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Michael Cagels on Music, Poetry, and the Journey Behind 'Colors of the Sun' · The Scene Projects

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Welcome to unsigned spotlight, the daily live show from the scene projects.
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We shine a light on the best unsigned musical talent from around the world.
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Featuring songs from independent artists across all genres, This is where passionate music
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I've stood at the edge,
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hands shaking hard loud, letting fear whisper often keeping me in the crowd.
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All the chances I had,
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I let slip away.
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Thought I wasn't ready, but I was just afraid.
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When successes came knocking, I said it was a flu, doubted the proof of all the things I
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could do.
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I've had my wins on stage, but jealous words would bite, made me second guess, kept me from
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holding my life.
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Now I'm ready to climb.
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Feel the thrill.
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No more fear.
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It won't define me this time.
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All those moments I ignored, thinking they were fake, were pieces of power I'm now ready to
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take.
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The risk is real, real, so is my fire.
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I've let fear blame me, but now I'm higher.
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No more holding back.
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I'm breaking free.
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The world won't wait.
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I'm ready to climb to feel the thrill.
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No more fear.
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It won't define me this time.
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I've counted every what if in my head, letting tiny voices keep me from what's ahead.
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But all those fears are just shadows on the wall.
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I'm breaking through.
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I'm ready to risk it
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Never
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maybe is a chance I take every heartbeat.
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It's a choice I make.
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I failed by hiding, but now I see the only real loss is not trying it all.
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And that's not me.
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No more
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Hello.
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Hello, and welcome to a very special edition of the unsigned spotlight because we are here
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today for a very big party for the one, the only, mister Michael Cagels.
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Hello, Muppets.
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Muppets.
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Look at the Muppets.
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Look at this.
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Hey.
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Look at look at this.
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Look at this, Michael.
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Michael.
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Michael.
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It's out.
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It's out.
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Confessions of a broken child.
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Hey.
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Yes.
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And it's so freaking that song the last song we heard is actually the first song on the I guess
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we're go we're gonna go in order, and that's totally fitting because that's, yeah, that that
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was a really fun song to do because it's really filled with a lot of the songs are very
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autobiographical.
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Like, I wrote from a place of where I've been or where I wanna be or things that I've gone
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through.
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So if you listen to the lyrics, it's it's very, very true.
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You know?
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I tried to write as honestly as I could, which means there's not a lot of stories in the in
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the in the album.
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It my husband's more of a storyteller than I am when it comes to songwriting.
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I would disagree with that.
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Well, that's fine.
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Because I I think my story but my I guess I do write stories.
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Hey, Willie.
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I do write stories, but there this album, everything pretty much came from what I have
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gone through.
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Like, if you listen to some of the lyrics, like, I had winds on stage, but jealous words
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would bite.
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You know, I I dealt with other entertainers that wouldn't wanna work with me because they
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felt intimidated, And they literally said that.
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Like, I don't wanna get on stage with you because when you're on stage, I don't exist
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anymore.
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And I'm like, I don't know how to control that.
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I I there's nothing I can do.
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So the song is fun, but it's full of lyrics that are really authentic.
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And I have always had an issue with a fear of failure and which has stopped me from going as
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fast or as far as I've wanted to.
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And this song was like, no.
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I'm not gonna do that anymore.
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I'm not gonna be bound by that.
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So that's where that song came from.
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Can I be honest?
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Go on.
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Ready, Michael?
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Dude, that song is straight out of a pop Broadway musical.
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I swear.
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It's it's like the opening song of a musical on Broadway.
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I would pay money to see that.
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I really appreciate it.
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I
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You've fallen the beat, the energy, everything that really is all about you is there.
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That's what that's what I hear.
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I and I really do.
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That that means a lot.
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I I tend to write theatrical anyway just because of my background.
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My husband literally said, everybody says you're a ballad belter.
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Everybody says that, but the bottom line is you are an anthem writer.
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Like, you write from a perspective of moving something forward or inspiring people.
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And so the Broadway thing yeah.
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I've I've you're you're about the fifth person that's heard some of these songs and said, this
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is sounds like the start you ever
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We're gonna you and I are gonna have a sit down.
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I because I've already got a script, so we're we're already halfway there.
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Yeah.
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Hi, Brandy.
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Just
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introduce you to Brandy because Brandy joined the show.
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Hi, Brandy.
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Hi, guys.
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Sorry.
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I'm driving.
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So I I wanted to be a part of this, but I'm I'm listening in.
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I'm paying attention.
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Well, now I'm saying, yourself in and say hi.
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It makes me so I know that you are in the midst of rehearsals, and you got a gigantic show that
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you're actually headlining, you know, next month.
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So I know you're putting a lot of stuff and time and energy into that.
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But the fact that you're here really means a lot to me.
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Thank you.
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Of course.
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I wanna be here for you.
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You're like family, and I wanna support you, like, any way I can.
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Unfortunately, if I camera on and pay attention to my phone, I'm probably gonna get pulled
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over.
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So this is the best I can do.
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Sorry.
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Well, I'll tell
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you what.
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Brandy, thank you so much for joining us.
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Let's give Brandy a song, shall we?
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Let's get on to the next song on the album, which is a singer's anthem.
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Michael, while I am sorting this out, tell everybody about this song.
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Well, the singer's anthem, basically was inspired by, a friend of mine in Las Vegas that
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is he's a toe Tony nominated singer and entertainer, and we have had long talks about
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what it means to be a singer, and he wrote a song about him being a the song.
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And I thought, I really love that message, but I really wanted to dig into why I sing, what
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what it's about.
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And a lot of people think, know, well, you just like to be flashy or you just like to show off.
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And those are, I guess, just little act, little accessories that come with the way that I sing.
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But my real my real heart in singing is to really move people, is to touch people, and to
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use I'm never gonna be a rocket scientist.
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I'm never gonna cure cancer.
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You know?
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I am a singer.
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I'm a songwriter.
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And so the best thing that I can do with my gifts is try to inspire people, and that's
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kinda where the song came from.
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So this is kind
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of Interesting.
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Why I sing.
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Okay.
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Sing a song.
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Here we go.
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I don't need fame.
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I don't need praise.
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I just need a voice and a song to raise.
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With every lyric, I reclaim the light and give a silence back its fight.
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I turn the noise into something true.
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A melody that carries you.
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To turn the pain to power in our eyes to corrupt the stories, hearts, happiness.
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In every song, the truth beaches.
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I sing to breathe.
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I sing to bear, to be alive, to dream for fear.
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I write the words they cannot say.
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I shave the notes that guide their way.
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Little little
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to bit than I'm
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It's more than sound.
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It's how I cope.
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It's to change with thread of hope.
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I'd sing a chorus from the eighth or verse from every past mistake singing my melodies, my
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lyrics, my arrangements.
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Self welcomed, self uncomfortable in their placement.
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But truth was never meant to please.
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It starts, it stretches, it sets us free.
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A song can shake the hardest stone.
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No one has to stand alone to unite the broken, young and old, This is why I and this is why we
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sing.
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This is why I sing.
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This is why I sing.
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This is why I sing.
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Is why I
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sing. This
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This
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I was just about to say, wow.
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Wow.
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Wow.
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Wow.
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What a voice.
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Amazing.
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Jeez.
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I know what Ryan's gonna say.
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Oh my god.
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That was
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a lot
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of that was a lot of runs.
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No.
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I I I don't believe so.
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I I've gotten used to your runs.
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You know?
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One thing I I I think that remind that's that song reminds me of a sound that sort of come
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you can kinda kind of hear from a certain studio that might have a certain particular
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mouse.
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Yeah.
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Just saying.
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It's absolutely Jeffrey there said this is why you sing.
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Absolutely beautiful, powerful.
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Yep.
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I agree.
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Stop going, Jeffrey.
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We are sending the link out to everybody tonight.
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What we'll do is we will try and best include the ones that we know to the show because this
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going out live, live, live to Facebook and YouTube.
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So if we don't recognize you, don't think that we're being rude.
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It's just so we could try and fit on as many people as we can.
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Jeffrey, please come and join us.
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We'd love for you to be included in tonight's show.
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I've just posted up the link.
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I do appreciate that.
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That is a it's a great I love that song, though it was our nightmare song.
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I had to I have to be honest.
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Two months have worked that song.
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Two months?
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Yeah.
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Two solid months of working on that one song.
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We had to record his voice so many times because every run-in I don't know if you
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noticed, but in every section of that song, those runs are specific.
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They're they're all two step runs.
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They're all, oh.
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They're never it's never just a run of, It's always two steps.
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It's always it's one two, and then a held, and then one two, and then a held.
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And it's just very hard to get Michael to do that.
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Because he's he just he goes off.
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Thought that hard he would yeah.
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Yeah.
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You're
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right.
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I'm surprised I am surprised that that particular project wasn't, like, 800 gigs large
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because it was there's so many clips.
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What is so beautiful.
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So many re recut recuts and and and great song.
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Michael, you're like a Freddie Mercury in the studio.
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Is this just like, and again, and again, and again.
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Yep.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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This was this was not a one shot take.
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Yeah.
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The oh, no.
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That song was a a a a nightmare.
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And many times, I was like, I'm just gonna wait to do this one.
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And Jason's like, no.
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I really believe in this song, and I really, really love it.
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We've we just gotta do it, dude.
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We just gotta buckle down.
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And it is it was arranged.
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This was one that I had actually arranged as if it was going to be a musical.
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Like, there are several in here that were basically I thought of myself on stage singing
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this, and I I pictured this.
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And I'm like, I get it.
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I totally get this.
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Different okay.
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So that's some ah, woah.
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No.
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You wouldn't wanna hear some of them because they were there's a lot of ah, fuck.
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There's so much is
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out of these Mostly
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it's me.
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Yes.
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It was like yeah.
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I'd just be like, just
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Our neighbors our neighbors hated us.
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Our our friends hated us when they would come over and visit.
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Like, would our dogs hated us.
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Sometimes you create a salon, and you paint yourself in a corner that there's no other way
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to do it.
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Like, you're you're already committed.
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And with that, the arrangement was pretty much set in my head.
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And laying it out, there was no way to like you said, the runs had to be a certain way.
