Jon Bellion Talks Working With Jung Kook, Latto & the K-Pop Movement: “It’s the New Superstars” | GRAMMYs 2024 - video Dailymotion

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Jon Bellion caught up with Billboard's Tetris Kelly and Rania Aniftos at the 2024 GRAMMYs.

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00:00 What's up? We're hanging out with John Valiant. How's it going tonight, man?

00:02 Good, how you doing?

00:03 And you're repping another John tonight because you hooked him up on his project, John Batiste.

00:07 Yes, absolutely. Absolutely.

00:08 How's it to be nominated and work on that project?

00:10 It's amazing, man. This stuff is a hoopla.

00:14 It's a whole... My beautiful wife is here.

00:17 She came with me and we got to babysit her for the boys, my sons.

00:20 And she looks beautiful and she's crushing tonight.

00:23 She's holding it down. So, this is fun.

00:25 This is all extra.

00:28 God to go before me and this is all extra. So, this is cool.

00:30 I mean, you of course are the multifaceted collaborator, singer, songwriter.

00:36 All the things.

00:37 All the things. You've worked with so many people.

00:39 How do you create such a safe space for artists to just like make their best music, Grammy-nominated music?

00:45 Oh my goodness.

00:49 Man, people just want to be heard. I think people just want to be listened to.

00:52 At the end of it all, if you get to the high fructose corn syrup

00:56 of what makes everybody, everybody, everybody has a story to tell, everybody's super interesting.

01:00 If you just let people be who they are and people be great, I don't really have to do much.

01:04 I hang around a lot of talented people. That's basically the magic behind it.

01:07 And another song you worked on that should have been nominated this year, "7," John Cook and Lotto.

01:11 Biggest song in history to a billion streams.

01:14 Fastest to a billion streams. So, how was it to work on that song, man?

01:17 Man, Andrew Watt's a great producer.

01:21 Taran, I think he won Songwriter of the Year just before.

01:24 They hit me up and asked me to just write something in my basement on a Saturday.

01:27 They were like, "Yo, we got a little bit of pieces. Can you finish it?"

01:30 Fast forward, opened up my eyes. I think it was the fastest song to a billion streams.

01:33 To a billion streams, yeah. Go John Cook.

01:35 Actually, I knew that. I don't know why I said that.

01:38 You didn't have to question me.

01:39 He's just being humble, you guys. He's just being humble.

01:42 He's just being humble.

01:44 A billion streams like I wasn't on my phone.

01:46 You're like, "I already know."

01:48 To the Grammys. I'm swept up. I'm swept up.

01:50 Being a part of the K-Pop bubble, though, has it been exciting?

01:53 Oh, absolutely. It's cool to see.

01:55 I feel like it's over for tribe, country. It's over for that.

02:00 It's just like whatever country wants to come over and do whatever and hang out and make music and operate,

02:05 I think that we have access to so many people at the same time.

02:08 You're just going to get the cream of the crop from every awesome culture, which is like finally.

02:12 That's very cool.

02:13 What a fun genre to take part in.

02:16 Let loose.

02:16 It's like the new superstars. It's the new pops.

02:20 You look at K-Pop and all that they're doing right now, they're like the golden age of NSYNC.

02:25 You know what I mean?

02:25 Oh, yes. You just checked all my boxes.

02:28 Thank you, man.

02:29 Well, both of you, I love you.

02:30 Thanks and have a great time tonight.

02:31 - Thank you.

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Jon Bellion Talks Working With Jung Kook, Latto & the K-Pop Movement: “It’s the New Superstars” | GRAMMYs 2024

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