April 8, 2025 • 18 mins
Guy Sebastian joined Zach and Dom to chat abotu his new single Maybe plus fill us in on his new acting role!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's acadomic night on Kiss and this is so exciting. Zach,
We're welcoming in some Ausye Music royalty to the show.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hey, it's Guys Sebastian. Yes.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
When Guy Sebastian has new music out, the whole country
gets excited. Guys Sebastian, thank you so much for joining
the show.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
My pleasure, pleasure, thanks for having me and Guy.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
We're catching you fresh off your performance. Kind of full
circle for you performing on the finale of Australian Idol
the other night. What was that like, kind of going
back over twenty years later.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
It's always it's always nostalgic.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
I went on the show last year for the first
time in obviously like decades, and it was it was
pretty it was pretty pretty amazing moment because Shannon Noel
was performing on the same night I was there performing.
I was there performing a single with I did a
duet with Sam Fisher called Antidote, and so I was
(01:08):
performing that song and then strangely I got this door
knock and Marsha unfortuately had an injury and they were like, oh,
can you fill in for the live show in an hour,
which is always very nerve wracking, and yeah, I ended
up filling in for the show that night, but no,
it's good to get back and obviously good to I
(01:30):
don't know, I think anytime I'm singing, I'm way more
comfortable than actually having to sit in the chair and
judge or be a mentor. It's much easier just getting
up and having a bit of a sing song.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
As time goes on, Guy past the original Australian Idol,
does it get more special as you realize over these
years how influential that was because kind of the names
you were naming, all these people, whether it was you know,
Osha or Shannon, all these people are still in the
public eye now twenty years on, and yet I'm not
(02:06):
sure if that was repeated in any further season.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Well, I mean there were so many I mean, Ricky Lee,
you had like people like Anthony Colea Milsey, Paul LINI
was in my year, Damian Leith. There's all these so
many different people that have gone through that process, and
I think it's you know, it's one of those things
(02:33):
where we determine success sometimes in this really unrealistic way
where it's it's like, oh, if you're not as big
as ed Sheeran, then you haven't succeeded, you know, And
whereas I just look at more so look at what
people have gone on to do, like after an opportunity like.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
That, be it the Voice or bit, whatever it is.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
I think it's such a good platform that enhances what
you do and then the rest is up to you.
I think that's what I always told, Like a lot
of the artists that would come on the Voice, I
hate saying stuff like you're a superstar, you are, You're
going to be an arenas, Like I always avoid that
kind of language because I'm more of a realist. I'm like,
(03:15):
this industry is tough as hell. We're in a small
country and on a global stage. No one really cares
about us that much. And you're going to have to
grab that steering wheel, steer it yourself. Learn how to write,
learn how to become a good muso, and learn how
to not be shafted, as well as a lot of
(03:36):
little skills that you've got to sort of.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
You've got to get a thick skin.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
But I hate, I hate just like digging up people
and defining what success is for them, because success for
some people is just like getting more people at their
local gig that they do every Friday night because they've
jumped on a show and that to them is like,
oh sick, and so who am I to define what
their purpose in life is?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And yeah, no, no, I think it's great.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
It's any opportunity to get live music on TV and
Australia or wherever it is is a good thing.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I think.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Now, Guy, this is our first time meeting you and
having you on the show, which is pretty thrilling for us.
I'm guessing you must have people like I'm about to
do come up to you all the time in your
life and tell you how much money they spent texting
in Guy to that number back in two thousand and three.
Is that still something that's happening to you in twenty
twenty five or has that died off these days?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
No?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
No, still today Actually during my day there was someone
said it to me about an hour ago. Actually, and
I've got to say though, like, it's not something even
after all these years, that's not something that like I
take for granted. It's actually for me, I always describe
it as probably one of the biggest things that have
(04:51):
kept me like fueled with just fighting some of the
ups and downs of the industry to stay in it.
Like I just remember, like I came to a fairly
it was very unique, Like it was very odd, Like
I didn't even know if it was going to make
it to Telly, Like like I thought they were shooting
a pilot at the time. I wasn't sure was it
was new, so I didn't even know if it would
(05:12):
make it to TV. And I lined up and then
within weeks, like there's people out the front of my
house with go the Fro signs and stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
It was a massive spin out. I wasn't ready for it.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
But for me, I always describe it as the most
like beautiful transaction like you can have because literally, strangers
like who never met me, paid fifty five cents each vote,
Like that's how much it was to call that number.