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They could there wasn't a lot of freestyle because it was structured.
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It was a nightmare.
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Yeah.
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And and
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you paid your money for that.
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You know?
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For what I should have paid, paid your money for the b side.
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The those will never see the light of day
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Yeah.
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Ever.
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Yeah.
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And
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and I have a reputation to uphold.
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Yes.
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Screaming at my husband at 02:00 in the morning is not gonna do that.
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Yeah.
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Right.
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Well, I'm gonna scream at him now because we have gotta go on to the next song.
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So the next one, the voice.
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Okay.
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Voices of Appiah to Dawn.
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Tell everyone about bit about this.
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I love this I love this song, but this song was actually written in 2023.
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And I was watching so much of our country grasping with splitting in half and creating,
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like, a civil war within our own country.
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And continued.
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Why are we why are we focusing on things that separate us when there's so much common?
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You know, we there's so much that we all have in common with each other.
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Why are we constantly allowing people to separate us?
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Why are we jumping in and becoming puppets for people that wanna divide us when we are united.
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We are we're we all bleed the same blood.
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We you know?
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And so I wrote this song literally three years ago because I was I was inspired by a line that
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just popped in my head.
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I I wanna live in a world where everybody belongs.
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And that was the that's what started the song is I wrote that on paper, and I'm like, I want
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to create a song around that.
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I wanna live in a world where everybody belongs.
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And it's true.
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There's so much shit going on.
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And this song, I hope it everybody joins me.
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It's another one of those anthem songs.
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Duh.
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But it's an anthem
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anthem songs.
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But I hope it's an anthem song that everybody would sing along with me.
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There you go.
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Okay.
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Everybody, sing along with this one.
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It's voice for by the dawn.
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Let's go for it.
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In the silence of the night,
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I gaze upon a world in fight.
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So
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much pain, so much sorrow.
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In every shadow,
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there's a fight.
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I hear the whispers carried by the breeze.
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Lost hopes
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echo, begging us to see.
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But in the darkness, a spark ignite.
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A flame occur as blowing
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in that gray eye.
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The scars they carry are so high.
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From words that cut like sharp at Why must we tear each other down when
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we could lift each other off the ground?
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Why must we judge and criticize when acceptance could make us wholly wise?
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I am not naive or old fashioned to dream of a world for love is in rashes.
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It's a vision that's worth fighting for where compassion reigns forevermore.
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So with our hearts wide open, we will
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Hey.
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Look at that voice.
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Obviously, brought the people to the stage, Michael.
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We have got Jeffrey, and we also have got the one, the only Caden Gordon.
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How are we this evening?
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What's happening?
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Sorry.
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My my my camera's off just for a moment.
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I will I will be there.
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I'm just walking around right now, and you don't need to see this background.
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It's crazy.
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Hey.
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Hey.
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Hey.
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How we doing?
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Good.
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How are you doing, sir?
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Good.
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I said I would make it, and so I moved some things around, and now you're my you're all
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mine.
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So I'm here.
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I'm feeling honored.
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I promised I would be here for your big release party.
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Well, thank you, sir.
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I really appreciate it.
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You know, I support you.
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Yes.
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Jeffrey, this is Caden.
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Caden, this is Jeffrey.
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Hey, Jeffrey.
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Yeah.
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We're gonna talk we're gonna talk after the podcast.
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Ryan, this is Perfect.
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Ryan, this is Caden.
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Hello, Caden.
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Hey, Ryan.
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Ryan is my oldest friend in Seattle.
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Not the age oldest, but I the the friend that I met first.
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In fact, I met him when I was in Nashville before I moved to Seattle because I tried to
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find some friends with common interests on Facebook, and we just became friends.
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And so that's how
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I each other's guts at first.
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I didn't hate you.
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Yes.
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You did.
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Don't lie.
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You you hated my my my my self centeredness, which now has become a
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Because the very first day we met, we we all went to eat, and then Ryan's looked at me and
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said, would you buy my dinner for me?
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That's bold.
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That's bold.
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I love that.
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Thank you.
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I I I'm not afraid to be bold, and I'm not afraid to speak my mind and and and and and,
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you know
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I I didn't even really know him that well.
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I'm like, I guess.
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Yes.
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You you couldn't say no, could you?
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You were like, I mean, aren't it?
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I guess.
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I guess we will.
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So
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And and and you yourself, Michael, have known in this industry, you have to speak your mind,
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and you have to ask for things that you normally wouldn't ask for.
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That's true.
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I mean, you know By Aston Martins.
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Yeah?
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By Aston Martins.
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Still waiting.
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Still waiting.
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Yes.
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Bubba, where are you?
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We're still waiting.
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I thought Bubba would hop in here.
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He is I think he's in a meeting.
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Bubba starts, where are you?
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We are wanting you here for the amazing and the amazing Michael Cagels, a release of
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Confessions of a Broken Child, which releases time.
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Yes.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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So the next one is actually the track from the actual album itself.
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So broken child, I'm going to play that for everybody.
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What is this song all about?
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Okay.
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Well, this is a there's gonna be several songs that are gonna be very hard for me to listen
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to.
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So if I tear up, that's just hearing these songs and coming to life.
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This this song is a really personal song.
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I was dealing with a lot of serious depression.
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And like I said, I have a tremendous fear of failure, which is at times crippling.
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And Jason and I had a argument about a lot of some some things that were going on, mostly
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personal for me, that I made him have to deal with.
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And he literally said to me, you know, we just need to find out, you know, how you can
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overcome this.
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And this was, like, a catalyst for doing the album itself, actually.
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And I looked at him, and I said I remember very vividly.
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I said, I I just there are times I feel like I'm just a broken child, and I haven't grown up
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fully.
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And that became the catalyst for this song.
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And then I started delving into you know, I'm not putting a blame on, you know, my the way I
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was raised, but I that had something to do with it.
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You know?
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And and I was, like, I was gay when I was young.
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Like, I'm still gay, but I got picked on a lot.
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I mean, it was not the norm to have someone that was like me.
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You know?
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And I so I I've I've dealt with a lot of I've dealt with a lot of abuse both at home and at
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school, almost
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to
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the point where I almost took my life.
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It got that heavy.
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And so there are things that I dealt with.
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So this song kind of talks about that.
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This is a very, very raw personal, and it became the title track for the album.
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So
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Okay.
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So before we play, I just wanna say to you, Michael, all of us give lots and lots of love
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to you.
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There are loves flooding in from all our there.
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Okay?
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You've got love from everywhere, Even from France, it's well, okay, from France has given
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you some love.
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Has given you some love.
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The love is coming from everywhere, and we are all 100% behind you.
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So this is Gal and Myers as well and also Brenda.
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They wanna send you some love as well.
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Okay?
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So they're all listed in on various platforms, and, hopefully, they could all come and join
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us.
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Okay?
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So the next one is Broken Child.
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Listen.
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For all those who have joined us this evening and are live with us, please turn those
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microphones off because we all wanna hear this amazing, amazing song.
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There were no brooms
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you could see,
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but something shattered
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deep in you.
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The words they use cut worse than the nose, and silence filled the space they chose.
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At home, the walls would sometimes shake.
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Love was something I had to bathe.
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I wasn't soft, I was just strange, trying to fit to rearrange.
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The I never have what others had, but I'm still here, and that's not bad.
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I told myself it wouldn't last, that I'd outgrown the broken past.
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Yeah.
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But some things stay no matter time.
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They hide in corners of your mind.
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Still here I am, scarred not gone, still waking up, still holding on.
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I'm a broken child, and that's the truth.
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The China don't see in a folded rough of yield.
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I carry roams no light reveals, but they shape the way I learn to feel.
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I never had
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I used to miss.
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Laughter, peace, and authentic kiss.
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I chase the joy I once denied, but kid, I was still once beside.
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I hate the scars when now I see their proof of the fight I have to still be me.
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I'm a broken child, and that's the truth.
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Wow.
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I'm gonna go with Glenn Galen's comment first.
42:07
Oh my god.
42:08
So good.
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I am crying.
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Michael, are you okay?
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I saw you've cried in the background there, buddy.
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Are you okay?
42:14
It's a well, first of all, Galen is my brother.
42:19
Like, that's my boy.
42:20
That's that's and the fact he's watching this means everything, but it is I can only say, and
42:28
I and I know you're you're an artist.
42:31
And Jeffrey's an artist.
42:33
Brian's an artist.
42:34
When you when you have a vision in your head, whether you've written it or not, but
42:39
especially when you've written it, to hear it come to fruition and everything that you wanted
42:48
to say, it's out there.
42:51
It's like it's like you don't have to keep secrets or you don't have to bottle it in
42:57
anymore.
42:57
You can just say this is how I am or this is what I've gone through.
43:02
It is such an emotional release.
43:07
Like, I I can't believe that I was brave enough to write it, much less sing it, and then send
43:15
it out there.
43:16
But I know that there are other people that went through the same thing that I did, that
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some of them were afraid you know, ashamed or afraid to to say that they went through, you
43:25
know, a lot that as much as they try to say it didn't affect them, it really does.
43:32
And part of the healing process is just saying, I'm not gonna be ever I'm not gonna ever be
43:38
able to change the past.
43:39
That's what I went through, and I have to understand that that helps or has helped mold
43:46
me to who I am.
43:48
And what I do from that point on is up to me.
43:51
So, yeah,
43:54
It's really beautiful.
43:55
You know, Jeffrey, you've got, like, a little tear in your eye there as well, buddy.
43:59
You know, please, please, all of who's joined us this evening, give us some comments on the
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songs that you're hearing.
44:04
At the moment, I'm too well up to actually comment.
44:07
Michael I just I I wanna say, Michael, it it was it was interesting because it's a it's a
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rare song that that, like, chokes me up from the first note and that that the song started.
44:21
And I was just like, I felt just that tinge in my heart, and I was like, oh, here we go.
44:25
And and that was that was powerful, and I just wanna say, brother, I see you.
44:29
I love you, and I'm so I'm so glad that you're with us, and I'm glad that you're doing what
44:33
you were meant to be doing.
44:35
So this incredible.
44:37
Michael, it it relates to people.
