James Charles caught up with Billboard’s Tetris Kelly on the red carpet at the iHeartRadio Music Awards 2025.
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00:00So hanging out with James Charles, who I like to also think of as like a king of Coachella.
00:04Thank you!
00:05And I mean, it's around the corner.
00:06Are the outfits ready?
00:07Are they planned?
00:08Where are we?
00:09I just had my first fitting yesterday, actually.
00:10Okay, I have two of my three fits ready to go.
00:14The third we're still working on, we're finessing, but they're going to be good this year.
00:18Who's the set you're looking forward to seeing the most?
00:20I know you've got a plan.
00:22What is your favorite track on MAM?
00:24I really like Blade of Grass, but I'm also obsessed with Abracadabra too.
00:28Okay, I'm a Garden of Eden person.
00:31Okay, okay, okay, that is a really good one as well.
00:34All right, and I mean, she's being honored tonight, Taylor Swift, Mariah Carey.
00:37How do you feel about seeing all those women get their flowers?
00:40First of all, love it.
00:41Women deserve flowers all the time, and I think that this is just such a special night
00:45in music in general.
00:46We're celebrating so many iconic people and so many genres that have shaped music and
00:49the culture to be what it is today.
00:51I mean, again, Gaga especially for me is somebody who literally raised me as a kid, so it's
00:55so cool just to celebrate her every opportunity that we get.
00:58And one thing I love about you is your consistency, right?
01:01You are so great at pushing your music career and putting stuff out there.
01:04What are you working on?
01:05Okay, so I have new music coming.
01:07It's going to be really, really fun.
01:08I've had a couple of songs out already.
01:10It's been really crazy just to see my fans' reaction.
01:12Obviously, makeup has been my number one love and priority for so many years now.
01:16But it's fun to do music.
01:17It is, yeah.
01:18And I think I'm not trying to rebrand myself to be some global pop star.
01:22That's not my goal, although being on a Billboard chart would be great.
01:24It would be nice.
01:25It would be gorgeous.
01:26But for me, it's just an opportunity to really retell a lot of the stories that have been
01:29told for me online from my own perspective.
01:32So it's taking back my power, telling stories about what it's like to be a queer man hoping
01:36to find love one day like everybody deserves in the spotlight.
01:39But at the same time, there's more to me than just being, you know, sad, gay, and single.
01:44I'm still gay and single, but just not sad anymore.
01:46I love that.
01:47So there's more fun stuff coming.
01:48Happy gay and single.
01:49Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
01:50And then we have our Women in Music event at the end of this month.
01:52We have Megan Moroney, Meghan Trainor, Money Long, Dolce, Gorillaz.
01:55Who are those women you look up to or like?
01:57Literally all of the above.
01:58Hello.
01:59I'm a really big Gorillaz fan right now.
02:01Let me tell you, like, bitch, I'm from Memphis, but you know about me.
02:04Big G-L-O and that G-L-A.
02:06I'm excited.
02:07I can't wait.
02:08All right.