
He wants us to want him, a pop trope we’ve heard before, though on my first attempt to interview Derulo, via phone, he pled ignorance when asked about the Cheap Trick hit. The interesting syntax of his hit single, “Want to Want Me” (as in “You’re the one I want to want me”) is aimed at a girl (he told Time that “every single song” on this album is about someone), though it has a campaigning feel to it. It’s 11 square meals, all radio-ready, all far better for you than a shrewd campaign to be the best at everything would suggest. Like his own discerning digestive system, he didn’t allow any snacks on it, weird little cheats, or indulgences. So every picture has to be dope.”Īnd the pop star’s newest (and best) album Everything Is 4 takes a lithe, aerodynamic 39 minutes to run his every titanium hook and aural trick through your mind-body continuum. “It’s like why the f**k would you post that? Out of all the pictures. “You think s**t is not going to go places and then the worst picture gets circulated like a motherf**ker,” Derulo explains.


He even asks to see the photographer’s camera a few times during our interview.

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He edited his surname phonetically so that his journey to the top is never interrupted by someone misspelling “Desrouleaux” or asking him how to pronounce it again. The 25-year-old Miami native edits his torso in a gym routine so rigorous that it won him the cover of Billboard’s “Body” issue. Jason Derulo is, first and foremost, an editor.