44:39
It re it reveals a sense of humanity, the lyrics, and, and it tells us clear story that
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thousands of other people can relate to, I can guarantee you.
44:52
And that's what's so beautiful about it.
44:56
And we're so proud of you.
44:57
I open up your heart.
44:59
We really are, Michael.
45:00
And, seriously, it takes a lot for a songwriter to put where they're feeling in their lyrics
45:06
and show the world, and you've done that through that song.
45:09
And we are so proud of you.
45:11
We love every single lyric, and we love every single note.
45:15
And you can tell the emotion in that song so, so much, and I love it.
45:21
It's such a really great song.
45:23
Really, really great song.
45:25
Thank you.
45:25
Okay.
45:26
You're supposed to
45:26
be making me cry, like, ten in the morning.
45:28
Come on.
45:29
Yeah.
45:30
Well, it's gonna be there.
45:31
Jordan, Osei has joined us.
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Hiya, Jordan.
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How are you?
45:35
What's up, wifey?
45:36
She
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said it's a very powerful song.
45:42
I and
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thank you.
45:44
I I I just really I committed to being I didn't care what I sounded like vocally.
45:56
I only cared about driving the message at home.
46:01
Like, I I wanted to step on a mountain and say, this is who I am.
46:08
And so I made no apologies then.
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So there you go.
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Okay.
46:13
I'd go through a million lives.
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Tell everybody a bit about this, and then I'll get it ready for you.
46:18
Okay.
46:19
So this is a really cool song.
46:21
I I'm I'm kind of a romantic.
46:23
I obviously am My best friend is my husband.
46:30
Like, that's just the truth.
46:32
There's nobody we started out as best friends when we met.
46:36
We before we even became a couple or anything, we just were best friends, and it was a
46:41
relationship that was birthed out of that.
46:47
This song is I either write anthems or or sappy love songs, I guess.
46:55
But this is a song that I wrote visualizing in my head.
47:00
I want a studio to pick this song up because it's a fairy tale song for everybody that's in
47:08
love.
47:09
Like, when you're with a person that you know, you don't want time or death or anything to
47:18
separate you.
47:19
Like and so this song literally says that regardless of the situation, I I would do
47:27
whatever you'll hear the lyrics.
47:29
But that's that's kinda where it comes from.
47:32
And one of the hardest songs I've ever recorded in my life, This song stupid.
47:42
Like, I'm like, why did I do this?
47:45
You hear it, but it's oh.
47:48
Okay.
47:49
I'm gonna go through a mini live.
47:51
Spy bike.
47:51
Okay.
47:51
Go.
47:52
Let's put this one on.
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Whispered there's more down set of ness.
48:24
I knew something was missing I couldn't disguise.
48:28
A piece must be red light in my eyes.
48:33
Someone bound there was crawling my name.
48:37
I held on the hope you would feel in the shade.
48:41
When you showed up shining light through through the dark, you're the peace I was
48:47
missing tale.
49:35
Your every subplum as I always believed, that dream I was missing was you next to me.
49:43
Know all of my fish feel like Christmas but alive.
49:48
A life that A man tomorrows can never sever the smile that'll find you always forever.
52:18
Wow.
52:22
I I have my my my notes.
52:26
I I have five words.
52:27
I think that's my favorite.
52:29
I think that that's that's probably my top one of my top.
52:32
I have five words for you, Michael.
52:34
Get
52:34
And I have a challenge for you, Michael.
52:37
Any any morning radio show you do, start with that.
52:41
That one?
52:42
Start with that one.
52:43
Together.
52:43
What a comment,
52:44
That's a I I I got five words.
52:47
Give them the Grammy.
52:47
It was more so a joke because it's like, that's a really challenging song to be doing that
52:51
early in the morning.
52:52
Yeah.
52:52
Yeah.
52:53
It's
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you you where where's your Grammy, dude?
52:58
It's common, isn't it, Michael?
53:00
Amazing song.
53:01
Amazing song.
53:02
He was once told, Michael Cagle, we're recording this off song five now.
53:07
Okay?
53:08
You were once told that that Grammy, you had to be number one in a certain chart when I first
53:14
picked you up.
53:14
And I thought, do know what?
53:16
This gentleman should have 10 Grammys by now.
53:18
Not not one Grammy by now.
53:20
These songs are phenomenal.
53:22
They are literally
53:23
flying out,
53:24
and they are really phenomenal.
53:27
Yeah.
53:27
Just thank you.
53:28
I yeah.
53:30
God.
53:31
This is hard.
53:33
I I yeah.
53:34
Yeah.
53:35
This is yeah.
53:38
Yeah.
53:40
I literally poured every emotion that I possibly could into all of my songwriting
53:48
because I never thought I was a songwriter.
53:50
I I always thought I knew how to sell a song and but I never really thought that I had the
54:00
the talent or I I just listened to so many p other people, that I was just enamored with
54:08
songwriting wise.
54:09
And I I think the one key that I said with this is whether I fail or succeed with this, it's
54:16
gonna be real.
54:17
It's gonna be exactly what I wanna say, how I wanna say it, whether it comes across corny or
54:26
peep whatever.
54:27
I just I want it to be me.
54:28
So there you go.
54:29
I can't remember what film it is.
54:31
Failure is not an option.
54:33
We ain't got time for failure, Michael Cagle.
54:35
We're gonna be too busy this year.
54:40
Then go for this one, the next one.
54:42
The the okay.
54:43
So this was my attempt.
54:48
God.
54:49
I have always been a lot of people have compared you.
54:54
I can't even put you on top oh, my god.
54:56
Oh, Galen.
54:58
Thank you.
55:01
I love you, bud.
55:04
I love you, my brother.
55:05
I I have been compared to several different people, and and a lot of people have had
55:12
influence on my singing and my style.
55:15
And one was, everybody's like, you're you remind me a lot of Meatloaf because you're so
55:21
theatrical when you sing.
55:22
It's just like the movements and the things that you kinda do with your voice.
55:26
You just you're you're not typically you don't follow a lot of the same rules.
55:31
And I took that as a compliment, and I said, I wanted to do a dramatic kind of meatloaf rock
55:45
meatloaf rock song that would be at the end of a big Hollywood blockbuster.
55:53
Like and so I wrote that this with thinking I I think I had just seen twisters.
56:02
And so adjusting twisters, and so that movie was still in my head.
56:08
And so this is my version of what I would sing at the end of, like, the next Twisters movie
56:16
with a a nod to Meatwolf.
56:19
Fantastic.
56:20
Well, I'll tell you what.
56:21
For those listening, for those who are into Twisters, and for those who are going to be
56:25
putting out the next Twisters film, we want this one onto the next film.
56:28
Okay?
56:29
This is Stanford in the storm.
57:43
Can reach no better what we're exposed to.
57:52
I will stand strong.
1:02:13
Wow.
1:02:13
Wow.
1:02:13
Wow.
1:02:14
Wow.
1:02:14
Wow.
1:02:14
We we've got some lovely, lovely comments coming through from Keeney.
1:02:18
Wow.
1:02:18
I'm so incredibly proud of you, Michael.
1:02:21
I know how difficult it is to do this, and I'm watching.
1:02:24
If I need to do the same, did you want us to cry with every single song, LOL?
1:02:32
Totally agree.
1:02:33
Michael's on mute.
1:02:34
Let's unmute him so he can say what he's doing.
1:02:37
There you go.
1:02:38
Yeah.
1:02:40
I just I really do hope that what people will grab from this is the authenticity and the
1:02:50
feelings and the the emotion that was I'm trying you know, that I really wanted to
1:02:58
convey.
1:02:59
I felt like I don't know how many albums I can put out.
1:03:03
I don't even know how many people care, but I wanted to make sure that what I was putting out
1:03:09
really reflected who I am and so that somebody would listen to this and say, now I understand
1:03:17
why he is who he is.
1:03:19
And I and I get to I get to know him.
1:03:23
I always I've always liked authentic emotions.
1:03:28
Wow.
1:03:28
My god.
1:03:31
Should we read that out properly, Michael?
1:03:33
Come on.
1:03:33
Let's read about properly.
1:03:34
Authentic emotion comes through every song that is missing in so much of the industry right
1:03:39
now.
1:03:40
This is an artistry.
1:03:42
Wow.
1:03:44
Absolutely beautiful comment.
1:03:45
And I have to speak to him.
1:03:46
Galen is my brother.
1:03:49
Galen is a ridiculous singer.
1:03:54
Oh, he's great.
1:03:55
I mean, absolutely, Galen is one of the best vocalists I've ever had I've ever known, and he
1:04:03
is actually part of my tenor group.
1:04:06
There's three of us in the end of the tenor group, and he's one of them.
1:04:09
And he's a ear for harmony.
1:04:12
He's just incredible.
1:04:14
And I, you know, I will say this.
1:04:19
I'm glad he's watching the show because he's very lucky to be alive.
1:04:24
He is a survivor of a hit and run accident on his motorcycle, and he was left for dead.
1:04:30
The person just drove off.
1:04:31
And Galen is a strong, strong individual, and he was able he was able to pull through.
1:04:39
And now, of course, he's on the road to recovery, and I love him to death.
1:04:43
It means so much.
1:04:45
Not just words that he's saying, but the fact that he's alive and with us to say them is
1:04:53
amazing and is really the ultimate gift.
1:04:56
And he's so, so proud of you.
1:04:57
He really is.
1:04:58
Father looks to me.
1:04:59
You know, these beautiful comments come in.
1:05:01
This song, Michael, to me this song to me, Michael, says, this is this is a Michael that I
1:05:08
know and love.
1:05:10
And because you're just known to me as, like, the guy who just belts it out, and you just you
1:05:17
do so so seamlessly.
1:05:21
And you make it look easy.
1:05:24
And it's really not.
1:05:26
And and it the key change the key changes in there were incredible, and it just I mean,
1:05:32
Jason
1:05:33
I drove Jay that's funny.
1:05:35
I drove Jason crazy.
1:05:37
He's like, can we do a song without a key change, please?
1:05:42
Because I there wasn't a key there wasn't a time that I didn't wanna do a key change just
1:05:48
because I just grew up with that kind of theatrical background where here we're here
1:05:54
we're going into the climax of the song.
1:05:56
We need to yeah.
