no meals no meals no meals no meals for us i guess so anyways what's your sound now so obviously like i was filming grown-ish and i wasn't like able to like record during that time yeah and i was independent at the time but i felt like i was just now getting into like my writing like my song writing bag and becoming confident in that and so after i filmed grown-ish i was like oh my god i'm like oh my god i'm like oh my god i'm grown-ish i was just like i feel like i need to explore like i feel like i never got to do what i want to do in life and so i just started like going out more and like partying more and like traveling more when i wanted to and experiencing different parts of the world like going to ibiza and like going to raves and i'm like wait why am i not making music that can live in these spaces yeah like why am i not experimenting with these spaces and i'm like i'm sick of writing songs that are like sad and slow and like whatever like i don't care like i'm exhausted like we get it like guys ain't shit yeah so i just started to experiment in that space it's so funny i was just having a conversation about like writing sad songs the other day with someone and i was like someone and i was like yeah like none of my songs are sad they're actually all about like partying and like having fun and feeling free yeah and being sexy yes and that's like and that's fine and that's fun yeah like everything doesn't need to be so deep and it's like I'm not in that like conscious like I am so emotional space like I actually and it's not even like and maybe it is that I'm like running from that but I don't feel like I am you guys know me yeah like I'm literally like life is great yeah we're having fun yeah I mean the only thing part of the like where you are in your life right now is yeah I mean the only thing is that like I guess that something that would be stressing me out which is something I do want to talk about on my album is I guess because kind of like the grind and the story of like being so focused and locked in and the different like things I go through like within the industry not within like my love life like I don't know about my fucking love life yeah yeah what love life honestly honestly I should write a song about that like what love life what love life that could be the title song what love life name of the album what love life gang bang well I feel like you kind of just touched on like the journey to candy right and like what inspired that was it someone or some place or was it just traveling and the lifestyle yeah I think it was it was the traveling it was by the way five was in the studio when I came up with the name because initially the name of the project was air candy so as I was working on the project I had the name like air candy just like always like it was on the mood board that was in the studio every day and everyone just kept being like I don't think that's the name of the project they're like that's like it's like weird like you're so much better than that you're so much and I was like what and so finally we're down to like okay these are the songs on the project I also like at one point was gonna call the project so happy I could die which people kind of liked but they like that but people like which is a play on like a lady gaga song which is one of my favorite lady gaga songs which one so happy I could die that's the name of the song I don't know that song I'm not familiar with my anrs and like five would come to the studio sometimes like take things off the mood board put them on the mood board like whatever and we're screaming in the studio we're like what the fuck like what is the name like this is it like we have the songs like what is it he was like what about candy and I'm like oh oh and we're just like wow it was in our face the whole time yeah I was like yeah that's it it's candy I love I love that I love candy candy so now this is Matt Rogers from lost culture east us with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang this is Bowen Yang from lost culture east us with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang you know I don't know 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They're so stupid. around everyone's so dumb except for you fake right fake and and also not interested or just like oh i've got my life i don't care about your life and a lot of other big shots that wouldn't be where they are without us oh and by the way will ferrell told us personally he loves the show and he wants to be a guest on every episode but he's just so busy listen to hollywood handbook on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts we're leaning into dance music which i personally love do you feel more free now making this music like this type of music i thought i had to burp oh i thought you were so emotional so deep i thought you were gonna be like actually i do i thought you'd never ask no i i absolutely feel so much more free yeah so much more exciting making this kind of music and like i don't know i feel like for the first time when i get into the studio i know exactly what it is that i am i'm looking to do and like i don't think that i've yet like i want to continue to expand on the sound like candy was just the beginning of of what could be and i feel like it's the first time that even like so many producers and like other artists are like hitting me it's so nice to walk into a room and people be like yo like your new shit is like so yeah this is like i guys i've been in this industry for so long and like for the first time ever people are like yo like what you're doing is like really really cool and i'm like guys like i haven't even started yet for real and so it's just awesome to be recognized now and like by people that i respect so much and and and i'm excited to get into the album and like it's funny because people are calling candy an album like guys it's not like this is my ep right