And I left this you know, we all left little messages,
(05:45):
like everyone had their own personalized message, so when you
voted for me, you'd get like, hey.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
It's guy. And I was so naive and fresh and young.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I was so nervous even making that message. But the
reason I'm doing what I do today's because strangers said
I like that dude, and I like what he does.
And I'm actually going to spend my own money so
that he can do what he loves. Like that, that's
a pretty amazing thing to have. It's like a beautiful transaction.
(06:15):
So I think it's been one of the big things
that I always like remind myself, Hey, you were given
this opportunity to like, don't waste it.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Not only that guy, but the countless amount of young
people that you inspired, like Dom on the other side
of the desk.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
To bring this up, Well, you've told this story.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
On the show before Dom. After he would watch you
on Idol, he would tape it and then he would
sit in his room and he would sing the songs,
but he would load up the tape ready for the
judges feedback, so he'd sing his song and then he
would press play so that then you would get a
touchdown from Holden.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
And if you try and explain that to kids now, like.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
I was trying to explain before, how I used to
sit and listen to the top forty like on radio,
and I'd sit there and wait for my favorite song
and then hit play and record at the same time
to make my own.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Little mix tape.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Yeah, we did some random stuff with vhs and cassettes
and stuff back.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
In the day. But I mcdom, you look way too
young to have been doing that.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
No, look, I would have been ten or eleven years old.
And all I can say is the judges were blown
away with my performance of Angels brought me here.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
They couldn't believe it. It was speechless.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I think I think Marsha might have teared up a
little bit. Yeah, oh yes.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
And Mark Holden, Gee, what a character. A little wind
up he would give for a showdown note it was.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Yeah, Well, speaking of the vast green I've had in
the twenty two years since Idle Guy, is it true
you've recently made your acting debut as well in a
Bollywood film?
Speaker 4 (07:43):
I did, Yes, it was It was very random that
I was acting in it, not so rouandom. I was
writing music for this film originally, and I was going
to be the voice or I am the voice sort
of the main character. His name's Kabir in the film,
and he he's seventeen, has quite a troubled life, and
(08:05):
he's Indian and has been living in Australia, and so yeah,
I was actually his singing voice in the movie. And
then they asked me to try out for a role
to play his dad.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
So I grew this big, bushy beard and played his dad.
And I think, you know, I always I've always known.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
How tough acting is, especially when you're bringing an actual
character to life, and so I took it very seriously
and gave it my best shot.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
And actually he's like really enjoyed it. It was good challenge.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I imagine you spent your whole life, obviously around other
entertainment industry professionals, and some of them singing their thing,
dancing their thing, acting is their thing. When you sort
of step outside your comfort zone and do something that
I guess many of your friends have made an art
form out of, do you have the sort of beginner's
nerves all over again? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Well, I think, like talking about acting, like I'm in
my studio now. I know I'm on zoom, but like
this is where I and most of my time making music.
I know what every button does, and that's taken me,
you know, the ten twenty thousand hours to be able
to turn an idea that I record into my phone
as a voice note into a fully produced song. I
(09:15):
didn't think I'd be able to do that when I
first started, like but time and lots of work, you know,
enables me to do that.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
But I haven't done that with acting.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
So I was like, I was nervous because you know,
I've like roomed with people who are actors and stuff
in LA and hung out a bunch of my friends
of like famous actors, and I see them living their
roles and like losing twenty kilos and getting ripped or
going mute for like three weeks to prepare for a role,
(09:47):
like they go all out, and here I am. You know,
I had weeks to prepare for this role, and I
think that's what made me scared. But it's also I
think what made me respected enough to give every thing
I could to it. So yeah, I didn't breeze in
going oh yeah, no, I'm good. I've been on TV
a bit and I know what cameras are like, Like,
(10:08):
I think.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I realized it was going to be a tough, tough gig.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
I think the toughest part for me was, you know,
like being on set and being like, like I've been
in the public eye for twenty two years or something,
so like there's a lot of people I know or
that are familiar with me, so I'll be mid mid
take and like the SOUNDI might be like, oh, bro,
(10:32):
I've got to tell you I really loved your Memphis album,
and then I'm going and so then or I'm like
shooting in a restaurant and it's an Indian restaurant and
the like the owners. The directors are like, oh, can
you get a photo with the owners? They would love
to take a photo. So mid mid sort of shooting,
I'm going back to being Guy Sebastian.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
And the added layer to that is the character I play.
