1 00:00:07,133 --> 00:00:10,453 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast 2 00:00:10,613 --> 00:00:11,733 Speaker 1: from News Talks at b. 3 00:00:18,133 --> 00:00:30,653 Speaker 2: D is Sewn Mendes Heart of Gold. He's got a 4 00:00:30,653 --> 00:00:33,453 Speaker 2: new album, Sean by Sean Mendes. The style Cliff and 5 00:00:33,453 --> 00:00:35,493 Speaker 2: our music review has been listening killed. 6 00:00:36,093 --> 00:00:41,253 Speaker 3: Killed, Yeah, absolutely, And I am actually really digging this 7 00:00:41,373 --> 00:00:42,533 Speaker 3: version of Sean. 8 00:00:42,333 --> 00:00:45,213 Speaker 2: Mendes introspective Sean as opposed to pop banger Sean. 9 00:00:45,533 --> 00:00:47,493 Speaker 3: Yeah, because actually, do you know, there's times in this 10 00:00:47,613 --> 00:00:51,013 Speaker 3: album and it's like that full like they're plugged and 11 00:00:51,053 --> 00:00:54,613 Speaker 3: acoustic guitar, full strum, and he kind of reminds me 12 00:00:54,773 --> 00:00:59,253 Speaker 3: of artists like Passenger Mike Rosenberg and they've got that 13 00:00:59,293 --> 00:00:59,653 Speaker 3: sort of. 14 00:00:59,613 --> 00:01:02,293 Speaker 4: Indie there's a bit of rock to it as well. 15 00:01:02,333 --> 00:01:03,813 Speaker 3: And I guess when he's playing it live is a 16 00:01:03,933 --> 00:01:05,813 Speaker 3: chance to go a little more for along with it, 17 00:01:06,213 --> 00:01:08,613 Speaker 3: and I yeah, I'm kind of digging this for his voice. 18 00:01:08,613 --> 00:01:10,853 Speaker 3: I think that this is maybe a route heir should 19 00:01:10,853 --> 00:01:13,213 Speaker 3: stay with for a bit. Yeah right, okay, Yeah, which 20 00:01:13,253 --> 00:01:14,853 Speaker 3: is quite a big call too when you've been this 21 00:01:14,933 --> 00:01:19,213 Speaker 3: big pop megastar ra yeah, and then you had. 22 00:01:19,133 --> 00:01:19,973 Speaker 4: To step back from that. 23 00:01:20,053 --> 00:01:22,933 Speaker 3: But I think that the vulnerability and the real personal 24 00:01:23,013 --> 00:01:26,853 Speaker 3: journey and story he's writing, and these lyrics sit better 25 00:01:27,013 --> 00:01:30,813 Speaker 3: with this style of music anyway, that indie roots kind 26 00:01:30,893 --> 00:01:34,253 Speaker 3: of style. I don't think you would get away with 27 00:01:34,333 --> 00:01:35,893 Speaker 3: some of the depth of the lyrics that he's going 28 00:01:35,933 --> 00:01:39,133 Speaker 3: into if you were, yeah, if you're gonna if you're 29 00:01:39,133 --> 00:01:40,973 Speaker 3: gonna do this big pop dance kind of stuff that 30 00:01:41,493 --> 00:01:45,573 Speaker 3: probably he probably has done before, some real catchy rhythms. 31 00:01:45,573 --> 00:01:48,173 Speaker 3: It's one of those albums you can get to know 32 00:01:48,293 --> 00:01:52,373 Speaker 3: pretty quickly because of those big rhythms, the melodies. There's 33 00:01:52,413 --> 00:01:55,973 Speaker 3: some beautiful harmonies that come in quiet stuff, and then 34 00:01:56,013 --> 00:01:58,573 Speaker 3: it's got that classic band you know, when there's just 35 00:01:58,653 --> 00:02:02,093 Speaker 3: good drums, guitar, bass, and you're like, yeah, this is 36 00:02:02,093 --> 00:02:05,773 Speaker 3: what makes some real good music. But then some other 37 00:02:05,853 --> 00:02:08,453 Speaker 3: random like every now and then there'll be like a steel. 38 00:02:08,093 --> 00:02:09,493 Speaker 4: Guitar, violin. 39 00:02:10,813 --> 00:02:14,493 Speaker 3: He also Sean plays the harmonium, which is like the 40 00:02:14,573 --> 00:02:15,453 Speaker 3: keys with the bellows. 