[gentle electronic music]
- You should do this one since you have a tattoo of it.
- This one? - Yeah, the skulls one
for sure. - For my thumb I wanna do
this one and this one. - The stripes?
- Yeah, for my pointer fingers I should do these two.
And then, these two for the pinky.
I've been doing TikToks since it was Musical.ly.
I was about an eighth grader when I just started
to do it for fun, and then once I saw the little bit
of traction that you could get from it,
and then I started going live
and I had started to just interact with people and like,
see the love that you get back
from just interacting with people.
And like through that, you can, you could build a fan base,
which can lead to, to other things.
For me, social media was like my way
to get into the music industry.
I lived with Hype House for about a year
and we were all pretty fresh into the scene
and it was like a, almost like a new era for the app,
so it was really exciting
and then once I started to do music,
it became harder to live there.
I decided that was best for me to like stick my foot
in the ground, like as a musician,
and just get my own place
and slowly I start to separate from the group.
I'm still good friends with them and we still hang out
quite frequently, I hung out with them yesterday.
So for all the people that are watching on Vogue,
this is my nail line that is coming out.
I've been working on this collaboration
for about a year.
There are 10 sets that are gonna be coming out
sometime in August, right?
- July 19th. - July 19th, okay.
- August 19th. - August 19th?
- August 19th, sorry, August 19th!
- So I was right!
I moved to LA in 2018, I was too young to get my own place.
And now that I'm 19, I'm able to have my own place
and have my name on a lease.
I went to a school that was like, I dunno,
a little bit more judgmental
with like the clothes that you would wear and such.
So being able to be in LA felt a little bit
like a breath of fresh air for me.
And so that's like really what I started to fully
like find my style like, was when I first moved to LA.
- And then we're done. - Beautiful, thank you.
- Of course! - I appreciate it.
Cool, so cool.
- I missed y'all.
How was that studio session the other day you did?
- It was good, man.
- Was it fun? - Yeah man!
- Make a banger? - 'Course.
[driving pop punk music]
Vogue baby, Vogue!
We're going to go to Casa Vega after this game!
- Lemme see that ball, Huddy!
- Gimme.
Fuck!
I'm closing in on the album next month, man, like,
everything's just falling into place.
Casa Vega, baby!
Front door is right there.
I'm hungry, yes, no.
[all chattering]
Their queso is so good.
Thank you, sir!
- I feel like you guys can live with that, like,
wherever honestly, like. - Yeah, but -
- Once you get that foundation?
- If I wasn't born in LA, bruh, I would not be
where I'm at right now.
- Oh, yeah, 100%, that's where you meet everyone.
It's, there's a lot of opportunity
and there's also like, a lot of people
we get along with that have the same mindset as us,
the same creativity and like, the same drive
that we're like trying to go for.
I don't think you could get that anywhere else in the world
but LA! - Absolutely.
- That's why I'm here. - I'm so full.
- All right, where we going.
- I'm off to the studio now,
we're gonna go make a banger or something.
We'll see, we'll see what happens.
I usually have like a, an idea or like,
like something like a concept that I like to
open up a little bit about, or like, I think,
it just really starts with,
everything starts with a concept
and then once you like start to fill it out a little bit,
I start to think of lyrics that go with the concept
or you'll talk about the concept,
but everything starts with like a guitar, a melody
and a hook and then everything builds around that.
[chill funk music]
- What should we right about today, bruh?
- You want to start something new?
- Should we?
- I'm down with whatever, I'm feeling whatever.
You want to start something new?
- Yeah. - Cool, we have a Strat,
I think, that they gave us in there.
Trying to think of like a concept or something
that we should like, build from.
It took me to one get through puberty
because I had a good, I had like a good voice
when I was young but like once I started
going through puberty, I was just like,
I didn't even want to, I didn't want to sing.
I just wanted to sing in front of my mom.
Like as I started to kind of get more comfortable
growing up, I started to sing again.
I had a very musically talented family,
my mom had a music scholarship in college,
my sister was in the choir,
my great grandpa was a conductor
and my dad knows like 20 instruments.
So it's just kind of had it around me since I was young.
And then in my late teen years it's become
like everything to me.
- Ah! - With a big fuckin' -
- Ah, dude!
I've seen so many people like Shawn Mendes
and like Justin Bieber went from YouTube
and there was just always, there's always a way
to make it happen if you like really dream big enough
and I always saw that for myself.
I saw that there was a community and a relationship
you could build with people through the platform
and like, through social media,
there's always ways to engage with people
and TikTok is a very like, engaging app.
To go from there to actually making the music
that you would put onto the platform.
I think it's a very great outlet for that.
- What if it's like, I'm fading away.
Like, I'm fading away. - I'm fading away.
♪ I'm fading away ♪
No, like, almost.
What if we just said fade, instead of fading?
- Like, I fade away?
♪ I fade away ♪
- Yeah, that's it.
Very chance-y, very chance-y.
- Hell yeah.
♪ I fade away ♪
It's been pretty positive so far, I mean,
the comments on the music videos themselves
are very, very positive and like that's all I really care,
like to listen to.
The people that actually go out, like out of their way
to listen to your stuff and give you a shot,
that's all that I'm like really here for
is like for those kinds of people
that'll give you a chance and not just be quick to judge
a book by its cover.
♪ We're like this forever ♪
♪ We're not getting better ♪
♪ Long as we're together ♪
♪ You've got me in headlock, I can't escape ♪
♪ I can't feel my ♪
Yeah!
All right, run it back!
[driving pop punk music]
A lot of doors have been opened because of social media.
I see people that are getting into acting,
people that are getting into music,
finding out like what they want to do next.
I'm so excited for this album to come in August
because this album is like my baby.
I've been wanting this album to come out
ever since I came up with a concept for it,
before I even like wrote it, it just felt like it
like, wrote itself.
We wrote the whole thing within like three or four months.
You have like, no two songs sounding the same.
Like they're all so different and so unique,
but still like fall together so perfectly.
And I think this album is really gonna change lives, man.
Cool! Cut!