Jamie Miller on the Khloé Kardashian video that changed his life overnight

Khloe Kardashian found me. Khloe Kardashian? Hang on, hang on. Right, hold on. You just dropped that. Let me pick that up off the floor. Our special guest this morning has been on quite the journey. From a call centre in Cardiff to international pop stardom, it's the ridiculously talented Jamie Miller. Jamie's here! Who is here. Let's go. Now, Jamie, to best understand your story, should we just turn the clock back 10 years? Yeah. To a 19-year-old boy who's uh you've done school you're working where i was in a call center i was working for tesco so you're working for tesco yeah fixing ipads dreaming of a music career or is it was that not even a dream then i mean i it was like a pipe pipe dream you know i feel like i i always was dreaming of it but i never thought it was just like ever possible yeah and then yeah i just started doing some things like building blocks i went on the voice right and then i came third on the voice and then I came off the voice nothing really happened and then Khloe Kardashian found me right hold on you just dropped that let me pick that up off the floor right tell us that story she like posted a video of me singing and said I was a new favorite singer and then like basically back then every single label was in my emails and then the next day I was on a flight to New York City and then I ended up signing a record deal thought my life changed forever and then a few years went by and then i put out a song and then my my career has kind of done this to be honest like i i've had like little bits of success and then it's gone away again and i don't know baby doll is like kind of like the reason why i feel like it just like i'm it's finally hitting like mainstream and i'm seeing seeing that happen and this is the most mind-boggling thing in the world to be honest because let's just break this down for people that uh kind of don't understand the enormity of like the moment that you're having because it's across all age groups my daughter who's nine she said to me today do you tell Jamie Miller i love him i love him and i said yeah okay i also love you i know my mom is obsessed with your song so it's crossing it's reaching everybody and it's reaching it globally yeah when you were when you were writing this song when you were in the studio was that the dream to be honest i feel like for so many years i was doing everything everybody else wanted me to do and like if a pop boy was working at the time i was around people to be like do this sound do this do this and i feel like like this the beginning of this year i really said to myself it was my last chance to like properly do it and if i'm gonna do it if i'm gonna go out i'm gonna do it my way and i just went i just wrote this album with my two best friends in Los Angeles and i don't know baby doll was one of the songs that we wrote it was like the sixth song on the project and i don't know it just felt like finally i stepped into the artist i've always wanted to be and it just feels like everything aligned at the right time and i didn't take any opinions I didn't take any comments and I was like okay but yeah it just feels it feels just very exciting right now you're from you're born you're from Cardiff I'm I'm trying to get my head around your accent yeah so it's cat so you've got born in Wales born in Wales my mom and dad are Scottish mom and dad are Scottish lived in LA for nine years wow okay so that's the combo right there a little bit of a combo so when do people in Wales go you sound American and And then the people in America go, you sound Welsh or the people in Scotland. Well, when I first moved to America, I'd be like, all right, my name is Jamie. I'm from Wales. They're like, oh, you're so cute. They couldn't understand me. So I had to be polite. And then I adapted whatever this accent is right now. What's the coolest thing about living in LA? I feel like just the weather. It's very nice weather. It's not raining. It's just like nice to, I feel like, and the opportunity, to be honest. It's just like, I think I grew up in a place where I just felt like you couldn't really dream big and you were taught just like to follow the book. And I feel like now I've just like created a path where I just feel like I, no matter what street I grew up on, I was able to achieve things that people told me I couldn't. And it's a path that no one else has really done because your story is a very modern story. I mean, explain to us, for instance, for us old folks, The part that TikTok has played in your rise Because it seems to have been It seems to have come from nowhere I feel like I've done My songs have done well on TikTok in the past And then Forgive me, what does that mean? Talk to a dinosaur Explain to me how it works So TikTok a few years ago Is very different from TikTok now so I a song did well on TikTok which like a lot of people would use the sound if I'm speaking to a dinosaur a lot of people would create videos so people create their content and then they look for some music to go on it and then they'll choose your song yeah and then this is great it kind of changed a little bit so I started doing covers so every time I would post a cover it would do well on TikTok and a cover like a cover version of another song yes got it and then and that was the one that's what a cover is yeah I know And that was what Khloe Kardashian had seen was one of your covers, is that right? Yeah, that was before TikTok, though. Right, gotcha. And then, yeah, I posted covers a lot and then I started gaining a fan base from covers. Even now, like I still posted covers last year and they started to, like they always would do well. And then I just, yeah, then I posted Babydoll this year. Yeah, and it's just exploded. It's kind of been covered, hasn't it, by everybody on TikTok. Who are you most excited by seeing doing the Babydoll dance? Honestly, just everybody I've done it with has been absolutely incredible. Well, give us some names. Let's name drop for the sake of this. Julianne Hough. I've done Jennifer Love Hewitt. Lucy Hale. Just everybody. Jennifer Love Hewitt, wow. Yeah, she was my favorite actress growing up. My mom's favorite actress too. Like we loved Ghost Whisperer. So when I saw her like doing the videos to my song, I was like, what the hell is going on? But then it just started to become this like, like everywhere I went, like I was in New York a few days ago. And I was walking through Times Square and I realized, oh, like this is happening in real time. Like so many people were coming up to me and like I was just on my own walking to Starbucks. And I was like, what is going on with my life right now? And now I'm in London. What's going on? Also, like, I'm going to just call it. I reckon you're going to influence the types of hats that we wear this year. Like you're bringing back the beret. Bringing back the beret, baby. I should have wore it today. I know. That's my favorite. I'm loving this one too. But you're loving your style as well. You love your fashion. And that's a big piece of kind of who you are. Yeah, for the first time, I just feel like I've stepped into the artist I've always wanted to be. And I feel like, again, I had no plans for Babydoll to be a success. But again, I just wanted to give it my full go this year. So it feels really cool that it's working out the way it is. Do you feel nervous about the next single? No. Honestly, I just feel like I'm having fun for the first time. None of this album I wrote for it to be a hit. I wrote it just to like for myself to be honest and I feel like, I think it's very good to be honest Yeah, good, you sound confident I do, yeah We're so thrilled for you here. And as I say, we're playing the song a lot. We wish you the very best of luck for the single too Thanks so much for having me, we really do Jamie Miller, how about that?