41 00:02:15,533 --> 00:02:18,053 Speaker 4: Yeah right, I think that's the best way to describe it. Now. 42 00:02:18,093 --> 00:02:19,333 Speaker 4: He actually says that's. 43 00:02:19,173 --> 00:02:22,493 Speaker 3: The instrument that he credits for returning his love of 44 00:02:22,573 --> 00:02:26,013 Speaker 3: singing and also writing music. Really yeah, So if anyone 45 00:02:26,013 --> 00:02:27,813 Speaker 3: doesn't know he had that crash and burn, like a 46 00:02:27,813 --> 00:02:28,693 Speaker 3: couple of years back. 47 00:02:28,813 --> 00:02:31,133 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty big in public. I mean he was 48 00:02:31,173 --> 00:02:34,293 Speaker 2: really open about it, right, absolutely, he would say about it. Yeah. 49 00:02:34,453 --> 00:02:34,653 Speaker 4: Yeah. 50 00:02:34,693 --> 00:02:36,093 Speaker 3: He just got to that point, like it was about 51 00:02:36,093 --> 00:02:38,373 Speaker 3: six or seven shows into a world tour where he's like, 52 00:02:38,413 --> 00:02:40,893 Speaker 3: I actually can't do it. I can't get out there 53 00:02:40,933 --> 00:02:43,253 Speaker 3: and do this. So the justice that it needs to 54 00:02:43,293 --> 00:02:45,733 Speaker 3: be done, and he made that. I must have being 55 00:02:45,733 --> 00:02:47,933 Speaker 3: this huge hard choice to make that, but to step away. 56 00:02:47,973 --> 00:02:49,853 Speaker 3: And it's been a good couple of years, so he 57 00:02:49,933 --> 00:02:52,253 Speaker 3: reckons that for a bit. An entire year, he didn't 58 00:02:52,253 --> 00:02:54,133 Speaker 3: write music, he didn't really sing anything. 59 00:02:54,733 --> 00:02:56,373 Speaker 4: He just was so done with it. 60 00:02:57,253 --> 00:02:59,573 Speaker 3: So pretty big that you can get back on that bus, 61 00:03:00,613 --> 00:03:02,973 Speaker 3: find an instrument that you're kind of playing with and 62 00:03:03,053 --> 00:03:05,093 Speaker 3: being a bit eclectic with. And I think what that's 63 00:03:05,133 --> 00:03:08,173 Speaker 3: given the whole sound the album. It makes me think 64 00:03:08,173 --> 00:03:10,733 Speaker 3: they're in a studio in a round, you know, on 65 00:03:10,773 --> 00:03:13,853 Speaker 3: some like dimly Lit, the floors have got all crazy 66 00:03:13,893 --> 00:03:17,333 Speaker 3: carpets all over it and everyone's just in a circle 67 00:03:17,413 --> 00:03:19,893 Speaker 3: jamming at each other. It kind of has that quality 68 00:03:19,933 --> 00:03:22,333 Speaker 3: and sound about it, which I think is what indie 69 00:03:22,373 --> 00:03:23,973 Speaker 3: music kind of brings to you as well. 70 00:03:23,973 --> 00:03:26,173 Speaker 4: And it sounds fun and at times that. 71 00:03:26,093 --> 00:03:29,813 Speaker 3: Real live recording like they've gone actually, lets us go 72 00:03:29,853 --> 00:03:32,813 Speaker 3: with that take. There's a few whoops and handclaps and 73 00:03:33,333 --> 00:03:35,053 Speaker 3: at moss crashing in the background. 74 00:03:35,213 --> 00:03:35,973 Speaker 4: But I like that. 75 00:03:36,173 --> 00:03:39,133 Speaker 3: I think it gives like a sort of human human 76 00:03:39,773 --> 00:03:41,853 Speaker 3: feature to an album where some times, yeah, think that 77 00:03:41,933 --> 00:03:45,413 Speaker 3: lucid jam session is opposed to let's just smooth this 78 00:03:45,533 --> 00:03:49,413 Speaker 3: all out and lose it in production. I don't mind that, 79 00:03:49,533 --> 00:03:53,213 Speaker 3: especially again with that personal storytelling venture that has gone 80 00:03:53,213 --> 00:03:55,733 Speaker 3: down and almost apologetic and some of his songs. 