this is just the introduction to the new sound which is i didn't want to like just come in with full album i want people i'm not a new artist for people who don't know what's the difference of of an ep and an album so an ep is like a little appetizer and the album is like the main whole meal yeah we're hungry yeah we're hungry we're hungry like candy in its entirety is only like 23 minutes which i was like i kind of want people to just like run it back run it back another one of our top comments which obviously we were like they wanted to know if you would ever go back to r&b i think that this sound is like a beautiful blend of r&b and dance and i feel like people think that dance music is just like edm you know and it's like and it's not like we had so many amazing like black women that were at the forefront of dance music from like the beginning of times like you know we have like donna summers with the sultry vocals and the elongated like like you know what i'm saying it's just like it's just to be sexy and to be diva and i feel like that's what the next project is going to give like diva down i mean well diva up diva up diva up never down never down if you could describe your current life in a way that you think is right for you - Not an album, but not a Justine album. it be it's a tough one you guys should have asked me this question before this i don't know if this is my current life in an album but this is the only album that i know like top to bottom which one which is like don toller's album i love that honestly it's a great answer like that is like that is like that's how we feel like that's literally how i feel i'm too excited to go to the concert like have there been songs that you believed in that you think the fans have overlooked oh yeah a million i think um one of my favorite songs from my old discography is maybe which is deep cut you guys don't even know that one but actually me and five wrote that together really what i need to listen wait what's the one that drew loves that like you would get so annoyed every time you would break it up my god what is it drew was like a low-key justine stan and he was obsessed with this one song and he told her and she was like mad that one actually that's such a reaction yeah no i actually like weirdly wanted like at the time i was uh signed to rock nation and i wanted that to be the single that was when i was working at party okay he wrote that one what was it called good love good love that's good not me going there i'm like polite obviously had another moment yeah recently on tiktok so how did that make you feel like did you think that the moment that it recently had on tiktok was bigger than the moment of when you released it and was that like a weird feeling for you or was it seeing a song that you put out so long ago that maybe you don't resignate that much with anymore re-coming to fruition like what what did that make you feel like it was weird i'm not gonna lie it was definitely like so it by the way still like keeps like popping up and i'm just like guys how do you how do you guys keep finding the song i mean you know that was one of my favorites i know i know that but that's also because like you were my friend so you like you were there from like the release party yeah like you know what i'm saying but it was just like when i saw it going viral for the first time i kind of like ignored it and then i was like to the point where i can't ignore it anymore because it was just like whoa it's like it's like really taking kind of like taking over but i mean that's not the song that i would have chosen for myself i was very confused i was i'm actually i still don't know how that was it a trend i think it was no it wasn't it wasn't even a trend like there was no like trend yeah there was no like use the sound for this whatever it was just the sound was popping popping yeah the song isn't there wasn't like a dance it wasn't like a dance popped off to it there was like different edits of it though there was like a sped up version of it there was a regular version of mashups there was like yeah yeah it was actually like i i don't understand yeah the way things like pop off on tiktok and it's like even like with labels like you can spend so much money like trying to be like like seeding it out to this person and doing this and doing that and i'm always just like guys like i don't want to spend my budget doing that yeah because it's just a waste of money it's a gamble it's literally it's it's not up to us oh you were i actually was i was thinking that it's like a it could it could work it could it's like a gamble yeah it's like it's literally it's not really like up to the artist it's up to the people if it picks up or not like it resonates with people it's like people have the ability to like i don't think that the listener understand like they do actually i feel like like stan culture like they know that they can make someone pop off or not like you know what i'm saying but it's just like sometimes i don't know people just get so confused in in the world of it all but i like to think that my my supporters and my fans like are very nice people and they don't like spend their time like being like mean and like down playing like other like when i meet my fans like in person and and and the people that like actually genuinely fuck with me it's like love and respect like it's not like grabbing on you like being like like or talking down on someone else or like like just be like when i see that like i feel like as an artist like i would never ever ever want like the people that support me to be like on the internet breaking someone else down no like at all like i would speak out against that in a heartbeat yeah in a heartbeat that's just like you it's not it's not it's not cute no any of us like even like just us sitting here like for as long as we've been people that have been known on the internet whether you're