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hello taiwan i'm jimmy miller and i'm
talking everything tour new music
christmas and more with joey chow
hello i'm joey and today i'm very
excited to speak for the second time
with a uber talented and extraordinarily
talented singer-songwriter
his name is jamie miller what's up jamie
how are you doing good joey how are you
doing dude i'm very well the last time
we spoke was back in i think july yeah
along the way
you've celebrated your big uh 24th
birthday right yes i have yeah
you're remembering me happy extremely
belated birthday to you how did you do
it like with the pandemic how did you
celebrate or did you actually get to
celebrate it i actually did get to
celebrate it nice um coverage
restrictions were lifted here in los
angeles so me and my friends we booked
out a party bus
and we just went around la having a good
time listening to music and then we all
went to have a few drinks afterwards
which is fun that's actually a brilliant
way to do it i mean you get to be
outside while stay away from crowds of
people that you don't know which is
perfect exactly so it was a good time
and
brought in with my friends and yeah it
was really it was really special and we
know how being perfect is what you're
all about at least you know for the last
few months so yeah you released here's
your perfect here in asia we loved it
then you dropped the version with salem
elise we loved that version too but i've
always wondered now the verses are a
little different so uh when you wrote
the song did you write the original with
salem elise or did you guys
kind of had to add some verses after the
fact um i wrote here's your perfect with
salem so we actually wrote his perfect
together um which is the original
version but then when it came onto doing
the remix um
it was from her perspective too so it
was from the real story but from her
perspective which was really cool yeah
she um added the verse about la which to
my surprise
is i mean that's your story but is that
her story as well she moved from
somewhere near san francisco to l.a too
right yeah well actually i was in a
relationship in the uk yeah and she
wrote it from my relationship point of
view okay but she she did it and she did
it in an incredible tasteful way and
yeah came along together very well oh
i'm sure a lot of people to chase their
dreams move to la and probably share the
same story so i think that story goes
for a lot of people around the world
yeah have you had a chance to perform
this one in front of a crowd that is so
funny you say that because i haven't
i've never performed teaser perfect in
front of one crowd oh isn't that crazy
yeah you haven't had the chance to find
out how the crowd
i'm sure as well but how they would
react to it hate it
no i haven't but i really want to i
hopefully 2022 is the year where i get
to do that but you performed this so
many times um in your mind have you
thought about a perfect way to do it if
you ever get a chance to perform it in
front of a large crowd yeah i mean i
would love to do it with like a full
orchestra oh i'd love that like a
massive band just like going for it um
i'm going on tour next year nice so i'm
excited about that i'm doing an american
tour which is going to be fun um and
there's like i mean i start tour
rehearsal at the beginning of next year
so i'm excited it's going to be it's
going to be a good time yeah beginning
of next year is only a month less than a
month away yeah
so so we're excited for you to go on
tour and i'm sure when
things allow for it to happen you'll
come to asia um last time we talked we
talked about your biggest influences you
named donny hathaway tori kelly and
bruno marsh so a few questions about
that first off have you had a chance to
meet tori kelly yet because you have
some common friends i actually have yeah
actually i say i haven't been
in front of a crowd but i performed in
front of a crowd and tory kelly was in
the audience and we we spoke briefly
which was like i'm like whoa like she's
so pretty in person
and she's just incredible like just her
whole demeanor is amazing and
i i love her she's awesome
what did she say about your performance
well she was like i think i've seen you
on dick talk and i was like
and i was like
i don't know what to say i know cause
last time you told me that you're
probably gonna fanboy a bit and you
probably freeze up in front of her so
it's gotta mean a lot for her to do that
reading up was the main thing i did i
didn't play
whatsoever i i look like a weirdo but
okay what about bruno mars because i
heard a story where you had the chance
to hear the song
um leave the door open before he
released it is that true is that a true
story that is a true story i was in the