I had to talk like this, like I had a like.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
An accent as Games James was, you know, his son
is his cabir and and so I'm talking like this
during the filming and then halfway through it's like, oh yeah,
and I really loved making the Memphis album.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yeah, Steve proper amazing musician.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
And then and then it's like all right, action, and
then I have to talk like this again and get
back into this kind of caring father figure.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
And it was just difficult.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
It was really difficult, Like it actually did my head
in and eventually I was like, guys, can I'm really struggling.
I'm trying my best to be James for you guys
and can we just put some like little boundaries up?
And I felt like a diva even asking that nicely
because I always used to watch, you know when you
watch those like blow ups from actors and they're like
(11:52):
they're like on set and they're like the did.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
You just watch whom my good cert for?
Speaker 4 (11:57):
You know, I've always been like taking chilpel diva, like
who are you to talk to someone like that? But
I think I got it, Like like when you're in
especially when you're in character, when you get pulled out
of it, it's so hard to get back in and
it just blows the take.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yeah, yeah, no, totally totally. Well, guy, you've got the
new one out last week? I think it was, wasn't
it that maybe was officially released out into the work?
Can you tell us about this? The latest song in
the line of Guy Sebastian classics.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
This one was an easy write, and they're not always
easy some songs like I've just finished the album It's
taken me fo in a bit years and I've written
hundreds of songs on this record, and then on this
song I wrote with a like there's a friend of
mine who I just love hanging with and love writing,
like we've been writing for my project, we've been writing
(12:49):
for some K pop artists, we've been writing for like,
we just love writing. And so Ned was like, oh,
you've never worked with Robbie. He lives up the road
Robbie desart, Like, how have you never worked with Robbie?
I was like, everyone keeps telling me to work with
this guy, Robbie. So headed to Robbie's studio, which is
literally in Alexandria, just up the road, and he started playing.
He started playing these chords and then I jumped on
(13:12):
the drums.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I won't do that on the interview. My drums are
just over there.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
It's it's not like you're not asking for a live
musical recreation of the whole day. So he started playing that,
and I started singing some stuff, and I actually jumped
on the drums and started playing this beat, and then
we started singing, and I said, those last two lines
of the chorus Bahl dah among.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Good's that great?
Speaker 4 (13:39):
And it just felt right like it was one of
those songs that just kind of flowed. And we got
to the end of like fifteen minutes and like, oh, oh,
I think that's the song we've got the song, and
I don't know. I love it when that happens, and
I wish it happened all the time. But like there's
other songs that I worked on. There's a song right
that I just finished called Cupid, and I looked up
(14:01):
the original voice note of that and I wrote it. Originally,
I thought, oh, this would be a killer for like
a kid Royal, for like a singer rapper type artist,
and I didn't think it was for me. And there
was a bit of swearing in it originally, and I
just thought, I don't know if that'll be my vibe,
and then I sat on it. There was February twenty
(14:22):
twenty one as the original voice note.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I just finished that, like three weeks ago, I wrote.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
I wrote three or four different versions of it, like
four different verses, but I loved the chorus and I
just could never find the right combo. And then, yeah,
I think it took me three weeks of NonStop production
to like, I think I've used every instrument in my studio,
(14:50):
like my SG guitar, I used the acoustic, I used
my drums, like every single instrument I own is on
that record, And yeah, it that's forever, Like I wish
everything was like maybe because Robbie did that production on
the day, like.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Literally on the day. So I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Some songs, it just it just flows out, and then
others are a bit of a toil.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
And I know some artists these days, guy, they just
like to go single, single, single, rather than do the album.
