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Here's the truth: I was wrong. My gut is usually right about my songs, but I admit wholeheartedly that I had the wrong perspective on "Want to Want Me." (This is another example of why it's so im- portant to have the right bees in your hive.)

Tik Tok is now a big source ofbusiness for me, but I'm still mindful of never letting it cannibalize my music career. In order to meet my goals, these two things have to support each other instead of ever taking away from each other... I always try to focus my time and energy on the area where they're most needed at that moment. Sometimes it's time to conceive and post a new tt video, and sometimes it's music time

I spend every day asking myself how I can best myself.

I give my self small goals that I make sure to accomplish.
This way, I get used to the feeling of winning, which wires my mind to achieve.
If you don't program your own mindset like this, your mind will program it for you. Most likely, you'll get stuck in default mode, thinking, "Aight, we chilling today"

Derulo vs his peers:

"This is a waste of time," they whined. "'I just want to get out there and start auditioning and start my career.'
Honestly, I didn't understand this mindset at all. How in the world could it be a waste to spend your time improving your craft? Time is only wasted if you're not using it to get better" --absolutely clocked me!

The concept of Addison Rae encouraging Derulo to post 6x/day on tikok

"Experiment, succeed, fail, fall on your damn face, get back up ... and who knows? Maybe that video of you falling on your face will be the one that ends up cutting through."

This chapter is called, "reveal yourself in your best light". And he took it very literally because he went three pages talking about how actual lighting is everything haha

He did not like the music video for " if it ain't love" because the lighting was off. I didn't realize the song was just okay, it went platinum in my house!!!

The relationship he has with Luke Bryan and florida georgia line is really sweet to read about. I didn't even know they were super close like that. And I didn't even hear their collab LOL. I love when artists test out new genres. Also what happened to florida georgia line????

When you stop seeing other people as competition and instead start seeing them as people who can either learn something from you or teach you something- or both-- a whole new-world of success and inspiration will open up for you.

The only way to have a lasting career is to stay on that cutting edge. You have to take any and all opportunities, no matter where they come from. I may have great ideas, but other people do, too, and I want all them ideas on the table

So, on your way up, don't forget to reach back out and help some- one along the way. It'll be rewarding from a humanistic standpoint and could help drive your ship closer

People come up to me all the time and tell me they make music. No matter who they are, I always ask them to email me their stuff, and I always listen to it. Sure, I'm helping them out, but truthfully, this helps me, as well. You just never know where the next big talent is going to come from. Most artists who stand the test of time surround themselves with others who are still innovating, and I'm no different.

Start thinking about who is riding alongside you as much as where you're going. If you feel you're heading in the right direction at the right speed, doing work that is meaningful and successful, you probably already have the right people on your team. But if you feel like you're being held back or misguided, or that you're wasting time and energy dragging people up with you... cut yourself free!

"With all of that being said, doing it by myself, even as a control freak, doesn't mean that I do it all by myself. I'm talking about holding on to creative control sO I can make sure the project stays true to my vision. But part of being a control freak means finding the right people-the worker bees you need to fill in your hive. You Cannot succeed without people you trust around you."

"If you do have a vision and you want to see it through, then you've got to be a control freak like me. If you give up control, chances are that you'll have to make compromises and spend too much time dragging other people along with you. No doubt the end product will suffer as a result"

Nobody:

Jason Derulo: I'm a mainstream daddy through and through.

Had no idea that savage love was the hardest song for him to write. He kept colombia records on edge until they were able to release the song DESERVE

Would I have taken big creative risks and reached the same level of success if a serious injury hadn't forced me to take a beat and evaluate my career, or if I hadn't lived through a pandemic? I'll never know, What I do know is that these two forced quarantine periods reminded me that life is precious. It's also short. There's no such thing as free time, because every minute is valuable.

Focused energy is different and leads to an outcome that's on another level than when you're just finding time to create here and there. Sometimes you can choose that zone-in time for yourself, but once in a while it gets forced on you. It may come in the form of a situation that looks like an obstacle on the outside. Or, let's be real, it might be a genuine obstacle both inside and out.

Once that year was up and I had healed, I looked back and realized that I had learned so much from this obstacle. I discovered that when you can slow your world down and focus on your craft, it opens up new levels of creativity. It's no coincidence that I wrote so many hit songs at a time when writing music was basically the only thing I could do.

With the year Gaga had just had, experiencing that rare combination of critical and commercial success, for her to ask a newcomer like me to tour with her said a lot. I had two hit singles under my belt, but I hadn't even released my first album yet. Nobody really knew who I was.

The Whitney effect w the acoustic 😍

In My Head became a top-ten song in many countries, including the US. To date, it has sold many millions of copies. I'm not bragging. My point here is that you can't sit back when you think you've made it big. That's not the time to rest.
Ego tells you that you're better than everyone else, SO you don't have to work as hard as they do, Confidence, on the other hand, says that you know what you need to do to succeed

I've always gotten much more information out of people by asking them to compare songs. Then I pay very close attention to two how they respond while they're listening to the song and right after. If someone waits until the song is over and says, "That's good" or I like it," that`s not the vibe. That will not be a hit song.

I like to say that success is borrowed. You can rent it, but you co never really own success. At this point in my life, I Own a lot of Nice things. but I never fool myself for minute into believing that I own my success as an artist. I've got to keep paying that rent every month just like everybody else.