Shadowing Practice: Billie Eilish spills the tea on her ‘Hit Me Hard And Soft’ movie! | Capital - Learn English Speaking with YouTube
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I'm a Bieber girl in a Bieber world.
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I'm a Bieber girl in a Bieber world.
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It's Bieber-tastic.
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Let's Bieber blast it.
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Bieber flips his hair.
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Where's purple everywhere?
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It's the Bieber nation.
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Thank God for his creation.
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Come on, Bieber, spread the fever.
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Ah, ah, ah, yes.
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So loud.
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Sing it.
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It's good.
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Get it.
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Sing it.
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Do it.
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Come on, Bieber, spread the fever.
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Ah, ah, ah, yeah.
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Okay, we're gonna have complaints from the council.
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Jordan, I just sent you my location.
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I'm on this roof and I need you to come up here.
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It's really windy and cold,
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so I'll see you in a second.
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Hello.
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Hi, Jordan.
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Hey.
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Welcome to my roof.
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Oh, wow, how are you?
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Hi, my love.
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So good to see you all.
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Good to see you.
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That's a great hug.
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What's this?
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This is our little high tea.
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Our high tea.
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High tea at heights.
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Because last time we did this was two years ago.
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This is as if Billie Eilish has done this to me.
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It's a bit cold.
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It's a bit cold.
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It is a bit cold.
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Last time we'd done this,
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it was the first ever time we did a very British day out.
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And now that's a thing because of you.
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Is it?
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Yeah.
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Have you been doing that with other people?
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Yeah, I did it with Snoop Dogg.
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That was a very high tea.
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I bet.
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We did it with Rose from Black Pink.
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Oh yeah.
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And Halsey,
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she was really cool what was your favorite one um billy eilish obviously oh thank you this is this for me
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oh are you gonna be mother i'm just yes do you know what
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that is that a british thing to say you're gonna be mother i mean
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if it if you're saying it in a different way than i thought
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how are you saying it it's be mother it means to
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like i'll be mum i'll i'll pour the tea okay i'll
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be you gotta get high get it high yeah that's it
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higher higher oh well that's what we we get for being on the roof not
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that high oh don't worry i'm
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so sorry to your team no that's okay that's okay i'll get
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that out there roger is going to be very angry with
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me i don't give a though that's actually don't worry it's
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just tea that's actually it's water based yeah it'll come out
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that'll come out it's okay great start great start i like
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it how are you how's things it's been two years since we can't believe
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that it's been two years i know and you were so nice to me because
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I was really nervous and I just nice to you you were
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so sweet and I met your mother after as well yeah that's true my mom's not here this time
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but she remembers and she loves you and you looked after me
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because I was really nervous and you could tell I was nervous
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because I just started the Capitol breakfast show
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and I was like a few weeks into it they're like oh yeah you you're gonna go
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and interview Billie Eilish a few weeks in yeah
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and I was like oh my god what do I say I really loved that interview.
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Oh thank you.
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That was one of my favorites.
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I do too.
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It's cold, it's cold.
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Would you like a scone?
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A scone?
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A scone.
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Oh sorry, a scone.
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Oh yeah, you Brits say scone.
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Is this a chocolate chip or a raisin?
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No, that's a raisin I think.
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Oh then never mind.
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Okay, okay.
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Sorry.
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How are you?
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I'm good.
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Yeah, you're surviving, you know, thriving.
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Surviving what?
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You know, life, London, families,
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you know, that kind I think.
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Yeah.
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Is everything okay?
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Yeah, actually everything's really good.
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I can't complain.
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How are you and yourself?
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I'm really good.
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This movie's coming out.
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Yes.
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I'm very excited about it.
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Tell us about the movie,
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because you're working with James, actual James Cameron.
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Actual James.
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Off of Titanic and the blue one.
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Avatar.
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The blue one, Avatar.
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Yes.
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I love Avatar.
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Do you like Avatar?
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I do like the Avatar films.
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I think they're very...
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Which one is your favourite?
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I think the first one.
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First one's really good.
