- (gasps) Um, what? (Bella laughs)
- Hi!
(George gasps)
Hey everyone, it's Bella Poarch,
and today, I'm gonna be surprising some fans
with my new music video Build A Bitch.
♪ (upbeat techno intro) ♪
- (gasps) Stop!
- (laughs) So cute!
- She's literally just doing that, and she's so famous!
- I see a lot of people try to replicate her,
and nobody really does it as well as her.
- I feel like this video started like a whole trend
of everyone just ding ding ding ding.
- Cute, cute, cute, weird! Cute, cute, cute, awesome!
- I feel like people like this TikTok,
only 'cause like she makes herself look super cute, you know,
with the zoomed in filter.
I mean, I'm not gonna lie, she does, you know,
that's why that's my girl.
- I love how she's just like so cute,
and she looks so effortlessly adorable.
- When she has big beautiful eyes, perfect lips, great little cheeks.
- My wife. (Bella laughs)
- I feel like she's getting spicy, I would say wholesome,
but she's getting a little spicy, and I'm here for it.
I'm like okay, girl,
I see her with her like little booty pics.
I'm like same, twins, me too!
- (React) Obviously, that was the TikTok
that played a huge part in her rise.
But recently, she's been dipping her toes into other ventures,
so we are actually going to watch a quick teaser.
- Look at her face, it's so cute! Those lashes!
- This is her singing? Oh wow!
- ♪ If my eyes are brown or blue ♪ ♪ This ain't Build a ♪
- Oh yeah, this is something that is way different
than what she usually does.
'Cause most of her videos were like TikTok trends,
but that one's her actual song, you know?
- And her voice, it matches her look so well too.
- I think she's doing a good job.
From what I saw, I mean, it's a small clip, but it looks cool.
- (React) We knew you were a fan,
and so we've got the actual video today.
- Oh my God, I'm so excited!
- Oh my God, amazing, I'm so excited.
I'm gonna rip this to shreds in positive ways.
(Haley screams)
- (announcer) Welcome to Match Made, home of the perfect woman.
Come on in and design the girl of your dreams.
- I don't know how I feel about this though,
'cause you know, she's cute, but I don't know about her music.
- Yes budget, who directed this?
- What is it, like a factory for girls?
- I need to be one of those heads! This is not fair, Bella!
- Already, I'm getting a parody on like how the industry is,
and just like how media is in general.
- She sounds good. - Thank you!
- Set design, lighting, costuming, color grading, camerawork.
Everybody made this video dope and it's only been two minutes in.
- She's Asian, so you don't really see that a lot in mainstream media,
which is really nice,
'cause we don't have a lot of representation.
- She looks so good.
Oh my God.
(squeaks) She looks so good!
(George screams)
- She really said Build a Bitch, bitch!
I'm [censored] dead!
- Oh [censored], she's destroying it?
- Screw you, like screw you telling girls how to do their hair.
Telling girls how, what weight to be.
It's amazing, screw you!
- She looks amazing. Who styled this, who did her makeup?
Who came up with this concept? Did she songwrite it?
I need to know, this is awesome.
- It's alright, the song is alright. (Bella laughs)
The lyrics are pretty basic.
- I like the honesty, thank you. (laughs)
- Oh, she said...
Eat it, eat it!
Why wasn't I in this video? I'm in everybody's video.
This makes zero sense.
- Oh my God, Bretman! (laughs) Bretman Rock!
- Bretman, we love an unproblematic king!
- Damn, she just destroyed the whole thing?
- That was really good, I like that.
That was really fun.
- How cool! Oh my God, it was so good!
Oh my God, five stars, subscribed, liked, commented.
(both laugh)
- Her to have that kind of music video,
I feel like it's pretty good, you know?
- The visuals were amazing, like the production value was so high,
everyone looked so cute.
- I think the lyrics are really good.
I mean, the whole concept from the beginning really got me,
this isn't Build a Bitch, you don't get to pick and choose.
- I don't know, I'm not sure what the specific message is.
I'm guessing it has something to do with guys choosing girls
based on their body, you know?
