Speaker 1: August has arrived. The month of Leo's and parados and Gladiola's.
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Speaker 1: The month of kids going back to school. It's the
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Speaker 1: Kate stirred up a little musical drama on her own
Speaker 1: with Glorious, her debut studio album. It's lead single, talk
Speaker 1: About Love, dropped on January thirtieth, and it created quite
Speaker 1: a buzz. Two more singles, Live Forever and Gonna Find
Speaker 1: Out were also released before the full album came out
Speaker 1: in May, when we were treated to all twelve tracks.
Speaker 1: The album is described this way, natural, easy, engaged. There's
Speaker 1: both her self examination and celebration of self flowing through
Speaker 1: the twelve songs. Kate Hudson understands the phrases and stages
Speaker 1: of modern music in a way that's fluid but defined,
Speaker 1: honest yet willing to leave it all at the door
Speaker 1: in the name of love. She's not sure what took
Speaker 1: her so long, especially with all the music whirling inside
Speaker 1: of her. Raised between Colorado's mountains and Santa Monica and
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Speaker 1: many women Billie Holiday, Eded James, Joni Mitchell, Alanis Morris,
Speaker 1: sat Madonna, Patty Grim and Chrissy Heine who captured all
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Speaker 1: I love someone today the multi talented Oh my gosh, girlfriend,
Speaker 1: you do it all. You've written books, you do like workout,
Speaker 1: stay fit stuff. You're such an accomplished actress and now
Speaker 1: a songwriter and singer.
Speaker 2: Who knew yes Yes, Hi Delilah, Hi.
Speaker 1: Kate, Welcome to Love Someone on the show.
Speaker 2: Yes, I you know, I finally decided to do it
Speaker 2: and put an album out and share some of my music,
Speaker 2: and hopefully it won't be the last time I put
Speaker 2: an album out.
Speaker 1: That was gonna be one of my questions. Now that
Speaker 1: you've gotten to share this and kind of dipped your
Speaker 1: foot in the stream, are we going to hear more?
Speaker 1: Is there going to be more? And do we get
Speaker 1: to hear you singing in movies now?
Speaker 2: Yeah? All of you above yay, yeah, And I just
Speaker 2: love it and I just feel like it kind of
Speaker 2: broke the ice and now I can I have so
Speaker 2: much music. I think that was part of the process
Speaker 2: of writing Glorious, was that when in two and a
Speaker 2: half weeks we had like twenty six songs.
Speaker 1: So we get to hear twelve of them, that means
Speaker 1: we got what fourteen more to go?
Speaker 2: Yeah, of that one of that, of that iteration of writing.
Speaker 2: But there's so much music in me. I just I
Speaker 2: can't wait to write for myself or even for other people.
Speaker 2: So it's been it's it's it's been this beautiful edition
Speaker 2: in my life and I've loved sharing it. And I
Speaker 2: have to say, Delilah, people walking up to me. You
Speaker 2: know a lot of times they still say, you know,
Speaker 2: I love your movies, but how it's happening now with
Speaker 2: music is so like it just warms my heart because
Speaker 2: people are listening and they love it, and they and
Speaker 2: they come up and they talk about and they tell
Speaker 2: them what their favorite songs are, and it's so much
Speaker 2: more personal, you know, and I love I love connecting
Speaker 2: with people, so it's pretty amazing to do it through music.
Speaker 1: That was my response when I heard you, because I
Speaker 1: was told that you were gonna, you know, do this
Speaker 1: by a friend of ours in the music industry, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, whatever, and then he sent me one
Speaker 1: of the cuts before it was released, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: what the hell? Like oho, no, And then I was like,
Speaker 1: I felt I kind of I gotta be honest, I
Speaker 1: kind of felt cheated. I thought, why haven't we got
Speaker 1: to hear her all this time? Like that's like not fair.
Speaker 2: I feel like sometimes I have to stop myself from that,
Speaker 2: which is because a lot of times when I would
Speaker 2: feel like my in the pocket, I'd be like, why
Speaker 2: did I take so long? And then I'm like, no,
Speaker 2: I can't do that.