Is there sort of a musical purist in you that
loves the whole thing of having a whole album to
put out.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I have to release an album.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
It would feel like I could never just go a
single single because I.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Don't write in.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
It feels like I would be releasing like a little
chapter that goes nowhere, Whereas I need to have it
fit a body of work because then there's no close
off period. Whereas now I've just finished this record and
I know the sound of it and I know what
I was hoping to achieve with it, and like when
(15:56):
I put it set, like the song list together, I'm
imagining the listener going on the journey and I'm like, ah,
And then when they're done with this little string interlude
that I've put on the end of that song, then
that slips into this song and it ups the mood
and then I take them into this minor key, like
I think about it like that, the same way I
(16:16):
do for a live show. So like just doing a
I don't know, just doing a single or something would
be super weird.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
And guy, you mentioned that you had written over one
hundred songs for this album instead of cutting them down,
do you ever consider just putting a hundred songs on?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
You know what? You know?
Speaker 4 (16:37):
What I did consider is I was going to do
a double album, yeah, right, and I was going to
call it Feels and Feels Good. So I was going
to put all of the ballads, like twelve thirteen ballads
on one one side, and then on the B side
was going to be all of the up tempo and
sort of more funk mid tempo stuff set. And I
(17:00):
was going to just do yeah, like literally almost playlist
my own album. And then I got to the end
and I was like, oh, I don't know, I don't
want to decide the journey for people. I'll just I'll
get my I'll get my like thirteen twelve thirteen for that.
I can remember how many I've got on there, but
it's like that's that's you know, that's the journey. And
I want them to go on and they're all my
favorite songs, So yeah, I can't wait for people to
(17:23):
hear it because maybe it's like a really good start
on the project and then and then we'll go a
lot deeper, like there's really the best ballads I reckon
I've ever written in my life, and I'm just excited
for people to hear that.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Well, like Guisibastian's new single maybe is available to stream
and download. Now, when when's the album going? When will
we get the whole collection in.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
A few months?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
So I reckon after maybe I'll probably drop another song.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I just I've just thought of.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
A really cool video idea for that, So I'm going
to try and shoot that over the next of the
while for the next song, and then after probably after
that song, I'll drop the album. But it's done, the albums,
like I'm waiting on toom. I just sent off some
mixed comments on the on the very last song to
be mixed for the record, But as far as my input,
it's all done, and so yeah, it'll be we'll be
(18:15):
sort of waiting on it for maybe a couple more months,
maybe July or something, I don't know, Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Brilliant God Well, thank you so much for joining the show.
It's such a gift to have you on, and we're
so excited for the new guys of Asking Music.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Appreciate you do it, and thank you for your votes.
It's acadomic night on Kiss and this is so exciting. Zach,
We're welcoming in some Ausye Music royalty to the show.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hey, it's Guys Sebastian. Yes.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
When Guy Sebastian has new music out, the whole country
gets excited. Guys Sebastian, thank you so much for joining
the show.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
My pleasure, pleasure, thanks for having me and Guy.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
We're catching you fresh off your performance. Kind of full
circle for you performing on the finale of Australian Idol
the other night. What was that like, kind of going
back over twenty years later.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
It's always it's always nostalgic.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
I went on the show last year for the first
time in obviously like decades, and it was it was
pretty it was pretty pretty amazing moment because Shannon Noel
was performing on the same night I was there performing.
I was there performing a single with I did a
duet with Sam Fisher called Antidote, and so I was
(01:08):
performing that song and then strangely I got this door
knock and Marsha unfortuately had an injury and they were like, oh,
can you fill in for the live show in an hour,
which is always very nerve wracking, and yeah, I ended
up filling in for the show that night, but no,
it's good to get back and obviously good to I
(01:30):
don't know, I think anytime I'm singing, I'm way more
comfortable than actually having to sit in the chair and
judge or be a mentor. It's much easier just getting
up and having a bit of a sing song.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
As time goes on, Guy past the original Australian Idol,
does it get more special as you realize over these
years how influential that was because kind of the names
you were naming, all these people, whether it was you know,
Osha or Shannon, all these people are still in the
public eye now twenty years on, and yet I'm not
(02:06):
sure if that was repeated in any further season.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Well, I mean there were so many I mean, Ricky Lee,
you had like people like Anthony Colea Milsey, Paul LINI
was in my year, Damian Leith. There's all these so
many different people that have gone through that process, and
I think it's you know, it's one of those things
(02:33):
where we determine success sometimes in this really unrealistic way
where it's it's like, oh, if you're not as big
as ed Sheeran, then you haven't succeeded, you know, And
whereas I just look at more so look at what
people have gone on to do, like after an opportunity like.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
That, be it the Voice or bit, whatever it is.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
I think it's such a good platform that enhances what
you do and then the rest is up to you.
