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OneRepublic & Karan Aujla Drop ‘Tell Me’ Music Video: Watch It Here First

"It honestly just felt like I was on stage with [OneRepublic] performing this song," Aujla said of being on the set.

Karan Aujla & Ryan Tedder
Karan Aujla & Ryan Tedder
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The day has arrived for Punjabi artist Karan’s brand new collaboration with OneRepublic, and Billboard has the exclusive first look at the music video for “Tell Me.”

Karan spoke with Billboard‘s Lyndsey Havens about how amazing it was being on set with OneRepublic, saying to Ryan Tedder this was his favorite part: “I feel like it was when we had that shot when we were performing together. It honestly just felt like I was on stage with you guys performing this song. So, hopefully we’ll do that together.”


He continued: “Before this collaboration, Ikky and I always used to talk about how we wanted to do something out here with our music,” says the 28-year-old who was seated next to Tedder while on the quick trip to Los Angeles to shoot the video. “And then he had mentioned you guys were talking and I thought he was just kidding. Like, it’s not gonna happen. And then I remember being on tour Ikky sends me a rough draft and the first thing I hear is [Ryan] singing. And then it’s me jumping in with my Punjabi verse. And I was like, ‘Oh s–t, it’s a Punjabi-English track.’ I was so excited at that point.”

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Their partnership marks both OneRepublic and Karan’s first English-Punjabi collaboration. The song’s music video also stars Indian actress, Disha Patani.

“It’s like a story of our concert that’s [hopefully] happening in the future, in India,” Karan told Billboard of the visual. “It was two days [of filming] in a row. Kind of tiring, but we made a lot of memories there. I’ll remember that for the rest of my life.”

Ryan added: “We were in a Hollywood backlot, which was pretty cool. I mean, from my perspective, I was like, this is a Bollywood video. There’s big time elements of Bollywood happening on camera.”

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Watch Billboard‘s premiere of the “Tell Me” music video below:

This article first appeared on Billboard U.S.

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