{"id":51229,"date":"2025-11-08T20:56:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T20:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/08\/young-miko-on-do-not-disturb-billie-eilish-bad-bunny-and-more\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T20:56:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T20:56:05","slug":"young-miko-on-do-not-disturb-billie-eilish-bad-bunny-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/08\/young-miko-on-do-not-disturb-billie-eilish-bad-bunny-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Miko on ‘Do Not Disturb,” Billie Eilish, Bad Bunny, And More"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\t\t<\/span>ne of the first people Young Miko<\/a> ever showed her music to was her best friend, Mariana L\u00f3pez Crespo. The two of them had been at a small bar in Puerto Rico years ago when Young Miko \u2014 who was a tattoo artist back then \u2014 shared how badly she wanted to be an artist.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cShe was like, \u2018Do you have anything on you?\u2019\u201d Young Miko recalls, remembering how she handed her friend a pair of headphones and played her earliest songs. \u201cShe was like \u2018This is dope! You should take this seriously.\u2019\u201d Right then and there, they decided that L\u00f3pez Crespo would be her manager. As they left the bar, they drove past El Choli, the famed arena in Puerto Rico that everyone from Marc Anthony to Bad Bunny<\/a> has played. \u201cWe were both looking at it and I remember just being like, \u2018Could you imagine if we do that one day?\u2019 And she was like \u2018I know you will.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHer manager was right \u2014 and now, almost seven years since she began dropping music<\/a>, Miko announced that her dream is coming true and she\u2019s headlining El Choli in December. \u201cI get emotional just thinking about it,\u201d she tells Rolling Stone<\/em> on a recent call. The show will cap off a giant year that has included opening for Billie Eilish\u2019s tour<\/a> and dropping her second album. The LP, titled Do Not Disturb,<\/em> came out on Friday, just one day before her 28th birthday.<\/p>\n

\n\tDo Not Disturb<\/em> is a step-up for Miko that plays with early 2000s inspirations, hotel imagery, and even a surprise Lil Jon cameo. In a long-ranging conversation with Rolling Stone<\/em>, Miko shared how the album came together during a difficult time, what she\u2019s learned from Eilish\u2019s tour, and why she can\u2019t wait to play that long-awaited show at El Choli.<\/p>\n

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\n\tYou\u2019re currently on tour opening for Billie Eilish. What\u2019s that been like and how have the shows been going?
<\/strong>The tour has been super fun. Billie really, truly has amazing fans. They\u2019ve made it a point to make sure I have fun when I\u2019m out there, because I know that most of them don\u2019t speak any Spanish, but I feel like they\u2019ve been doing their homework, and they\u2019ve been dancing and just having a blast with me before her set. I\u2019ve had the greatest time up there. Plus, it\u2019s so special and an honor to be able to share the same stage as her.<\/p>\n

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\n\tWhat\u2019s the chemistry like between you and Billie?<\/strong>
She\u2019s really sweet. She\u2019s really funny, she\u2019s easy to talk to. She\u2019s been busy on this tour so I haven\u2019t really spent a lot of time with her, but I have watched her shows and she always takes the time at the end of the show to make a special shout out [for us]. Her team is really special. And you can tell she\u2019s having a blast as well on tour. She loves being on stage. She makes her fans laugh all the time. She\u2019s hilarious.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat was your relationship to her music before? Do you have favorite songs of hers that you\u2019re enjoying seeing her do live?<\/strong>
100 percent. I\u2019d been listening to her music because I have a younger brother that\u2019s a huge fan of hers, and I have close friends that are huge fans of hers. So even if I didn\u2019t open up my phone and look up her album, it was always playing around me.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen I knew we were going to be on this tour, I had already heard Hit Me Hard and Soft<\/em> and I loved it. I\u2019ve been listening to her album again and it got stuck again on my rotation. I\u2019ve watched about three or four nights over, almost every night I\u2019ve performed, and every single night, it\u2019s super special. You can tell she has a different connection to each crowd she\u2019s in front of and she\u2019s just super talented. She sounds just as good when she\u2019s live. It\u2019s been such a fun ride. I\u2019m flying my little brother out for the last New York shows and I got him one of the vinyls. He\u2019s super excited.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat was it like to perform songs from Do Not Disturb and give fans that first preview during the tour?<\/strong>
This tour specifically was already sold out when they announced the opener. There wasn\u2019t really a way where people could have been like, \u201cOh, Young Miko is opening, I\u2019m gonna go!\u201d Her fans were locked in. So I was already thinking, like, \u201cHow can I involve my fans and her fans?\u201d \u00a0And it\u2019s been really special to see them interact online. They\u2019re becoming like sister fandoms.<\/p>\n

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\n\tWhen it came to songs like \u201cLikey Likey,\u201d I taught the crowd the chorus a bit before I dropped it so they could sing it with me. It\u2019s such an easy chorus because it\u2019s just three kisses, and then you blow a kiss. The crowd was engaged and felt like they were a part of it. And I\u2019ve been seeing more and more Puerto Rican flags in the crowd. I\u2019m leaving with at least 10 new friends from every show.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhy do you think the fandoms get along so well?<\/strong>
Both are really young fandoms. And I think Billie and I maybe have a similar clothing aesthetic or a similar vibe to each other. And I just feel that they\u2019ve been relating to one another. Her fans are super, super engaged with her. My fans are really engaged with me.<\/p>\n

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