Is It Just Me? - BONUS: Churi chats with Rita Ora

Episode Date: March 22, 2021

Rita Ora speaks to Mitch Churi on #KIISNightsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Is it just me? A podcast by a couple of Mitches. Mitch, you caught up with Rita Ora recently. I did. This is exciting because I've spoken to her, I did the math three times, but all over phone and Zoom. We'd never met in person. So this was face-to-face this time. First face-to-face interview for me in a year. I should have told her to say hi on my behalf.

Oh, because yeah. Because literally a matter of hours before she came into studio with you yeah i was filming a tiktok with her god that's i saw that tiktok and because it starts off you in your bedroom i was like another mitchell coombs scroll scroll scroll block block block and then i did watch it i stood through and it was hilarious yeah so that came about during mardi gras i got an email saying we have a media opportunity for anyone who wants to do it. And when they said media opportunity, I thought it was going to be some fucking bullshit interview. I had to give a quote to like some terrible online publication.

Yeah. It's like, whatever. Music Daily. And so, yeah, I don't know. Beats are us. And I was like, sure, I'll do the media opportunity. I'll spin some bullshit. Wavelength Weekly.

And then they followed up the next day and said, hey, so about that media opportunity, you're filming a TikTok with Rita Ora. What? I was like, huh? To promote the new song Bang Bang, which, by the way, no payment involved. Love that song.

Yeah. Oh, dead set. It samples Crazy Frog. Well, I learnt that it samples Beverly Hills Cop. She said that in the interview. That's actually not a Crazy Frog original composition. Believe it or not. But I had to jump through some fucking hoops to get that TikTok up and happening.

I was on sick leave and I messaged Jenna because she was at work and I said, I don't want to show my face in the office. That's not a good look. So I need you to go to my top drawer and find my rainbow fan. You know those foldable fans that you kind of whip out? Yes, yes, yes. It's a plastic. It's a pride one.

I've seen it. A plastic fan. I need a rainbow fan as a prop. And so Jenna did that and then it broke and then I had to super glue it together. Oh no. And my whole day was just revolving around this stupid TikTok with Rita Ora. And then I was like, what's she going to be like? Is she just not going to get my vibe?

Is she going to be like, what the fuck? You know how some British people just don't get Australian humour? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But some love it. Some are very similar. She was so into it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I may be paraphrasing, but she said, all the other TikTokers were absolute garbage, but you're my fucking favourite.

Really? I made that up. Well, she said something similar to me at the end. She was like, that was such a good interview. So natural. I feel like we're friends. When in reality, she said, can you get this fat cunt out? Well, I know what you're thinking.

Rita Ora and Jenna, no, nothing's going to happen there. Well, well, well, well, I have met Rita Ora. Oh, really? Amanda Keller introduced me to her. Oh, because she was in the studio. She did all the shows, mine, Jonesy and Amanda, Kyle and Jackie O. Yes. She came up to me and said, hello, Jenna.

Yeah. That's it. That's my story. Who do you think is going to play you in the movie? Oh, I don't know. Eddie Redmayne. Who do you think is going to play you in the movie? Oh, I don't know. Eddie Redmayne. He can win an Oscar for it. Anyway, you caught up with Rita Ora.

Let me tell you about mine. I feel like she's in a good place. She was very vibey and very happy in every interview I saw, but I haven't heard yours yet. Completely agree. Our interview was brilliant, and I need to premise it by this. You've all seen the video in Enduring Idiots of me being tackled by 90 bloody bogans wanting the cash cock,

which is a segment I do for the Kyle and Jackie O show. Walked in, I went to – I sat down with Rita, and she goes, hey, Mitch, how are you? I go, great. She already knows my name. This is really good in person, face-to-face, big hug, big kiss. And then I go, I'm from Kiss. And she goes, no, I know, I know.