I think that's what I always told, Like a lot
of the artists that would come on the Voice, I
hate saying stuff like you're a superstar, you are, You're
going to be an arenas, Like I always avoid that
kind of language because I'm more of a realist. I'm like,
(03:15):
this industry is tough as hell. We're in a small
country and on a global stage. No one really cares
about us that much. And you're going to have to
grab that steering wheel, steer it yourself. Learn how to write,
learn how to become a good muso, and learn how
to not be shafted, as well as a lot of
(03:36):
little skills that you've got to sort of.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
You've got to get a thick skin.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
But I hate, I hate just like digging up people
and defining what success is for them, because success for
some people is just like getting more people at their
local gig that they do every Friday night because they've
jumped on a show and that to them is like,
oh sick, and so who am I to define what
their purpose in life is?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And yeah, no, no, I think it's great.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
It's any opportunity to get live music on TV and
Australia or wherever it is is a good thing.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I think.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Now, Guy, this is our first time meeting you and
having you on the show, which is pretty thrilling for us.
I'm guessing you must have people like I'm about to
do come up to you all the time in your
life and tell you how much money they spent texting
in Guy to that number back in two thousand and three.
Is that still something that's happening to you in twenty
twenty five or has that died off these days?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
No?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
No, still today Actually during my day there was someone
said it to me about an hour ago. Actually, and
I've got to say though, like, it's not something even
after all these years, that's not something that like I
take for granted. It's actually for me, I always describe
it as probably one of the biggest things that have
(04:51):
kept me like fueled with just fighting some of the
ups and downs of the industry to stay in it.
Like I just remember, like I came to a fairly
it was very unique, Like it was very odd, Like
I didn't even know if it was going to make
it to Telly, Like like I thought they were shooting
a pilot at the time. I wasn't sure was it
was new, so I didn't even know if it would
(05:12):
make it to TV. And I lined up and then
within weeks, like there's people out the front of my
house with go the Fro signs and stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
It was a massive spin out. I wasn't ready for it.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
But for me, I always describe it as the most
like beautiful transaction like you can have because literally, strangers
like who never met me, paid fifty five cents each vote,
Like that's how much it was to call that number.
And I left this you know, we all left little messages,
(05:45):
like everyone had their own personalized message, so when you
voted for me, you'd get like, hey.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
It's guy. And I was so naive and fresh and young.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I was so nervous even making that message. But the
reason I'm doing what I do today's because strangers said
I like that dude, and I like what he does.
And I'm actually going to spend my own money so
that he can do what he loves. Like that, that's
a pretty amazing thing to have. It's like a beautiful transaction.
(06:15):
So I think it's been one of the big things
that I always like remind myself, Hey, you were given
this opportunity to like, don't waste it.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Not only that guy, but the countless amount of young
people that you inspired, like Dom on the other side
of the desk.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
To bring this up, Well, you've told this story.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
On the show before Dom. After he would watch you
on Idol, he would tape it and then he would
sit in his room and he would sing the songs,
but he would load up the tape ready for the
judges feedback, so he'd sing his song and then he
would press play so that then you would get a
touchdown from Holden.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
And if you try and explain that to kids now, like.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
I was trying to explain before, how I used to
sit and listen to the top forty like on radio,
and I'd sit there and wait for my favorite song
and then hit play and record at the same time
to make my own.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Little mix tape.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Yeah, we did some random stuff with vhs and cassettes
and stuff back.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
In the day. But I mcdom, you look way too
young to have been doing that.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
No, look, I would have been ten or eleven years old.
And all I can say is the judges were blown
away with my performance of Angels brought me here.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
They couldn't believe it. It was speechless.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I think I think Marsha might have teared up a
little bit. Yeah, oh yes.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
And Mark Holden, Gee, what a character. A little wind
up he would give for a showdown note it was.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Yeah, Well, speaking of the vast green I've had in
the twenty two years since Idle Guy, is it true
you've recently made your acting debut as well in a
Bollywood film?
