- Hey what's up y'all?
I'm Kelly Clarkson and I play Moxie in Ugly Dolls.
- Pitbull, Mr. 305, what I said, Mr. Worldwide
and I'm Ugly Dog and Slick Dog.
(laughter)
- Damn, what an intro.
- You have to follow that.
You're gonna fail.
- I'm just Nick.
- No, you play Lou.
- I've got no worldwide status. I play Lou in the movie.
- You play the jerk.
It's a fun part.
- It's a fun part.
I'm the Darth Vader of this movie.
- Yeah, and we are doing firsts, our firsts.
So we're gonna be answering questions about that.
- Firsts, okay.
- This could be dangerous.
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First big red carpet event.
Mine is definitely to do with Idol.
Obviously I was on Idol.
I wanna say it was a movie premiere
for a movie called Swimfan and we all had to go.
We were there.
I don't know why.
It was just a very odd thing.
And I just remember people yelling at us,
you know, like they do, the photographers.
And I probably look frightened in every photo.
- Swimfan?
- I think.
- I've never heard of that movie.
- Well you weren't even. Wait, no, how old are you?
- What you don't want is that kind of woman in your life.
- Swimfan.
- You're a lot younger than me. How old are you?
- I'm 26. - Okay I'm a decade older.
I'm 36, so.
- My wife's 36.
- Yeah, you like cougars.
I like it, I like it.
Your wife is hot, whoo.
- She's beautiful.
- And she's sweet.
- She is indeed.
- Your wife is awesome.
- She is.
- She fixed my makeup one time at an event.
She was so nice.
- That's amazing.
- 'Cause it was off and I was a little, I was sweaty.
- First big red carpet.
We'd been to some small things
but the first big one I think was the Grammys.
It was the Grammys.
That was a, I mean, we'd watched it on TV growing up
and you go there and it's just an unbelievable experience.
- Absolutely.
- That year we were nominated.
Adele won.
Never heard of her, no.
- She'll never make it.
- She did alright.
- My first big one actually that I went to red carpet,
it wasn't even about me, to be honest with you.
I went with somebody else
so I got a chance to see how crazy it was
and that's why I don't do red carpets now.
(laughter)
- Hey.
Oh my gosh. My favorite one, I got to sneak by
'cause 50 Cent, I hate red carpets sometimes,
just because I, they always talk to me
about things I don't know
like why Britney Spears shaved her head.
I don't know.
I don't know her. Like ask her why she shaved her head.
I don't know.
So 50 Cent came one year to the VMAs
with like a herd of people, like 50.
So my publicist for some reason
wouldn't let him on the carpet and I hid behind his people
and just walked and snuck and didn't do the red carpet
but I was like yeah that was so weird.
They were just all busy.
- It was like thanks 50, appreciate it.
- And I just walked right in.
I was like I love you 50 Cent.
Kelly, first memory that comes to mind
of your first American Idol audition.
Switching places with Randy Jackson
and the fact that I knew who Randy Jackson was
and nobody else did there
because I'm obsessed with Liner Notes
and I, you know, he worked with Mariah Carey.
What, boom.
- Nice.
First singer you'd want to collaborate with on a song.
(Kelly clearing throat)
- I'm just kidding, just kidding.
- Getting a lot of pressure from this side.
I grew up listening to Stevie Wonder and the Beegees.
- Yeah.
(Kelly sings a few notes)
- And I actually got the chance
to sing with Stevie Wonder.
- Okay, dropping the name, jeez.
- Which was a dream come true.
- Stevie Wonder handed me my first Grammy,
he and Alicia Keys.
- Well that's a bigger name drop.
- No no no, I meant that's a nice tie in.
It was a huge thing for me.
- Maybe you can hand me my first Grammy.
- Yes, I will.
Steven Tyler, I was obsessed.
I thought we were going to get married. It didn't happen.
It's fine.
I love Aerosmith.
(Kelly impersonating Steven Tyler)
- Gotta go to therapy for that one right there.
- I like it.
- Celia Cruz.
- Ooh.