1:05:57
I that's cute that you picked that up.
1:05:59
I yes.
1:06:01
It's
1:06:02
Alright, mister.
1:06:03
The track number seven halfway through the album.
1:06:07
Okay?
1:06:07
So this one, don't count me out.
1:06:10
Tell us a bit about it.
1:06:11
Okay.
1:06:11
Well, this is very simple.
1:06:12
This is a lot of the song a lot of the songs, like I said, are anthems both to the people
1:06:19
that listen to them and me.
1:06:21
This one just talks about the fact that there was a lot of doubters.
1:06:26
And even putting this album together and then wanting to release it, people were talking a
1:06:31
lot of shit.
1:06:32
Like, you're just you're not good enough.
1:06:34
What makes you think you can do that?
1:06:35
Why would anybody want that?
1:06:37
There's I I deserve it more than you.
1:06:41
And so this song just talked about my desire of I've been I've been pushed down.
1:06:50
I've I've sat in you know, and put my dreams to the side, but I'm not finished yet.
1:06:59
Okay.
1:06:59
Well, you're definitely not finished because you got another album to come out, and we still
1:07:03
gotta get this one out.
1:07:03
So we're not going anywhere.
1:07:05
Okay?
1:07:05
Don't count Michael out because we are going to be around for a long, long time coming.
1:07:11
Face that I dreamed to beg to allow,
1:07:17
told me I should settle down.
1:07:22
Said
1:07:23
my voice would never matter that I burned before I'd shatter.
1:07:34
But I've walked through fires still on my feet, with
1:07:40
every scar I found barely.
1:07:44
I've been roped, bruised, and bound, but I'm still standing.
1:07:53
Watch me now.
1:07:56
Don't count me up.
1:07:58
I'm not done yet.
1:08:02
Gone a thousand miles.
1:08:04
No regrets.
1:08:08
Swinging wandering through my guard.
1:08:11
Every made promises in the dark, lit my wind like a burning spark.
1:08:42
But they say I wasn't good enough.
1:08:48
I'm about chasing dreams.
1:08:49
It's just too tough, but I've got tribe.
1:08:52
I've got no flame.
1:08:54
You'll remember my name.
1:08:58
Don't count me up.
1:09:01
I'm not done yet.
1:09:04
Got a dozen hours, no regrets.
1:09:10
Swinging one with full of gark.
1:09:13
Every time to steal my shot.
1:09:16
It's a long roadie year, no me out.
1:09:38
Do you remember my name?
1:09:42
Don't count me out.
1:09:46
I'm not done yet.
1:09:49
Got a thousand miles.
1:09:51
No regret.
1:09:53
Swinging hard with all my god.
1:10:12
Dozen us, no regrets.
1:10:17
Swing it hard with all I've got.
1:10:21
Every time to steal my shot.
1:10:24
It's a
1:11:08
And if
1:11:09
I fall, you know my name.
1:11:14
It's a long shot, but I'm still proud.
1:11:19
So don't count me.
1:11:22
Don't count me out.
1:11:27
Beautiful.
1:11:29
We do beautiful for you.
1:11:30
Beautiful.
1:11:31
Beautiful.
1:11:31
We have Maya who's come to the show.
1:11:34
Welcome, Maya.
1:11:35
How are you?
1:11:37
Disappeared in the background.
1:11:39
Hiya.
1:11:41
We can't hear you, sir.
1:11:43
We can't hear
1:11:43
There you go.
1:11:46
There we go.
1:11:47
Hi.
1:11:50
Sounds wonderful.
1:11:52
I love it.
1:11:53
I love you.
1:11:54
I love you, Dee.
1:11:56
Fantastic.
1:11:57
I know that you don't like being called an anthem writer, but, honestly, they inspire.
1:12:05
They really do.
1:12:06
Like, they lift you up.
1:12:08
No kidding.
1:12:10
And to to Maya's point, I wanna say, Michael, personally, I'm I'm gonna keep that one close
1:12:16
to my chest, to my heart for when I need it because I I too deal with a lot of people,
1:12:24
especially ones that used to be some of my closest friends that told me, dude, you're not
1:12:29
good enough.
1:12:30
I mean, like, you were you were cute in your acapella group, but trying to do your own
1:12:33
thing, you're just not good enough.
1:12:35
And then even booking agents in the casino circuit are like, you're not gonna make it on
1:12:39
your own.
1:12:40
And, you know, it's just that that anthem was powerful.
1:12:43
It just it it it reignites it helps re keep the fire ignited, if you will, in in my heart to
1:12:49
just be like, you know what?
1:12:50
I'm gonna keep pushing regardless.
1:12:52
I love that.
1:12:53
I love that.
1:12:54
And, no, I don't give a crap what anybody says.
1:12:58
You're the real deal, Jeffrey.
1:13:00
So He certainly did.
1:13:02
Jeffrey, just so you know, you've got people fighting for you.
1:13:05
Everybody wants your signature, mister.
1:13:10
I'll happily give it.
1:13:11
Where's the Sharpie?
1:13:12
Hand it to me.
1:13:13
Alright.
1:13:16
Anyway, just I've gotta read this one out.
1:13:18
Megan Hardy.
1:13:19
I think this is such a lovely, lovely message.
1:13:21
I love everything you have done, Michael.
1:13:23
You put your whole heart into everything you have created.
1:13:27
I love that I can turn my Spotify and hear your voice and how far you have made it.
1:13:33
It's soothing to on my drives during the day.
1:13:36
I brag to everyone who hears it and how proud of you I am.
1:13:41
Hey, Ryan.
1:13:43
BGW.
1:13:44
Megan, that's beautiful.
1:13:47
Thank you so much, Megan.
1:13:48
Thank you.
1:13:49
And, Maya, I have to say thank you.
1:13:51
I know you're on work, you're you're doing this on your lunch break.
1:13:55
I love you.
1:13:55
This woman is a classical diva, like, miss opera, miss yes.
1:14:05
And she's probably we're she's gotta be my long lost sister because we are just kinda twins.
1:14:15
Like, it's
1:14:16
We really are.
1:14:17
We really are.
1:14:18
And I love her to death.
1:14:20
She's yes.
1:14:21
She's somebody that has made my life better by being in my life.
1:14:26
I could say the same.
1:14:28
I know.
1:14:28
This is lovely.
1:14:31
I love this.
1:14:32
Okay.
1:14:32
So tonight is Michael Cagle's release of his brand new album, Confessions of a Broken Child.
1:14:40
You are literally seven songs through, Michael.
1:14:43
We have seven great songs, and we are now quarter past seven.
1:14:48
So I reckon that we should give Michael a bit of time to go and get some Scooby Stacks.
1:14:54
Okay?
1:14:54
And also go and grab himself a coffee.
1:14:57
We're not gonna have the pure and easy tea coffee break.
1:15:00
We are gonna do a coffee break only the way than which Michael can do a coffee break.
1:15:05
So I'm gonna let everybody have a five, six minute break.
1:15:09
If you need to go for the toilet break or go and get an ice cream from the auditorium,
1:15:13
please go and get an ice cream because Michael would like to bring to the stage himself, and
1:15:19
we will be back with you in about five minutes.
1:15:22
Okay?
1:15:22
We're just gonna take a quick break so everybody can get a bit of a comfort break
1:15:26
because it's gonna be a long show.
1:15:28
Okay?
1:15:29
Because we've got another seven songs to come along.
1:15:32
And if you're not joining us, please come and join us for the party.
1:15:35
Okay?
1:15:35
Enjoy your Scooby Stacks.
1:15:37
This is the one, the only, Michael Cagle.
1:15:47
How the heck do I get out of here?
1:15:50
Okay.
1:15:51
I had the chance, I'd go back in time.
1:15:54
Love
1:15:54
that song.
1:15:55
The moments I left behind.
1:15:58
But I would only change what I've been through if I knew it would still lead me to you.
1:16:05
Yes.
1:16:05
I take it up, the joy, the pain, but I need your love to remain.
1:16:14
Thy gods was anything.
1:17:27
Not
1:17:30
I'm
1:17:31
to to I'm but the sweetest love waits on the other side.
1:18:32
So take a risk with me.
1:18:35
Step into the mystery.
1:19:18
Believing in me again.
1:19:23
Search you for loving me.
1:19:27
Through my fire and my fight, call me yours undying.
1:19:35
I'm not changing or adapting through every fire and all this
1:20:40
Hi, everybody.
1:20:41
Have we had our comfort break?
1:20:44
Oh, yeah.
1:20:45
Michael just literally texted.
1:20:47
Look.
1:20:47
He's so professional.
1:20:48
Look at this.
1:20:52
Everybody I'm getting all these cool texts and messages.
1:20:57
Oh, it's lovely.
1:20:59
I love it.
1:21:00
Okay.
1:21:03
Alright, Michael.
1:21:04
We can catch up with the techs after the show.
1:21:06
We're gonna be here all night.
1:21:08
Okay?
1:21:08
Yeah.
1:21:08
It.
1:21:10
We have a whole another six hours to go, Michael.
1:21:12
Come on.
1:21:13
Right.
1:21:16
Okay.
1:21:16
Michael, let's get on to track number eight, which is Mirror of the Soul.
1:21:22
Let's go on to that one.
1:21:23
Tell us a bit about it.
1:21:24
I you know, I one of my favorite one of my absolute favorite Michael Jackson songs was Man
1:21:36
in the Mirror.
1:21:37
And I thought that is such a great way such a great song that talks about someone saying they
1:21:47
need to start with themselves.
1:21:48
And I and I thought, you know, what about if we expanded this?
1:21:55
And I wanted to capture kind of an r and b field, but I said, what about if I we capture
1:22:00
that kind of thing, but for all of us, for each person rather than just, you know, them you
1:22:10
know, just myself singing it.
1:22:11
What about if there was a mirror that revealed who we really were despite all the fashion and
1:22:19
makeup and and purple hair dye we wear.
1:22:25
We love that purple hair.
1:22:26
Okay.
1:22:26
Mirror of the soul, everybody.
1:22:47
A little polished
1:22:50
to face the day.
1:22:53
Spray a little courage,
1:22:56
wear a little pride, but it only touches what's outside.
