taiwan i'm ava max i'm chatting with
joey right here on icrt fm 100.
hello ladies and gents i'm joey you know
and today i'm very excited at the almost
the very beginning of 2022 we get to
have a chat with an old friend uh this
is our third conversation and the first
time we met was actually in person yeah
who gets to do that anymore at the kiki
box music festival here in taipei taiwan
and today we have the extraordinary and
the absolutely talented ava max what's
up hey
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hello
now we have a new album on the way but
this new album was led by a very
powerful single um where you teamed up
with the godfather of edm music tiesto
himself and i hear that the story was
that he reached out to you and i'm sure
um he must have been someone that you've
always wanted to collaborate with so
what was that fateful day like when you
received the message from your team that
tiesto has a song for you when i first
heard the song i like knew immediately
that i loved it yeah i'm i mean i
am a gut instinct person where when i
hear something or when i make something
i know instantly if it's going to come
out or not so i knew right away i called
up my managers my label i'm like you
know this is it we have to put this out
this is a big record and i think people
are going to love it yeah and that's
what happened we loved it we loved it
and out of curiosity you've worked for a
long time with a producer called circuit
right and he was your kind of production
guardian angel for a while and then you
work with star dj producers like alan
walker and tiesto what was the main
difference between working with
producers like circuit and then now to
dj slash producers like tiesto i mean
he's produced those records as well
so he um everything i
put out he basically touches he produces
so um he's involved in absolutely
everything and i trust him here oh so
circuit is still your guardian angel my
goodness yeah so yeah he's he's just
involved in everything and he you know
he cuts my vocals in the studio and
makes sure your vocal produces
everything so yeah he's he's heavily
involved even on the second album yeah
so what can you tell us about this next
record um any collaborations this time
oh man um
i can't say much but there are circles
clues coming in the next week okay okay
and where should we pick up set clues at
your tick tock or your instagram like
where is your first channel of oh
it might may or may not be tick tock
i i have no idea what that means but
just make sure you follow ava max
everywhere
now a dj's job or a producer's job is to
cook up some good melodies and beets
your um passion is to cook up some
literal food in the kitchen i heard that
you continue to work on your culinary
skills um taking after your moms what
are some of the dishes that you uh
recently perfected oh gosh i haven't
been cooking lately because i've been so
busy obviously during the pandemic i was
cooking every single night i was cooking
breakfast lunch and dinner it was just
so much fun and then it took a halt
basically it feels good i'm not good at
baking though i suck at baking yeah i
try so hard but baking even even my mom
tells me she's like with baking you
can't just because i like throwing
whatever making you have to go by the
measurement or it's not gonna
you know
like you have to put as much milk as it
says or as much sugar as it says and if
you don't it's messed up
ava i'm gonna be honest this whole time
we're talking i'm looking at that fridge
i really want to reach into that fridge
and see what's in it can we see what's
in eva max's fridge oh whoa
here we go
so there's milk there's tomato ketchup
there's blueberries okay well it looks
like it's all pretty healthy stuff yeah
you don't really have junk food it's
mostly fruits and vegetables in there
orange juice yeah
now when you are in the kitchen
what kind of a cook are you are you this
kind of person who listens to podcasts
watches a show or sing in the kitchen oh
um in the kitchen you know i listen to
so much music a lot like in my car and
when i perform and also like when i'm in
the studio i'm writing a lot so i kind
of like silence oh really a lot i'm i
i'm
silenced kind of gail i don't like a lot
of music around me um unless it's like
getting ready in the morning i'll put
some music on but other than that like
i don't know it really depends on my
mood okay sure i was actually a little
surprised i thought you'd be the kind to
grab a ladle and just sing in a kitchen
while the food is oh no oh no if i don't
if i
sing in the studio and i perform i'm
like that's enough i can't i can't do it
anymore
my voice needs
vocal rest yeah that's true that is very
true and uh while you're waiting for the
food to be done that's a good time for
rest okay so let's talk about the
model's mv a little bit because it's a
party isn't it it's a mv that takes us
back to 1927.
my favorite part about this music video
was when you crashed this um sort of
high-end ballroom party
and you're all being eccentric and a bit
of a bit of recklessness as well and you
walk by this champagne tower right you
grab the bottom glass from the champagne
tower and the whole thing falls and that
was my favorite part because that was
something that i've always wanted to do
but you never dare do
so ava
as someone who's got an angelic side and
a well i guess sweet and cycles
what is one thing that you've always
wanted to do but never dare do at a
public area or at a party well sometimes
you know i don't like going to parties
where it's like super bright and you're
in a living room filled with people and
it's like it's like you know it's almost
like hospital lighting it's so bright
and you're just like
well
i don't understand so i just kind of
like wanna like turn up the music turn
off the lights like i really like doing
that just turn it off turn off all the
lights but i haven't done that so i just
walk out and leave well guess what um
come february 16th you get to do
whatever you want on your birthday if
you hold a party you get to turn the
lights off oh my god i forgot about my
birthday have you really been so busy
but yes i i have a birthday coming up
are you gonna celebrate have you thought
of well i guess you forgot about it i'm
gonna i'm gonna be in new york with my
bestie and uh
but i might go to a party you know might
have a drink or two
pop some bottles good good um new york
is a good place to celebrate your
birthday it's gonna be near valentine's
day you gonna spend it with anyone oh
you know a girl doesn't reveal her
secret okay okay gotcha
whatever the case might be ava i wish
you a great valentine's day a great
birthday and we wish you a great album
that's coming out
do you have a name for it or a release
date oh
that was good i almost said it but no i
can't say anything
that was good you're good you're good
interviewer because i almost said it um
but
i can't say anything yet
yeah dang it i thought if i was being
sweet it would actually let us in into
those it almost it almost that was good
that was really good
all right everybody go follow ava max on
facebook instagram and tech talk and uh
she might let out the cat in the bag
pretty soon in the near future and uh
yeah in the meanwhile go listen to the
model uh by the way do you have a model
that you live your life by either today
or recently so many but
maybe
give us one there's so many um what is
that patience is a virtue yeah okay i
like that
because i've been sitting on all this
music and i just want to release it
patience is a virtue goes for i guess
baking goes for releasing albums and
everything in life right yeah all right
well ava max thank you so much for
joining us have a great day thank you