This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. Live from the Mercedes-Benz interview lounge. You know, it was nine years ago. Callum Scott first met us in this room to talk about his hit, of course, dancing on my own. Yes. Was it really that long ago? Has it been nine years? Oh my God. We'll do the math.

January, it will be nine years.

Okay.

In January.

What are we going to do for the 10 year anniversary? I don't know. What are we going to do? We got to come up with something. I'll do a little dance for you. And then of course, then you were the reason came out later. that's Gandhi's favorite.

I love that song so much.

And that was the song you're supposed to sing at my wedding,

which you didn't do.

I'm so sorry about that.

I'll make it out to you. When you renew your vows. Okay. Well, no. Okay. That's kidding. So out of nowhere, I was flipping around Instagram not that long ago, and I see you doing this duet with Whitney Houston want to dance with somebody. And I'm like, how did he get permission to do that? I know. I know, just very casually just performing with Whitney Houston. I was on talk with Ed Sheeran. You know him. Up and coming out of it. Are you dropping names? I'm dropping names, yeah. I'm also sang for the king of the country. but I saw that yeah his coronation which was crazy but I was talking with

a cheering Are you dropping names? I'm dropping names, yeah. I also sang for the king of the country. But I saw that.

Yeah, his coronation, which was crazy. But I was talking with a cheering, and I was singing in these stadiums, and it was really crazy, and I was singing dance on my own. And I did a little chorus of, I want to dance to somebody, because the lyrics are like almost the same song. You know, I'm danced on my own. I want to dance to somebody.

And it just went wild.

And so a video of that made its way to the Houston estate. And Pat Houston, Whitney's sister-in-law, had reached out personally and said, we love this. Would you like the original vocal to work a duet with? Wow. And it's the first time the estate have ever done it. They've never released her vocal for a duet.

Wow.

So it's pretty, yeah, I mean, it's the honor of my career, I think. Well, you know, but that's some serious stuff. I mean, it's very daunting. It's Whitney Houston. Yeah, I know. And so you didn't want to tinker with it at all. No, I didn't want to tinker at all. I was like, how can I do this without doing too much?

No, no, you can be too tinkering.

Well, I didn't want to tinker at all. I was like, how can I do this without doing too much?

No, no.

You can't be too tinkering. Well, exactly. I didn't want to tinker too hard. But you know what? I will say the Houston estate and the Houston family have been so lovely. They gave us all the creative control. you know of course I did what Count Scott would do and I made a pop song sound extremely sad

so I did with dance on would do and I made a pop song sound extremely sad.

So I did with dance on my own. You're good at that. You're very good at that. It's kind of my superpower now. You're so sad. Just making it depressing. Depressing. Yeah. But I just, I put a string section around it and we didn't slow it down. We didn't change her vocal. There's actually some of the things on her vocal

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