like the biggest in the world or they're not and i feel like even like we're in such interesting positions too because we can see some of the like most famous people in the world and like that's kind of helped me get through yeah whenever i feel like i'm facing you know a bit of like backlash online and i can look at like my friends like close friends and be like damn if they can go through that this is nothing compared to what they go through right so i'm just like i need to like tough it up yeah and push it through i also don't know if that's like necessarily the healthiest thing because i think that what we all experience like isn't necessarily normal and what our friends experience is like completely a 180 normal yeah of normal so like don't also like put down your own experience no i definitely i definitely don't of the people that we're surrounded by i definitely don't but i think that it's kind of like we're grown and we've been around this for long enough to know that it's kind of like something that you sign up for yeah like and unfortunately it's that it sounds sad and it sounds like like we all have sad faces now but it's like it's kind of like it's kind of like something you like sign up for because like we do want to be successful we do want to like have careers in this industry and like this is how we make our money this is how we do our thing and something that we love to do at the end of the day we love to post we love to make music we love to make content we love to like do things and be in this we love to act we love to sing we love to make brands and do things like that it's like we love to be creative in this space and it's like if that's something you want to do and be private about it you can go to fucking switzerland and hide in a fucking cottage and do that if you want to you can move to japan and like drop off the face of the earth you can move to fucking wisconsin and drop off the face of the earth if you want to but we don't yeah like we want to share it with the world yeah and with the internet being what it is today and even like with stan culture and stuff like that like i wish that it was different and i wish that people like had more of like decorum and like a empathy it's just not what it is and hopefully like one day there will be something that like changes that in the world and i think that music is the only thing that can do that like music definitely heals the world i told justin that all the time like dude like you can literally change the world with your music like it has the power to bring people together and it has the power to bring people to like even sports has the power to bring people together look the next winning everyone there's community like it's excitement like enter the entertainment business and being able to be in this business is one of the greatest honors i feel like of the world like you know like it's just like it's an amazing thing to be able to share or bring people joy in their time of need like when people tell me they come up to me they're like you your music helped me get through this moment i'm like really like wow it's so special i can't believe that it's a huge the universal language it is i listen to fucking rosalia's music i don't know what the fuck she's saying and you're crying i'm crying i listen to afro beats i know all the words i don't know what they're saying and i'm dancing i'm moving i'm grooving it's one of my favorite songs in the world like it's just like it just makes you feel good and like that's why i love being in parties yeah and like i hate when people are just like no one dances anymore it's like people are dancing where i'm at yeah you just gotta know where to go that's why i love going to parties it's like everyone is there and they're dancing i keep hitting this fucking tree we need a real tree but yeah i just feel like that's why i love i love going to raves i love going to the gay parties the gay raves specifically like i love going to ibiza and being in the clubs with like everyone like sweaty but like everyone's just like having fun it's just like it's community it's dancing it's everyone's free like that's also like we're like dancing like techno like started like it gave like especially the queer community like a space to feel free and be yourself and i don't know i feel like i feel like there's like a a yearning for that now and like things are changing in a way things are changing and people love to party now again like genuinely party and you know what what yes i am 30 girl please and people think that oh like oh my god like i'm too old to be partying i'm too first of all we be partying with older people also i'm gonna be 60 and still out i don't care oh my god i don't know why i thought you said you're gonna be 60 soon i party with my dad and he's my dad's like 56 partying with like 55 56 and you know what partying with like older people my dad they know how to party my dad is the funnest person to go out with like like we're gonna be fine and he'll like be out like longer crazier than me i'm gonna three six five party girl like charlie yeah exactly yeah when you're it is that something you do like well sometimes i like post it in my close friends your close friends is elite by the way it's really good so funny it's really good it's like her finsta but like but it's so funny i stopped using my finsta really yeah we started one we started one we have one posted no but like like my real true finsta oh well yeah yeah that's what i meant like your public finsta yeah no i use that all the time but i stopped using like yeah we don't my other i actually just went and looked at it the other day and i was like oh my god i haven't posted in like a year yeah i haven't posted it sometimes i would let my friends hear music but i it's it's your baby you know so if they don't react the way that you wanted them to especially when it's like a demo yeah there's friends that