- Celia Cruz is (foreign language),
which is the queen of Cuba.
- Go ahead.
I just love that.
- And she's always up there with us, so you know.
- Alright.
- First memory that comes to mind
of your first Jonas Brothers gig.
Okay so the first Jonas Brothers gig,
my dad was a pastor growing up.
He got another church, like a neighboring church
to host a concert for us.
And it was a bunch of people that basically
went to church and came and pretended to be fans.
(laughter) - So it was all set up.
- It was all set up, it was fit.
- Oh my God, I love it.
- But it all worked out.
- It all worked out.
Everyone's doing well.
- First time you realized you wanted to pursue singing.
My father used to put me in a neighborhood
called Little Havana in Miami.
If you seen the beginning of Scarface
then you know what I'm talking about.
That said.
- Say hello to my little friend.
- Yeah yeah yeah.
But he would put me, he would take me to the bars
and he would put me on top of the bar
and make me recite poems from big poet in Cuba
named Jose Martin.
Yes, I was five years old on top of a bar so
you already know why.
- Yeah, I'm Southern so it's totally fine.
- That's when I seen the power of words
and that's when I say man
one day I wanna be able to get on stage.
- Well my dad was a musician as well.
Grew up in a musical home,
obviously music with the brothers, all that.
But my first sort of venture into music
was my parents came back from seeing a Broadway show
in New York, came home.
They saw the show Les Mis,
and there was a young boy in the show.
- You are stealing my story.
That's, this is mine, Les Mis,
I saw it in Broadway when I was in.
- I'm stealing your story?
- You are stealing my memory.
Go ahead.
Wow this is weird.
- I'm definitely not stealing your story.
- No I know but like we have the same thing.
That's so crazy.
- It would have been amazing though
if I had Googled like your story, stole it.
- No, no one knows what I'm about to say.
I've never said it.
Okay, go.
- So basically they came back and said
you could be in the show, 'cause you sing well,
you love performing.
And then later on in life I did the show.
- Okay no, you're just cooler. No, mine is, oddly enough,
I went on scholarship 'cause I was poor,
but I got to go on scholarship with our choir to New York
and we saw Les Mis.
It was my first musical ever to see.
And I was like just captivated.
And Jean Valjean actually was my favorite character.
I know that's odd for girls
'cause usually.
- No it's great.
- 'Cause usually you pick Cosette or whatever.
And I thought I wanna do something in music on stage
for the rest of my life.
- I would love to hear you sing On My Own.
- I have sang it at quite a few auditions.
♪ On my own ♪
- First song you'd axe from your discography.
- Oh, you're gonna hate me.
(laughter)
Everyone's gonna hate me.
- My brothers and I used to do a show for Disney,
which was a great experience. - What?
(laughter)
- And in that show, you know,
it was sort of like the Monkees
where the songs will be part of the storytelling.
And so there were some songs
that I think left a lot to be desired.
Let's put it that way.
And one of those songs was called Pizza Girl.
It was about how we fell in love
with the pizza delivery girl.
I don't hate the song
but what I hate is that at our shows
we're trying to play our real songs,
they go play Pizza Girl,
and it's just, let's just put that one to rest.
- Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.
- We can be done with that.
- Mine, oh, I'm about to get so hated here.
It's because the song was not written for me.
It was written for the winner.
And it's not necessarily,
I'm not against the song.
I'm just, it's not really my vibe.
- That's a big disclaimer right there.
- I know, because it's a pretty big song.
But it's A Moment Like This.
I don't really.
- That's a great song.
- It's, here's the thing.
It's great for the moment.
But I just, you know it's just,
it wasn't, I didn't pick it
and it's not really something I would have.
Anyway, don't hate me.
Or hate me, I don't care.
- That's what Ugly Dolls is about. It don't matter.
- Yeah.
I'm gonna speak my truth.
- Yes.
When I was strapped for cash I did this commercial.
- I can't wait.
(laughter)
- I did this commercial for, an educational commercial,
so $1200 and it had me rap this song
that said learn more earn more.
It was horrible by the way.