Speaker 1: You're exactly where you're supposed to be at this moment. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but thank you, thank you, thank you for finally sharing
Speaker 1: with us, and now we got fun things to look
Speaker 1: forward to. Yeah, I wrote.
Speaker 2: I wrote a song called Love Ain't Easy that is
Speaker 2: a very like Delilah love songs. You should listen to
Speaker 2: Love ain Easy? I think you'd really like that song.
Speaker 1: Is that one that I'm going to have to play
Speaker 1: a lot for folks who call me in struggling situations?
Speaker 2: I think, so you should listen to it because and
Speaker 2: then there's another song kind that never made a moment
Speaker 2: since I've listened to your show so much, you know,
Speaker 2: never made a moment is another song that could really
Speaker 2: you could it could be about anything, but it's like
Speaker 2: how do you move on from something that is like
Speaker 2: you've never made a moment without them? And that's a
Speaker 2: very you'll you should listen to some of those songs
Speaker 2: because I think you're going to love them.
Speaker 1: You know what I love most about you your smile,
Speaker 1: Like your smile is infectious, Like I just say your name,
Speaker 1: Kate Hudson, and I smile thinking about your smile.
Speaker 2: Oh, Delilah, thank you, thank you for saying that I
Speaker 2: love you.
Speaker 1: You got more than acting. In you, you got more
Speaker 1: than writing in you. You got more than than working
Speaker 1: out in you. You got vocal chords I got.
Speaker 2: I got some pipes, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Got pipes.
Speaker 2: Who knew? You know? I love I've always loved to sing,
Speaker 2: and I've and more more than that, I've always loved
Speaker 2: to write, you know, music, But yeah, I just I
Speaker 2: love to sing.
Speaker 1: Why are we just now discovering this? Why are we
Speaker 1: just now discovering this? Was in your arsenal of goodness?
Speaker 2: I mean, that's a really loaded, long kind of questions.
Speaker 1: I guess if I could sing like you sing, I
Speaker 1: am such a glory hog and such a show on
Speaker 1: I would have been said years ago, my donna, get
Speaker 1: the hell off the stage. I got the microphone now.
Speaker 2: You know. Honestly, for me, I always wanted to do it.
Speaker 2: And then I I mean, when I became kind of
Speaker 2: known for acting, it was sort of like people in
Speaker 2: your life would be like, don't cross try to cross over.
Speaker 2: You've got a great thing going, like if you go
Speaker 2: try to like do music right now, it could affect
Speaker 2: your film career. And and I was so happy at
Speaker 2: the time, and it was you know, to become successful
Speaker 2: and as an actress. It's a very challenging thing and
Speaker 2: and like I felt very lucky, so I sort of
Speaker 2: put music to the side, but I kept doing it
Speaker 2: and then and then I just married all these music
Speaker 2: men and they knew how musical I was. And what
Speaker 2: was so interesting was they were always like, make music
Speaker 2: all you know. They're my my my two ex'es, my
Speaker 2: two baby daddies. They were always super supportive. But I
Speaker 2: kind of felt like, you know what, two touring musicians
Speaker 2: and it's too much for a family. And then I
Speaker 2: got and then I kind of got cold feet. When
Speaker 2: COVID happened, I was just that was it. I was like,
Speaker 2: what I kind of was reflecting on my career, creative life,
Speaker 2: and in my creative life, like, am I am I satisfied?
Speaker 2: If I died tomorrow, would I feel like I left
Speaker 2: anything on the table? And it was just so huge
Speaker 2: to me that I'd never pursued music, and really writing
Speaker 2: music is something I love so much that I just
Speaker 2: was like, why am I so afraid to put this
Speaker 2: out into the world. And so that sort of started it,
Speaker 2: and I just realized I had to just do it
Speaker 2: and for myself, for my own like creative kind of work.
Speaker 2: I just was like, whatever happens with this will happen.