i know i can play something for and then there's friends i'm like they need to hear when it's finished like a five yeah or like a tyrell tyrell pisses me the fuck off they're like sometimes they're like tyrell pisses me off like because i will send him things because like he loves music yeah and i'll send him something he's like i don't know and i'm like what you don't know and then like the project comes out he's like wait what's this song i love it i'm like bitch i sent it to you that's the one that i sent to you yeah and he's like wait this is my favorite song i love this song i'm like you fucking because like when it's not like complete and it's just like an idea like he's a he's a photographer he's like creative in a different way but he's not a musician so he doesn't get like the like it's not done yet thing so i just don't send him anything anymore you learned your larry tyrell sorry you lost your privileges what's scarier showing a song to your closest friends or putting it out into the world none of them oh like neither like not anymore yeah like because it's not i don't care yeah i don't care what like it's not i'm not believing it too much like yeah it's not like i'm not playing it to you for you to tell me like whether i should put it out or not like i already have come to that decision myself yeah and i just kind of like if it's out in the world like i already love it so much i i stopped giving everyone that much power power over you like even like when tyrell was like i don't like this song i'm like girl shut up yeah i don't care not me she's shitting on time no i saw someone recently i don't remember it was an artist saying that once they release a project that project had finished the purpose for the artist so they don't really it's like they're over it so like it's for the world to make their own assumptions or whatever they want but like for the no i understand what you're saying but it's it's just like yeah when you finish a project because you've also listened to it so much for so long yeah like i when i whenever i hear the songs from candy now i'm just like damn that is really good yeah i'm like wait hold on that's almost like you get a second life i've been listening to it for like two years like before everyone else and so it's like you're excited about what's next right you know but then when i whenever i'm like at a party and i hear the song like someone sends me a video of them listening to i'm like wait these songs are like good and that's how i know i made a good song when i'm like i'm not tired of hearing it this is matt rogers from lost culture east that's with matt rogers and bowen yang this is bowen yang from lost culture east with matt rogers and bowen yang you know when people try on new food and suddenly it's like wait that's the reaction a lot of people are having when they first try cupi mayo it's the one with the red cap and the little baby on the bottle you've probably seen it in the grocery store before and if you've ever just walked past it some people would say that's a huge mistake because this mayo is different most mayonnaise uses whole eggs cupi only uses egg yolks which gives it this rich umami flavor it's smoother deeper and almost buttery once people try it they 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your mind or wake up to a new version of yourself so whether you're a solo travel veteran or you're too nervous to book your first trip i hope you listen to solita on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts hey this is hayes davenport and sean clements we host the podcast hollywood handbook on the big money players network our show is extremely accessible to first-time listeners each week we talk to someone in show business aka the biz and try to help them with their careers and see what they have to offer us everyone has a good time and no one gets mad at their publicist for letting them do our show we've had a lot of great guests like sarah sherman not that great actually can you help me can you help me shape this yeah how about we flip it on his head okay how about we flip the script okay what is the surprise woman who actually you think is the straight man is actually the one who's acting weird adam scott this entire time you've been talking to her for a long time she's been talking to her for a long time she's been talking to her for a long time she's been talking to her for a long time she's been talking to her for a long time i i would never let go of that i have i would never set expectations for something like that if the universe allows for something like that to happen i'm open to it i'm always going to accept you know danny mcbride fine yeah it's all this fragile masculinity exuding i could smell it walking down the hallway to be honest with you i was like is that weed nope it's fragile masculinity ben stiller no because a lot of times in out of context people don't get it or even know what a circle is you know what i mean like you're like oh what's this so stupid everyone's so dumb and fake right fake and and also not interested or just like oh i've got my life i don't care about your life and a lot of other big shots that wouldn't be where they are without us oh and by the way will ferrell told us personally he loves the show and he wants to be a guest on every episode but he's just so busy listen to hollywood handbook on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts and like that's how i feel about every song on my my last project i'm just like this is like i'm so excited to perform them live to give them like a different life yeah speaking about candy you worked you've worked with so many incredible people and i feel like katrin auto was such a big how many songs did you and k do on that three three how did you guys get put in contact and like how did that become well obviously vaughn yeah shout out vaughn ford um explain who vaughn is vaughn is my stylist and