Interview with Valentine

January 26, 2008 | Filed Under interviews-radio, jc on the radio, other projects, transcripts, tv-best dance crew |

right-click to download:
Phone interview with Valentine on KBIG 104.3 - mp3, 2.4 mb
thanks to Chasez-Online for the file!

transcript:

Valentine: JC?

JC: Yo!

Valentine: Hey buddy, how are you man?

JC: I’m good, man. How about yourself?

Valentine: I’m pretty good. Nice to chat with you. I haven’t talked to you in a little while.

JC: I know, it’s been a minute.

Valentine: Yeah, it’s been a minute. Oh, that’s the hip phrase, isn’t it? The hip phrase? “Yo, what up homie? It’s been a minute!”

JC: [Laughs]

Valentine: So you got a job. Thank god, I was worried about you.

JC: Oh, is that right? [Laughter]

Valentine: I’ve been worried, buddy! How’s it been? Has it been tough?

JC: No, no, not at all. Actually, I’ve actually been working all along…

Valentine: Yeah.

JC: …just on different projects, you know. When you’re like a writer-producer and stuff like that, people don’t maybe just pay as much attention.

Valentine: We don’t see ’cause it’s not on the news, but somebody had told me that you were working with Richard Marx, who I think - and you may agree - is one of the best writer-producers out there.

JC: Oh dude, he’s amazing. Yeah, yeah. I actually got an email from him the other day. We’re supposed to get back together in Chicago and do some work.

Valentine: Now when you work with somebody like that, do you remember the “Right Here Waiting”s? Do you go back to like the Hazard album he put out and everything?

JC: “Right Here Waiting” - that’s a special song for me ’cause that actually got me my first job. Um, it was the first audition I had ever been on, and I actually sang “Right Here Waiting” as my audition song. I actually told him that story and he had a good laugh about that, so he was like “That’s ridiculous,” you know. I was like, “Hey man, it’s my first job. What are you gonna do?” [Laughs]

Valentine: What was the job that you got by singing “Right Here Waiting”?

JC: It was the Mouse Club. The Mickey Mouse Club.

Valentine: That got you into the Mickey Mouse Club?

JC: Mm hm.

Valentine: “Right Here Waiting”.

JC: “Right Here Waiting”. I did - that was my - that was the song I chose to sing at the very first audition.

Valentine: Now every time I hear that song from now on, when the piano starts with the beginning of “Right Here Waiting” I’m gonna think about you joining the Mickey Mouse Club.

JC: There you go, I guess. I don’t know if that’s what you’ll be thinking about, but yes sir. [Laughs]

Valentine: It’s in my head now. All right, speaking of Mickey Mouse Club then, let me go to the elephant in the room here, Britney Spears. Obviously coming up with here. Have you had any contact over these past months, talked to Britney at all?

JC: I haven’t had any contact with her over the last - I would say the last couple of months. I saw her before that, and you know, her life is always, seems, at least lately - as of late - to be a hurricane. But I haven’t spoken to her recently. You know, I think she’s just got a lot on her plate.

Valentine: You know, I think it would be tough, ’cause you guys had contact so many times, from Mickey Mouse Club to throughout the years with NSYNC and everything. It’s gotta be tough when you turn on the news and say, “Oh man, that’s the girl I came up with.”

JC: Yeah, well here’s the - there’s two perspectives on that, though, in my opinion. Obviously, believe it or not, a lot of this stuff happens everyday to everyday people. It’s just that because…her picture’s on the cover of a magazine, you know, it’s actually amplified. But…as far as the things that are going on in her life, a divorce? I think there’s something like a fifty or sixty percent divorce rate.

Valentine: No, that’s valid, I agree with that. But…

JC: That’s everyday, okay? Now, when you’re dealing with like the two kids involved, there’s always disputes over, you know, custodies and things like that. So that’s an everyday kind of thing. And now you’re dealing with a twenty-year-old, or a twenty-something-year-old…

Valentine: Yeah.

JC: …who’s going out and partying, I mean, it’s hard for me to find people that are in their twenties who aren’t going out and partying. So…the fact is that it’s just that people are focusing on all the negative things that she’s doing right now because it sells more papers and things like that. Now I don’t necessarily agree with everything that she does, obviously…

Valentine: Yeah.

JC: …but I don’t necessarily think that some of the things she’s doing are abnormal that they are saying are abnormal. Now some of the stuff? I absolutely don’t agree with. Some of the stuff, though, I think is blown way out of proportion and taken out of context.

Valentine: But I think in our society we live with the nature of the beast that because of the mediums that we have, that you can stuff so fast and everything.

JC: Absolutely. And everybody’s so quick…the weird part is that everybody’s so quick to judge. I mean, I will be honest, there are kids that are going, you know, who are out at a bar and having a conversation, going, “I can’t believe she’s going out and getting so wrecked with her two kids at home” and da da da da da, meanwhile they’re at a bar getting trashed. You know what I mean? Again, it’s kinda like…because it’s…instead of it’s their next door neighbor doing it, it’s her doing it, so it becomes something to pass judgment on and things like that.

Valentine: All right, let’s wrap it up with a happy spin. When’s NSYNC gonna do a reunion show?

JC: [Laughs]

Valentine: C’mon, man.

JC: We’re not doing any reunion shows. Um, everybody’s really happy with what they’re doing, you know. Obviously Joey’s turned into a great TV personality, you know, it’s impossible not to love the guy. Justin’s obviously taking over the world, touring…

Valentine: Pretty much.

JC: …breaking records, and I’ve been working on music for the past year, and then this opportunity came up with Randy. So, you know, I’m excited to do the show with Randy. And then after that, you know, later this year you’ll probably hear some music. And I’ve done…I’m interested in doing the TV things and things like that. I don’t know, I’m just, everybody’s doing what they’re inspired by at the moment and everybody’s really happy. So I think for right now we’re just gonna stay on that.

Valentine: Man, I’d buy a ticket when you guys are forty-five.

JC: [Laughs]

Valentine: I would buy a ticket. I’ll do it.

JC: Fair enough. We can still shoot out of a cannon when we’re like fifty years old

Valentine: Yeah. JC, thanks man, I appreciate it. Good luck with the show!

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