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Yeah, the second one, I can't remember much,
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and the third one's just come out recently, hasn't it?
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Yes.
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Yes.
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So I need to, I've not seen the third one.
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The third one's really f***ing good.
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Is it?
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There's this villain in it.
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Mm-hmm.
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Her name is Varang.
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Varang?
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And I would like it.
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Oh.
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Oh.
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I would.
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It's just true.
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You would too, let me tell you.
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Is it alright to fancy an avatar?
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Why wouldn't it be?
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Did you fancy any cartoon characters when you were younger?
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Of course.
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The first one that comes to mind is Haku from Spirited Away,
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but not the boy, the dragon version.
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So him as a dragon, which is Kohaku River.
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The anime?
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Yep.
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Get away.
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Kohaku River Dragon.
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Oh my God.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I loved that dragon.
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Have you ever seen Rupert the Bear?
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No, did you like Rupert the Bear?
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I always thought Rupert the Bear was quite cute.
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What the hell?
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Quite cute, I think.
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I still like to dress like him now.
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He looks very old, Moni.
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So cute.
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Very old, Moni.
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What a cute one.
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Speaking of people you fancy,
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or I think was just a big fan of,
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we need to talk the beeps.
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Oh, God, yeah.
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Coachella, right, first of all,
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what the hell happened to your legs?
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I think we're friends now.
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Yeah, they gave out.
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They gave out.
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They gave out.
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What was I supposed to do?
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I know.
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Walk up there confidently?
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Yes!
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No. Absolutely not.
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First of all, Hayley said one song before that,
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that she was going to push me on stage for One Less Lonely Girl lonely girl
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and the I I can't even get it's too it's just I can't even talk about it
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so my legs gave out is what happened yeah it was
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actually it was very sweet also nobody watched me on they
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were just like all right go on your own I keep watching it
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and you didn't know I'm the day they just told you one song before I had a suspicion
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because I'd heard something and then and then Hayley
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and Justin's friend was standing next to me in the pit
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and he he may have spoiled it a little he goes like
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so are you gonna go up
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and I was like what the hell are you talking about he said you know for one must only girl
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and I I had to just decide that
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that was like not I don't know I can't even talk about it it was it was a life-changing dream
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that me and everyone wanted to live and I can't actually believe
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that I lived it I can't even think about it I
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can't talk I can't look at the videos it's like too intense for me it's it's it's very very sweet
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because you've been a believer since you were um like very
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young in fact in 2014 yeah 2014 didn't you write a
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just been justin beaver song to the lyrics of barbie girl well somebody did
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and i posted it and i used to write all the lyrics all over anything
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that i could find yeah i'm a beaver girl in a
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beaver world yeah we've got the lyrics here now actually do you want to just just to remind yourself
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so to But to give credit to somebody,
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when I was like 12,
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I found this quote on Instagram.
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And it says,
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I'm a Bieber girl in a Bieber world Do it sing
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it from the rooftops I'm a Bieber girl in a Bieber world It's Bieber-tastic,
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let's Bieber blast it Bieber flips his hair,
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wears purple everywhere It's the Bieber nation,
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thank God for his creation Come on Bieber,
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spread the fever, ah ah ah yes
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so loud sing it it's good girl sing it do it come on we must spread the fever
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okay we're gonna have complaints from the council where are the
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avocados why is this coming back i don't know you tell me the fun the fans
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so this was your original instagram my first username
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when i first got instagram
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which was in 2012 okay uh 2011 was gr2 like from
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invader zim g-i-r-2 okay my username was underscore disaster underscore peace underscore
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so like masterpiece but disaster piece i thought that was so tight and then i had a fan account called
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billy bieber yes i did billy you really were a big fan
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but yes my username
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when people started knowing who i was was where are the
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avocados where the avocados it's been a long time since
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that one though tell us about the film hit me hard
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and soft the tour live in 3d did i get it
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right yeah you did whose idea was the movie was it yours it was james cameron's idea was it actually
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so did he come to you he came to my mom
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he literally came to my mom i had been i had no plans i had no plans to make Wait,
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what's this thing?
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Yeah, no, literally, please.
