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Hey everyone, it's your girl Kiki Palmer again.

So you all know I love a good success story.

And today's guest is someone

who truly embodies that. She took the world by storm when she won American Idol. And she's

been giving us hit after hit ever since. Okay, she also has some fascinating things to say about

where we find motivation and resilience. So that's what I want to talk to her about today.

You ready to get into it? Good. Because baby, this is Kiki Palmer.

No matter what we're doing in the car, just chilling, popo, Amazon music, sit back and listen.

Life, love, sex, science, covering it all, especially the bad because money always involved.

No matter what it is is we gonna make it

make sense nothing else will do but kick it with the homies and key so grab you a drink

and a snack you enjoy and get into the vibe that only want you're gonna show girls

baby this this is this is Kiki baby this is Kiki Poma yeah

today we are talking to Jordan's This is Kiki Poma, yeah.

Today we are talking to Jordan Sparks.

And I'm excited to talk to her because she, like me, we've been in the industry for a long time.

And one of the things when you've been in the industry for a long time is that you go in and out of being trendy.

Oh, yeah.

And that's something I don't think people often understand. And that's not something that I think you should chase. Like, I think the most important thing about any career, any passion, is just the longevity, the opportunity to be able to do it. And so I want to talk to her about what that means to her, how she continues to find excitement and ways to evolve outside of sometimes the industry's limitations. Yeah. But first I want to take it back to the beginning because obviously everybody was obsessed with American Idol at the time that she was on. Yes. And it's funny because I think she and I both did American Juniors. Yes. Before she became age for American Idol. So I remember watching her on American Idol. What did you think? Do you remember watching her in American Idol? Yeah, I thought she was really good. Yeah, she was really good, pretty, and everything. I thought then she made it down to like pretty far. I don't know what number she was when she got out. But I know she had a lot of the young fans. Yeah, for sure. On the year she was on, I know she was probably the youngest or one of the youngest. Yeah. And I mean, after that, I feel like her career was really, really pushed and encouraged. Yeah, she did that big song with Chris Brown. That no air song is still a hit to this day. Everybody, how young are in in the water so deep. I ain't gonna be without me. Woo! It gets me excited now thinking about it. She's just a great singer, yeah. Timeless song. But it was kind of like, I feel like with Jordan Sparks, it was a similar thing with Leona Lewis, especially coming out of those shows, where it's like, everybody's like, loves you, loves you, loves you, loves you, loves you, loves you. And then it's like something happens. I'm excited to hear her perspective of what happened was. And she probably can tell you too. Yeah, like what changed? She probably can tell you in the moment like when I didn't record this song or when I Now, what do you mean by that? Talking about industry politics? Yeah, it's real.

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