1:23:07
What if the glass could seem much more, compassion evil love or pride would we shine
1:23:33
within the way we shine outside would we learn to love instead of just to hide?
1:23:45
The mirror doesn't lie.
1:23:48
It opens up our eyes.
1:23:51
Real beauty lives in kindness Would you stand proud of what you see?
1:24:42
The truth will shine, it can't be blurred.
1:24:47
No filter hides the weight of The mirror doesn't lie.
1:26:51
It shows the light inside.
1:26:56
And the beauty of the soul will always
1:27:30
Wow.
1:27:31
Wow.
1:27:31
Wow.
1:27:34
Do you know what?
1:27:35
I I don't know what it is about you, Michael.
1:27:36
I'm I'm I'm sorry.
1:27:37
I've gotta say this as as a very good friend and also one who is promoting this album.
1:27:43
I always get halfway through an album, and I'm always worried what the b side's gonna be like.
1:27:48
But with you, I know that it's just gonna continue to be phenomenal.
1:27:52
You know you know, we're on track eight now, and every single one of them, I've got hairs on
1:27:58
my arms, on my legs, everywhere, which is standing up on end because it's just the power
1:28:04
of your voice comes through every single track is phenomenal.
1:28:09
There's not many artists out there who could do that.
1:28:11
There really isn't.
1:28:12
There really isn't.
1:28:13
And it's pleasure a working with you.
1:28:15
Oh, I best decision I ever did was connect with you and and I there's been a lot of people that
1:28:24
have helped that I I could you know, and are still helping.
1:28:30
But as mentor and your guidance and friendship and support and us, wisdom and insight has been
1:28:41
so pivotal.
1:28:43
Like, the last six weeks we've been or we've known each other for a bit, but we've really
1:28:49
gotten for about two and a half months or three months, and that has been just an explosion.
1:28:57
I encourage
1:28:59
So excited.
1:29:00
I am so
1:29:01
excited to know
1:29:02
I love the line in that song, Michael.
1:29:04
I love the the the the phrase, real beauty lives in kindness that never dies, and that
1:29:10
could not be very more more that that that that is so true.
1:29:14
That phrase is so true, and and that that just sticks out.
1:29:18
And and you and I are gonna have a nice long hour conversation today, so make sure you're
1:29:23
available today because I got some ideas.
1:29:27
You and I are you're you know what I'm talking about already.
1:29:31
Jeffrey, bless him.
1:29:31
How are doing, Jeffrey?
1:29:33
Are you with us now?
1:29:34
I'm back.
1:29:36
You're back.
1:29:38
Welcome back, Jeffrey.
1:29:40
Yeah.
1:29:41
I don't know what I did wrong, but it I I could hear you guys, but I couldn't hear the song.
1:29:44
I was like, what is happening?
1:29:46
So I couldn't tell if, like, I was like, are we waiting for the song to start?
1:29:49
And then it looked like y'all were listening to it.
1:29:50
So I was like, what what am I doing wrong?
1:29:54
Well, if anybody's missing tonight's show, do not worry.
1:29:57
It's being recorded on YouTube where you can rewind the show and watch this as many times as
1:30:03
you want.
1:30:03
But at its release day, it means that it's gonna be going to many, many records and albums
1:30:10
and radio stations and podcasts.
1:30:13
We are going to be hearing a lot more of this, Michael.
1:30:15
It's only day one.
1:30:17
Okay?
1:30:19
This means so much.
1:30:21
I I I can't even tell you.
1:30:23
Fantastic.
1:30:24
Okay.
1:30:25
Let's go for the next one then.
1:30:26
So was that that one?
1:30:28
What's the next one on the list?
1:30:30
We have got this is wake up and claim it.
1:30:34
Okay.
1:30:35
This is a song.
1:30:41
This is another anthem.
1:30:44
Duh.
1:30:45
What a shot.
1:30:46
Really?
1:30:47
I knew.
1:30:48
What?
1:30:49
That's such a novelty.
1:30:52
This one just talks about it's okay to have a dream and a goal.
1:31:02
It's okay to support everybody else, but don't don't ever stop focusing on your dreams and
1:31:12
your needs because you're the best person to take care of those.
1:31:17
And so this song just kind of there's an anthem about doing that.
1:31:23
So there you go.
1:31:23
Fantastic.
1:31:24
Wake up and climb, everybody.
1:31:32
Castles in the clouds and neigh across the sky.
1:31:38
See yourself a champion standing in the light.
1:31:43
No fear of the distance, just wings built for fight.
1:31:50
Then the world gets heavy, storms begin to talk, whispers of you'll never make it shadow
1:31:59
every walk.
1:32:02
Doubt taps on your window, tries to settle in your chest.
1:32:07
But that's just the test before you rise above the rest.
1:32:13
A dream's just a dream till you wake up and claim it.
1:32:16
Anything with heaven makes you fight just to name it.
1:32:19
You'll hear a thousand notes who build your skin thick.
1:32:22
If it came too easy, you'll forget every bit.
1:32:26
When you stand on the mountain carved out of your pain, you'll know it was worth every fight
1:32:36
in the rain.
1:32:37
A dream's just a dream.
1:32:43
So wake up and clean.
1:32:45
Let's say the road is broken.
1:32:46
Let's say the cost is high.
1:32:50
Try to sell you comfort just to watch your fire die.
1:32:56
But still get stronger with the hammer and the flame.
1:33:02
Gold don't shine for nothing.
1:33:05
You gotta earn that name.
1:33:08
So hold on to that vision.
1:33:11
You're young to self believe.
1:33:14
Reach higher when you stumble.
1:33:17
Find the power when you bleed.
1:33:21
Hope's a restless soldier marching through the night.
1:33:26
You're the only one who owns it.
1:33:30
You decide to fight.
1:33:32
A dream's just a dream till you wake up and claim it.
1:33:35
Anything worth having makes you fight just to name it.
1:33:38
You'll hear it doesn't know, so build your skin thick.
1:33:41
If it can too easy, you forget everything.
1:33:45
When you stand on that mountain carved out of your pain, you'll know it was worth every
1:33:54
fight.
1:33:55
And a rain dream's just a dream.
1:34:27
In beds.
1:34:28
Give it what you own.
1:34:34
When your hands are bleeding, when your spirit's thin, when the nights feel endless,
1:34:43
let that fire in.
1:34:45
Close your eyes, see that child reaching for the sky.
1:34:51
Promise you'll never miss dream.
1:34:55
Just there.
1:35:01
A dream's just a dream till you wake up and claim it.
1:35:04
Anything with heaven makes you fight just a name it.
1:35:07
You'll hear it doesn't know.
1:35:09
So good as you can think.
1:35:10
If it can do either you forget everything.
1:35:13
But when you stand up at the mountain, coughed out of your pain, you'll know it was worse.
1:35:22
Every fight in the rain, I change just a j.
1:35:55
Yes.
1:35:56
King of the key changes.
1:35:59
God.
1:36:01
Jason was killing me.
1:36:03
I hate you.
1:36:06
That's so funny.
1:36:06
King of the key changes.
1:36:08
Oh, I like being off of the the the when you when when in that song, when one of your verses
1:36:14
was ending and then you came in and and started the second, that that was really cool.
1:36:18
Yeah.
1:36:19
That's that's that's my
1:36:20
Was that your idea or was that Jason's?
1:36:24
I think that kind of was a mix.
1:36:26
He loves doing that.
1:36:27
He does that in quite a few things.
1:36:29
He's like, I want I just wanna feel like one thing sometimes is connected to the other, and
1:36:33
then it's it's spit you know?
1:36:35
So, yeah, Jason is a genius.
1:36:39
I mean, really, he's I I come up with really good arrangements, and he finds a way to make
1:36:46
them happen.
1:36:47
Let's talk about and
1:36:48
I got a bit I got bit.
1:36:49
Well, let's talk about you and Jason because you I there's not many people
1:36:53
who who You were gonna
1:36:54
say well.
1:36:54
And work together so well.
1:36:57
Yes.
1:36:59
You know, where did you meet?
1:37:01
We met in college.
1:37:04
Okay.
1:37:05
So we met in college and yeah.
1:37:12
We met in college in 1995.
1:37:17
Oh, wow.
1:37:18
And we were both in the an an elite an elite jazz group in college.
1:37:28
And I was singing first tenor, and he sings first tenor.
1:37:33
And it's a long story.
1:37:41
But we for me, I I I fell in love, like, instantly.
1:37:48
In fact, one of the songs talks about on this album.
1:37:50
It's cute.
1:37:52
And I just immediately knew, uh-oh.
1:37:54
I'm in trouble because this was the this was the person.
1:37:59
And we became best friends.
1:38:05
I mean, absolute best friends.
1:38:06
Nothing romantic.
1:38:08
Nothing physical.
1:38:10
We were just it was all based on emotion and chemistry and compassion and are the same
1:38:16
likes.
1:38:16
And we just became best, best friends.
1:38:19
And about three years after that, we jumped in in 1999 and became a couple.
1:38:26
And we have stuck through the highs and the lows and everything.
1:38:33
And I couldn't have a better partner in my corner than than him.
1:38:41
He he's
1:38:42
You two are phenomenal together.
1:38:43
You really are.
1:38:44
The producer and vocalist.
1:38:46
You know, to what you put together is absolutely phenomenal.
1:38:48
I just wanted to reflect that on a bit because it's reflected by your brother, and I'm gonna
1:38:52
read this out and have a lovely message for you.
1:38:55
It's such an honor to watch your progression over the past few years, your writing, your
1:39:00
control, the restraint, the production value.
1:39:03
Exceptional growth and dedication has come together to create a total magic.
1:39:08
Shout out to Jason Kate as well.
1:39:11
I love you so much for supporting my brother and his dreams so completely.
1:39:15
For those of you who don't know Jason, he doesn't run to the spotlight.
1:39:20
He steadies the spotlight.
1:39:22
Love you both.
1:39:23
God, he's just broke.
1:39:25
That is true.
1:39:26
And and and and I I've met Jason.
1:39:29
And Jason Mhmm.
1:39:31
Jason would say I'm an acquired taste.
1:39:37
But when when I see the two the two of them together and we got to spend a a week in in
1:39:44
Florida together, all three of us, and that was a fun fun experience.
