March 1, 2025 • 12 mins
Jonah Marais joins #MostRequestedLive and answers your questions in this exclusive chat!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's up.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I'm Jonah Murray and you are watching my iHeartRadio, Ask
Anything Chat. Thank you so much to Romeo and Most
Requested Live for having me on tonight to talk about
my new song slow Motion. By the way, I'm wearing
my suit because I'm currently in Orlando for the trial
for the big lawsuit that my band is going through
(00:24):
with old management.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
We had to split up because they suit us, so
that's why I'm wearing this. I'm about to go to
court after this, but let's get into it. I'm excited.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
This is way more fun than court. Lily from Mount Juliet.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Tennessee, asks, I've missed you very much.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
How do you protect your heart slash your integrity in
the music industry, Lily, That's a great question.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I think I've learned over time. I haven't always.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Been great at protecting my heart in integrity, if I'm
being honest, I think I've lost myself a couple times
along the way growing up, as we maybe all have.
And I think recently it's just been finding connection in
(01:10):
all sorts of different ways, whether it's with my parents,
with a relationship with friends, with God, I've really just
been kind of leaning in in every asked facet facet
of my life. And it's been really good. It's been
really good, and I'm feeling happy and really connected and rooted.
(01:35):
And also I think being sober has has played a
huge role in protecting my heart and integrity. And I'm
over a year sober now and that feels really good
to say. So thank you so much for your for
your question, Lily and sending you love all right. Shelby
from Jacksonville, Florida says, how did slow motion come together?
(01:58):
Great question? This song came together in was that twenty
twenty three?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah? End of twenty twenty three. We started this.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
My friends Ryan and Jason and I work on music together.
Ryan is an amazing producer and we were.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
All working on a different song.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
It was a I forgot what the song actually was
that we were working on prior to this, but we
were in the studio and Ryan goes out, takes a
bathroom break, comes back humming.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
And I was like, Yo, that sounds sick. We should
do something with that.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And he went over and started playing it on a
synth pad and it just instantly that at that moment,
it just felt like a party in the studio. And
I was like, I need a song that feels like this,
that could come on in a house party or a
club situation and it just feels great. So we were
just chasing that vibe the whole time. And I kind
(03:01):
of had this concept because I've been on the road
since I mean probably half my life at this point,
and growing up in that way, in this sort of
fast paced lifestyle, just moving around all the time. I
can count on my hand that the few times a
(03:21):
girl's come along and completely stopped me in my tracks
and slowed everything down in almost holy way.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
And that's what the song's kind of about.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I had this idea of like, how can we capture
that feeling cause I've I can definitely pinpoint those times
in my life and if you listen to the lyrics,
you know it's definitely going into that exact concept.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I hope you like it, Shelby, And thanks for the question.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Barbara from Aurora, Colorado. What's your biggest kitchen fail? Oh?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Man, I'm not much of a chef.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I will say that kitchen fail, I would say I
I think Corbyn came down. I was living with Corbyn
for a while and he came down and I was
like making some really weird sandwich with like I think
it was like peanut butter and some kind of meat,
(04:25):
and he was like, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
And I don't even know what I was doing.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I can't vouch for myself on that one, but yeah,
that's probably my biggest kitchen film. Madison from Barneveld, Wisconsin.
What has been one of your most rewarding or favorite
parts of writing your solo music Now? Wrote a lot
in the band, especially towards the end. I came into
my solo music era definitely kind of questioning myself and
(04:53):
as a writer, and so throughout the last couple of years,
I've really felt myself grow and grow, and to the
point now if I go into a studio, especially with friends,
I can just kind of say what's on my mind
and it almost feels like a journal entry or something
at this point, and I'm really proud of that growth.
So that's the most rewarding part. Violetta from Queens, New York.
(05:17):
Can you tell us a little bit about your early
years starting out? Did you travel far away from home
to sing?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Great question?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Yeah, So when I was first starting off, I was.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
A baseball player before being in the music industry at all.
Through my grade school years, I always played baseball. My
fifteen year old team was actually twelveth in the nation,
and we traveled around and played different tournaments in the winter.
It was kind of a year round thing, and that
was really I thought I was going to play baseball
(05:48):
with my life.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
That's what I was doing.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
And anyways, at that point, my mom got breast cancer.
She's totally okay now, but I it was hard being
that age and coming home and seeing my mom like that.
And so my escape was going in my room and
going on my computer and phone, and I found this
live streaming website where I could just go live, and
(06:14):
I connected with all these people on there and started singing,
and it really connected into a big audience and I
was able to I had some companies reaching out asking
if I wanted to come play shows, and I was
like yeah, So I started traveling around. I played a
show in San Diego. I played a show in New Jersey.