81 00:03:56,693 --> 00:03:57,773 Speaker 4: The only one I think he. 82 00:03:57,773 --> 00:04:00,853 Speaker 3: Could have left off was his cover of Hallelujah that 83 00:04:01,253 --> 00:04:04,693 Speaker 3: the other you have the same reaction I had. 84 00:04:04,813 --> 00:04:09,173 Speaker 4: Oh seriously, I did the same thing. I did it too. 85 00:04:09,333 --> 00:04:10,933 Speaker 2: Doesn't need another Hellelujah. 86 00:04:11,173 --> 00:04:14,013 Speaker 4: It actually doesn't. Yeah, and you know. 87 00:04:15,453 --> 00:04:19,093 Speaker 3: The hell lujahs in the other songs, so he didn't 88 00:04:19,333 --> 00:04:22,173 Speaker 3: need to go there. I a, yeah, I'm with you 89 00:04:22,213 --> 00:04:23,253 Speaker 3: on that one. 90 00:04:25,293 --> 00:04:27,253 Speaker 4: It's so funny that you feel the same as me. 91 00:04:27,293 --> 00:04:28,533 Speaker 4: As soon as I got to it at the end, 92 00:04:28,533 --> 00:04:30,453 Speaker 4: I was like, oh, no, no, thank you. Like I 93 00:04:30,453 --> 00:04:31,933 Speaker 4: didn't really even give that a full listen. 94 00:04:32,213 --> 00:04:35,493 Speaker 2: I just yeah, I just think Jeff Butley nailed it, 95 00:04:35,693 --> 00:04:39,973 Speaker 2: you know, and like and it's a great song. It's 96 00:04:39,973 --> 00:04:43,373 Speaker 2: a beautiful song, just and I look, I'm you know, 97 00:04:44,173 --> 00:04:48,413 Speaker 2: I've got a guitar at home and my wife will sometimes, 98 00:04:48,573 --> 00:04:51,573 Speaker 2: you know, there's a bit of st dictates when the 99 00:04:51,613 --> 00:04:52,853 Speaker 2: mood dictates, you know. 100 00:04:53,333 --> 00:04:56,013 Speaker 4: But when you released your album, Jake, Please Do Not Put. 101 00:04:58,173 --> 00:04:59,013 Speaker 2: Be a. 102 00:05:00,693 --> 00:05:01,853 Speaker 4: It was a weird choice for me. 103 00:05:01,973 --> 00:05:04,933 Speaker 3: After all, the other songs are definitely his, and he's 104 00:05:04,973 --> 00:05:07,973 Speaker 3: owned them with the holidays and the musicianship, and then 105 00:05:08,053 --> 00:05:11,253 Speaker 3: that to wrap it up this kind of strange. I mean, yeah, 106 00:05:11,253 --> 00:05:13,893 Speaker 3: it was like, and that's not karaokes, Like his voice 107 00:05:13,933 --> 00:05:15,733 Speaker 3: is different, but it sort of makes you go, I 108 00:05:15,773 --> 00:05:17,293 Speaker 3: just wasn't necessary. 109 00:05:17,373 --> 00:05:18,773 Speaker 4: So that was a little bit of a shame. 110 00:05:19,333 --> 00:05:21,933 Speaker 3: Other than that, though, I think he's navigating some big 111 00:05:21,973 --> 00:05:24,733 Speaker 3: feelings on a really cool album and there's some real 112 00:05:24,813 --> 00:05:28,773 Speaker 3: good clap along sing along kind of numbers on here 113 00:05:28,853 --> 00:05:31,653 Speaker 3: without having to go pop tastic, which is really nice 114 00:05:31,653 --> 00:05:31,933 Speaker 3: for him. 115 00:05:32,533 --> 00:05:35,453 Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm cool with that voice. It's an eight out 116 00:05:35,453 --> 00:05:35,853 Speaker 4: of ten for. 117 00:05:35,813 --> 00:05:39,133 Speaker 2: Me out of ten Sean by Sean Mendes out of ten. 118 00:05:40,413 --> 00:05:41,853 Speaker 2: At the end, I think we're just gonna have to 119 00:05:41,853 --> 00:05:47,333 Speaker 2: skip that. Definitely. No, I'm definitely gonna thank you very much. 120 00:05:47,333 --> 00:05:48,973 Speaker 2: We're gonna have all the listen. We'll pick out one 121 00:05:48,973 --> 00:05:50,373 Speaker 2: of those good tracks in a couple of minutes and 122 00:05:50,413 --> 00:05:52,693 Speaker 2: catch you again next week. 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