Aussie sensation Tones and I calls Macklemore the soundtrack to her life
Tones and I performs her hit 'Dance Monkey' and 'Never Seen the Rain' on 'etalk Open House.'
June 4, 2020 7:23 p.m.
Latest Update June 4, 2020 7:23 p.m.

When I say that, I mean so many moments in my life, there’s like a soundtrack that plays one of his songs. So to meet him and for him to be, more to the point, to be everything that you thought he would be, is really crazy. I got to sit down with him and talk with him two days later. I got to talk to him about some of the struggles we don’t really want to admit because we want to act so tough or whatever, coming up so quickly [in the music industry]. And he fully understood it and it did kind of happen for him as well and I think that sitting down with him really reaffirmed to me that f**k off, it doesn’t matter how many number one songs you have—no artist is actually comparing, it doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks except for yourself.You’ve got the most streamed song by a female artist of all time—what do accomplishments like that feel like for you?They’re huge, but I only know that now. I didn’t know about charts, I didn’t know how hard it was to climb big charts like Billboard or my ARIAs [Australian Recording Industry Awards] at home, all around the world, I didn’t know. So when that started happening, I thought, 'Oh, this must just be a thing—when you release a song, you go into a chart.' No, you don’t. I didn’t know that because it was my first experience. And now I know that it doesn’t and I’m like whoa, looking back that’s so huge. But at the time I was like, 'Man this probably happens to everyone.'So where do you go from here?I’m about to release my second single—well not for Australia, but for everyone else in the world. We kind of threw “Never Seen the Rain” out there but in terms of really wanting to push a single like “Dance Monkey,” this is it. And it’s called “Ur So F**kInG cOoL.” It’s about a party I went to, which I was invited to by this big producer, who’s a very nice guy I will add, but no one really wanted to talk to me or my friends. But then we talked to each other and I just thought, 'Let’s go; let’s get an Uber, let’s go back to the hotel and watch Netflix.' And I wrote a song about it. And I’ve also got my album coming as well.View this post on Instagram