As Dixie D’Amelio expands her TikTok stardom to music stardom, who’s the best person to call? Jason Derulo!
The two sat in a 10-minute clip posted to YouTube on Wednesday (July 15) featuring D’Amelio’s close circle gathering to share his thoughts on his music video for his debut single “Be Good,” which premiered. on July 1 and has already obtained more than 46 million visits.
“I’m so happy for you! This is so good,” the hitmaker told the rising 18-year-old star after watching the viral video at his home. “I remember those butterflies playing songs for people the first time, playing a video for people the first time. It must feel crazy.”
Unlike D’Amelio, who started his rise on TikTok, Derulo has been scoring the top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 for the past decade before racking up 28.7 million followers on the short-form video platform. Since then, he has channeled his indescribable TikTok powers to propel himself up the charts: his track “Savage Love (Laxed Beat – Siren)”, assisted by Jawsh 685, which continues to spin around on TikTok in the form of multiple dance challenges , reached No. 1 on the UK Official Singles Chart and on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart.
D’Amelio made it Billboard chart debut this month after opening at # 41 on the emerging artist count (dated July 11) but after talking about the clip, he asked the 30-year-old singer about how he felt when he was an artist promising.
“It’s funny because I think I was almost exactly your age when I released my first song,” he recalled. “I remember thinking, ‘I’ve worked really hard for this, it’s my time and no matter what happens.’ It wasn’t necessarily that my song was number 1, it wasn’t necessarily that everyone loved this piece of music, I just wanted to enjoy the fact that I had worked hard myself and took the moment to say: deserve this. ‘”
Derulo’s debut single “Whatcha Say” became his first official No. 1 hit on the Hot 100 in November 2009, when he had just turned 20. He advised D’Amelio, who has 29.7 million TikTok followers, to pursue “the best version of yourself” rather than success itself and to focus on his work ethic.
“Success is only borrowed, you can never own success, right?” He told her. “It may go away tomorrow, so you have to maintain that same work ethic.”
Watch Derulo along with D’Amelio’s friends and family react to his first official music video below.