I played a show and.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I think it was Phoenix, maybe Salt Lake City, I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I was kind of bouncing around doing all these shows
before the band, and I.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Was doing all that and then.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I actually booked my own tour after that, and I
was like scrappy. I was calling the venues, I was
counting all my own tickets.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I was making sure I was running.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
My business a little bit back then like I am
now in a lot of ways. And it's obviously a
different different vibe now, but that's how I started off,
and those are the early years. So thanks for the question, Violeta.
I appreciate you. Let's go to the next one. Cassie
from Indianapolis, Indiana.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
What was your first job?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
My first job was being an iceman at the Minnesota
State Fair. My uncle runs the ice business at Minnesota
State Fair and it's up to him to keep all
of the drinks cold within the hole fair. So we
had to stack these bags, thirty pound bags of ice
(07:39):
up on these carts and wheel them around to the
different vendors and sell them. And it was actually really
hard work. I would always come out all muscly, but
I did that every year for a long time, and
it was hard work and it was long, hot days.
But it taught me what hard work is, and that
was I was good. And I also made friends with
(08:02):
a lot of the different vendors and they would give
me food, so it also kind of taught me. I
don't know networking and I don't know then.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
So pretty question.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Katy Cammy from State College, PA asks which artists have
influenced your music the most?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
How have they shaped your style?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I would say Ed Sheeran is kind of at the
top of that list. His songwriting ability it blows my mind.
And I've been to so many shows since I was
young of his and he's just incredible.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
So he's really shaped.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
How I view writing a song in the way of
just trying to paint a picture. And obviously I'm trying
to I'm doing it my own way. I'm not going
to just copy ed fully, but I'm trying to be
like him in that sense. And then I would say,
like Justin Bieber was a huge influence.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I was a big believer.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I got my whole sixth grade class to go to
the Never Say Never movie premiere. I literally called every
single person in sixth grade in my public school and
asked them if they wanted to come to the premiere
with me, and they did, and we had the whole
grade out.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
It was awesome.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
And anyways, growing up watching Bieber, do you know have
his huge moments and then his really hard moments and
then kind of come back from that, and now he
has a kid and a wife and it's like, oh
my gosh, I'm watching him grow up. And that was
really cool. And so I feel like that was pretty
inspirational and just also I think he's so talented.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Okay, next one.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I don't want to bug you about the legal stuff
you're going through, but I need y'all to get back together.
I want one of your concerts. I went to one
of your concerts back in twenty nineteen and I love
it and had so much fun, much love.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
All Right, Well, I love that.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
And that's Abby from Peoria Vedra, Florida.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
By the way, thank you for the question.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Abby. Well, you're not bugging me at all asking about
the legal stuff. That's just the reality of what's going on.
It's unfortunate that the band kind of had to end
like that, But good news is because we ended because
of this lawsuit in our management, it wasn't some big
(10:37):
falling out or something between the bands. So we're all
really close. I could totally see us doing some type
of reunion thing at some point.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
I'm down, so we'll.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
See let's get it, okay, Kirsten from Chicago, Illinois.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
What is something you are proud of but never get
the chance to.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Talk about something I'm proud of. I don't know I'm
proud of just I guess my happiness. Right now, I'm
waking up feeling excited about the days, and I've worked
really hard for that. That hasn't always been the case,
(11:19):
especially like I think twenty twenty three was maybe the
hardest year of my life, just kind of mental health wise.
I kind of felt like I had lost everything money
and the success of the band and the camaraderie of
my bandmates and all of that. It just felt like
I was alone in a lot of ways, and I
(11:40):
was living out of the studio literally had a mattress
in the studio and all my stuff was around me,
and it was just kind of this low point. And
so to work from twenty twenty three until now get
an amazing manager. Sherry is incredible. She entered the picture,
got the ball rolling, we got some music out, and
(12:01):
I got to go on tour, and you know, just
it feels like things have just been picking up steam.
And then twenty twenty five rolls along and so many
beautiful things are happening in my life right now, in
all different parts of my life, but especially just career wise.
