{"id":2011601,"date":"2025-09-10T14:06:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T14:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2011601"},"modified":"2025-09-10T14:06:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T14:06:38","slug":"gus-dapperton-on-karaoke-new-music-his-journeys-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/gus-dapperton-on-karaoke-new-music-his-journeys-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Gus Dapperton On Karaoke, New Music &#038; His Journeys Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-adroot=\"true\">\n<p>When he first started making music, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nylon.com\/entertainment\/gus-dapperton-interview\" class=\"T3D\">Gus Dapperton<\/a> assumed no one was ever going to hear it. Cut to today: The 28-year-old singer-songwriter has more than a million monthly listeners on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nylon.com\/entertainment\/spotify-songs-of-the-summer-2025-sabrina-carpenter-ravyn-lenae\" class=\"T3D\">Spotify<\/a>, is featured on one of <em>the<\/em> seminal viral songs of our time (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Rb6Scz-5YOs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" class=\"T3D\">\u201cSupalonely\u201d<\/a> by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nylon.com\/entertainment\/benee-faces-of-fall-interview\" class=\"T3D\">Benee<\/a>), and has a direct line to his hero, New Radicals lead singer Gregg Alexander. \u201cI never would\u2019ve thought these things were possible when I was growing up,\u201d he tells NYLON. \u201cI feel like everything I\u2019ve ever done in music is waking up and realizing these are things I\u2019d never even imagined in my wildest dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dapperton\u2019s friendship with Alexander began about six years ago after the then-up-and-coming artist reached out to the front man as a fan. So when Journeys approached Dapperton to cover the New Radicals\u2019 \u201cYou Get What You Give\u201d for its new Life Out Loud campaign, Dapperton (born Brendan Patrick Rice) felt equipped to rise to the occasion. \u201cI knew what [Alexander] wanted out of my musicianship and my performance,\u201d he says. \u201cI think he thought I could sing it with the same sort of aggression and desperation and urgency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the campaign and his new EP <em>Shake Your Tailfeather Vol. 1, <\/em>out Sept. 19, we caught up with Dapperton over Zoom for all his NYC karaoke recs, future live-show plans, and more.<\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width:854px;\" class=\"sWr iGR vrU\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gus Dapperton | You Get What You Give | Journeys | Life on Loud | FULL Music Video\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QXG15H1aPTk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>\u201cYou Get What You Give\u201d is obviously a very special song to you. What is it about that song, the New Radicals, and Gregg Alexander that you\u2019re so inspired by?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That song is just one of my favorite songs. My parents played it around the house and in the car. And then over time, coming up [as] a musician, the lyrics really speak to me as well because it kind of feels like sort of [an] indie musician\u2019s anthem, just being yourself and protesting the norms of society and going out on your own. So this song\u2019s always been a huge inspiration to me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And what was it like creating your own version of the song?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was definitely a nerve-wracking undertaking \u2014 as it always is covering a song \u2014 because I only want to cover the songs that are my favorites, but also you don\u2019t want to mess it up because you want to keep the integrity of the original. And I\u2019m never aspiring to make something that\u2019s better than the original song, but something that is unique to me and something that does it somewhat justice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you have a favorite memory tied to the song?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I was younger, whenever I did karaoke, it would be my karaoke song. I don&#8217;t think I ever did karaoke until I was in college because I was always too nervous when I was a kid, but I remember I did it one time at this karaoke night and it was a big hit, so I continued doing it as my karaoke song.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I would love to see that one day.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maybe you will. I do karaoke kind of often these days. There are always two spots in the city that are open until extremely late, so we\u2019ll end up just going there later and doing karaoke.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where are your spots? I need the recs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One spot\u2019s called Winnie\u2019s in the Lower East Side that\u2019s literally open until like 4 a.m., and there\u2019s another spot not too far from it called Upstairs. Some of my local establishments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Good to know. The music video you did for Journeys takes place at a mall. Do you have any core memories of hanging out at your local mall growing up?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I grew up in a really small town in Warwick, New York, and there were no big stores, no fast food or anything. The closest place that had that stuff was the Galleria Mall in Middletown, which was almost 40 minutes away from me, but I would always try to persuade my mom to drop me and my friends off there. But that was a really rare occasion, because she always knew we were going to cause some trouble. [But] because I was a skater, I always ended up going [to Journeys] to get new skate shoes and new back-to-school stuff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You have a new EP on the way. How do you feel?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m so hyped. I\u2019m starting a new alias or moniker of sorts, and I just really wanted to start over from scratch and kind of experiment with sounds and voices and rhythms and things I hadn&#8217;t normally tapped into in the past. Feels like I\u2019m starting fresh.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a sort of expectation that I give myself on what I know my fans have loved in the past. So coming up with a new alias kind of allowed me to rid myself of doing anything I would normally do. I could just kind of really do the opposite of what I\u2019ve always done in a way, which to me is more fun because I\u2019m challenging an audience to like something that is the opposite of what they have liked in the past, and it\u2019s a progression of music and my growth as an artist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can you tease the vibe of the new music?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s very dance-oriented beats with lots of different affected vocals. You won\u2019t be hearing a lot of my real voice on them. It\u2019s a lot more production and beat-focused, as opposed to songwriter-focused and live instrumentation. It\u2019s a little bit more electronic for sure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is there an artist you\u2019ve been really inspired by lately that inspired this shift?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At first I was saying Daft Punk and LCD Soundsystem, Gorillaz, and then some house DJs like Danny Krivit, Todd Terry. But then recently I realized me and my girlfriend have been listening to the Black Eyed Peas a lot and was like, \u201cWhoa, I guess this is kind of Black Eyed Peas.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width:854px;\" class=\"sWr iGR vrU\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Loose Goose, Gus Dapperton and hard life - She Got The Funk\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g6or0O7tzmk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Is there another late \u201990s, early Y2K hit you\u2019d like to cover one day?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I already covered \u201cBelieve\u201d by Cher. I was going to say that one, but I already covered that one in a much more emotional, slower fashion a year or two ago. I\u2019ll have to start thinking of what my next cover is going to be after this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Well, now that you are in your electronic era, maybe you can do more of a straightforward cover of \u201cBelieve.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Exactly. I\u2019m starting to practice our live set for this project, so I have to start thinking of what song we\u2019re going to cover for the live shows as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is there a chance you\u2019ll play \u201cYou Get What You Give\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll have to come up with an arrangement for that. But yeah, I should just do that one.<\/p>\n<p><em>This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.<\/em><\/p>\n<aside class=\"fX2 rhF jIS\"\/><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nylon.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When he first started making music, Gus Dapperton assumed no one was ever going to hear it. 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