Speaker 2: But if I don't do it, I'll regret it and
Speaker 2: I can't live with regrets.
Speaker 1: All twelve tracks are ones you wrote, right, Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I.
Speaker 2: Wrote with I wrote with a coupled I wrote with Danny,
Speaker 2: my partner, and I wrote with Linda Perry, who is
Speaker 2: an amazing songwriter, and she was really Linda sort of simultaneously.
Speaker 2: She kind of overheard me singing on this kid's on
Speaker 2: our school we had, you know, was COVID, so there's
Speaker 2: this like a zoom thundraiser, you know, and they asked
Speaker 2: me to sing an acoustic version of Firework. The guy
Speaker 2: who wrote Firework Tour from Stargate said will you do
Speaker 2: an acoustic kind of different version of Katie Perry's song?
Speaker 2: And Linda Perry heard it and just cold called me
Speaker 2: and she's like what, I didn't know you saying like that.
Speaker 2: And I was like, oh yeah, She's like do you
Speaker 2: write And I was like yeah. She's like come to
Speaker 2: the studio.
Speaker 1: How cool is that? Yeah. I had the same reaction.
Speaker 1: I mean when I heard Jim Ryan sent me a
Speaker 1: couple of songs off of glorious and I'm like, what, like,
Speaker 1: you have this massive talent, only.
Speaker 2: Like the people closest to me really, because they're always
Speaker 2: the ones that are like, get to the piano, like
Speaker 2: sing one of your songs and I'm like no, you know,
Speaker 2: so there's so only like people that I feel comfortable
Speaker 2: in my living room has ever heard anything that I've
Speaker 2: written or you know, And I honestly, you know, Delilah,
Speaker 2: this this time, it really does feel like there was
Speaker 2: a void in me this whole time in my adult life,
Speaker 2: like that I was missing something and I don't feel
Speaker 2: out it anymore. And that's a really interesting thing for
Speaker 2: me because I, you know, I it just shows that
Speaker 2: it's it really is my love language music, you know.
Speaker 2: It's like that is that is it? And now that
Speaker 2: I not only am have put an album out, but
Speaker 2: now like it's a part of my life. You know.
Speaker 2: We've been working on this, uh, this cover that I'm
Speaker 2: going to put out soon, and there's just music. Music
Speaker 2: is just everywhere. There's things are coming to me that
Speaker 2: have never come to me before for that are music related.
Speaker 2: And if there's anything that I want to talk about do,
Speaker 2: it's usually music related, you know. So it's really amazing that.
Speaker 1: So do you feel like you've kind of been born again,
Speaker 1: like there's this whole new new life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it just it's I think it's a really
Speaker 2: interesting thing that it's happening at this time in my
Speaker 2: life versus when I'm young. You know, it's it's a
Speaker 2: grind of a business. You have to really really love it.
Speaker 2: It's a grind. It's expensive to get music out into
Speaker 2: the world.
Speaker 1: Well, the industry today is a completely different industry than
Speaker 1: it was when you were much younger. Yeah, you know, it's.
Speaker 2: It really is.
Speaker 1: It's not just a grind, it's a machine. I started
Speaker 1: in radio in nineteen seventy four, and back then, artists
Speaker 1: came into our studio every day, I mean every day.
Speaker 1: I was on a rock station in Kusbabergen, which is
Speaker 1: ten thousand people, and James Taylor came into our studio,
Speaker 1: Carly Simon, you know, they were together back then, or
Speaker 1: together and then a part or whatever came into the
Speaker 1: studio and hung out all day on the air.
Speaker 2: It's so great and it really connected you to to
Speaker 2: like the actual area. I still feel, honestly that people
Speaker 2: should still do that, Like I really believe in like
Speaker 2: the local radio and news, and like when you're really
Speaker 2: promoting something that you should actually go because it says
Speaker 2: something about you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but back then we could ask anything we wanted.
