- Welcome to the UK, how are you feeling? - So great.
- You loving London? - Yeah, love it.
Have you managed to see much of it yet?
Not really. I wanna go shopping but I've been so busy that I haven't.
Shopping for what? You seem to have everything.
Shoes! Do you see my shoes? They're crazy.
I've seen some pictures on your Instagram of ridiculous shoes from Back to the Future
and stuff.
Yeah, those are probably the most expensive shoes I've ever gotten.
What do you mean gotten? You mean you got them free?
No, I mean bought them.
I was gonna say, that'd be quite cool, getting them for free.
Right? Yeah, I wish I did!
We can order some good shoes over in London, just, you know. Oxford Street.
I haven't been in any shops yet, but hopefully I'll go.
Cool. I've seen some pictures of you posing in front of all these London skylines and stuff.
- I mean, bring it on! - Yeah.
So, with Instagram, stuff like that, you have got just the most unbelievable following.
Is it a bit weird that every time you do anything you have all these screaming girls everywhere?
I mean, I enjoy it. I'm 18, I like it, so.
Did you ever dream you would be kind of here, right now, talking to me about you?
No. I never thought I'd be travelling all over the world and going to London and Japan
and Mexico and all these cool places, so it's a real blessing and I'm excited to
see the rest of the world.
Awesome. Now, you're music, by the way, is amazing.
Thank you.
- I'm predicting big things for you over here. - Thank you.
And the following you've already got in the UK is huge. What do you want fans
in the UK to know about you? Anything that you want them to... anything specific?
That's kinda hard because my fans already know so much about me, but I mean, I have
my first EP coming out really soon. I worked really hard on that, so my fans are really
gonna enjoy that.
- Awesome, yeah. Because you've got this album. - Yeah.
So, did you write a lot of it and have lots of different inspiration from different things?
How did it all come about?
I did it with Red One. He came down to Miami, I don't know if you know who Red One is?
I mean that everyone does "Red One," they always sing him.
Yeah, he's huge. He came down for two weeks in the studio and we just worked on stuff
and that's who did most of the songs on there. But I actually wrote one song on there and
produced it myself too, which was pretty cool.
Oh my goodness, so what's you're favourite song on the album or can't you tell me?
I'd say there's two. One called'All I Ever Need' which I wrote and then the other one
called 'The One I Waited For' which is a good, slow song.
- Good slow one, we love it. Break it down! - Yes.
- Yeah, you're working with Pitbull as well. - Yeah.
He is a lad, isn't he?
Pitbull's great. He's always just running around, having a good time, so it was a lot
of fun working with him.
- He pops up everywhere! - Yeah.
And he sings with everyone. Tell me something about working with him. Any secrets behind
the scenes or anything?
Not really. He's just a really humble guy, he's really cool and he's really nice and
a family man.
Tell me, you must have met so many people, so many different selfies with people, who's
the best person you've actually met?
That's a good question. I would probably say, probably Drake was one of the coolest people.
- Drake? - Yeah. I like Drake.
He looks like he's a cool cat.
- He's a nice guy, yeah. - What was the chat about?
I just told him, like, "Yo man, let's do a track together."
And he was like, "I'm in, just let me know."
- So? - So, I mean, I'm in!
So what happens when you say, 'I'm in'? Do you DM them or do you get your people
to sort it out?
I just get my people to sort it out.
You give Drake a What's App, right, and then... What's the coolest number you've got in your
phone? I bet everyone asks you.
I got a couple of cool ones. I've got Taylor Swift, yeah. I got other people too, but
Taylor Swift's probably coolest.
Hang on, you can't drop that one and not give me more info. How did you get her
number?
I mean, I was on tour with her so I get her number.
Does she just give it out to whoever?
She doesn't give it out to anyone.
But you got on with her really well, right?
Yeah, of course, we were on tour together, so.
Please tell me you send each other snapchats. That'd be amazing.
Snapchats? I don't know if she has snapchat.
- Do you have snapchat? - Yeah.
- Do you love it? - It's okay. It's kinda boring.
Yeah, it is boring, isn't it? I always wanna... you know when you... what do they call it?
Explode or something when you lick it.
- It's okay. - Yeah? Okay.
With Instagram, I've always wondered, do you have your alerts set on or do you have it
all quiet? How does it work when you're as big as you are? You must get tweeted all the
time, Instagrammed all the time.
Definitely don't have my alerts on because my phone would be exploded.
So how do you manage to see things? Do you just go through it in the evening, or?
Yeah, I just go through it in the evening and just kind of look.
- Do you? - Yeah.
Do you chat to fans on there as well?
Yeah. I leave comments on fan pictures and stuff.
- Do you? - Yeah.
They must, like, explode.
Yeah. It's pretty funny watching them explode.
I love talking to guys about, like, they always say 'would you date a fan?' and stuff. What
do you think about that?
