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  • -My next guests have nearly

  • 160 million TikTok followers between them.

  • They host a weekly podcast called

  • "Charli and Dixie: 2 Chix."

  • And this summer, their family will be the subject of

  • a new docu-series called "The D'Amelio Show."

  • Here are Charli and Dixie D'Amelio.

  • Ah, look. Come on. Look at the sisters.

  • I'm so happy you're here.

  • A lot of times, we'll ask guests

  • what they've been up to in quarantine.

  • Dixie, in your case, you launched a music career.

  • -Yes. -Giant, by the way.

  • You released your song "Be Happy" in June.

  • It has over 100 million YouTube views,

  • 70 million streams on Spotify.

  • Wow! Did you realize it was going to be that much of a hit?

  • -I mean, I honestly had no idea that that would happen at all.

  • I've always wanted to do it but never really thought

  • it could happen, and then it did pretty well.

  • -Pretty well? Oh, my -- Pretty well?

  • Are you kidding me? Any plans for more music?

  • Is there an album in the works? Anything that you can tell us?

  • -Definitely an album at some point,

  • but my next song is coming out April 9th,

  • which I'm very excited about.

  • -Love it. Alright, new jam from Dixie.

  • Alright, good.

  • What did you think --

  • Because you didn't join TikTok right away.

  • Charli joined first.

  • What did you think when you saw her making TikToks?

  • Were you like, "Cool, I want to do that"?

  • -You can be honest. -[ Laughs ]

  • She started at a time where TikTok was

  • still really embarrassing,

  • and I was really embarrassed that she was posting.

  • And my friends at school were very into what she was doing.

  • And I was like, "Oh, my gosh.

  • She is so weird," blah, blah, blah.

  • -She told me.

  • She was like, "I just hit a 100K."

  • And I was like, "Oh, my goodness.

  • This is so insane."

  • She was like, "Talk to me when

  • you hit a million," and that's when she joined.

  • -Yeah. And then a little competition.

  • But, Charli, I noticed that you started changing up

  • your content a little bit recently.

  • You're posting reviews of things like --

  • I don't know what was one I just saw.

  • Kinetic sand I think I saw. -Yeah.

  • -How do you know what your followers are going to be into?

  • -If I'm going to be honest with you,

  • it was what I was doing on a day-to-day basis.

  • I was doing reviews to myself in the mirror

  • and I was like, "Why don't I film this?

  • This is so much fun. Maybe people will enjoy it."

  • I know what people like changes very often,

  • and I was like, "Why don't I share this with everyone

  • and see what they think?"

  • And I did, and people actually really liked it.

  • -Do you think that is the key to being successful

  • on social media, just being honest?

  • -I think so.

  • I feel like you have to be as authentic as you can be,

  • because people can tell when you're not being authentic,

  • and they don't resonate with that as much.

  • -Before you started doing this, Charli,

  • you were a competitive dancer.

  • Would you ever go back to that?

  • -I actually just started getting back into training.

  • We got a dance studio in my house, which is so amazing.

  • Really never thought that that would happen.

  • And I've been working very closely with Blake McGrath,

  • who has kind of brought me from, like, being out of dance

  • and feeling self-conscious about myself,

  • because I felt like every time I danced,

  • I had to, like, prove something to everyone,

  • and that is not what dance is about.

  • And he really helped me find myself again.

  • And we are going to be working on a solo

  • for this year, so hopefully I can get back into

  • the competition scene, because I really miss it.

  • -Well, you're on Time magazine's TIME100 Next" list,

  • and the person that writes about you is Jennifer Lopez.

  • What?! Dude, you have to be happy.

  • You have to be excited.

  • That is legendary. That is legendary.

  • -That was insane.

  • I didn't know she was writing about me

  • until I woke up and I saw everyone was like,

  • "Oh, my goodness.

  • J.Lo wrote this about you."

  • And I was like, "Wait. Hold on. That's not real.

  • That didn't happen. I don't know what's going on."

  • That was insane to me when I saw that.

  • What she said really made me feel

  • so great and so confident in myself,

  • because she made me feel like I matter to her,

  • and having your idol acknowledge you like that

  • is something so amazing and something

  • I never thought would have happened.

  • -You have your own docu-series coming to Hulu this summer.

  • It's called "The D'Amelio show."

  • I'm excited about that, but are you -- Is it everything?

  • I mean, you are guys going to get in fights and arguments?

  • I mean...

  • -We haven't yet.

  • We said, before the filming started,

  • "Who is going to be the first one to flip a table?

  • That has not happened yet. -Oh, you have to!

  • -The tables in our house are heavy.

  • They're hard to flip.

  • -You got to be -- Go get, like, a really --

  • like, a plastic table or something outside

  • and practice that.

  • You have to flip a table. -Like, a very dramatic scene.

  • -Luckily, we have not had any of those.

  • We don't -- -We don't really --

  • -We don't argue that much anymore.

  • -Not with words. With our eyes more.

  • -Yeah. We're, like, literally like...

-My next guests have nearly

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