Speaker 1: Now we get a list of the questions we're allowed
Speaker 1: to ask, and it's they call it in you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's prepackaged and you just insert your voice. Half
Speaker 1: the time it's like, yeah, you also missed the drug
Speaker 1: air of it all because they would bring.
Speaker 2: There's tons of weed.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no, it was other stuff. And
Speaker 1: I was such a nerd gait. I was such a
Speaker 1: freaking nerd. I would be like, oh, is that what
Speaker 1: I think that is?
Speaker 2: The studio? Oh my god.
Speaker 1: I was such a big fat no.
Speaker 2: Oh. It's so funny. You know. There was a scene
Speaker 2: and almost famous where we go into the radio and
Speaker 2: he's like falling asleep as they're trying to do their
Speaker 2: the disc jockey's falling asleep. But yeah, it was also
Speaker 2: like I guess, like for me, the purity of what
Speaker 2: I love about music and what I actually can hold
Speaker 2: because it's not like for as much as I would
Speaker 2: love to be able to go and make that like
Speaker 2: my number one life, like I will always love making.
Speaker 2: I'm about to go make a movie in October and
Speaker 2: doing the show, so I actually can really sort of
Speaker 2: keep the ccurity.
Speaker 1: Because you're not dependent upon it. It's all about joy.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: What a gift.
Speaker 2: It is not lost on me that that's a real
Speaker 2: blessing because I and for me, I think I love
Speaker 2: that I can then just write and make the music
Speaker 2: that I want to make.
Speaker 1: You know, and you don't have to be a part
Speaker 1: of the machine and sell your soul to to get
Speaker 1: the music out there. You can do what you want
Speaker 1: and write what you want and say what you want
Speaker 1: and tell me while we're here, talk about love.
Speaker 2: Talk about love.
Speaker 1: And who's the cutie in that video?
Speaker 2: Isn't he so cute? He's just a really great dancer.
Speaker 2: He's been in a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1: But on you the black Sequence thing, I'm like, dang, girlfriend,
Speaker 1: you look so pretty.
Speaker 2: I love that outfit. That was that outfit I wanted to, like,
Speaker 2: you know where, I wanted to like wear that to
Speaker 2: the supermarket. I loved It's lives Keep me away from Sequence, Delilah,
Speaker 2: I love my sequins.
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Speaker 1: Tell me where that song came from? Talk about Love?
Speaker 2: Well, So talk about Love for me was like it
Speaker 2: really was. It was actually a song that we almost lost,
Speaker 2: like we couldn't figure the song out. It had a
Speaker 2: great hook. It was sort of this sort of disc
Speaker 2: hook in the writing sketching process, but it really was
Speaker 2: just a hook. And when we came when Danny kind
Speaker 2: of got all of the you know, we had written
Speaker 2: twenty six songs. When Danny had got the whole project
Speaker 2: and was sitting with it and kind of really producing
Speaker 2: all of the music, he basically said, I got to
Speaker 2: figure out talk about Love because it's such a good
Speaker 2: It's just such a good hook, and I already had
Speaker 2: written so many of the lyrics and I loved what
Speaker 2: I wanted to say, So talk about Love really was
Speaker 2: that the one song on the album that we kind
Speaker 2: of sort of leaned into. It's a little bit it's
Speaker 2: probably a poppyst song on the album other than Lying
Speaker 2: to Myself, And it's really just about why is it
Speaker 2: so hard to talk about the one thing we need
Speaker 2: the most? And for me, it's a very simple way
Speaker 2: of like communicating that we need to be connecting.
Speaker 1: That embodies my entire career fifty years on the radio
Speaker 1: in one set of lyrics. That's my old show is
Speaker 1: about connecting. We need to connect. We need to connect,
Speaker 1: we need to share our heart, we need to stop fighting,
Speaker 1: we need to stop being divisive and talk about love.
Speaker 2: That's it, we really do. And it's the it's if anything,
Speaker 2: Like I just don't understand why it's so hard for
Speaker 2: people to talk about it and why it's where people
Speaker 2: get all. I mean, I guess at this point in
Speaker 2: my life, I do understand why it can be hard
Speaker 2: for people. But like you have to break it open,
Speaker 2: you know, And that's kind of what the bridge is.
