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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the Morning seven.

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Speaker 2: It's been fifteen years since Ricky Lee became a household

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Speaker 2: name on Australian idol. This is the first new song

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Speaker 2: in two years. It's called last Night. It went to

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Speaker 2: number one on iTunes. It's already Ricky Lee high.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, How are you hey?

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Speaker 2: With that deep voice, it sounds like you're Luca vanros Vandross.

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Speaker 3: But that's you, is it?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's that that that low bit is like a

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Speaker 1: sampled version of my own vocal. It's like, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: but like something that the cool DJs dovies.

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Speaker 4: I thought that was someone else. So this is a

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Speaker 4: thing now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been asked so many times, who's that guy

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Speaker 1: singing in your song with you? And it's just me.

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Speaker 4: That's me.

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Speaker 1: But if it's something that they do, they it's like

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Speaker 1: a vocal effect that you put on and you pitch

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Speaker 1: my voice down a couple of tones and a couple

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Speaker 1: of octaves, and.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, makes it easy when you go on tour. You

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Speaker 4: don't have to worry about paying him.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, it means that I can drink champagne

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Speaker 1: all that.

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Speaker 5: Well, are you going to be careful with the champagne.

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Speaker 5: Remember the bottle the core? Yes, did you remember that story?

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Speaker 5: Ricky said, You're up on the Gold Coast and you

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Speaker 5: sha the champagne hit you in the eye and almost

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Speaker 5: took your eye out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so I was. I was just about to get

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Speaker 1: on a plane. Actually, I was about to leave. So

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Speaker 1: my mom said, here, Ricky opened this, we'll have an

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Speaker 1: we'll have a little bottle before you go. And I

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Speaker 1: went to open the bottle and I leant i'd kind

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Speaker 1: of taken the cage off with the gold case off

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Speaker 1: the top of it, and I leant over it, and

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Speaker 1: my little sister came over to give me a cuddle,

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Speaker 1: and I'd kind of leant forward to give her a cuddle,

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Speaker 1: and it popped straight in my eye. So, yeah, that

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Speaker 1: was not a fun time.

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Speaker 3: Twist tops for you from now on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely all right. But every time it's like I've

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Speaker 1: got PTSD. Every time I see somebody take the cage

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Speaker 1: off and not put their hand on it, I like scream,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, put your hand over it. Frisked me out.

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Speaker 2: You write a fabulous song, You write the catchiest songs.

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Speaker 3: How do they come to you? Do you hear the

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Speaker 3: music first? How does it happen for me.

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Speaker 1: I think I get really inspired by the music. So

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Speaker 1: I like to start off going into the room and

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Speaker 1: we'll kind of build some music first. So in the

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Speaker 1: case of last Night, this latest single, I knew that

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Speaker 1: I wanted big pianos. I wanted it to be feel good.

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Speaker 1: I wanted an anthemic. I wanted it to feel uplifting.

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Speaker 1: I wanted it to be a sing along kind of

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Speaker 1: anthemic type song. And so once those pianos came in,

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Speaker 1: you just kind of start humming melodies and kind of

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Speaker 1: riffing and coming up with words that fit whatever melody

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Speaker 1: is you're singing. And this one actually we wrote really quickly.

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Speaker 1: We wrote this song in about four hours.

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Speaker 4: This is how you met your husband, Richard. This is

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Speaker 4: what it's about.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this song, it's a little bit of reminiscing. This song.

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Speaker 1: It's reminiscing about the first night that we met. It's

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Speaker 1: a bit romantic, it's a bit sexy, you know, and

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Speaker 1: it's I really like it because I think as a songwriter,

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Speaker 1: there are there are certain songs that represent defining moments

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Speaker 1: in your life that you try and write those songs

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Speaker 1: over and over and over and over. Again. You know,

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Speaker 1: I've tried to write this Zach song one hundred and

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Speaker 1: twenty thousand times before, and so to actually nail it

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Speaker 1: with this one, I can finally move on and write

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Speaker 1: about something else.

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Speaker 3: And the film clip you filmed yourself at home?