Kyle and Jackie O are in the morning. I went, yeah i went yeah she went oh i spoke to them um just before and they were amazing and i go oh yeah she goes what do you do there i go oh my god long story this segment called the cash cock she knew the cash car she heard it when she must have been in the studio i don't know how she knew and she said do the voice and i did the voice and then she did the voice and the funny thing is the song bang bang sorry i gave you no one very good five seconds sorry is bang bang and the cash cox infamous you know voice is oh yes you you um is there a word for chook noises you just you be kirk on every b word that was a sad feeling well That was a sad feeling. Well, it's done-kirk. Sorry.

I be-kirk and cluck and- Cluck. Cluck. Cluck. That's the word. And she asked if I could forward announce her song, which is very apt because in this show we did the Hit The Post intro, as Cash Cock. So I'm going to leave it all in. It won't make sense because there'll be no song played.

Oh my God. Did you seriously say, here it is. Ba-ba-ba-bang. Oh my God. Play it. I want to hear this now. It's so good. She. Play Oh, my God. Play it. I want to hear this now. It's so good. She.

Play it. Play it. It's right at the end. Sit through it for fun. This is me and Rita Ora one-on-one in John. Mitch, tell Midnight. Kiss night. Rita Ora, hello.

Hi, Mitch. Oh, so good to see you. You too. I've only had you. Only had you. That sounds a bit like. You've already had me. I know.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Gosh, that was fast, wasn't it? It really was. Really fun, though. We did have a good time. It's Mardi Gras weekend. Don't remember it, but... Oh, that was

Golden? Golden? Please, I was talking about being a giant cock. You thought I was going to be softly spoken? Hello. Hello, Rita Ora's here. Hello, how are you? I'm the giant cock. Please stop with the cash cock stuff.

Oh, sorry. No, it's fine. I do love it. You are the cash cock. I am the cash cock. Welcome. Still rolling? Maybe I should just interview you as the cash cock.

Do you want to hear the cash cock voice? Go. You know what actually would be good? Because it's all about the plosives, like the B's and the P's, because I'm fucking cucking. So bang, bang, announcing bang, bang. As a cash cock. I could be like, here with Rita Ora'm clucking. So bang, bang. Announcing bang, bang. As a cash cop. I could be like, here with Rita Ora. Let's play bang, bang.

No one's laughing. That was so embarrassing. No, I laughed. You made me do it. Thank you. I'm sorry. Thank you. That's the cash cop.

Let's just talk us. Mitch. Okay. My real person. Mitch and Rita. So good to have you here. Thank you so much for having me. I love being here.

I'm actually having the best time of my life. Are you having fun? Because Mardi Gras was this weekend. Yeah. And I saw you up there on that stage. Yeah. First and last time you were on a cricket ground, right? Thank you.

I feel like that was my first, but maybe not my last. I might start up cricket. You never know. You could. You were great, though. Thank you. You know what I felt like, honestly? I literally felt like, I know this might sound a bit out of the ether,

but it was like our version of the Super Bowl. Yeah. Because it was in an arena. The lights were kind of flashing. Yeah, they were. The queens were dancing. They were. Everybody was happy.

It was something I don't think I'll ever forget for my entire life because for me that was my first show as well in a really long time and I actually had to hold back my tears but I did warn everyone. I was like I might cry. I might sob in the middle of the cricket ground. Because I can't tell you what it feels like to perform again and I feel like I'm speaking for all the artists out there. There is

nothing like it, performing live. There is nothing like it. And for the gays too. Exactly. And on top of that for the gays and the Queens and I was thinking oh I was loving it I was like lathering in it did you do a lap like did you walk it at all like because they were parading around the perimeter I didn't actually walk it because we have to do a ton of interviews before the performance and then the parade stopped before my show yeah there's too much there's a lot of amazing look wasn't there ever ah and so many floats like I was too much. There was a lot of walking involved. There was a lot of amazing looks going on.

It wasn't there ever. And so many floats. Like, I was in the crowd. I was doing the radio show live from the crowd. So I was, like, standing there, and then the PA would turn on, and they're like, Sydney toenail clippers.

