- Conversation's gone south, so...
- I hope this is being recorded.
- Yeah, we're recording.
- Please tell me this is being recorded.
- We're recording. - Yes!
(relaxed music)
- Thank you so much for watching,
right now we're with Derek Hough,
Ne-Yo, and Jenna Dewan.
- And Bryan!
- And me, Bryan Marika.
- How are you guys? How's it goin'?
- We're really good!
- Phenomenal, great, excited.
- Amazing.
- How has it been being back, reunited and shooting so far?
- ♪ Reunited and it feels so good. ♪
- I don't know that song, but I'll snap.
- Really?
- I don't know why we all snapped.
- You really don't know that song?
- You don't know that song? - Guys, I don't know.
- How do I know a song you don't know? This is weird.
- But listen, coming together has been amazing
and season one was a blast, it was so much fun,
and it was such a great show. So proud of it.
But season two, holy cow man!
The production, the stage, the lighting,
just the energy, it just stepped up a whole 'nother gear.
It's really, really exciting.
- Yeah.
- What were the conversations going into season two?
How was season two different than season one?
Is it that much different?
- I think we were all feeling, you know,
it was like lightning in a bottle with season one.
You know, we had great chemistry,
the people part of it.
We had incredible talent and
we had great ratings, so it's like,
"Uh, how do we recreate that and do that better
for season two?"
So I think we all had a little bit of
- [Ne-Yo] Anxiety?
- Anxiety, nervousness about that,
but then, you know, obviously you start
hearing things before you start filming
and then the very first day filming we saw some of the acts,
and we just were like, "Alright, done, great, we did it."
- [Ne-Yo] We're good. - We found it.
- It just looked good too,
just the subtle changes with the lighting
and just the...
- Stage.
- The set, everything just looked, it just popped more.
- Yeah. - And it just... it's awesome.
And as far as, we were just more relaxed and unleashed,
we just had a blast, so I can't wait for season two.
- Yeah. Season one was, "Okay let's figure out,
let's figure this out, let's figure out
what works, what doesn't."
Season two was like, "Ah, we got this."
- Yeah. We all kind of fell into place, a little bit.
You know, season one it was like, "Okay
we're filming a show and we are all kind of
doing things we hadn't really done before."
You know, I hadn't hosted, you guys hadn't judged,
so it was...
- How are as a host in season two now, round two?
- I think I'm better.
(laughs)
We'll find out. - You're great on the show!
- I will say, I obviously loved season one,
but it was still so much newness to me.
Season two felt...
One, we have more time,
I mean, we had more hours for season two,
so I had a lot more time to work with the dancers,
learn their journeys, a lot more stage time,
it just felt better.
- How has it been for you at the judges table?
- I mean...
- Hatred.
- Yeah. I just can't stand this fellow.
- We don't really like each other, we try not to
let it show too much. - You have a
terrible friendship.
- He's wearing those hats again, I'm like...
- We're back on that.
- I did it to cover my face so
- You don't have to look at him.
- I don't have to look in his direction, that's why.
- He's a pain in the butt.
- You know what the cool thing about this is?
When you, and I think I can speak for everybody,
is you're thrown into a situation with
people that you kind of know, or maybe don't know
and it's always that, "Oh god what is this about to be?
Who am I gonna hate, who am I gonna love?
- 'Cause sometimes it doesn't work,
but for you guys it worked. - Sometimes it doesn't work,
but this was like, from dayward go,
we were just linked,
there was no weird getting to know you phase that happened.
We skipped all of that and just went into,
"Hey! Loan me twenty bucks. Cool, thank you."
- "Yeah, yeah, thanks man."
- Jennifer said something to me when I first started,
the best advice ever, she said,
"Reality TV, you can't hide who you are.
Your essence and who you are really comes out.
- [Ne-Yo] It's gonna shine through.
- I mean, you do a drama or you, you know,
I'm used to acting and it's like...
You're playing something, even though it's your essence,
you're playing something, there's manipulation and editing.
Reality is what you see is what you get.
So we really lucked out that we all
like each other and hang out. - Yeah.
- Now, in season one you guys didn't all dance together,
but I just talked to Jennifer and she said
there's a little bit of dancing
with all of you in season two?
- There is!
- There's some dancin' in season two!
- There is dancing and it's...
I had a moment, honestly.
I've been a part of some really amazing dance productions
and some shows and performances.
I had a moment where I was sitting there and
seeing everybody dance and do their thing and
dancing full-out, and I was like, "This is special.
This is really cool. This is, you know...
this feels like ... I don't know,
it just felt special."
And you don't always get that feeling
so I was really excited,
and I'm really excited to share it with the audience
and see everybody just going full out, so I'm excited.
- It was fun.
- Now is... - I had a tiger in mine.
- Oh, what'd you say?
- I had a tiger in mine.
- He did, he rode it.
He saddled it up
and rode it in. - I rode in on a tiger.
- Lots to look forward to for season two.
- No animals were harmed in that.
- Now is America voting for season two
or is that staying the same? - No.
- Yeah, stays the same.
- The weight is still on our shoulders,
we are changing lives and crushing dreams.
- I'm not gonna lie...
(laughs)
- I'm throwing it out there though,
like I keep, like I keep, "Hey.
- Who should I pick?
- No, no, no. In the future,
you know what I mean, I wouldn't be opposed to it, though,
because it takes a little bit of the edge off us,
'cause it gets daunting. It gets daunting towards the end.
- Thank God you guys have the score cards,
because then you can really refer back to, you know,
those iPads and have the specificity in what their
judging so they're not just, it's not objective.
- Very helpful, very thorough.