- He gets it.
- You know, the visuals are so badass,
and with her original videos being so cutesy,
I think none of us expected her to just pop in here with an axe,
and just be like hey, what's up, bitches?
- Yes, it's big, it's grand, it's theatrical, it's cool,
it's fashion, it's sexy, but at the end of the day,
it's all about not taking any [censored],
and being your own bitch, and building yourself up,
and fighting for what's right.
At the end, they all come back and they fight back,
and I am here for it.
- I think that this is such a great transition for her,
because you know, she started off
by just going, dun dun dun, duh duh, duh duh.
It's really cool that she's like hey,
yeah, this is what I got popular for,
but this is what I'm capable of.
- (React) So we're gonna watch
some of her other popular TikToks now.
- Okay.
- (React) To see the transition from TikToker to music artist, alright?
- Oh, good, I love a good story!
- ♪ Losing interest ♪
- Yeah, I seen some of these before on TikTok, for sure.
I had no idea that she really was into music like that,
'cause some people, they're like so good at it,
and they just wanna do it for fun.
(gasps) Oh my God!
- I mean the natural talent is...
(gasps) Um, what? - Hi!
- Stop it Bella, absolutely the [censored] not, no.
Absolutely not. (gasps)
(Bella laughs)
- Hi, oh my God, you're so cute!
- Bro, I love you. I'm just gonna say that, I love you.
- I heard I'm your wife or something. You said it, what?
- Yes, bro, this is my wife!
- I didn't even know I was married, but okay. (laughs)
- I'm dead at you, did you hear me gas you up this whole episode?
- Oh my God, you're so pretty! (laughs)
- Aw, thank you! - Oh my God, you're so pretty!
Oh, this is so weird!
- I have to ask you, did you write the song?
- Yes.
- Amazing, I appreciate a good songwriter, that's awesome.
- It's about self acceptance, and like loving yourself
and not listening to other people when they're judging you,
and staying true to yourself.
- I love how it wasn't like a record label
being like oh, I wanna make her famous.
It was you who got famous, and then like now you're
kinda putting out whatever you wanna put out,
and like what you wanna say.
- I thought it was cool, because it's like an Asian person,
so I was just like okay, that's really cool,
'cause it's a good platform to kinda like just express yourself.
- How did it feel just to go from posting videos on TikTok
to just being this insane superstar? What do you go through?
- I feel very grateful, and everything happened so fast,
and it feels like a dream to me. - Wow. (laughs)
- 'Cause all my friends were telling me
like oh yeah, check out this cool app,
it has like funny videos and like... - Right, right, right.
- Yeah, I decided to start posting content.
- You just like blew it into like this big thing,
and everyone knows who you are, oh, that's so cool.
- Thank you. (laughs) - I don't know what else to say!
It's just like, this is so crazy right now!
- When I found out the video was getting so viral,
it kept getting likes every month,
I felt like oh my gosh, maybe...
- It's your time? - I can, yeah!
- Yeah, yeah.
- 'Cause music has always been my thing.
- (James) Something you wanted to do. - Yeah.
It's always something I've been doing since I was like a kid.
- I mean, you're pretty good at it. - Even in the Navy,
I was like singing and... (laughs) - Yeah, yeah.
- But yeah, so now I get to do that, and I feel like, I feel so grateful.
- Are you gonna have any more like creative music videos like that?
'Cause that was like awesome,
like you should go in that direction,
the weird, freaky, creative music videos.
- I'm working on a lot of like, good stuff, so yeah.
- Okay, cool, I'm excited.
That's all we needed to know
is that there's at least something coming.
- Thank you for coming. - Oh my God!
Thank you, that's so nice! (both laugh)
- Thanks to REACT for making this video.
I had so much fun! Go watch Build A Bitch!
- Oh my God, you guys are tricksters!
I'm shaking!
I was talking about her, the whole time she was there.
That's insane!
- I just thought it was gonna be your music video reveal.
I was like great, I've been wanting to see this,
and then boom, bitch, here you are!