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  • Our next guest-- all she was trying to do

  • was catch a train in the London Tube,

  • and now she is one of the hottest videos

  • on internet-- here's why.

  • Finish the lyrics!

  • (SINGING) Tell me something, girl--

  • are you happy in this modern world?

  • (SINGING) Or do you need more?

  • Wow!

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • Keep going!

  • (SINGING) Ain't it hard keeping so hardcore?

  • Wow, you're really good-- keep going.

  • (SINGING) I'm off the deep end--

  • watch as I dive in.

  • I'll never meet the ground.

  • Wow!

  • (SINGING) Crash through the surface

  • where they can't hurt us--

  • we're far the shallow now.

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • You're brilliant!

  • [APPLAUSE]

  • And then her life changed.

  • Here to perform "Shallow--" from Essex, England--

  • please welcome Charlotte Awbery.

  • [APPLAUSE]

  • [MUSIC - CHARLOTTE AWBERY, "SHALLOW"]

  • (SINGING) Tell me something, boy--

  • aren't you tired trying to fill that void?

  • Or do you need more?

  • Ain't it hard keeping so hardcore?

  • I'm falling.

  • In all the good times, I find myself longing for change.

  • And in the bad times, I fear myself.

  • I'm off the deep end-- watch as I dive in.

  • I'll never meet the ground.

  • Crash through the surface--

  • where they can't hurt us.

  • We're far from the shallow now.

  • In the shall-- shallow.

  • In the shallow, shallow, shallow.

  • In the shall-- shallow.

  • We're far from the shallow now.

  • Ooh.

  • Oh, whoa.

  • Oh, Oh.

  • Oh, whoa!

  • (SINGING) I'm off the deep end-- watch as I dive in.

  • I'll never meet the ground.

  • Crash through the surface--

  • where they can't hurt us.

  • We're far from the shallow now.

  • [APPLAUSE]

  • Wow!

  • Wow!

  • [APPLAUSE]

  • Hello.

  • Hi, Charlotte!

  • So nice to meet you-- oh, my gosh.

  • It's so nice to meet you.

  • OK, this is crazy.

  • And I think a lot of people think that was staged.

  • It was not staged.

  • There was a guy, and you were on your way-- where?

  • I was literally on my way to meet my friend.

  • To meet your friend?

  • Yes.

  • Since-- OK, so he puts a mic--

  • I'm sorry-- I'm so blown away that I'm actually sitting next

  • to you.

  • Yeah.

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • This is honestly-- honestly, I'm absolutely

  • overwhelmed with all of this.

  • Well, because you're, all of a sudden, are--

  • Thank you so much for having me.

  • Oh-- thank you for being here.

  • I'm just saying-- thank you.

  • Thank you for being here.

  • I mean, this is so cool.

  • I love stories like this.

  • I mean, that you're just stopped by a guy that's saying,

  • finish the lyric--

  • you knew the song well-- the video has gone everywhere.

  • Here's what's happened-- 60 million people have viewed

  • your video--

  • because of your video, the song "Shal--"

  • 60?

  • 60 million.

  • I didn't know that.

  • Yeah.

  • Yeah.

  • I didn't know that.

  • Because of your video, the song "Shallow" re-entered the top 40

  • on iTunes.

  • You've gone from 4,000 to 400,000 followers

  • on Instagram-- and one of them is Ariana Grande.

  • I followed her back.

  • [APPLAUSE]

  • Yeah, good.

  • You should.

  • One of my friends told me this--

  • I followed her back.

  • OK.

  • So obviously, you're a singer-- you're a full time singer.

  • Yeah, that's right.

  • And you were doing, like, weddings and stuff like that?

  • Yes, yeah, I do weddings.

  • I do pubs.

  • I do bars-- restaurants.

  • How long have been doing this?

  • 15 years.

  • 15 years?

  • Yes, yeah.

  • OK.

  • So your dad gave you some advice.

  • What was that?

  • Yeah, my dad's always said to me, just wherever you are--

  • just always-- just sing wherever you are-- never, ever give up--

  • just do not.

  • He's right-- he's right, yeah.

  • Yeah.

  • So you sang wherever you were.

  • So he puts it-- and the guy--

  • your name is Kevin, right?

  • Kevin-- Kevin--Kevin.

  • Yeah, Kevin, yeah.

  • OK.

  • So you do this--

  • this is your thing-- you go up to people and ask them

  • to finish the lyric and--

  • I do a lot of different style of content,

  • but this one's just been released.

  • And I was in London for about two weeks approaching so many

  • different random people.

  • And then I come across Charlotte,

  • and she just blew me away.

  • I think in the video the only thing I could say was, wow!

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • Because I was just in shock.

  • And she deserves this.

  • I was come to tears then-- watching you sing.

  • Thank you.

  • You deserve this.

  • [APPLAUSE]

  • You sure do.

  • Thank you so much.

  • I mean-- I mean, both of y'all really,

  • hopefully stay in touch the rest of your lives.

  • Oh, 100%.

  • Oh, 100%.

  • 100%.

  • 100%.

  • Because you've helped her, and hopefully you have helped him.

  • Yeah, definitely.

  • I just want to give her a big cuddle-- so, aw.

  • Right.

  • Yeah.

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • Well-- and you will come down here and during the break

  • and give her a cuddle, because--

  • Thank you.

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • So you have a lot of gigs, and so

  • what we're going to do for you--

  • we want to help you--

  • a year long pass on the London Tube--

  • you won't have to pay ever again.

  • Thanks!

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • So there's that.

  • [APPLAUSE]

  • Also--

  • Thank you very much!

  • We partner with a company here called Shutterfly,

  • and they love to help me give gifts to people like you.

  • So they want to give you 10,000 pounds.

  • What?

  • [APPLAUSE]

  • So.

  • Are you serious?

  • Yeah, yeah.

  • [LAUGHS] Yep.

  • [APPLAUSE]

  • Go back across the pond with that.

  • Oh, my God.

  • Hi, I'm Andy.

  • Ellen asked me to remind you to subscribe to her channel

  • so you can see more awesome videos--

  • like videos of me getting scared or saying embarrassing things

  • like ball peen hammer and also some videos

  • of Ellen and other celebrities-- if you're

  • into that sort of thing.

  • Ah!

  • [BLEEP]

  • God!

  • [BLEEP]

Our next guest-- all she was trying to do

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