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Talking with the biggest stars from our Mercedes-Benz interview lounge,

backstage at Z-100's Jingle Ball.

This is Elvis Duran in the morning show's Jingle Ball Diaries.

Live from the Mercedes-Benz interview lounge,

it's Elvis Duran with Gandhi, Danielle, and Ed Shearine.

Oh, Ed. I love it. Ed, Ed, say hi. Hey. We have a special... Oh, yes, right, Aaron. We have a special presentation for you. Look at this. What is this? It's the Ed Sheeran cookie. Oh. It's a cookie with your photo on it. You can eat yourself, Ed. Eat yourself.

It doesn't look that edible.

No, it is.

Oh, no, it's edible. She brought this just for you. Thank you. I very much. I like looking at it. I don't know if I want to eat it. Oh, my God. They look good. Thank you so much. We appreciate it. Thank you. I agree.

I need to speak on behalf of Danielle and Gandhi.

Azizam and Sapphire, the tracks on this album, so globally locked in, unlike any other album you've done.

What made you want to go around the world?

I mean, it's like we had to have a passport to listen to your album, and I love that. Yeah.

Well, I always tour, and when I tour, I spend loads of time in the cities that I tour. I've been to India, like, loads of times, met lots of people there. And I think, like, Azizam, like, Ilya, the producer I worked with on that was Persian. I love that song. Everywhere I go, like, around the world, I just get fist bumps from Persians. That's so cool. Or just quiet fist bumps in the street. Do you like

Indian people? Yeah. There's one right there. There's one from an Indian. Sapphire was great.

Every time I hear it, it makes me so happy to hear it on mainstream radio. Yeah. I'm like,

there we are. I want to know if we're getting another collaboration album. Your collaboration album was one of my favorite albums ever. Nah. It was such a logistical nightmare and you're dealing with teams and egos and just I hated that process. Wait, who was the worst to work with? You've got to tell us's just, some of them are great and then their teams weren't, and some of their teams

were great, and then they were, it was just never again. Well, who was the best to work with? Can you tell us that? Who was my favorite? Stormsy. I loved, I loved working with Stormsy. Yeah, but it was great. No, there's loads of great. There's loads of great people.

Do you feel like at a concert like this, you can just walk up to someone and say, hey,

yo, I want to collaborate with you. No, no, there's loads of great. There's loads of great people. Okay. Do you feel like at a concert like this, you can just walk up to someone and say,

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