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Khloe Kardashian found me
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Khloe Kardashian? Hang on, hang on. Right, hold on. You just dropped that. Let me pick that up off the floor
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That's what happened. Our special guest this morning has been on quite the journey
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from a call centre in Cardiff to international pop stardom. It's the ridiculously talented Jamie Miller
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Jamie's here! Who is here. Let's go. Now, Jamie, to best understand your story
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should we just turn the clock back 10 years? Yeah. To a 19-year-old boy who's, you've done school, you're working where
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I was in a call center. I was working for Tesco. So you're working for Tesco
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Yeah, fixing iPads. Dreaming of a music career or was that not even a dream then
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I mean, it was like a pipe dream, you know. I feel like I was dreaming of it, but I never thought it was ever possible
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Yeah. And then, yeah, I just started doing some things like building blocks
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I went on The Voice. Right. And then I came third on The Voice and then I came off The Voice
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Nothing really happened. And then Khloe Kardashian found me. Khloe Kardashian? Hang on, hang on
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Right, hold on. You just dropped that. Let me pick that up off the floor. Right, tell us that story
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She like posted a video of me singing and said I was a new favorite singer
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And then like basically back then every single label was in my emails
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And then the next day I was on a flight to New York City and then I ended up signing a record deal
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Thought my life changed forever. And then a few years went by and then I put out a song
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and then my career has kind of done this, to be honest. Like I've had like little bits of success
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and then it's gone away again. And I don't know, Baby Doll is like kind of like the reason
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why I feel like it's finally hitting like mainstream and I'm seeing that happen
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And it's the most mind boggling thing in the world, to be honest. Because let just break this down for people that kind of don understand the enormity of like the moment that you having Because it across all age groups My daughter who nine she says to me today you tell Jamie Miller I love him
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You tell him. And I said, yeah, okay. I also love you. I know my mum is obsessed with your song
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So it's crossing, it's reaching everybody and it's reaching it globally. When you were writing this song
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when you were in the studio, was that the dream? To be honest, I feel like for so many years
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i was doing everything everybody else wanted me to do and like if a pop boy was working at the time
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i was around people to be like do this sound do this do this and i feel like this the beginning
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of this year i really said to myself it was my last chance to like properly do it and if i'm
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gonna do it if i'm gonna go out i'm gonna do it my way and i just went i just wrote this album with
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my two best friends in los angeles and i don't know baby doll was one of the songs that we wrote
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it was like the sixth song on the project and i don't know it just felt like finally i stepped
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into the artist i've always wanted to be and it just feels like everything aligned at the right
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time and i didn't take any opinions i didn't take any comments and i was like okay
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but yeah it just feels it feels just very exciting right now you're from you're born
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you're from cardiff i'm i'm trying to get my head around your accent yeah so it's cat so you've got
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you born in wales born in wales my mom and dad are scottish mom and dad are scottish lived in
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LA for nine years. Wow okay so that's the combo right there. A little bit of a combo. So when do
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people in Wales go you sound American and then the people in America go you sound Welsh? Yeah well
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when I first moved to America I'd be like all right my name is Jamie I'm from where else. They're like oh you're so cute. They couldn't they couldn't understand me so I had to be polite and
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then I adapted whatever this accent is right now. What's the coolest thing about living in LA
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I feel like just the weather. It's very nice weather, it's not raining
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It just like nice to I feel like and the opportunity to be honest It just like I think I grew up in a place where I just felt like you couldn really dream big and you were taught just like to follow the book and i feel like now i just like created a path where i just feel like i no matter what street i grew up
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on i was able to achieve things that people told me i couldn't and it's it's a path that no one
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else has really done because your story is a very modern story i mean explain give us explain to us
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for instance for us old folks how the part that tiktok has played in your rise because it seems
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to have been like such a it seems to have come from nowhere um it's i feel like i've done my my
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songs have done well on tiktok in the past and then i forgive me what does that mean so
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Talk to a dinosaur. Okay, go ahead. Explain to me how it works
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So TikTok a few years ago was very different from TikTok now
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So I, a song did well on TikTok, which like a lot of people would use the sound
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if I'm speaking to a dinosaur. A lot of people would create videos
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So people create their content and then they look for some music to go on it and then they'll choose your song
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Yeah. Okay. And then it kind of changed a little bit so I started doing covers
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So every time I would post a cover, it would do well on TikTok
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Like a cover version of another song? Yes. Got it. And that was the one
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That's what a cover is. Yeah, I know. I get that bit. And that was what Khloe Kardashian had seen
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was one of your covers. Is that right? Yeah, that was before TikTok though. Right, gotcha
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And then, yeah, I posted covers a lot and then I started gaining a fan base from covers
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Even now, like I still posted covers last year and they started to, like they always would do well
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and then I just yeah then I posted baby doll this year
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Yeah and it's just exploded. You've um it's kind of been covered hasn't it by everybody on uh on TikTok
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Who are you most excited by seeing doing the baby doll dance Honestly just everybody I done it with has been absolutely incredible Let name drop for the sake of this Julianne Hough I done Jennifer Love Hewitt Lucy Hale just everybody
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Jennifer Love Hewitt, wow. Yeah, she was my favourite actress growing up. My mum's favourite actress too
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Like we loved Ghost Whisperer. So when I saw her like doing videos to my song
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I was like, what the hell is going on? But then it just started becoming this like
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I like everywhere I went. Like I really, like I was in New York a few days ago and I was walking through Times Square
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and I realized, oh, like this is happening in real time. Like so many people were coming up to me
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and like I was just on my own walking to Starbucks and I was like
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what is going on with my life right now? And now I'm in London. Like what's going on? Also like, I'm going to just call it
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I reckon you're going to influence the types of hats that we wear this year
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Like you're bringing back the beret. Bringing back the beret, baby. I should have wore it today. I know, that's my favorite jam
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But I'm loving this one too, but you're loving your style as well. you love your fashion and that's a big piece of kind of who you are yeah for the first time i just
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feel like i've stepped into the artist i've always wanted to be and i feel like again i had no plans
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for baby doll to be a success but again i was just wanted to give it my full go this year so
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it feels really cool that it's working out the way it is do you feel nervous about the next single
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no i honestly i i just feel like i'm having fun for the first time i'm not i didn't i none of this
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album I wrote for it to be a hit. I wrote it just to like, for myself
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to be honest and I feel like I think it's very good to be honest
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Yeah, good. You say it. Confident. I do, yeah. We're so thrilled for you here and as
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I say, we're playing the song a lot. We wish you the very best of luck for
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everyone on the way. Jamie Miller. Jamie Miller! This is hot
