The movie star and the country crooner recently spoke with ET about their new music video.
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The country star's new song,"Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get," was born in that moment, and Janson said that the song"epitomizes" Johnson perfectly. "By the time I was 8 years old, I could sing every Hank Jr. song, a lot of Hank Sr. songs, Merle songs, Johnny Paycheck," Johnson said."I mean, all of them. So yeah, my love for country music goes way back."
Dwayne Johnson, joined by his father, Rocky Johnson, and mom Ata Johnson at his star ceremony on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2015. -Janson, meanwhile, actually got his professional start at Tootsie's Famous Orchid Lounge -- a world-famous hub for aspiring and successful country artists -- and it's this link between his past and Johnson's that makes Janson feel their friendship didn't just happen by chance.
Janson explained,"I was shooting the video, we had done the preliminary work at Bass Pro Shops, which is, you know, that's like my second home, we were doing this awesome footage, I said, 'It's just not... feeling done to me yet, and I would like to invite DJ to do it.' Of course, thinking, you know, he's very busy. His schedule is just wildly crazy and aligning those two would almost be impossible.
Through some clever coordinating and some on-the-fly adapting, the pair managed to find time to meet up and make the music video happen.As Johnson explained, country music is more than just a genre he enjoys -- but rather, it's an emotional link to his late father,"Country music connects me with my dad, and I miss my dad, you know? I lost him unexpectedly in 2020, and it was a way that we bonded," shared Johnson, who got emotional thinking back about his father.
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