- It makes a difficult situation just a little easier.
- Yeah. - Definitely.
- Now I'm gonna do a little rapid round of questions.
- I love these. - I love this.
- Are you ready?
- Derek and I are like, "Woo!"
- Are you ready to dance?
- So much, let me just stretch out my florals.
- Oh goodness, I need to get my dancing shoes on.
- I thought we agreed that you were gonna stay in your seat.
- This one can't stay in his seat.
- The problem is that I bend my knees,
they ride up and I can't get them back down.
- I won a dance competition by the way, this past weekend.
- Wait, hold on, pause. - Did you?
- What kind of dance competition did you win?
- It was just...
I don't want to get too much into it.
- How inebriated were you?
- I just started dancing, and I won two-hundred bucks.
- Really? - Oh wow, hey come on.
- And I fell. I think they gave it to me 'cause I fell.
- Dude, listen, if you come on and dance,
you could win a million dollars
- Yeah, I could actually. - Imagine that.
- Alright, let's start.
- He's like, "Let's move on."
- Shouldn't have brought it up.
What song do you hear for the first time on World of Dance?
What song did the show introduce you to?
- Honestly, I think it was a Jennifer Lopez song.
I think it was,
♪ ("On The Floor" by Jennifer Lopez). ♪
- What about you?
It was that P!nk record...
♪ ("What About Us" by P!nk) ♪
I hadn't heard that yet, and I'm a huge fan of P!nk.
- [Jenna] Me too. - I love the fact that
P!nk can get on a trapeze and sing on key,
whereas there are female artists who
can't stand in one place and sing on key.
- Also, she's just an awesome human being.
- Yeah, shoutout to P!nk, P!nk for president.
- I love you, P!nk.
- I also like blue, too.
- Wait hold on, first song that we were introduced to?
- I guess that an act maybe was performed to
that you were introduced to.
- Oh! There was a...
- Oh, that we were introduced to?
- Like, that you heard for the first time.
- Oh my god.
I misinterpreted, sorry. - I thought like you,
then I realized what he was saying.
- In the back of my mind I was like,
"Really, you didn't hear that song until you got here?"
- Who was the couple, remember...
- Sorry. I thought you meant that it was the first song
you heard when we were there.
- It's okay, Derek. - I'm sorry.
- I'll tell you what I did hear that I really liked,
was a rendition of,
♪ ("Ready or Not" by Mischa "Book" Chillak ft. Esthero) ♪
but it was a remix.
It was like (beatboxing).
- Who was it? - Eva Igo.
Who did it? Who was the artist that made it.
- Oh, I don't know but it was a really cool rendition.
- This is not rapid fire.
- Those are my favorite things, by the way,
are songs you know but they're remixed,
they're totally different.
I love that, I want that on my tour.
- Yeah, Michael Demesky did a version of
Survivor by Destiny's Child that was different and cool,
that was neat.
- Which singer's backup dancers, right now,
are blowing your minds?
- Beyoncé.
- Definitely Beyoncé.
- I'll speak for the rest of the world
and say Beyoncé, you're still blowing my mind.
- Hands down. - Who's Beyonce?
- She's one of the best of our generation, hands down.
She works in production. - She's here.
- Definitely, definitely Beyoncé.
I'm a fan of some of the newer generations
coming out, you know.
There's a lot of your Bebe Rexhas and...
- Camila! - Camila Cabello,
let me get her name right because her fans tore me a new one
because I called her Camila Cabello
and they didn't like that so, Camila Cabello.
I got it guys.
- Whose backup dancers?
- And Lua?
- Dua Lipa!
- Dua Lipa, I always screw her name up
but I love her, she's dope.
- Uh, last few questions, what is your
favorite song to listen and dance to right now?
- I'm really into the new Drake song right now,
I can't get enough of that,
and also Dua Lipa, I love her entire album,
I like One Kiss.
♪ ("One Kiss" by Calvin Harris and Dua Lipa) ♪
I'm gonna stop singing because this is literally,
I'm sorry, I'm sorry world that I'm doing this to you.
(laughs)
- I like, I don't even know what I like right now,
but one song, that's the Post Malone song.
Better Now, actually.
♪ ("Better Now" by Post Malone) ♪
- Another Love Song.
- It's kind of grooving. - That's not a bad one.
- Ne-Yo's Another Love Song.
I mean, I made a video of it and put it on Instagram
just because I like the song so much.
- Quality work, I did see that.
Yeah, I mean, yeah.
I got some new music out there right now that is really all
I'm listening to because I've been finishing an album
for the last two years, so. - [Jenna] I'm ready.
- Yeah, I haven't been listening to very much
stuff that wasn't my own.
New album, on June 8th, make sure you check it out.
- Now, last question.
Describe this season of World of Dance in one word.
Derek, start. - I know your word.
- My word? - [Brian] One word!
- [Jenna] And if I'm not right, then I'm gonna use it.
- Transcendent.
- Disruptive.
- No! - Oh, dammit that was my word!
- Darn it!
Ugh, Ne-Yo, you were in my brain.
- Haha.
- Elevated.
Not that exciting.
- Epic!
(laughs)
Supercalifragilistic expiala-World of Dance-cious.
- Wow!
- What do you guys want to say
before we go? - Goodnight, everybody!
- Goodnight, everybody. We love you all, tune in May 29th
it's gonna be killer!
- May 29th, NBC, World of Dance. Make sure you are there,
if you're not, you're gonna be the friend that is excluded
from all the World of Dance conversations with the friends.
It's like, "We're not talking to you."
- Be there, or be a square.
- See you then!
- Bye, guys.