I'm like, what? Like, the amount of, like, Sydney elephant riders. I'm like, good for them. I was like, good for you. I agree. Representation for the elephant riders. If you were, like, doing elephant riders if you were like doing

live radio you're like one second can you guys please shut up i was i was like kind of rude because i wanted the energy but then i also wanted them to stop yeah it's like harry potter i'm like i like try to conduct them i'm like we're at mardi gras and stop yeah it's so much fun like yeah i've kind of got to be the ringmaster um but you were brilliant it was it was so good to see what i hope you liked in your element yeah yes and i just had the best time and every all the dancers were super stoked and the outfit was great and i just loved so i love you know i love dressing up i'm i've always been like that so any excuse for some glitter you've got a big gay audience though keep it gay fan base you when you make music are you like i'm gonna make i'm gonna make a bot for the gays

let's give them what they want i think think everything I do, especially with my dance music side, because I've always been a collaborator with dance DJs ever since 2012 when I came out with Hot Right Now, you know. I always think, would I bop to it with my gays in the club? Yeah. Would I? Would they look at me and be like, you killed it? Because I always think about that.

Because I have a lot of friends in the community. And I always think, would they like it? So, yeah, it's definitely my first sort of like go-to in my brain when I'm in the studio. Shoot them a text, like airdrop them the song. Yeah, I'm like, tell me what you think. Does this make you want to dance? Does this make you want to like barf? It needs more bass.

You're like, okay, we'll add it in. And if I like it and I feel good, then I'm hoping everybody else will. We love your stuff. We, me, the king of the gays. Not Drew, the cash cock. Definitely the biggest cock, king of the gays. But we love your music. Bang Bang's my favorite of the EP.

Oh, thanks. It's so fun to perform. It goes off. It just bangs. Yeah. And on the radio, too. I don't know what we do. I mean, I guess we compress the audio when we play it out through the other cars.

But it sounds like I'm doing the chef hand kiss on here. Well, somebody had to sample the xl uh sample we had somebody right i've been waiting we know that as the crazy frog song in australia how many times people ask you about crazy frog all the time but i like to say um beverly hills cops instead yeah okay yeah that's the og classy yeah because crazy frog was sampling beverly hills cop yes but it's fine whatever i mean I mean, somebody had to do it. They did. And I'm happy I did it.

Me too. Because it reminds me of my childhood, my youth. And I was in the studio on my own, by the way. This whole EP was made of literally no one around me. Product of isolation. And I just thought, I need to hear something like this. And I did it. And I'm happy because everyone dances to it.

The reaction has been phenomenal. And I'm actually just really proud of it. It's kind of funny when you sample something like that people already know it so they like they know what's gonna happen like what's coming up crazy frogs are all motorbike like is doing the thing is he gonna make a cameo have you seen crazy oh my god this little frog dickie oh my god we're all doing a cameo let's go back to Beverly Hills okay so well Okay, so that would be great. A little animated crazy frog sitting on your shoulder. Was that the sample early on? Did you have that before you had what we have now?

Yeah. It was all based around the sample. I got the track. Imanbek, who did the whole EP with me, amazing kid, literally from Kazakhstan, doesn't speak a word of English. We made the whole EP as cheesy as it's going to sound, through music. Music literally saved us in the sense of talking to each other.

And then we got David Guetta involved and Gunnar involved and Kia, who is an amazing rapper from Argentina. So it's like a global affair, genuinely, from my living room. And this XL record was like, Mabenbeck was like, is this crazy?

I was like, yeah. But this whole product that we've created is kind of crazy. We're making music literally through Zoom, which for me is like not the best way.

I'm like a very musician, music person. In the room. In the room, hearing the vibes, seeing what the band's doing. It unleashes something else in my head and blah, blah, blah.

So yeah, it was, I was like, who cares at this point? Everything's crazy. Let's just do whatever we think we can do that we wouldn't be able to do in our own stuff. And nobody knows. Nobody knows what to do. Like everyone's in that same vibe, right?

Yeah. And that's why I wanted this to be an EP and not an album. You know, I didn't want this to be like, oh, this is a Rita Ora album. I wanted it to be like, this is a project that I've done with my mates. Great. And the artwork?

