When I listen to music, like, I see shapes, I see colors, I see like, this is weird to say, but like emotions. When you do the Ares Tour, what did you discover about yourself for choreography with this? Well, I discovered I could do 43 numbers in like three weeks. Because of So You Think, I got silver linings, and then when I got silver linings, I got La La La Land. So Austin was the writer-creator of Zoe's Extraordinary Playlist, which I did for multiple seasons. Did you win an Emmy for that? I did. Yes, thank you. Oh, yeah. I did. I think so. I loved that show so much. Where are you on the Dancing with the Stars tour process now? Oh my gosh, we're in it. You're going right to rehearsals. Right now I am. Yes. So we're five days in. Speaking of stress, I can't imagine how busy you are all the time with every project that you're taking on. It's insane. I don't even know what my life is sometimes. How many things are you working on right now? You have the Dancing with the Stars Tour. Just wrapped up a little top secret music video that I can't talk about. That's exciting. Yes, which is very exciting. And then, yeah, it's just weird.

Like, I've got theater projects that are kind of... music video that I can't talk about. That's exciting. Yes, which is very exciting.

And then, yeah, it's just weird. Like, I've got theater projects that are, like, kind of started doing last year. So they're all, like, in the works. And funny enough, people are like, so what's your 2026 like? And I started putting it out. And I was like, oh, I don't know, it's going to be a big year. What if something really big, something really fun that you want to take on comes in?

Are you able to make time?

Yes. I mean, people always laugh. They're like, Mandy, you do like 65 jobs at once. And it's true. Like, I've somehow learned how to multitask in that way. And, you know, luckily so far, things have worked out with dates and things. but yeah, I mean, I don't know, I mean, you're a bit of a hustler. We're all hustlers, right?

Like we kind of just want to make and do as much as we

possibly can and I do well in that kind of a scenario I've realized I'm not one of those people that

has to just do one thing right you like having all these things going on at once I do I do better

I think if I just do one thing I get get really like, okay, what am I doing next? Right. You need to bounce around here, do a little there. Wow. How do you hear music? Because when I hear something, I can kind of figure out like, oh, a music video for this would be great. I used to play drums, so I can figure out the beat. Do you immediately see, oh, this needs some kind of move? Yeah, it's very weird. When I listen to music, like, I see shapes, I see colors. I see, like, this is weird to say, but like emotions or I'll picture something that's like happened in my life, like a photograph of a moment, and then I'll kind of like build something off of that.

And yeah, I can't just listen. I'll picture something that's like happened in my life, like a photograph of a moment. And then

I'll kind of like build something off of that. And yeah, I can't just listen to music like a normal

person anymore. You can't even turn it off and just. No, it's weird. Like, you know, it's like Spotify is

my best friend. I just love that like my algorithm takes me also everywhere in music and music is always playing in my

house like if I'm cooking or like first thing when I wake up in the morning do you do the day list

are you like a Spotify person I I listen to the same stuff from 2015 oh my god I love you for that okay

well then you don't know about the day list but the day list is a very funny thing that like the

algorithm like sends you basically like a playlist based off of what you've listened to, and mine is all over the place. It's literally, like, everything from, like, grandma, cottage core, like, melancholy sad heart to, like, pop princess, you know, to, like, blues lover, you know?, like it's so weird. One of my favorite things that

you've done is the fate of the feel of music video. Oh, thank you. It reminds me of like just how music videos used to be where it was just art and so much going on. And what kind of experience was that for you to have somebody as passionate as Taylor bring you on to do something as passionate of what you do. I mean, it's amazing. She's

talked a lot about this, but like, so it's not new info, but she really wanted to do a music

video that celebrated dance, that celebrated like really cinematic kind of stuff. And yeah,

I mean, it's like when you get to work with someone who is like, sees the vision, and I mean,

she's an amazing director as well.

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