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Jessie J joins Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden on Heart Breakfast to chat about her new song 'Living My Best Life', her adorable son Sky, and how he’s already singing along to his mummy’s music!
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How amazing it's been to see like Billy Isley's Chapel Rhone, Cat Burns
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Every time I see any of them like, like you're an OG and I'm like, I'm so old
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I'm like, I'm like, bring them all a snack and make sure they get a nap. The greatest voice of any UK, I haven't said it yet
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The greatest voice of any UK artist in the UK, I'm going to say probably over the last
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10 years, maybe 15 years belongs to Jessie J. Thank you so much
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And I'm not saying that just because she's here. But she's in the studio. Over 2 million albums
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11 million singles, three number ones, 10 top tens and the most knockout performance
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on the BAFTAs. Thank you so much. Welcome back, darling. I'm back, baby
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Great to see you. She is in red and white. She's on brand this morning
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You'll put me on the wall and not find me. Biggest station in the UK
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But thank you so much. She feels good to be back, you know? I mean, we've missed you
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I've missed it. It's incredible. I've missed it so much. It feels so nice. It feels like school reunion every day
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Literally. It's so fun. So talk to us about the single. Living My Best Life, I actually wrote with Ryan Tedda in COVID in 2020
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Oh, my gosh. So I've had this song in my phone for five years. Oh, my gosh
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And it stood the test of time. So I'm like, let's just keep going with it and hope that it holds on for another at least 10 years
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so yeah I wrote this when it was like the world was just like in a weird place and everyone was like
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mass buying toilet roll and wearing helmets to the shop yeah it was mad that time
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yeah sometimes every now and again the pictures pop up and it's so obviously it was so sad and there was so much heartbreak
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across the world but it was funny watching people just try and survive
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through something that we couldn't understand at all but yeah I wanted to write a song that just made
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you feel good and happy and like want to run around basically and I was like this song can happen when the covid finished yeah yeah seems i mean you been for a lot over the last four or five years yourself personally now a mum yes i am now how is little sky he the cutest boy ever
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he just turned two he turned two on last week oh my god i saw those pictures on your socials
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i just want to bite his cheek i just want to eat his face like it's quite aggressive
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does he like your music? he loves it he loves it and every time I play any of my own music
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if I'm watching a video that I've got to sign off on and I'm singing he looks to everyone else in the room
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to make sure they're listening oh my gosh and so he goes mummy singing
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he'd be a good manager and he's just like this he's looking around like mummy singing that is so cute
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it's so cute and we sing together now so like and he's so clever
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and I just I put him down last night and ever since he was born
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I've sang sky and mummy going to sleep Sky and mommy just on repeat
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and now he sings it to me. That is so cute. Sky and mommy
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I go weep. Mommy I go weep. It's so cute. So cute
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How has the sort of industry changed? Has it changed much? For the better or for the worse
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What do you reckon? Are you nervous about you know do you feel like it's a relaunch
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or do you just feel like you're getting a pair of comfy shoes back on again? Is it that sort of feeling
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I feel like the main thing is just me being myself and that really carries you
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through anything right? And so I think I'm just more confident now you know you've lived
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a bit of life and you're a bit older and having a kid it just changes perspective and you don't sweat
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the small stuff who at the moment are you listening to thinking wow I mean five little monkeys
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jumping on the bed well especially like female solo artists so in your kind of lane
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who have you got your eye on I was actually having a conversation with a friend of mine
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yesterday about how amazing it's been to see like Billy Eilish Chapel Rhone Catburns
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like such a broad spectrum of different music because every time I see any of them like
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like you're an OG and I'm like I so old and I like I can bring them all a snack and make sure they get a nap We been hearing lots of weird and wonderful facts or fiction about you
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And we want to know if they're true. So we're going to have a little game of Jessie J, fact or fiction
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Let's do it. First one, is it true that you wrote Party in the USA for Miley Cyrus
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It is true. Oh, my God. How did that come about? Amazing. So when I first got signed, I was in loads of different sessions
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and I went in with Luke and Claude, who I ended up writing a lot of my songs with over the years
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And it was one of my first sessions. And it was literally about my journey going to LA
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So I hopped off the plane at LA with my tea and my cart, like my tea. There you go
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Because I always had tea. And that's the song. Always, still do. Yeah, so, and then she wanted it
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I was, what, 21? Oh, my gosh. Is it odd for you when you hear other people sing your songs
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No, I love it. Do you? But don't you feel like a bit more, oh, maybe I shouldn't have done that
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Maybe I should have kept that. No, no, no. I don't regret nothing. She made it a smash. I could never have done it. She's amazing
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I'm so grateful paid my rent here we are no literally exactly exactly
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okay what about this we heard you won a Chinese talent show true or false true
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is it I remember that it was massive massive show it was in 2017 yes
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could be wrong don't quote me I have no memory and I thought I was going on
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as a guest for three weeks turns out I was a contestant didn't quite understand
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and when I landed I was like let's go and it's like established
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amazing Chinese artists that come together and compete So imagine if it was in the UK, it'd be like me, Rita, Jessica Lynn, Kat Burns, whoever
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and then we compete and people get sent home. Is it true, this is a fun one, is it true at the age of 10 you were rejected from a stage production of Annie
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because you were too loud? 100%. I love that. The shot of karma
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Tomorrow! It was so intense. Sorry if I just hurt everyone's ears driving to work
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Yeah. There was about 200 of us in a room and all of me and my best friends auditioned and I was very tall for my age I was about my height now eight and then I never got any taller And I wanted to be Pepper so bad Pepper Pepper is one of the characters in Anna and Annie
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And so everyone lined up and there was only about three of us that didn't get in. And literally I came out and I'll never forget it because it
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literally changed my whole, my mum gave me this one piece of advice and I didn't get it and I came
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out and she said, darling, when one door closes, it just means it's not your door
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and you've got to keep walking and find your door. And two weeks later I was cast
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as Brat in Whistle Down the Wind on West End as a leading role, and I was in it for two years
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We also wanted to see if you remember the lyrics to Price Tag. Because of the way my brain works
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which people I feel like are discovering in the last three weeks of promo, how mental I am
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that I just watch the audience like they're my own TV show
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when I'm on stage. I think people, I don't think about the fact that I'm singing. Right
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I'm just like, wow, all these people, and my brain's... You forget to sing. Yeah, 100%
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And then I go, oh, no, I don't remember the words. and I go, you sing it. So if I ever do that, it's because I can't remember the words
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If I never see it, I'm thinking, I've not paid to hear everyone else sing it
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I've paid to hear you sing it. That's the first thing I say as a joke when I go out on my shows. I go, if you're going to sing, just do it quietly
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because I didn't spend this many years for people to watch me sing on your film and hear you
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Yeah, that's odd. You know, I'm like giving me best and they're like, I'm a fresh light
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Like, I don't want to see that on YouTube tomorrow. Do you tell people not to
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Do you do that thing where you go, no, put your phones down, guys. Put your phone down. Enjoy it
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Just enjoy it. Yeah, the scene of the moment. In the moment. I always say it's like, guys, you need to make sure that you've got battery to get home
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Like, let's be safe. Yeah, 100%. You know, you've got this amazing thing in your brain that's got memory
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It's honestly amazing. Yeah. Well, look, I know that I'm thrilled you're back
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Thank you so much. Everyone's thrilled you're back as well. It's great to have her back. Thank you. Jessie J
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