(12:21):
It feels so good like we're picking up steam right now,
and I can't wait for this EP like that's coming
out later this year. It'll be a single in March
and then an EP in May, and I'm so excited
about that as well. Thank you guys all so much
for all the questions. They were amazing great questions. Thank
you for watching my Ask Anything Chat. My new song
(12:44):
is called slow Motion. Thank you so much to Romeo
and most Requested Live for having me on tonight to
answer your questions.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Sending you guys all the love. I hope you enjoyed this,
Have a good one bye,
What's up.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I'm Jonah Murray and you are watching my iHeartRadio, Ask
Anything Chat. Thank you so much to Romeo and Most
Requested Live for having me on tonight to talk about
my new song slow Motion. By the way, I'm wearing
my suit because I'm currently in Orlando for the trial
for the big lawsuit that my band is going through
(00:24):
with old management.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
We had to split up because they suit us, so
that's why I'm wearing this. I'm about to go to
court after this, but let's get into it. I'm excited.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
This is way more fun than court. Lily from Mount Juliet.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Tennessee, asks, I've missed you very much.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
How do you protect your heart slash your integrity in
the music industry, Lily, That's a great question.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I think I've learned over time. I haven't always.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Been great at protecting my heart in integrity, if I'm
being honest, I think I've lost myself a couple times
along the way growing up, as we maybe all have.
And I think recently it's just been finding connection in
(01:10):
all sorts of different ways, whether it's with my parents,
with a relationship with friends, with God, I've really just
been kind of leaning in in every asked facet facet
of my life. And it's been really good. It's been
really good, and I'm feeling happy and really connected and rooted.
(01:35):
And also I think being sober has has played a
huge role in protecting my heart and integrity. And I'm
over a year sober now and that feels really good
to say. So thank you so much for your for
your question, Lily and sending you love all right. Shelby
from Jacksonville, Florida says, how did slow motion come together?
(01:58):
Great question? This song came together in was that twenty
twenty three?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah? End of twenty twenty three. We started this.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
My friends Ryan and Jason and I work on music together.
Ryan is an amazing producer and we were.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
All working on a different song.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
It was a I forgot what the song actually was
that we were working on prior to this, but we
were in the studio and Ryan goes out, takes a
bathroom break, comes back humming.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
And I was like, Yo, that sounds sick. We should
do something with that.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And he went over and started playing it on a
synth pad and it just instantly that at that moment,
it just felt like a party in the studio. And
I was like, I need a song that feels like this,
that could come on in a house party or a
club situation and it just feels great. So we were
just chasing that vibe the whole time. And I kind
(03:01):
of had this concept because I've been on the road
since I mean probably half my life at this point,
and growing up in that way, in this sort of
fast paced lifestyle, just moving around all the time. I
can count on my hand that the few times a
(03:21):
girl's come along and completely stopped me in my tracks
and slowed everything down in almost holy way.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
And that's what the song's kind of about.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I had this idea of like, how can we capture
that feeling cause I've I can definitely pinpoint those times
in my life and if you listen to the lyrics,
you know it's definitely going into that exact concept.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I hope you like it, Shelby, And thanks for the question.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Barbara from Aurora, Colorado. What's your biggest kitchen fail? Oh?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Man, I'm not much of a chef.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I will say that kitchen fail, I would say I
I think Corbyn came down. I was living with Corbyn
for a while and he came down and I was
like making some really weird sandwich with like I think
it was like peanut butter and some kind of meat,
(04:25):
and he was like, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
And I don't even know what I was doing.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I can't vouch for myself on that one, but yeah,
that's probably my biggest kitchen film. Madison from Barneveld, Wisconsin.
What has been one of your most rewarding or favorite
parts of writing your solo music Now? Wrote a lot
in the band, especially towards the end. I came into
my solo music era definitely kind of questioning myself and
(04:53):
as a writer, and so throughout the last couple of years,
I've really felt myself grow and grow, and to the
point now if I go into a studio, especially with friends,
I can just kind of say what's on my mind
and it almost feels like a journal entry or something
at this point, and I'm really proud of that growth.
So that's the most rewarding part. Violetta from Queens, New York.
(05:17):
Can you tell us a little bit about your early
years starting out? Did you travel far away from home
to sing?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Great question?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Yeah, So when I was first starting off, I was.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
A baseball player before being in the music industry at all.
Through my grade school years, I always played baseball. My
fifteen year old team was actually twelveth in the nation,
and we traveled around and played different tournaments in the winter.
It was kind of a year round thing, and that
was really I thought I was going to play baseball
(05:48):
with my life.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
That's what I was doing.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
And anyways, at that point, my mom got breast cancer.
She's totally okay now, but I it was hard being
that age and coming home and seeing my mom like that.
And so my escape was going in my room and
going on my computer and phone, and I found this
live streaming website where I could just go live, and
(06:14):
I connected with all these people on there and started singing,
and it really connected into a big audience and I
was able to I had some companies reaching out asking
if I wanted to come play shows, and I was
like yeah, So I started traveling around. I played a
show in San Diego. I played a show in New Jersey.