1:39:50
Jason is so loving and supportive of of Michael, his husband, and the two of them are
1:39:56
inseparable.
1:39:57
I you can't have Jason without Michael.
1:40:00
You can't have Michael without Jason.
1:40:02
It's just not possible.
1:40:04
And that's that's what true love is, truly.
1:40:09
And and I wish the same for everybody else out there.
1:40:12
Thank you.
1:40:13
So in your eyes, Michael, what's this song all about?
1:40:16
So
1:40:17
I was gonna say the last song I actually wrote to my younger self.
1:40:22
That was a letter that a song that I wrote to my so that that's how that tied up.
1:40:27
But okay.
1:40:27
So in your eyes, literally, I just explained it.
1:40:31
This literally talks about the first time when I first saw Jason.
1:40:36
So I you actually asked the right question leading into you asked the right question
1:40:42
leading into the song.
1:40:44
So basically, what I just said to you about where I met him and everything, this is it.
1:40:49
Fantastic.
1:40:50
Elias, everybody.
1:40:51
Cadence has joined us just in time to listen to this great track.
1:40:55
Hello.
1:41:04
Say hello, just scared to show why.
1:41:08
What I felt so fast I kept
1:41:11
talking inside.
1:41:13
Fragi and stuff then gently let it slide.
1:41:17
So
1:41:43
me.
1:41:44
Have been a clue you solder, you widow, every skies.
1:41:51
Wait for the world, but it's real in your eyes.
1:41:58
We built something strong without a single raj.
1:42:04
Best friends first, no pressure,
1:42:07
no hush.
1:42:08
Through every storm, we learn how to bend.
1:42:13
What start in silence of love in the end, we were just too hard.
1:42:20
Learning how to trust.
1:42:22
Now look at
1:42:23
us, no fear just us.
1:43:48
Now I see forever when I look in your eyes.
1:43:54
Confess.
1:43:56
I don't know what you saw in me, but I'm glad you did.
1:44:01
So fearful to approach you I'd almost hate.
1:44:13
See, not every song I write makes you wanna cry and and and go into a deep depression.
1:44:19
No.
1:44:19
No.
1:44:20
That just no.
1:44:21
That one just had a it has a Nick Jonas feel to it.
1:44:24
Yeah.
1:44:26
Like
1:44:26
that.
1:44:27
That's the one you could send send over to your partner, like, you know, just like, yeah.
1:44:32
I it's really good.
1:44:33
It's really, really good.
1:44:35
Each day was different, and I wanted to you know, I knew I was writing some heavy stuff,
1:44:41
and I was writing stuff that couldn't you know, you can't, I'm a broken child.
1:44:47
You know, you can't do something like that.
1:44:49
You just can't.
1:44:50
So I knew that I knew the material was getting heavy, and so I wanted to Hey.
1:44:55
Look at this.
1:44:56
Look at this for a compliment.
1:44:57
Hang on.
1:44:57
Your brother says getting Ed Sheeran vibes.
1:45:00
Yay.
1:45:00
How are doing?
1:45:01
That's what Jay and Jason
1:45:04
Yeah. Helped
1:45:04
Helped
1:45:04
Jason helped me with that because I'm like, I want this kind of I don't want a lot.
1:45:10
I I want it just to be kind of a feel good, not, you know, Caribbean kind of feel, but just
1:45:18
kind of a yeah.
1:45:20
Island.
1:45:21
And and we we put something together, I think, that was really fun and still was authentic.
1:45:27
I mean, it tells an honest to goodness story about what but there you go.
1:45:33
I love it, Michael.
1:45:34
That's great.
1:45:35
Thank you.
1:45:36
Okay.
1:45:36
Unbroken in your lie.
1:45:38
Let's go for track number 11.
1:45:40
Okay.
1:45:41
So this song is a really, really personal song, and there are little key lines in all the songs
1:45:48
that connect to the title of the like, standing through the storm, it says, stand here
1:45:52
unbroken.
1:45:53
I throw I've have thrown little lines and broken lines here and there, to tie the album
1:46:00
together.
1:46:01
This song is literally me honestly saying, yes.
1:46:07
I've acknowledged who I am, what I've gone through, how it shaped me, how it's molded me.
1:46:16
But then I looked at it from how does that affect my relationship with other people,
1:46:22
especially with someone as important to me as my husband.
1:46:27
Like, because he has to deal with you know, there are times that, you know, I I don't know
1:46:34
how he hasn't hit me over the head with a shovel and said, Just because I can be
1:46:42
incredibly mercurial well, stubborn.
1:46:47
Yeah.
1:46:47
But it's very material.
1:46:49
Stubborn, never.
1:46:51
Yeah.
1:46:51
No.
1:46:52
Don't believe that.
1:46:53
But this song just kind of says that a thank you for him standing by me while I was going
1:47:06
through all the issues that were coming up or that I had hidden or tried to press down that
1:47:14
were starting to rise.
1:47:16
And so this is kind of, yeah, that kind of song.
1:47:19
It's an emotional song.
1:47:21
Be prepared.
1:47:22
Okay.
1:47:23
Get your tissues out, everyone.
1:47:24
This is gonna be another tearjerker.
1:47:26
I'm poking in your light.
1:47:41
I came with cracks I've tried to hide,
1:47:49
carrying pieces of the life I never asked for, pieces that still wake me up some nights.
1:48:02
I've been stubborn when I should have been soft, closed off when I should have let in.
1:48:12
But you've stayed even when my storms rolled through.
1:48:19
You've held my hand and called me home again.
1:48:27
True healing from the past means not leaning on it like an excuse.
1:49:47
Ceasing even when the world thought I was a fool.
1:49:59
And you never made me feel too much, never made me feel like I had to change.
1:50:08
You just stand there steady and sure while I learn how to give my love without shame.
1:50:24
True healing from the past means not leaning on it like an excuse.
1:50:36
It's standing here Every day's a win because you're still here believing in me again.
1:51:04
Thank you for loving me.
1:51:08
Through We're
1:51:19
to
1:51:37
And every time I start to doubt myself, you remind me what forever really means.
1:51:52
True healing from the past means looking forward more than I look behind.
1:52:29
I've got your trust.
1:52:33
Thank you for loving me through the dark and the light.
1:52:40
Come me yours
1:53:07
Awesome.
1:53:08
Awesome.
1:53:09
Awesome.
1:53:09
I love a tearjerker.
1:53:12
Will you stop it?
1:53:13
I know.
1:53:14
Sorry.
1:53:16
What?
1:53:17
I said just I'm like, dude, just
1:53:20
Just stop it.
1:53:21
Michael, just stop it.
1:53:22
Seriously.
1:53:24
I'm entering this album in the Josies.
1:53:27
You should.
1:53:27
This this is gonna have everybody crying in the Josies.
1:53:31
I'll tell you.
1:53:33
You should also put it into the Hollywood independent artists.
1:53:38
And ISSA.
1:53:39
Yeah.
1:53:40
I'm I'm going to do everything I can to try to really push out.
1:53:44
I'm proud of this, not because I think I'm phenomenal, but I just feel like It's this
1:53:50
album has the real potential to go through and hit people where they Yeah.
1:53:57
Where they live and and inspire or touch or make them feel like it's it's okay.
1:54:04
We we all kind of you know, all have all have gone through hell.
1:54:08
All of us have secret battles or secret things that they they're trying to deal with that, you
1:54:14
know, they don't want other people to know, but they just want to feel that they're not by
1:54:19
themselves.
1:54:20
So that's kinda where I'm at.
1:54:22
So there you go.
1:54:23
It's very true.
1:54:24
I think you I think, you know, even if you don't get them, then nominated for it, it's
1:54:32
that's not what matters.
1:54:33
What matters is that people will listen to the songs and hear the message.
1:54:38
Yeah.
1:54:38
Amen to that.
1:54:39
I agree.
1:54:40
But I won awards.
1:54:42
Won awards.
1:54:44
Who doesn't want awards?
1:54:47
Does I get an award for biggest fan?
1:54:50
Biggest what?
1:54:51
Exactly.
1:54:51
Biggest fan.
1:54:53
Yeah.
1:54:54
Maybe?
1:54:54
All good, though.
1:54:55
I mean, because I've been there since I've been there for you since beginning.
1:54:59
So, you know, just saying.
1:55:01
I'm just saying.
1:55:02
Do know?
1:55:02
We did.
1:55:03
We just want a bit of a pin badge on each other.
1:55:05
You know?
1:55:06
Kaiden, you know, we have got a job between all of us to get this amazing album out, and it is
1:55:13
not gonna be hard to push.
1:55:14
It really isn't, Michael.
1:55:16
You have got nothing to worry about.
1:55:18
We've got literally probably, like, three or four more great tracks to come from the album,
1:55:23
but, you know, we've got no worries on this album.
1:55:26
And everybody has been saying tonight with certain tracks, they've got certain tracks that
1:55:31
have really hit them hard.
1:55:33
You know, Tissue's ready.
1:55:34
You've had people in tears.
1:55:35
You've had loves everywhere.
1:55:37
You've had people, like, resonating with all of the words.
1:55:41
You are a great songwriter.
1:55:43
You know, the amount of times you've told me, you know, I'm not a songwriter, you know, and
1:55:47
all this.
1:55:48
Whatever.
1:55:50
You know, these are absolutely phenomenal lyrics that you are putting in every single one
1:55:55
of these songs today.
1:55:57
I have really are.
1:55:58
I have finally gotten to the point where I say you know, I always felt like I could write
1:56:04
lyrics, but I just never really felt like I was a songwriter songwriter, and we'll make waves
1:56:11
that truly matter.
1:56:12
Oh my gosh.
1:56:13
Thank you, Jeffrey.
1:56:18
Bobby is in the background.
1:56:20
He's having some problems tonight, but he wishes you all the very best.
1:56:24
Okay, Marshall?
1:56:24
He's just really busy.
1:56:26
I like the fact that his messages pop up on Facebook while we were reading it.
1:56:31
Perfect.
1:56:32
Yeah.
1:56:32
We can find out what you're saying.
1:56:34
We'll watch what you're up to.
1:56:35
You know?