I mean, I'm not against it. You know, love can just hit you like a train no matter where
you are.
- That's a song lyric. - Is it?
- That's album two, right? - Yeah.
- Write that one down. - I will. I will get it down.
So, with your album, tell us more! What feel do you get? What vibe? And where do you see
yourself fitting into the market?
The vibe is kinda like N*Sync, Backstreet kinda feel but more EDM to it. It's kinda
like a mixture of both. It's really cool, it kinda sound a lot like one of my singles
called 'What About Love' and it's just real high energy. It's gonna make people wanna
get up and dance. And, of course, I have some slow songs on there as well, so. It's cool.
And coming to an album near you soon, about being hit by a train.
- Yeah. - Awesome. That's a new slow one-
- I actually have one of the lyrics in there. - Really?
One of the lyrics is 'I've been hit by a train, they came out of the blue.'
- You're just quoting yourself now! - I didn't even realise!
So, you mentioned Backstreet. Have you met the lads?
- Have I met what? - Backstreet Boys.
- No. - Is that what you just said, Backstreet?
Yeah, I haven't met them though.
You haven't met them? You could be like a sixth one.
I could.
They're still going, like, 20 years on. It's mental, isn't it?
It's crazy.
Where do you see yourself in, like, 20 years or 10 years?
In 10 years, I'll hopefully... hopefully I've been on my own arena tour by then. Hopefully
I've had at least a Grammy by then, yeah.
- At least a Grammy, I'm sure- - Maybe ten.
- You're definitely gonna get one of those! - Yeah, hopefully.
- You're on a really good path to it. - Thank you.
But it must get annoying for you the whole time everyone's like 'So, you're the new Justin
Bieber.' That's annoying, right?
Yeah, it is.
What do you say in response to that?
I mean, it's cool, it's flattering because he's very successful but I want people to
see that I am my own artist and I'm making a path for myself.
And have you met Justin?
Yeah. We were in the studio, like a month or so ago.
What's he like?
He's cool. He works really well in the studio.
- He's a hard working little thing, isn't he? - Yeah.
- And he's got lots of tattoos. - Yeah he does.
- You got any? - Nah.
- Gonna have any? - I dunno.
I can't really see myself with any tattoos.
I don't know how you make your mind up. I wouldn't know what to get.
Yeah, me either.
I'd be going through the books, like...
- Yeah. - Eyes closed.
I wouldn't know.
You wouldn't know. Okay, maybe you could steal some inspiration from Beebs or something.
Yeah.
So you said Drake's the coolest guy you've ever met and you wanna collab with him. Anyone
else, like, dream collab people? List me a couple.
Chris Brown.
Lil Wayne.
Justin Timberlake.
That's quite a few good people. Have you heard JT's new song with Michael Jackson?
Yeah, that's great. You've heard it, right?
- Isn't it insane? - Did you get the whole album?
- What, Xscape? - Yeah.
Not got that yet, but I was blown away by the hologram and stuff!
Yeah, I was there, I saw it in person, it was pretty crazy.
Was it unbeli- because it's really come far from 2-Pac before. It's unbeleivable. What
do you think about that whole bringing them back? Some people like it, some people don't.
I thought it was a little strange. It was just weird, it looked really real,
it was creepy.
- Was it? - Yeah, it was really weird.
So MJ, you musical inspiration I'm thinking.
Definitely. One of them.
Who else?
Pretty much listed them all already. Justin Timberlake, Drake, Chris Brown, George Strait,
he's a country guy.
So you're over in the UK, you've got to do me your best accent, come on.
How are you today? Fish 'n' chips. I don't know.
Why is it whenever an American-
What's your best American accent?
Why is it whenever an American comes over here they're Oliver Twist? Why is that?
Fish 'n' chips!
Alright darlin'? Can I have some more please?
Okay, American. You're from Texas, right?
Yeah.
So is it 'Y'alls' isn't it?
Y'all.
Hey y'all. How's it going? You alright Austin? Austin Texas.
That's great.
You want a cow with a load of barbecue sauce on it?
Cow with barbecue sauce on it? Eat cows in Texas? Don't do that.
Just get a cow and put barbecue sauce on it. What's the best thing about where you're
from then?
Just the food, probably.
Cows with barbecue sauce on.
No, we don't eat cows in Texas.
Okay, what's the best thing then? What do you miss when you're on tour?
The best thing on tour?
What do you miss when you're... what are your home comforts that you miss?
I miss the sweet tea.
The what?
Sweet tea.
What's that?
You've never had sweet tea?
No.
It's like. Isn't the tea here hot?
Yeah, I think so.
Like, sweet tea is like cold. It's just cold but it's really sweet like...
I think we call it ice tea, don't we? Yeah, ice tea.
Same thing, but it's a different type of sweet. Down there we like it real diabetic, like,
whole bag of sugar into one cup tea.
- So you've got a sweet tooth? - Yeah.
So every lady's gonna love that, right?