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I had no plans to make any kind of filming of the tour.
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Just because I didn't, I don't know.
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And then my mom was at my house one day,
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after I'd already been on tour for like a year.
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And she goes, Billy, I got an email from James Cameron.
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I was like, what the hell are you talking?
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James Cameron, James Cameron?
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Or is this another guy named that?
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I don't know, you know.
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It's quite a common name, I suppose.
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Yeah, really common.
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And yeah, it was, he has this idea to film your tour in 3D and make a movie of it,
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a concert film.
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Oh, wow.
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So then we just got on the phone and talked about it and like,
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I can't even believe that that happened and now it's done and here it is.
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Yeah.
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And like, thank God.
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And also, I get to have this forever and the fans get to have it and like,
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I don't know, it's pretty,
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it's pretty cool that it's going to exist for me forever to watch
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and whose idea is it to have it in 3d i
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mean cameron james it's he's like the king of 3d he loves 3d doesn't he he loves 3d
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and he's the best at it yeah i do say
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so myself we used a bunch of new technology too oh i mean he would explain it better
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but like they created cameras for this like
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that weren't have never been used before to like be able to shoot something in 3d and have
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you know the ability to make them you know small
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and like I don't know it was pretty amazing sorry what were you gonna say?
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I was gonna ask it was the reason that you filmed the show in Manchester because the British are the best audiences,
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best crowds, is that why?
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Manchester is a really good crowd I will say but honestly
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all my crowds no matter where i go pretty amazing yes manchester is really fun
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and for the fans because they'll all be watching this
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and i've had them like i've got so many followers
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because of you because of this interview so tell them what they can expect from the movie because it's like
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an immersive 3d experience isn't it yeah i'm so i'm
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so excited
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and curious to see what people get from it i think
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i mean for me i feel excited for people who didn't get to see the show
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to get to experience it yeah um
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and also people who did get to see it
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and just want to relive it and me that I get to relive it forever.
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I think that's really selfishly amazing.
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And I think what's really special about it being 3D is just feeling like we're right there.
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You're there.
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Yeah.
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I don't know.
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It was a really special tour and a show that I feel and felt really proud of.
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I just am really, really grateful and excited for it to live on forever.
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It will live forever because I went to watch Space Jam in 3d
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when i was about seven
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and it felt like i was on the call see with michael jordan
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which that was in 3d and that was uh
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that was amazing amazing what what is the dress code for the movie
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because obviously a lot of the fans come dressed like you yeah the gig
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so what's the dress code for the movie what would you
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like to see them in uh i think whatever they whatever
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they come up they always come up with some fun like
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dress code for themselves like the something the fans do
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that i had nothing to do with and they just do it naturally
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which is
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so amazing is like I'll see this like online before shows
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on tour where like they'll all come together to like decide
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what the theme of each show is going to be especially
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if I do a show like in one place
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and I do multiples they'll all be like okay on the first day it's going to be this theme
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and then this theme and like they've done like pajama theme where everyone wears pajamas and they've done like
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Christmas theme when it's, you know,
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near Christmas or, you know,
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dressing like this kind of it's just like whatever they come up with.
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That's what I'm excited for.
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I'm going to say to him and because you can't
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because I know you love him so much just and you'll know when you watch the film.
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Just be careful with Billy Billy's hands because I didn't realize how much when you put your hands out.
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Yeah, they go.
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I know.
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But you know what?
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That's the point.
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They're scratchers.
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They get hold of hands today.
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They're fine because I haven't done a show in a long time haven't done a show for a
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while yeah the tour has been done for months now
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when you see the film you watch it
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and they're just like yeah well because the girls got their nails done
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and then they they be clawing me yeah
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but that's the point that's literally the point you know like that's why i that's not why
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but it's like it's what comes with the need
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that i feel to be close to them you know
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and i get it i would scratch the out of me too
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if i were them it's
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so good to see i'm really sorry about the product oh don't worry about
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that wet wipes that'll get it out um billy Eilish thank you
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so much thank you so much Jordan love having you on Capital Billie Eilish everybody
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