-Jaden, good to see you.
-What's up?
-I want to get to the new song,
but first I just
want to check in on you.
What have you been doing
in the quarantine?
I know you're safe, thank God.
Have you had time to relax
or what are you doing?
-Yeah, you know,
I've had a lot of time
to just, like, stay at home,
read books, like,
and just chill.
I've been watching your show
nonstop.
-Aww!
-Your Tiger King impression
is hilarious!
-[ Laughs ] Oh, you saw that!
Good man!
-Yeah! Yeah.
-Oh, I love that.
-I was like, "This is --"
I was like, "This is amazing."
I was, like, genuinely, like --
This is warming up my whole
quarantine, which was awesome.
-Oh, I'm so happy. That's the
way I felt about your song, too.
I thought it was great.
-Aww. Thank you, man.
-We'll get into it.
-I appreciate that.
-Are you --
Do you play bass guitar?
-You know, I don't play bass,
but I have it in here
because I do jam sessions
in my room to where --
I'll have homies come in here
and I'll play guitar
and they'll just
pick up the bass.
Like, I have to have it in here
so that we can just play
at any time.
-Yeah.
-But I have been learning bass
a little bit.
Like, I'll learn bass
to a few of my songs
just with my guitar teacher
because, you know, I'm like --
you might as well just
teach me a little bit of
bass, too, while we're at it.
-I want to talk about your
new song, "Cabin Fever."
I love it.
And it's like a love song during
the quarantine. Am I right?
-Yes. Yeah.
-That's the vibe.
-That's the whole vibe
of the song.
You know, it was written
in a time where, you know,
I really wanted to see somebody,
but we both
couldn't see each other,
and the world was just,
like, keeping us apart.
And we both knew that
we couldn't see each other, too.
As much as we wanted to see
each other, we knew that,
you know, just for the safety of
ourselves and for our families
and for everyone around us,
that we can't see each other.
So, that's pretty much --
The song is from my perspective
and kind of just dealing with
that frustration.
And the music video is, like,
going into that daydream
where it's like, "Okay, but
what if we did see each other?
What would it be like
if we did hang out?
If we could hang out,
what would it be like?"
So that's the whole daydream
in the music video with the car
and the girl and the beach
and everything.
It's like,
"If we could see each other,
like, our dreams circumstances
would be this," you know?
So that's kind of like my dream,
that whole video.
It's like what I wish happened.
-This sound is different
than the last album
that you came out with.
-100%.
-What inspired this?
-So, really what
inspired this was
me just wanting to, like,
be a different type of person.
You know, I love David Bowie.
And I just wanted to be
a new person, you know?
And I just wanted to
go over here and do this.
I did that, and now
I just want to be different.
So I've been listening
to a lot of older music.
And I've been really, really
inspired by the Beach Boys
and their harmonies
and their guitars
all of the interesting sounds
that they used in their music.
So, I spent this whole time
just listening to old music
with my guitar teacher
and studying music theory
and studying all of these
different things
that are in the music
that you might not notice
and really trying
to understand them
and then apply it into my music
so I can give my fans
a little bit of something
where it's like,
"Here's something that's,
like, really different
that was made
with all real instruments
and, like, not with a computer
and with my voice."
And how, you know --
just kind of give them
a little bit of that
so they're like, "Wow. You know.
Jaden did that one thing
that was really interesting
with this album,
and it was different," you know?
Because I just want to make
something that's just going to
be different for the fans
so they can be like "Wow.
I haven't heard something
like this in a long time."
-Yeah. Is this a hint?
Is "Cabin Fever" a hint
of maybe a new album?
-Yeah, yeah.
I'm definitely --
There's a new album happening.
"Cabin Fever"
is definitely a hint.
And I'm really excited
about this new one.
I think it's going to be
something
really, really special.
-And now you're partnering
with vote.org.
And I think it is so good that
you're doing this. Thank you.
Because we do need young people
to register and vote
and have their voice heard.
-100%.
I'm partnering with vote.org.
I'm really excited about it
because so many young voters
did not show up
to the last election,
and their voices
need to be heard.
And they deserve to know that,
hey, your voice
makes a difference,
and people care about what
you think, and it really --
You can change the world
as a young person,
especially when you get together
with other young people
and put your mind all
in one direction to say,
"Hey, we're going to go out.
We're gonna do this.
We're going to vote."
But sometimes
you need somebody else
who's kind of around
the same age group as you
to let you know -- it matters.
I'm going to go vote.
I talk about it with
my friends all the time.
Every day we talk about voting
and how we can get
more people to vote.
And I'm gonna be doing things
around my album
to help people
with voting or with vote.org,
that's why
we partnered together.
So I just want people
to know how easy it is to do
and that --
how important it is to do.
-Yeah, you said it right.
You can change the world.
-Yes.
-Wow.
-100%.
-That's pretty powerful.