studio and i was looking for the toilet
and
i was like excuse me man do you know
where the toilet is and
turned around on mars oh god
and i was like
i was like bruno mars just told me where
the toilet was so did you end up leaving
the door open while you went to the
toilet just so you can hear it
no i think i would have been slowly
weird but uh no i
i just like it's really cool to be in
the place where you get to meet your
idols on a random basis yeah um
yeah and it's just cool that and finally
getting to show the world my my songs
which is put me in those positions yeah
that's true well last time we talked you
also told me that there's uh an ep or an
lp on the way you're almost done there's
some uh interesting collaborations on it
with people that will know are you
allowed to tell us any of those i can't
just oh no
well okay jamie i'm gonna test your
poker face then because um since you
told me a story that obviously tells us
you sometimes share a recording studio
with bruno mars
and he is one of your biggest uh idols
is he
i'm really bad at smiling
we'll stop right there jamie we'll stop
right there but the album was on its way
and when do you think you might drop it
um it's definitely gonna come out before
next summer okay i'm definitely
bringing it out before next summer we're
working on it now it's nearly done
there's a few more songs that are yet to
be written but i'm excited we're nearly
there great uh so i went on to your
youtube last night and i noticed that
you posted a short
at i think 7 a.m in la so i'm guessing
it's scheduled unless you're already in
the uk right now where are you i'm i'm
i'm still in la yeah i'm still in l.a so
big fan of uh taylor swift eh i love
taylor swift yeah she's she's wow you're
really good with your research yeah wow
yeah she's she she's killing it like
everybody's talking about feeling right
now so yeah i'm a huge fan of taylor i
actually took that opportunity to go
onto your youtube and say that we'll be
interviewing you in 12 hours and i ask
people to ask some questions they want
to ask you
so are you ready to take some fan
questions let's go all right first one
uh someone wanted me to ask you about
your favorite fast food restaurant since
you've arrived in la
and what items are your favorite on that
menu i would say my favorite fast food
restaurant
would be this uh restaurant called
chick-fil-a i'll do the
best nuggets
nuggets the chick-fil-a burger and they
do these like crispy fries
i can't eat too much of it because i'm
gonna get fat but yeah so good and you
know like oily face and it messes with
your complexion and all that stuff
yep i know about that um next question
what is a perfect christmas
for jamie miller like what needs to be
there what are some of the components
food drinks decorations i would say
my perfect christmas it would be
spending it with my family at my mom's
house lots of bad food for you
sweets all those things and just like
watching christmas movies all day so i
guess the song home by midnight that you
recently dropped a very christmas track
yep is about that or is it about a love
story honestly it's about you the raw
like i haven't been home for two years
and i feel like i had to celebrate
christmas last year on facetime with my
family but um luckily enough i was with
my manager and his family which was
really nice um and yeah it was just like
i just wanted to this year be able to
make it home by midnight just in time
for christmas so i'm going i'm going
home on friday i'm excited i get i get
to see my family for the first time in
two years which i'm really excited about
okay that's very good and uh we do hope
that you have a very christmassy
christmas this year
and uh last question is someone asked if
jamie could sing anything for us i'm
guessing maybe a line or two from home
by midnight are you or would you be
willing to do that on zoom yeah show me
okay you ready mm-hmm
it's another side tonight
and the fight is not as bright
i don't love the code as much when it's
not the bold voice cries knocking on my
door
only makes me miss you more
i'm putting up the mistletoe
i hope you won't belong
thank you for delivering an early
christmas present to all of your fans
and to myself personally even though
it's via zoom i'm sure you've been doing
this a lot lately but hopefully we can
see you do that in person uh sometime
soon uh thank you so much man i
appreciate you joey have a i hope you
have a wonderful holiday yeah you too
and uh album is coming out i don't think
you can tell us the album title just
quite yet or any actual features on it
no yeah but early 2022 or mid 2010 2022
okay got it jamie thank you so much and
uh merry christmas and a happy new year
to you uh thank you buddy you too man
merry christmas