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Speaker 1: Yeah weird. Hey, So so you know, everything's a bit

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Speaker 1: strange right now. You know, the all of the restrictions

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Speaker 1: had just come into place around the time that we

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Speaker 1: decided that we were going to put this song out.

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Speaker 1: And lucky for me, I've got you know, it's not

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Speaker 1: about what, isn't it. It's not what you know, it's

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Speaker 1: who you know. I have good friends who a good

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Speaker 1: friend who was a director. And he said, Ricky, we're

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Speaker 1: shooting this video. I don't care. I don't care, I

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Speaker 1: don't care what's going on. I'm sending He sent cameras

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Speaker 1: around to my house, stands colored like background lighting, like

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Speaker 1: I had a full studio setup. He spent all of

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Speaker 1: the year to my house, and then he was on

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Speaker 1: zoom and he was directing me how to like set

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Speaker 1: up the camera, go through all the settings and told

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Speaker 1: me how to set everything up. And then he sat

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Speaker 1: basically under the camera on zoom yelling out directions at

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Speaker 1: me as we were going ever take. It was fantastic,

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Speaker 1: and my poor husband, Richard was on the tools. He

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Speaker 1: was on the wind machine. Right, he was on wind machine, Judies,

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Speaker 1: because you can't do a music video without having Beyonce hair.

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Speaker 1: He has the hair dryer and was blowing my hair

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Speaker 1: and we were fighting because I was yelling at him

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Speaker 1: and I was like, no, you're not blowing it right

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Speaker 1: too much?

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Speaker 5: Wind All husbands, All husbands a wind machines?

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Speaker 1: No, no, really they are, aren't they?

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Speaker 4: Well, because Richard, he's your manager, how does that work out?

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Speaker 1: It's look, sometimes it can get tough. I'm not going

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Speaker 1: to lie. It's we have a very good work life balance.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it is hard because he is the one that

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Speaker 1: has to have harsh conversations with me. We have to

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Speaker 1: talk very real and talk about me. I guess like

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Speaker 1: I'm a product in some ways, and as a human

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Speaker 1: we have emotions and as an artist, we're very sensitive.

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Speaker 1: So sometimes it gets hard. But I've learned that over

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Speaker 1: the years that when we're talking about work and we're

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Speaker 1: talking about music and we're talking about Korea, he only

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Speaker 1: has my best interest at heart, and so I don't

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Speaker 1: take offense to anything that he says. Sometimes it can

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Speaker 1: be hard to cop some of the things on the

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Speaker 1: chin because he is quite brutal. He's very, very, very honest,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's the best thing about him and

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Speaker 1: about us and why we work so well, because he

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Speaker 1: doesn't puss his foot around anything. He tells me the truth.

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Speaker 1: He tells it to me straight, and sometimes it can

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Speaker 1: be hard to take, but I know, I know that

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Speaker 1: it's coming from the best place. And sometimes he can

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Speaker 1: see things a lot clearer than me because I am

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Speaker 1: an artist and I am sensitive and I get caught

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Speaker 1: up in my creativity and all of that stuff.

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Speaker 3: Is that why he suggested he put himself in the

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Speaker 3: field place? Yeah, exactly, cotageous.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right. Yeah. And you can't complain being screwed

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Speaker 4: by your manager either, I know.

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Speaker 1: Right, he like And what's awesome is I don't have

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Speaker 1: to pay him a commission.

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Speaker 3: There you go.

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Speaker 5: It's constantly giving, like that backup, that backup singer that

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Speaker 5: sounds like you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I get it for free. Baby.

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Speaker 4: You're just a big tight ass Ricky Lee. That's what

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Speaker 4: it is.

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Speaker 5: It's always great to talk to you. The new single

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Speaker 5: Last Night let's hear it again. We love that song.

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Speaker 5: It's so good, only I like when Ricky sounds deep.

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Speaker 5: Cot it up now it's like a party and.

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Speaker 3: She goes Luther.

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Speaker 4: He comes.

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Speaker 3: Nice to talk to you, Ricky Lee.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, you guys, you and thank you

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Speaker 1: you to take it easy. Join and Amanda, good morning

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Speaker 1: at one point seven. Tell you