Speaker 2: It's sort of like I'm standing right in front of you,
Speaker 2: like let's like just take it. Just like open it,
Speaker 2: open your heart and really like be open to love.
Speaker 2: We know what the antidote is to all of the
Speaker 2: stuff that's going on in the world, right but we
Speaker 2: still refuse so many people refuse to like lead with it,
Speaker 2: and that is love and of all of the things
Speaker 2: that people want you as a you know, personality or
Speaker 2: a celebrity to get involved with politics or this that
Speaker 2: I'm like, I can't. I just want to talk about
Speaker 2: I just want to talk about connecting and.
Speaker 1: Love and therein lies everything. There in lies the antidote,
Speaker 1: the healing balm of everything that is wrong with our world.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know it is in every scripture. It
Speaker 2: doesn't matter where you come from, what you study, how
Speaker 2: you pray.
Speaker 1: Love is the answer. It's the maybe we just need
Speaker 1: to blast your song twenty four to seven.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's to me like what I love to write about,
Speaker 2: you know. And I realized when I was done with
Speaker 2: all of the songs that that was the theme of
Speaker 2: my whole album was just like how glorious is love
Speaker 2: and all of it and all of it you know,
Speaker 2: even when.
Speaker 1: It hurts, especially when it hurts.
Speaker 2: Because you know, when it hurts, I really believe, like
Speaker 2: any muscle, like your heart just gets bigger and stronger.
Speaker 2: And my my only thing I always say, like, because
Speaker 2: I am so obviously look at my life like you know,
Speaker 2: I'm I have I've been I have three dads, my
Speaker 2: all my children have three. But somehow we've figured this
Speaker 2: amazing like life out that's very not a traditional one.
Speaker 2: But it's all at all leads with like. The only
Speaker 2: way you can make something like that happen is really
Speaker 2: being an advocate for love that goes with the kids
Speaker 2: and the dads and all of us.
Speaker 1: Well, I love you, Thank you for spending this time
Speaker 1: with us. God bless you.
Speaker 2: I hope I chat with you again and see you
Speaker 2: and at some point meet you in person.
Speaker 1: And hug you. I want to hug you. God bless you. Honey,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Bye bye Hunt. Though Kate Hudson's mut music
Speaker 1: is new to us, she's been writing music since childhood,
Speaker 1: using music as her creative outlet, but she never knew
Speaker 1: how it would fit into her busy life, busy, successful life.
Speaker 1: Glorious fits like a glove, like it was always meant
Speaker 1: to be with us, and it arrived right on time.
Speaker 1: Kate's not an actor turned a singer songwriter. It's just
Speaker 1: who she's always been, but only her family, her closest
Speaker 1: friends knew it. She's chosen now to reveal this side
Speaker 1: of her personality, of her character to us. Like Kate herself,
Speaker 1: the album Glorious, the selections are of a free spirited nature,
Speaker 1: exploring the intersection of modern rock and pop and the
Speaker 1: results are diverse and satisfying. You'll find download links to Glorious,
Speaker 1: as well as opportunities to purchase it in limited and
Speaker 1: standard vinyl and CD on Kate's website Kate Hudson dot com.
Speaker 1: You can keep up with everything she's got going on
Speaker 1: while you're there too. I love that at forty five,
Speaker 1: Kate Hudson is still exploring, still reaching, still challenging herself
Speaker 1: and sharing the amazing results with us. I hope there's
Speaker 1: a nugget of inspiration in there for you to spend
Speaker 1: some time on something that's been percolating in your heart
Speaker 1: for a while, show the world what you're made of.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you took the time out of your
Speaker 1: summer day to spend a little time with us. I've
Speaker 1: had great conversations here on love someone over the past
Speaker 1: six months, and I can't wait for the next ones
Speaker 1: and the opportunity to spend more time with you.