“Telling people no is… you never really get used to it,” admits Bryan.
They need to hear that.
but I think we’ve done a great job at being really constructive with it."
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Perry attributes her ability to dish out thoughtful and moving advice to what she herself been given.
“A lot of times people say, ‘Well, how did you come up with that?’
He uses all of his own personal and professional experience to help guide contestants.
So that’s a new little tool in the kit,” Bones explains.
“I go, hey, this is how to actually win the show.
You have to do all these things technically right, but here’s some strategy.
And a lot of our business is just that.”
Hollywood Week was trying and headline-making for many of season 19’s contestants.
Perry helped them see how they were an asset to each other, and their performance showed it.
referring, of course, toTaylor Swiftand their former “feud.”
But will that support extend to recording a song together?
“For all of us to be in an environment where there’s energy, we come alive too.
We all feed off of that,” he says.
So the fun that we have is exponentially more when we’re around people.
I think the performers feel like performers, obviously, too when they’re on stage."
But the pressure is building, as the next rounds of the season are decided by viewers.
