- What up guys, it's Joshua Bassett.
Yeah, the last 12 months have been wild for everybody.
I feel like I've grown the most in the last year,
personally and musically.
And I think that the cool thing is,
especially in the last few months,
I've been really trying a bunch of new stuff,
and I'm very excited to share a lot of the new stuff
that I've been working on because I'm pushing myself,
I'm getting out of my comfort zone.
So the virtual concert was a super incredible experience.
My team was super awesome
about making sure we have the best of the best people.
And we just have this idea that, you know
I have this EP coming out and we felt like
while the EP is great as it is,
I think that at its core
those are all songs that I imagined playing live
and because we're in a pandemic, we weren't able to do that.
So we got everybody together,
we got to retest it and did the live show.
And it was the first time I'd ever played my music
with a full live band,
which was just another level of insane.
I was terrified, but I think it came out really well
and I'm really proud of what we made.
And I think it's just the beginning for what's possible
with touring and with shows and all that stuff.
As soon as possible
I would love to tour wherever I'm welcomed.
And I think that would just be the dream,
that is absolutely my dream.
The virtual thing just gave me the confidence.
We were rehearsing and for whatever reason,
I was like, I wanna do a cover of Drops of Jupiter.
I have no idea where it came from, no clue,
but popped into my psyche and I said, I wanted to do it.
And then within three minutes everybody had it ready to go
and they're let's just try it.
And then we jammed out with a band
and I think by the end of it, we were all like, okay, yeah.
I actually, funnily enough
forgot the lyrics during the show.
And I had, my manager was even holding up the lyrics
and he was holding them on his giant board
and even then I lost my place
and I totally forgot the lyrics.
So the one that people saw in the show
was actually an extra take
because I kept forgetting the lyrics.
Go sing all the lyrics of Drops of Jupiter without looking.
I guarantee, you can't do it, it's very difficult.
There's very many lyrics
and they also change every time,
it's not like the same chorus.
You'd think that it'd be,
but every chorus is slightly different,
sort of the same, half of the lyrics are the same,
half of them are different, whatever.
No disrespect to Train, love the song,
but it's very hard when you have a goldfish mind
that doesn't remember anything.
The song that I wish I wrote that came out
before I was born was,
is probably Yesterday by Paul McCartney, I think.
That's my favorite song of all time
and I think it's one of the best songs of all time
and it's just perfect.
It's just one of those songs, you're like,
oh man, I wish I could,
but I mean, of course it wouldn't be what it is
without it being Paul McCartney.
So I would never want to take that away from Paul,
but maybe as a ghost writer, maybe that would have been cool
if I had written Yesterday and given it to Paul McCartney.
That would've been cool.
I would say that nerves come up
always in the funniest times and places.
It's always interesting where there are things that
normally you wouldn't expect yourself to be nervous at,
but you are and there's things that you'd rather do.
But I think the key thing for the show was
that I had a really great vocal teacher, Eric Vetro
and he was really good about sort of working with me
and he made me feel really comfortable
and confident in my voice.
And so it's honestly just about feeling comfortable
and confident in yourself and your abilities
and trusting that you know how to do it
and just take a breath and relax, that's the key.
When I filmed season one
of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series,
the first week was pretty nerve-wracking
and then you get over that and you get used to it,
you know everybody and it's great.
And then season two we came back and I felt really great
about myself in terms of, I was taking care of myself,
I felt like I was in a really good head space.
And so that one, I wasn't nervous, but funnily enough,
we shut down because of the pandemic,
and when we came back months later to film season two,
on the first couple of days
I so nervous and I don't know why.
I have no idea why, but I think it was just because
I'd been so out of the groove of things for so long.
But that was an interesting time where I was filming
with people that I knew,
people I felt very comfortable with,
with a script that I was very familiar with,
there was no reason for me to be nervous,
but for whatever reasons, this was really hard for me.
My new single Feel Something is out right now.
It's one of my favorite songs I've ever made.
The reception has been incredible.
Everyone I've shown it to personally,
I've been so excited to share it with
'cause they've all loved it.
And it's one of those songs that
even after mixing and mastering it
and after shooting the music video,
I still wanna hear that song again, you know.
So that's always a good sign.
The song Feel Something is about this idea of,
kinda, I mean, the main lyric is
got no plans, doing anything we can just to feel something.
And I think that I've sort of had this philosophy
since I was pretty young
with just going out there and doing things
and not being afraid,
and living your best life, and having fun.
That's such an important part of life
that I think sometimes it's easy to forget
that is a really enriching part of life.
And I think that the song is like a culmination
of a bunch of different stories
over the last few years
of even my time of just living in LA with people.
My time going to Griffith,
or just the different things that I've done in my life.
It all sort of came together
in this one anthem song called Feel Something.
I think one thing that I pride myself on
is that I have lived really fun life and that's intentional.
I've done things and I feel like that's something
that people miss out on,
but it's solely through their own fear
that they miss out on.
And I think it's all up to us to sort of decide
you know what, we're going to live our life fully
and we're gonna go for it.
And also just to feel something
'cause sometimes we get numb these days with social media.
I directed a video before for my song called Anyone Else.
That was a little bit more homemade kind of thing
because it was during COVID and all that.
But the thing about directing that's funny
is me and my creative director have sort of
in the last few videos been,
after everyone, we ended up being like,
okay, we respect and we love every director
that brings stuff to the table,
but I think ultimately I sort of know what I want
and so that's all that I really need from a director
is somebody who knows what they want.
So when this song came about
and we were sort of brainstorming a music video idea,
I called Sarah and I was like,
why don't we just do this?
You and I let's just direct this.
And so she was like, yes, let's do it, I'm down.
So we just got a really good director of photography
and her and I went for it and it was pretty freeing.
And I think that co-directing is something
I'm really into because there's a lot
that I can't see when I'm in it.
I have to just trust the people
behind the camera to really be,
that we're capturing good stuff.
So that was what was nice to have Sarah sorta
to bounce stuff off of.
But yeah, I mean, it was just super fun.
I think I've always sort of known what I wanted,
I just wasn't quite able to translate that.
And this was an example of a time where I felt like
I was actually able to get across what I wanted
and I had a very crystal clear vision
and I'm very happy with how the video turned out.
Social media has always been a tricky thing for me.
I mean, I even remember being 11
and deciding that I was going to take
a social media cleanse, I was 11.
I was like, I'm gonna take three months off
of social media because it's not good for mental health.
I knew it back then and I knew it now
that social media is not (indistinct).
But if I had to pick one social media
that I would only have forever,
I would have to say TikTok.
It's definitely the most creative
and the most collaborative.
And I think that ultimately people go on TikTok
to learn and grow.
And I think that it can be whatever you want it to be.
TikTok is just a platform,
it's up to the creators to really make stuff.
But I think that it does a good job
of creating a community of people
who are sort of cheering each other on,
instead of saying, look at me, look at me, look at me.
That's why I would pick that one
if I was on an island for the rest of the time,
I would choose TikTok.
Well, I've had a blast hanging out with you guys,
be sure to check out my new single Feel Something
as well as season two
of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series.
Check it out, it blows season one out of the water,
I really believe that.
I thank you all for having me.