Social media star and musician Jacob Sartorius just released his newest EP, "Sleep When I'm Dead," and the influencer joined Cheddar News to talk about music, prioritizing mental health, and his social media career. "I think I have like a deep down desire to just want to connect and feel heard and hear others and that's like a really the motivator," he said.

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Musician Jacob Sartorius Talks New EP 'Sleep When I'm Dead'

our next guest is a People's Choice Award, Kids Choice Award and Teen Choice Award nominee. He's racked up quite the following with 39 million plus followers across platforms. His new ep sleep when I'm dead takes listeners on his journey through love Heartbreak and finding his inner peace. Here's a quick lesson that's probably baby Safe and influencer musician Jacob Sartorius joining us now, Jacob, welcome to the show, we are so happy to have you your ep came out yesterday, Congratulations. It has songs titled Worth It and fear of intimacy. The names of the tracks alone gives fans some clues on what to expect, what challenges went into creating this music. Well, just a lot of experiences, you know, um, I created the CP and only about a month. Um, it was a very fast process compared to some of my other projects. So I think when fans listened, they'll be able to hear how restless I was and where my headspace was at the time when creating this only a couple months ago and over the last couple of months. Um, but who Heartbreak it covers on addiction and and a lot of other topics that I really haven't talked about as deeply before in my music. So I think I'm excited for people to be able to take a tour inside my mind. I guess your fans are excited as well. Was there ever a time when you're creating this ep that you were like, you know what, maybe I'm sharing too much where you were a little hesitant and how do you get over that mental block? For sure. Um, throughout the process, am I saying the right thing is, is this right? Um of course I would say what helped me throughout this is to always remember to just be confident in my vulnerability. Um because I think that a lot of the things that I'm talking about in my music are the exact same things that I'm writing in my journal. So as long as I'm being real to myself and telling a story that I'm confident in, um I'm happy and I think it it allows for the possibility to connect with other people just by it being so vulnerable and just, I guess putting the truth out there like that a lot of fans are wondering, can we see you on tour soon, Jacob? Yes, yes, we're planning some stuff. Stay tuned stream the ep like crazy and there will be a tour. Okay, and you're known for being a mental health advocate, talk to me about that and how you use your music to maybe cope with these issues and also help others. Yeah. Um I would say through my music, I kind of use it as a diary to document and kind of just establish within myself to where I'm at mentally. I've struggled a lot over the last, I would say six years, especially with my mental health um, from adoption to cyberbullying to physical bullying in school enough to leave and um just channeling that when I'm writing music is really powerful because I think it, it just can connect with a lot of people. My mental health journey has also changed a lot. Within the last year I got to meet um Wim Hoff, who's an amazing guy and we filmed the documentary together and um so the Wim Hof breathing and some other alternative and natural medicines have really helped me get a grab a grips. Uh I can't, I don't know the word, sure grasp, that's what, thank you so much, a better grasp of how to navigate moving forward with these mental health struggles. And you recently released your debut film, breathe the documentary, you have been busy, Jacob, the 25 minute film follows you to Amsterdam to meet your personal hero, Wim Hoff. His breath work techniques have been publicly praised by stars like liam Hemsworth and Shawn Mendez, we know Shawn Mendez is currently taking a break to focus on his mental health as a fellow musician. What does it mean for you to see this huge star prioritizing his health over his career, I think it's amazing. Um and the thing with mental health is that it's a very unique thing for everyone. So I think whatever feels right for you and whatever will help you move forward, I know I can only imagine the stress that and the pressure and all, all of the stuff that he has to deal with, so respect to him and I'm sure he's gonna get his headspace right and go right back out on tour and all the fans will be happy, so I'm sure it'll be great, you know, a lot of people know you from your online career, how do you have a healthy online presence because you mentioned being bullied and trolled and that happens to so many influencers like yourself of course, um I try to just remember to uh the reason why I started this, you know, to remind myself the reason why I started this and that was to connect with people because I think I have like a deep down desire to just want to connect and um feel heard and hear others and that's like a really the motivator, so if I can tap into the reason why this all started, um I think I can move forward with confidence and connect with as many people as possible. Hopefully Jacob, I have to ask last question. If you weren't an influencer and a musician, what do you think you'd be doing? Wow. Um actually I will say, um when I grew up, my biggest dream was to be a mascot at Disney world, so maybe I love that, you know, there is something here, you want to make people happy and I love that, Yes, I, I just, I love that my co anchor baker wants to know which character would you be or would want to be? Oh, that's a good question, Yes, let's see. Um, I would say mickey mouse. Yeah, that's good. That's a safe answer. I like mickey mouse. Alright, Alright. Thanks. The influencer, musician Jacob, Sartorius. Please come in the studio next time it's new Ep sleep when I'm dead is out now. Be sure to check it out. Thank you Jacob.