- That's nice. - Yeah, no it was crazy enough
bringing it full circle.
Now we own schools.
We build schools.
- That's amazing.
- We got 10 schools in the house, 10,000 kids.
So it's amazing.
Maybe that commercial led to that.
(laughter) - Yeah, learn more earn more.
That's, there's truth to that.
- First embarrassing moment on stage.
- I don't get embarrassed.
I should, of many things. - I got one for you.
- Go ahead. - I got one for you.
I went on tour with Luther Campbell,
which is Uncle Lou from Two Live Crew.
We went North Carolina,
or should be say North Cacalaca.
And Lou goes out and he goes,
"I got this Cuban boy from Miami
and I'm telling you right now he spits fire.
He don't see nobody out here."
So everybody was thinking I'm gonna bring it.
- Oh, they built you up.
- But before that, before that I was nervous
so I told Lou, I said Lou, can I go ahead
and hit that Hennessy right there?
He said knock yourself out chico.
Boom, hit the Hennessy.
Can I hit that Bacardi?
He said yeah.
Boom, hit the Bacardi.
- Oh no. - Can I hit that Heineken?
Yeah, go ahead and hit the Heineken.
He knew what he was doing.
So when I get on that stage, he's already boost me up.
Everybody's like yeah yeah, bring him bring him.
I go out there to spit.
And in my mind I'm rapping.
(laughter)
In my mind I'm rapping.
- In my mind I'm nailing it.
- In my mind I'm like I got this. (laughter)
And really what was coming out was
(nonsense sounds)
I thought I was doing it.
- Oh my gosh, that's amazing.
- And Luke looks over to the side
and Luke says "get this mother(beep)er off stage."
(laughter)
So when I get off stage, thinking that I did my thing,
alright, I'm like for sure they loved me out there, yeah.
I go to grab another beer out the cooler
and I fall right in the cooler.
(laughter)
- Oh no.
- So with that said that could have been
the beginning or the end of my career.
One of the best lessons of my life.
(laughter)
- That's, I mean that's great.
- I have fallen.
I have like hit wrong notes.
I have and I'm just like well, I guess that was today.
- Sometimes it happens.
Some things don't go-
- Do you get embarrassed? Do you have a good story?
- I do.
Yeah, for sure.
I've got plenty of stories.
But one of my earliest stories was
I was doing a show called The Christmas Carol.
I was the understudy for Tiny Tim.
You know, it was one of my, really my first time on stage.
And the producers never rehearsed the kid
that played Tiny Tim because the kid never got sick
in the eight years the show had run.
And so they call my parents up.
They go, "he got sick.
Nick's on for Tiny Tim.
He's got an hour to rehearse."
- Oh my gosh.
- So at seven years old I get up on stage.
They start the music and it's probably
literally 16 bars of just playing music
as I'm looking at the crowd stunned.
I was incredibly embarrassed.
But then it shaped who I became as a musician
because there are gonna be these moments
where things don't go to planned
and you gotta be able to shake it off so it doesn't matter.
- I think that's why I don't get embarrassed
'cause I'm just like well, this is why
sometimes I might be funny.
(laughter)
- And then at this moment.
- Because it builds character
and you're like, well, lean in.
- Pitbull, first time someone else
referred to you as Mr. Worldwide.
A grandmother who ran up on me and said,
and this is how it sounded.
She said, "Oy, Mr. Worldwide."
(laughter)
I was like oh, this is amazing.
Because Pitbull, when it turned to Mr. 305
it was Trick Daddy that gave me Mr. 305.
And then one day I did International Love with Chris Brown
and me just playing around,
we had just traveled the world.
We had just went on tour.
And I said man, from Mr. 305 to Mr. Worldwide.
And I said, that thing's got a ring to it, hold up.
So I call myself Mr. Worldwide and gracia abuelita.
Abuelita is little grandmother,
whoever it was that day that said oh yeah, Mr. Worldwide.
(foreign language)
(laughter)
- I had grandmothers call me a lot of things
but nothing as cool as that for sure. (laughter)
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