Hot. Yeah, thank you. The artwork was just kind of, I just wanted sex. I wanted to do sexy, confident, powerful, we did this ourselves type of approach. Because we did. Nobody was like, hey, you should do this. It was just me. I reached out to him and be like, do you want to do something?

He was like, yeah. I was like cool not doing anything else here we go it was really post sex like real sweat like real sort of glistening thank you

you were stunning thank you beautiful let's talk The Voice okay so you're a judge the best do you have

let's rewind that because my producers will kill me I'm a coach oh I'm so sorry no no no you're a coach let's go again

let's talk The Voice yes because you're a coach. Oh, I'm so sorry. No, no, no. You're a coach. Let's go again. Let's talk the voice. Yes. Because you're a coach. Yes, I am. That's exciting. I know. It's fantastic. Working with Keith Urban.

Right. Jess and Guy. It's all very exciting. Good panel. Like a real good group of people. Yeah. It's all diverse too in like their own way.

Did you meet Nicole? Have you met Nicole as she come to film? I actually met her like a couple years back at the Arias with Keith. So I was definitely starstruck because I performed, I think, 2018 or something. And I was kind of like, and she was like front row.

And I was just like staring at her the whole time. It might have been creepy. Yeah, that's fine. She's stunning. She's just so stareable. Yeah, she is stareable. I'm like, you are everything. And so is Keith.

And together they're like the best. Isn't Keith great? Oh, he is so warm and caring and giving and very, very uplifting actually. I'm very uplifted by Keith. Have you got your buzzer hit down pat? Like have you worked, did you practice at home like on like a can of Coke? Like just how you were going to slam that buzzer down? I was like, how many ways can I slam a buzzer?

I was like, sit down by my bum with my head i did it in the uk like a couple years ago yeah and i remember using my feet doing this but i was wearing a very uh different type of outfit so i couldn't be that experimental of course so i had to delta has a lot of options delta delta she loves an ankle tap. She loves an ankle tap. Loves it. I mean, there's some foot fetishes in this world. Yeah, if it works.

You never know. What can we expect from the season this year? You know, you can expect a lot of diversity. Vocal, vocally, creatively, musically. And I think what's amazing is how much we really went hard for our pitches. Yeah. I don't know if you know this i'm a bit competitive no no you what read aura no shocks me ah i love to i'm a workaholic

you know and i like to get what i want sometimes and so i i really went hard with the pitches and i think i really shocked everyone else really Really? Because I think that they will all vouch and say Rita's a really dark horse in this world of pitching. Did you ever play Pokemon growing up? Were you a Pokemon girl? I did, yeah. I was also in the movie.

Oh, shit, yeah. Why aren't I prepared? I love you. No, thanks. No one has ever been blown away as beautifully and as gracefully as Rita Orr. The slow-mo scene. It's so crazy

because I just did the soundtrack for it and he was like, hey, you want to do a cameo? I was like, sure. Duh. Duh. I mean, Pokemon. Well,'s so crazy because I just did the soundtrack for it and he was like, hey, you want to do a cameo? I was like, sure. Duh. I mean, Pokemon. Well, you were great. I do have a point.

You know when you stack your team when you're playing Pokemon and you get your Pokemon? That's like building a voice team, right? Basically, they're all Pokemons. Yeah, grab your Pikachu, get your strong lines. I'm just wondering who they are because, you know, there's like a zillion Pokemons. But my team team it's strong

yeah we're excited to see we're excited to have you I'm excited to be here I feel like the country just feels different we feel lighter it's been a shitty 12 months so to have you here there's something in the air it feels fun well I mean you have no idea what this place is doing for me so I'm very grateful to be here

you're keeping us sane as well thank you you're keeping us sane as well. Thank you. We love you. You're welcome anytime. Thank you, Mitch. Come on back. Okay, I'll do this. We'll play Bang Bang now. Rita Orr is here. Rita Orr is here. Rita Orr is here. Why don't we play?

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