1:56:36
So bless you.
1:56:37
Bless you, Bubba.
1:56:38
We know our heart is with you.
1:56:39
We hope that you can join us sometime before we go.
1:56:42
But if you can't, we know that you are in body and mind and spirit for Michael and support him
1:56:47
in an end of his endeavors, especially being a brand new host on the unsigned spotlight.
1:56:54
And it's the end of the week.
1:56:55
It's Friday, Friday, Friday.
1:56:57
And what a great show this is becoming.
1:56:59
We are now two hours into your amazing party.
1:57:03
And You're welcome.
1:57:05
You're Michael.
1:57:05
Your music, Michael.
1:57:08
Oh,
1:57:08
love your music.
1:57:11
It's a
1:57:11
full house.
1:57:12
It is a full house, Bubba.
1:57:14
We have had a full house.
1:57:15
We've had so many great guests, and we've also had so many great comments.
1:57:18
It's been really hard as a producer to try and keep up with everything what's going on.
1:57:22
Anyway, we are on the next track, which is let me go.
1:57:28
No apologies.
1:57:29
Okay.
1:57:31
Alright.
1:57:32
I love this song because I this was my moment to say Yeah.
1:57:42
I'm here.
1:57:45
I'm doing it.
1:57:47
I'm making I don't give a Yeah.
1:57:51
Give a shit.
1:57:51
I I give a shit.
1:57:53
About what you talk about, what you tried to sow, what you're trying to do if you're if you
1:58:02
know what?
1:58:03
I don't have time for you.
1:58:05
And and, obviously, if you're this much obsessed with what I'm doing with my career,
1:58:12
bitch or a fan, whether you did it or not.
1:58:15
So
1:58:15
Amen to that.
1:58:16
So Amen.
1:58:18
And, you know, every album should have one of these songs on.
1:58:21
And this this is my this is my this is my I'm here.
1:58:25
This is what I do, and I'm I'm establishing my community, my kingdom, my empire with the
1:58:33
people that I love.
1:58:34
And if you're not part of that, baby, there's the door.
1:58:39
See you later.
1:58:40
So I'll tell you what, there's no apologies about.
1:58:42
There's no apologies about the fact that Michael's going to every single award show this
1:58:46
year and taking home all the awards.
1:58:47
So there's no apologies.
1:58:49
It's all going to his house.
1:58:50
No apologies, everyone.
1:58:58
Okay.
1:59:01
Alright.
1:59:19
Spoons, no easy pants.
1:59:23
So if you don't like it, then kiss my ass.
1:59:28
Keep your whispers, your doubts, and your games.
1:59:33
I drown on my with my growing fan.
1:59:37
Talk all you want, I'll still be here.
1:59:42
It's obvious I'm what you feel.
1:59:47
This is my moment, place.
2:00:19
Don't go down for your end to throw with my empire all on my own.
2:00:29
You're busy talking with nothing to say.
2:00:33
I'm busy winning, paving my way.
2:00:38
Keep your whispers, your doubts, and your games.
2:00:42
I drown them out with my growing fame.
2:00:47
Tough go you are, I'll still be here.
2:00:52
It's obvious I'm what you fear.
2:00:57
This is my moment, grave years of our soul go by name.
2:02:02
No apologies.
2:02:04
I won't bend.
2:02:06
No fake smiles.
2:02:33
Down.
2:02:34
Do you wanna shout?
2:02:36
Let it bring your best.
2:02:39
If you can't hang, join all the rest.
2:03:04
I love it.
2:03:05
I love it.
2:03:06
This is one which I was like, oh, that's
2:03:09
a little 13 song?
2:03:11
It was a p t thirteen song.
2:03:13
This is, like, up yours everybody.
2:03:15
This is by the way, but no one else.
2:03:17
It's a PG.
2:03:18
It's PG.
2:03:19
It's not that.
2:03:19
I'm yeah.
2:03:21
You I yeah.
2:03:22
I guess PG.
2:03:23
It's PG.
2:03:24
But, yeah, I just you know, I wanted to do something fun that was poking fun of, you know
2:03:31
People that are poking fun of you.
2:03:33
Sitting around.
2:03:34
And, you know, I hope this song catches on because I think this would be a great number
2:03:38
for a bunch of drag queens to do.
2:03:40
That's what I'm saying.
2:03:42
Because I
2:03:43
just think I could just see them just like because it
2:03:46
was see this being a now RuPaul theme RuPaul Drag Race theme.
2:03:51
Yeah.
2:03:51
You know?
2:03:52
So, I mean, it it it's it's but it's true.
2:03:56
It's like it's so hard for people to achieve their dreams and their goals as it is.
2:04:03
Why do you wanna be someone that is also another part of that, seriously?
2:04:09
Eighty's movie.
2:04:10
Hello.
2:04:10
What Jeffy's put here is, seriously, eighties movies montage aren't from anyone where the
2:04:15
hero is getting his shit together and getting ready to dominate.
2:04:19
Totally agree.
2:04:20
I love this the I love the different styles of music that you hear in this song.
2:04:26
It started off and I wanted it.
2:04:28
I I wanted it to be something where people felt like they knew where it was gonna go because it
2:04:36
was like, okay.
2:04:37
This is kind of, oh, okay.
2:04:39
And then
2:04:39
It started out to me as it sounded like a smooth jazz song at the beginning.
2:04:43
It was.
2:04:44
Okay.
2:04:44
Cool.
2:04:44
And then just surprised you.
2:04:46
It musically surprised you, and I like I like that.
2:04:50
And I I yes.
2:04:52
I and that was completely intentional.
2:04:55
George Michael meets Sam Smith says you bother.
2:04:58
Oh, goddamn.
2:05:00
My.
2:05:01
That's a great reference for sure.
2:05:03
Alright.
2:05:04
And Jeffrey says this is going on his workout playlist.
2:05:13
Love it.
2:05:14
Yeah.
2:05:15
Love it.
2:05:15
What what did papa say?
2:05:16
He said it made me feel like I was in my with the top down.
2:05:20
I didn't know what?
2:05:21
I'm going to buy some cocaine.
2:05:23
Papa.
2:05:27
I love you, mama.
2:05:30
Now we know now we know where all the show's money's going.
2:05:33
Mean, it's going on in the barbers.
2:05:34
Oh my god.
2:05:34
Ferrari.
2:05:36
Well, I mean, how expensive is Ferrari.
2:05:41
Oh my god.
2:05:42
Okay.
2:05:43
That could be the joke of the day.
2:05:45
It could definitely.
2:05:46
Okay.
2:05:47
So we are nearly towards the end of this fantastic album, penultimate song.
2:05:53
This is I Look Within.
2:05:55
Tell us about this one.
2:05:56
Okay.
2:05:57
So a lot of people don't know.
2:05:58
I come from a really very diverse background.
2:06:03
Not only theater and musicals shaped a lot of who I am.
2:06:11
I I spent a long time doing strictly gospel music.
2:06:19
I started off singing only gospel and did concerts across the country, was on TV,
2:06:26
national TV, international TV singing gospel music.
2:06:31
And one thing led to another, and, obviously, not every church agrees with who I am or what I
2:06:41
am or whatever.
2:06:42
And I I can't deny who I am for the sake of being welcome, but my faith has always been
2:06:51
something that's very important to me.
2:06:53
And I'm not an overly religious person.
2:06:56
I don't stick it down people's throats, and I think that nobody has the full answer anyway.
2:07:02
But, you know, if you're on a highway drive and you have a destination you're going to, if you
2:07:09
take a different road to get there, then that's that's cool for you.
2:07:13
So but this song is just kind of a reflection on part of part of my life that I still have.
2:07:26
I just don't express it as much because it's just it it invites too many criticisms and too
2:07:35
many questions that I just I don't wanna have to deal with.
2:07:39
My faith is my faith.
2:07:40
Your faith is your faith, if you have it.
2:07:42
If you don't, that's totally cool too.
2:07:44
That's how you live.
2:07:46
I I just think that everybody just needs to respect everybody's ability to decide for
2:07:51
themselves what's the best for them, and the song kind of expresses that.
2:07:56
And it's a it's a lean into my my roots of doing gospel music.
2:08:05
Fantastic.
2:08:06
I look within everybody.
2:08:28
Lonely cheesed and misunderstood.
2:08:33
But in the depths of despair, I found my knees on my
2:08:39
foot, lost and weary, seeking something more.
2:08:47
I look within from where I've been.
2:08:53
With every breath, your mercy draws me in.
2:09:00
Lord, guide me through the darkest night by your past and find you lift me up.
2:09:09
You heal my with their rebellion, your mercy draws me in.
2:10:12
Lord, guide me through the longest night by your past and then by you lift me up.
2:10:21
You hear my end in pain.
2:10:24
In the depths of my soul, your love remains.
2:10:33
From the depths of despair, you raised me wide.
2:10:39
You broke my chains, and you tore me to plight.
2:10:46
You'd changed my heart, gave me peace and rest in your presence.
2:10:52
My soul is blessed.
2:11:15
In your plan?
2:11:17
I leave my past behind in your province, true freedom might find.
2:11:27
Through thou lives alone, through longest night by your passing and by you let me up.
2:12:02
You yield my in in the depth of my soul, your love remains.
2:12:13
I love within from where I've with every breath, your mercy draws me in.
2:13:02
Believing.
2:13:11
Hands up within from where I've been with every breath your mercy draws me in.
2:13:24
Lord, guide me through the loneliest night By your power, I stand in fine.
2:13:31
You lift me up.
2:13:33
You heal back in in pain.
2:13:37
In the depths of my soul, your
2:14:31
Okay, mister Longnote.
2:14:34
Yeah.
2:14:34
Listen, I I tell you what, those notes, how do you hold them seriously?
2:14:39
Welcome back.
2:14:40
Welcome back, mister JP Cage.
2:14:41
How are you, mister?
2:14:43
I have to give I have to give credit.
2:14:45
I I arranged that song except for some of the syncopated drums, which was all JP.
2:14:54
He's like, we're
2:14:54
going Awesome.
2:14:55
He's like he he like we need to have that kind of and I'm like, wow.
2:15:02
Okay.
2:15:03
Oh, thank you.
