Brad's on his way to NYC for Good Morning America Friday.....His new cd is GREAT and on sale:
BP:
“There’s been songs in albums before that were personal, but this album, you know, it’s how I feel. It’s like, I said I feel like this album is finding my soul…a little more than the others. You know, it’s like going and finding my soul. And then it’s also sort of like, it’s a little more of…you could subtitle it, ‘We Mean It.’ (laughs) You know what I mean? We mean everything we do, but, you know, when you got ‘Ticks’ and ‘Online,’ and so I was like that on the last few records. It’s like, well, yeah, we mean it, we’re havin’ a good time, but you know, they’re all in good fun. This one is meant…I hope you have fun. I think you will, but we mean it.
“I would say that this record is as personal as I’ve ever gotten, and it’s as honest as I can be. And I think that they will find a week in the life, essentially, captured in this record, and more than that, I mean, you know, but reflections on sort of a week in the life of a person who lives and breathes in America on any given weekend on a Saturday night.”
“That’s the thing about an album called American Saturday Night. It needs to feel like that. It needs to feel like an event, a gathering. And that’s what this album was, you know? And these crowd parts, Frank and I were like, ‘You know, this is the most we’ve ever done this.’ Every other album had maybe one, and he said, ‘Yeah, I think it’s important.’ He said, ‘I think it is what this album is, to some degree.’ And it’s how the album was written. It was written in a group, essentially. That’s how it was recorded. It was a group effort by a lot of different people, and it reflects that in the production of it.”
One of my favorites on the first listen was Everybody's Here:
“It’s really a fun thing to sing about that now that I’m past it, now that I don’t go to parties heartbroken. It’s fun to sing about those days when you did, when you dated somebody for a long time, and they’re like, ‘Come on! You gotta come out! Everybody’s here!’ (laughs) You know? And you go and somebody talks you…everybody who’s ever had a break-up, I think, goes out too soon. At some…whenever it is that they first go out again, maybe it’s just that the first time, whenever it is, even if it’s two years later, is too soon.”
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