my friend and my cousin and my sister we love vaughn we love vaughn um but so the thing is like me and kate like we've like hung out and like been hanging out for like a while and i'm not the i don't like rejection even though i said that you know like never take no for an answer but it's just like there was a point also in my career where i was just like i don't think i'm at the place yet i wasn't confident in myself yet like or what i was doing or like how i would approach things and so it came to a point was like okay like i know the direction that i want to go in i know what i need to do like i started hitting people up and whatever and like k is just like busy like you know what i'm saying like i'm like i respect him like so much so it's like i don't want to like i didn't know how to approach it and then vaughn was just like wait you and k needs to like work together like why haven't you guys worked together i was like i don't know like he's just busy like and then he's like yeah well he's also like why didn't you like you and k need to like work together like why haven't you guys worked together i was like i don't know why she hit me up yeah i think because i did like a dance song too and he was just like wait like right what right without me yeah and i was just like wait what like yeah what do you mean like you're the person i want to do this with then we got into the studio i was so nervous because we're both virgos too so we're both like we're both like yeah like we're saying a lot without saying nothing right you know and so we get to the studio and like i'm really shy he's really and we're just like and then i was like wait this is my session like i need to like i have to take control i need to take control of this and that just like sparked kind of just like more sessions between us and and now i just i love k like he's like i was gonna say he's like my first like cosign but i have been cosigned like i can't like disregard timbaland because like he also gave me like a huge cosign as well too we did a full project together but i feel like k is like my actual like friend yeah and like loves me and i feel like k is like my actual like friend yeah and like we hang out together and like really supports me and believes in me like even like when ooh la la came out every dj booth he was in like i was in there with him and like really like when he i need him to show up for me he's like there for me and that's just like that's the type of like industry camaraderie and like friendship that i like i appreciate you know like everyone just thinks like genuine yeah it's genuine and that's like anyone that's in this industry that's like my friend is like genuine friendship yeah like people think because like oh like you guys make the same kind of music or you guys are both black girls, or you guys are this or that. Like, you guys should be friends. And it's like, that's not how it works. yeah like these are people that like actually love me actually show up for me i call them we key we hang out we're just like these are my real genuine life friends who support me and give me like real opinion not just like show up for the photo op right yeah not saying that about timbaland like timbaland actually was like they're supporting me too as well but i was just saying like me and like that is like we party we like yeah like you know you've been there with us like you know what i'm saying like that's like my virgo says yeah who's your dream feature today my dream feature today oof i feel like i have a couple um i would love to work with fred again that would be amazing like that is like amazing and also like kylie minogue fire you're going on tour justine sky's going on tour and you guys are not going to be here for the show so that we're gonna we're gonna put all the dates on the screen and in the description below we she's going on tour yes when does tour start it starts on july 26th it's like it's like a it's a second month it's like a little run where's the first show it's only six shows the first show is in atlanta okay and then i'm also doing lollapalooza what's different about this tour compared to your past live performances i don't know yet because i haven't hit the stage but i feel like obviously the music i'm gonna say you're probably so excited yeah it's just gonna be a completely different energy i guess i what i will say is just gonna be me on the stage i've just been very inspired by just like i i just wanted to feel like a party and that people get the experience of partying with me which is really fun like not like really bad it's very fun yeah i just wanted to feel like a party fun giving vocals giving just like my md is like sick lights fit fun sexy just like yeah dance party show up ready to dance like one of my one of my i love going to shows and concerts and one of my favorite things is like when i see people performing i'm like fuck like i want to go on stage with them yeah i want to party with them like where are they going after this yeah that's you yeah like that will be you and you know we're gonna be going places after and we're going places after like where is the afters i'm actually doing something kind of fun okay i can't wait but i can't say it don't say it but we're going places after will you tell us after yeah okay how do you prepare for going on tour like do you have to do any like do you have any routines or rituals rehearsals or dance oh yeah of course you need to like you think i'm just like raw dogging it like well girl like imagine just raw dogging it on stage just going up like no no it's like it's like did you rehearse like because i saw you perform i mean i've seen you i've been to so many of the kdj booths yeah no those aren't but like even when you performed at the 818 thing it was like so fun to watch well that i hadn't seen you perform your new music yet and you literally like captivated the whole party like came from like