2:15:04
Oh, our sponsor, Purity
2:15:05
Z too.
2:15:07
We love you.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you.
2:15:11
Oh, that makes me so lucky.
2:15:14
Actually, I think I need you know, JP's back, and I think I need him to explain.
2:15:20
And we're talking about best comments of the night.
2:15:22
I think this is the best one.
2:15:26
Oh, no.
2:15:27
Hang on a minute.
2:15:27
I got I got this one.
2:15:28
I got this.
2:15:29
So many messages coming through.
2:15:31
Mhmm.
2:15:33
Oh, yeah.
2:15:34
Uh-huh.
2:15:36
What?
2:15:37
The fact that he know your place.
2:15:40
He he has he he puts a song, he puts a song called know your place right before he puts up
2:15:48
a straight up gospel song.
2:15:51
People gotta break their necks from ruthless.
2:15:53
The song was called no apologies.
2:15:55
It's no apologies, bitch.
2:15:57
Know your place.
2:15:58
Yeah.
2:15:59
It's like that's it's like people are gonna be like, yeah.
2:16:03
F these people who don't like me.
2:16:05
And here's god.
2:16:08
But does god's not even really the song, is it?
2:16:12
I I didn't hear it.
2:16:12
I
2:16:14
didn't It's a gospel song.
2:16:16
It's a gospel song.
2:16:18
Jeffrey says, cheers to you, Michael.
2:16:20
You've done what so many tried to doubt.
2:16:22
The album is something to be incredibly proud of.
2:16:25
Absolutely.
2:16:25
Inspirational, full of heart.
2:16:28
Thanks, Jeffrey.
2:16:30
Yes.
2:16:30
Jeffrey, thank you.
2:16:32
Yeah.
2:16:35
We Michael, listen.
2:16:36
We're on literally so I got Jason.
2:16:38
Go.
2:16:39
Oh, no.
2:16:39
I was just gonna say we were you know, it it took us a long time to put together, but I'm
2:16:44
proud of it.
2:16:45
It's you know?
2:16:47
It's a
2:16:47
it's the
2:16:49
It's phenomenal.
2:16:50
I'm anxious to hear the last song.
2:16:53
It it's it's the culmination of a lot of years of torture.
2:17:00
Oh, that
2:17:02
explains a lot.
2:17:03
Which one?
2:17:05
One?
2:17:05
All of them.
2:17:06
The whole album is just
2:17:08
No.
2:17:09
I mean,
2:17:09
I You gotta live life.
2:17:11
There were times that it was very hard to sing, and we had to do take after take just because,
2:17:15
emotionally, just singing the words was emotional.
2:17:20
And then hearing it in playback was like, oh my god.
2:17:23
Yeah.
2:17:23
This and then I'm I kept saying, yeah.
2:17:27
That's good.
2:17:28
We're done.
2:17:28
And then I listened to it, and I can we redo this again?
2:17:31
And he just was going crazy.
2:17:33
And he's like finally, said, we have to agree that if we do too much to it, it's going to
2:17:40
ruin because you're just gonna have and so, yeah, it was there was
2:17:45
some everything for everybody.
2:17:47
It really has.
2:17:48
This whole album has got if you want to cry, you're gonna cry.
2:17:51
If you're gonna want to send something to your loved one, you're gonna send it to your loved
2:17:55
one.
2:17:56
If you want something to, like, really bond the family together, it's it's got everything.
2:18:00
It really has.
2:18:01
It's had me having a foot tap as well, you know, and really enjoying some dancing songs.
2:18:06
You know?
2:18:06
It's got something for everybody, this album, and I think everybody's gonna absolutely love
2:18:11
it.
2:18:12
And the awards are gonna flood with this one, Michael.
2:18:15
They really are.
2:18:16
You know, they already look.
2:18:17
You know, you think how we've started this year off already.
2:18:21
You know, the fact that the songwriting awards are already coming in.
2:18:25
You know, you've already had your first songwriting awards.
2:18:28
You've got a brand new show that has been given to you as well, and we are only in February.
2:18:33
Now if this album's got anything to go by, this year is gonna be a phenomenal year.
2:18:38
And I know we're planning a lot for you in terms of going out on tour with this album, you
2:18:44
know, getting this album out to radios.
2:18:47
If anybody's been listening tonight, please, please, please keep sharing this album out
2:18:52
because it is released today, and we want it on every single major radio station out there.
2:18:58
It's And gonna take a lot a big effort from all of us to get that as a cost everywhere around
2:19:03
the world, and we'll do as hard as we can to get it from The US to The UK to Australia.
2:19:08
Yeah.
2:19:09
I'm and I'm so honored that everybody has taken time to to message and and, you know, come in
2:19:17
and and support.
2:19:18
And, look, my my phone is blowing up with people congratulating.
2:19:24
I'm just I'm just
2:19:25
Not just because of Facebook.
2:19:27
No.
2:19:28
It's been on Facebook and YouTube as well.
2:19:31
And if you've missed tonight's show, the two and a half hours of tonight's show, it is on a
2:19:37
replay on YouTube.
2:19:39
Head over to the scenes project into Phoenix, right, and you can catch it all again in bits.
2:19:44
And you can catch the emotional story of Michael's album.
2:19:47
And every single one of the songs, he gives us a great insight into why he has produced each
2:19:54
and every one of these songs for you.
2:19:56
We have got to the end of the night, everybody.
2:19:59
We've got one more song.
2:20:00
How do you get to dream my life in the very last song on your
2:20:05
what is it?
2:20:06
Okay.
2:20:06
So this is this is kinda cool.
2:20:10
I have always believed in making the last song the most vulnerable and stripped down without a
2:20:22
lot of big production.
2:20:24
Oh, because I just think you've gone on this journey with me.
2:20:27
Now I just wanna talk to you like this.
2:20:30
You've heard me hit big notes, or you've heard me have fun, or you've heard me you know, I
2:20:35
just want I always like closing, and I do the same thing with the shows that I'm in.
2:20:41
I I close with something that's very, very intimate.
2:20:45
And Jason and I collaborated on this.
2:20:50
This is a I I wrote and did I wrote all the songs on the album and did all the the music
2:20:58
and pretty much 99.9% of the arrangements.
2:21:04
But this song was written by Jason.
2:21:10
Yep.
2:21:10
He presented it to me because we had talked about and this song is hard.
2:21:27
You're okay, buddy.
2:21:28
It's been a very emotional emotional night.
2:21:30
There's some emotional
2:21:31
tragedy, but we'll guide
2:21:32
you.
2:21:32
We love you.
2:21:33
This song is really a song of dedication when you need somebody there and you're going
2:21:48
through a really tough time, whether you know, as I view it as
2:21:55
a
2:21:55
song that you would do, that you would sing to someone that was in their last days or in their
2:22:04
last hours.
2:22:06
And
2:22:08
I don't know originally if that's what Jason's plan was, but we had talked about writing a
2:22:16
lullaby for for someone to sing to someone.
2:22:21
And I took it as, artistically, as something that I would sing if I was facing, you know,
2:22:36
the last few hours with someone that I loved.
2:22:40
And it's not a perfect recording because there's a lot of emotion in it, and it's even
2:22:48
hard for me to listen to, but it's a beautiful song.
2:22:51
And this is one of the songs and this you don't even know this, Adrian.
2:22:55
This is one of the songs that will be on the soundtrack to colors of the sun.
2:23:01
Oh, wow.
2:23:02
So this song not only is on this album, but will be on the colors of the sound colors of
2:23:09
the sun soundtrack.
2:23:10
And when you understand the story of the movie, you'll understand how this fits.
2:23:16
Interesting.
2:23:17
We are so looking forward to that.
2:23:18
This this is
2:23:19
this is a really I I don't know if I'll get through listening to it, but I think it's it's
2:23:29
my voice in its purest form without a lot of embellishments and runs and and that kind of
2:23:36
thing.
2:23:36
It just is a very stripped down, gorgeous song.
2:23:40
I am really proud of the song.
2:23:41
And here we go.
2:23:46
Fantastic.
2:23:47
Right.
2:23:47
We are going to leave you there because we are gonna play you out with this absolutely amazing
2:23:53
song.
2:23:54
I wanna thank each and every one of you who has joined us for Michael's release party of the
2:24:00
Vogue and Child.
2:24:01
You know, it's been an absolute phenomenal night.
2:24:05
Michael
2:24:05
Thank you.
2:24:06
We are all there for you.
2:24:08
We're all your family.
2:24:09
This album is gonna be absolutely fantastic.
2:24:12
It's here in the shelves today.
2:24:14
Please go and get it from StreamYard.
2:24:16
Please go and get it from YouTube.
2:24:18
Please, please, please have it on your radio stations, on your podcast.
2:24:23
We wish you all the very best with this, Michael.
2:24:26
Your whole family is 100% behind you, and thank you for bringing us such an amazing album after
2:24:32
such a long time away.
2:24:34
Don't be long, okay, for the next one, okay, because we love your great, great music.
2:24:39
Everybody, thank you for joining on Facebook and YouTube also, and thanks everybody for your
2:24:45
great, great comments, support of Michael tonight.
2:24:47
It is an absolute phenomenon, and thank you for JP for being there for him and being his number
2:24:52
one supporter and bringing us such a great production.
2:24:56
You're amazing, mister.
2:24:57
And, also, thank you to Ryan and all those who have joined us on the program this evening.
2:25:02
You've been absolutely fantastic.
2:25:04
This is AJ saying, please come and join us on Monday at 6PM, 10AM, and 1PM over in The US.
2:25:13
Okay?
2:25:13
Have a great, great weekend.
2:25:16
Enjoy whatever you're gonna do.
2:25:18
Have a relax, whatever you're gonna do.
2:25:20
I'm gonna finish tonight's show off with dream, my love.
2:25:23
Take care, everyone.
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Take good care of yourself.
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Okay?
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Home.
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Dream my love.
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So so deep.
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Dry your tears no more shall you weep.
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Day's end.
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The world may churn the shadows calm, but I will dream my love, so soft, so dear.
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Angels will guard you as you sleep.
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Rest your
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with me.
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Through every storm, through every tithe, through all the world so soft, so deep.
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Your shelter
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