I played a show and.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I think it was Phoenix, maybe Salt Lake City, I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I was kind of bouncing around doing all these shows
before the band, and I.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Was doing all that and then.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I actually booked my own tour after that, and I
was like scrappy. I was calling the venues, I was
counting all my own tickets.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I was making sure I was running.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
My business a little bit back then like I am
now in a lot of ways. And it's obviously a
different different vibe now, but that's how I started off,
and those are the early years. So thanks for the question, Violeta.
I appreciate you. Let's go to the next one. Cassie
from Indianapolis, Indiana.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
What was your first job?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
My first job was being an iceman at the Minnesota
State Fair. My uncle runs the ice business at Minnesota
State Fair and it's up to him to keep all
of the drinks cold within the hole fair. So we
had to stack these bags, thirty pound bags of ice
(07:39):
up on these carts and wheel them around to the
different vendors and sell them. And it was actually really
hard work. I would always come out all muscly, but
I did that every year for a long time, and
it was hard work and it was long, hot days.
But it taught me what hard work is, and that
was I was good. And I also made friends with
(08:02):
a lot of the different vendors and they would give
me food, so it also kind of taught me. I
don't know networking and I don't know then.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
So pretty question.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Katy Cammy from State College, PA asks which artists have
influenced your music the most?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
How have they shaped your style?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I would say Ed Sheeran is kind of at the
top of that list. His songwriting ability it blows my mind.
And I've been to so many shows since I was
young of his and he's just incredible.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
So he's really shaped.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
How I view writing a song in the way of
just trying to paint a picture. And obviously I'm trying
to I'm doing it my own way. I'm not going
to just copy ed fully, but I'm trying to be
like him in that sense. And then I would say,
like Justin Bieber was a huge influence.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I was a big believer.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I got my whole sixth grade class to go to
the Never Say Never movie premiere. I literally called every
single person in sixth grade in my public school and
asked them if they wanted to come to the premiere
with me, and they did, and we had the whole
grade out.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
It was awesome.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
And anyways, growing up watching Bieber, do you know have
his huge moments and then his really hard moments and
then kind of come back from that, and now he
has a kid and a wife and it's like, oh
my gosh, I'm watching him grow up. And that was
really cool. And so I feel like that was pretty
inspirational and just also I think he's so talented.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Okay, next one.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I don't want to bug you about the legal stuff
you're going through, but I need y'all to get back together.
I want one of your concerts. I went to one
of your concerts back in twenty nineteen and I love
it and had so much fun, much love.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
All Right, Well, I love that.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
And that's Abby from Peoria Vedra, Florida.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
By the way, thank you for the question.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Abby. Well, you're not bugging me at all asking about
the legal stuff. That's just the reality of what's going on.
It's unfortunate that the band kind of had to end
like that, But good news is because we ended because
of this lawsuit in our management, it wasn't some big
(10:37):
falling out or something between the bands. So we're all
really close. I could totally see us doing some type
of reunion thing at some point.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
I'm down, so we'll.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
See let's get it, okay, Kirsten from Chicago, Illinois.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
What is something you are proud of but never get
the chance to.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Talk about something I'm proud of. I don't know I'm
proud of just I guess my happiness. Right now, I'm
waking up feeling excited about the days, and I've worked
really hard for that. That hasn't always been the case,
(11:19):
especially like I think twenty twenty three was maybe the
hardest year of my life, just kind of mental health wise.
I kind of felt like I had lost everything money
and the success of the band and the camaraderie of
my bandmates and all of that. It just felt like
I was alone in a lot of ways, and I
(11:40):
was living out of the studio literally had a mattress
in the studio and all my stuff was around me,
and it was just kind of this low point. And
so to work from twenty twenty three until now get
an amazing manager. Sherry is incredible. She entered the picture,
got the ball rolling, we got some music out, and
(12:01):
I got to go on tour, and you know, just
it feels like things have just been picking up steam.
And then twenty twenty five rolls along and so many
beautiful things are happening in my life right now, in
all different parts of my life, but especially just career wise.
(12:21):
It feels so good like we're picking up steam right now,
and I can't wait for this EP like that's coming
out later this year. It'll be a single in March
and then an EP in May, and I'm so excited
about that as well. Thank you guys all so much
for all the questions. They were amazing great questions. Thank
you for watching my Ask Anything Chat. My new song
(12:44):
is called slow Motion. Thank you so much to Romeo
and most Requested Live for having me on tonight to
answer your questions.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Sending you guys all the love. I hope you enjoyed this,
Have a good one bye,
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