spread out and she was just on like i was like how did she just like by the way that was crazy because we were all sitting there like all all of us like watching her being like what well that was crazy because like i was obviously like late yeah no i literally like walked in purse on shoulder and then i'm like talking i'm like hey guys hey and the song starts playing my song and i'm like oh shit and then i like run on the stage like throw my purse somewhere and i just start like performing i thought i was doing one song and then he played another he played like 10 songs and i was like every time like i kept like walking off the stage a little bit he was like hey and another one there i was like okay it was so fun it was so fun and it got me just like i think that was the last time i was like on stage and it just got me excited for tour yeah because it's just like that was just me like literally just being free so imagine when it's like a full like actual show yeah and like planned out yeah with things but it's been exciting like just group chats and like i've been like sketching on my ipad like little things and like outfits and lighting that i want to do because like the venues are really small because i just wanted to feel like intimate and like i wanted to feel like the party you couldn't get into yeah so i'm excited is there a is there a specific location or spot that you're excited about the most like location um i mean i think like my hometown like in brooklyn yeah also because like the venue is like i can walk to the venue from my apartment like i think i will actually well new york is sold out so i'm sure you can make this i'm sure you can open the fucking back door first of all i'm gonna be on that stage like behind the dj are you singing collide and you better make me a custom outfit i am singing are you i mean i have to sing it like you guys kind of like made me have to sing that song for the rest of my life oh my god okay well tell us the dates wait you guys i can't wait i'm gonna be on stage in a matching outfit as justine's a backup dancer i'm gonna learn the choreo she would too i'm gonna learn the choreo do you have an alter ego when you're on stage or is it just like no i think it's me yeah like you're you and your truest form me and my truest form that's what i feel too i'm in like when you see me at the party at the party which is the best you're justine maxine oh justine maxine well i do wait let me say something i do want to go to europe for shows yeah it's just expensive yeah it's like the travel the equipment the travel the equipment the this the that everyone that works yeah for your stage but i will make it over there so you will the last time that i think i performed in i performed in london like there was like apple music festival and i opened up for the weekend which was like iconic for me yeah i was just like that was the last time i performed in london is there anything you feel like you're still chasing oh there's so much i'm still chasing i mean a grammy yes as we were holding our friends grammy the other night minimum we were um but i mean like yes it would be nice to like to get a grammy but it's not like the end all be all there's so many like artists um who are amazing who have haven't received grammys you know but it's just like it's kind of like those things where you're just like i don't care about it but then if it does happen for you or like you're like holy shit yeah like it's it's nice to be recognized yeah um me and sass won the we want to get the best podcast award yeah so hopefully we'll both get our awards soon yeah she's like anyways this is my interview not about you vick we can't stop um also doing like my own headline show in an arena yeah yeah there's so many things to buy my mom a house yeah not my mom and not my dad i'm kidding sorry pops sorry dad you're good and i think just to like continue to to be in a state of like happiness and like and really just nurture my mental health as well too and like my relationships my family and my friends more importantly i mean this interview is going to be a lot of fun i'm going to be a lot of fun i'm going to be a lot of fun i'm going to be a lot of fun i'm going to be a lot of fun i'm going to be a lot of fun i'm going to make you psycho um but i just feel like i feel like i'm on on my way to like all of those things yeah what would you tell like little justine you could speak to her like after i would say i would say to be i just thought i imagined justin leaving the room and seeing little justin at the at the other side of the door that would be scary it could be cute imagine i saw myself i would freak the fuck out i would freak the fuck out imagine if you knew i think that i would just be like really really trust your gut and go with your instinct because i feel like for a lot of my my younger life i was just um questioning a lot of things and listening to what other people thought i should do and what i should be and i wish that i just gave myself some more grace and yeah and more confidence back then but here we are today and i'm i'm proud of the woman that i am yeah well i'm proud of you too me too and we love you so much i love you guys we love you and that's it that's all we have for today we don't have more time our cameras our cameras are dying like we're not kidding so hopefully you guys got something out of it of course i did this is amazing we love you make sure you guys follow justine and look at her tour dates and stream sounds simple right but finding your perfect match can honestly be one of the hardest parts of your routine but there is good news sephora has all the best brands in one place with so many shades finishes and coverage options to choose from plus their beauty advisors shade matching tools and free samples make it so much easier to find the one that's just right for you visit sephora and 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