Speaker 4 (07:43):
I did, Yes, it was It was very random that
I was acting in it, not so rouandom. I was
writing music for this film originally, and I was going
to be the voice or I am the voice sort
of the main character. His name's Kabir in the film,
and he he's seventeen, has quite a troubled life, and
(08:05):
he's Indian and has been living in Australia, and so yeah,
I was actually his singing voice in the movie. And
then they asked me to try out for a role
to play his dad.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
So I grew this big, bushy beard and played his dad.
And I think, you know, I always I've always known.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
How tough acting is, especially when you're bringing an actual
character to life, and so I took it very seriously
and gave it my best shot.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
And actually he's like really enjoyed it. It was good challenge.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I imagine you spent your whole life, obviously around other
entertainment industry professionals, and some of them singing their thing,
dancing their thing, acting is their thing. When you sort
of step outside your comfort zone and do something that
I guess many of your friends have made an art
form out of, do you have the sort of beginner's
nerves all over again? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Well, I think, like talking about acting, like I'm in
my studio now. I know I'm on zoom, but like
this is where I and most of my time making music.
I know what every button does, and that's taken me,
you know, the ten twenty thousand hours to be able
to turn an idea that I record into my phone
as a voice note into a fully produced song. I
(09:15):
didn't think I'd be able to do that when I
first started, like but time and lots of work, you know,
enables me to do that.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
But I haven't done that with acting.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
So I was like, I was nervous because you know,
I've like roomed with people who are actors and stuff
in LA and hung out a bunch of my friends
of like famous actors, and I see them living their
roles and like losing twenty kilos and getting ripped or
going mute for like three weeks to prepare for a role,
(09:47):
like they go all out, and here I am. You know,
I had weeks to prepare for this role, and I
think that's what made me scared. But it's also I
think what made me respected enough to give every thing
I could to it. So yeah, I didn't breeze in
going oh yeah, no, I'm good. I've been on TV
a bit and I know what cameras are like, Like,
(10:08):
I think.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I realized it was going to be a tough, tough gig.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
I think the toughest part for me was, you know,
like being on set and being like, like I've been
in the public eye for twenty two years or something,
so like there's a lot of people I know or
that are familiar with me, so I'll be mid mid
take and like the SOUNDI might be like, oh, bro,
(10:32):
I've got to tell you I really loved your Memphis album,
and then I'm going and so then or I'm like
shooting in a restaurant and it's an Indian restaurant and
the like the owners. The directors are like, oh, can
you get a photo with the owners? They would love
to take a photo. So mid mid sort of shooting,
I'm going back to being Guy Sebastian.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
And the added layer to that is the character I play.
I had to talk like this, like I had a like.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
An accent as Games James was, you know, his son
is his cabir and and so I'm talking like this
during the filming and then halfway through it's like, oh yeah,
and I really loved making the Memphis album.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yeah, Steve proper amazing musician.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
And then and then it's like all right, action, and
then I have to talk like this again and get
back into this kind of caring father figure.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
And it was just difficult.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
It was really difficult, Like it actually did my head
in and eventually I was like, guys, can I'm really struggling.
I'm trying my best to be James for you guys
and can we just put some like little boundaries up?
And I felt like a diva even asking that nicely
because I always used to watch, you know when you
watch those like blow ups from actors and they're like
(11:52):
they're like on set and they're like the did.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
You just watch whom my good cert for?
Speaker 4 (11:57):
You know, I've always been like taking chilpel diva, like
who are you to talk to someone like that? But
I think I got it, Like like when you're in
especially when you're in character, when you get pulled out
of it, it's so hard to get back in and
it just blows the take.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yeah, yeah, no, totally totally. Well, guy, you've got the
new one out last week? I think it was, wasn't
it that maybe was officially released out into the work?
Can you tell us about this? The latest song in
the line of Guy Sebastian classics.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
This one was an easy write, and they're not always
easy some songs like I've just finished the album It's
taken me fo in a bit years and I've written
hundreds of songs on this record, and then on this
song I wrote with a like there's a friend of
mine who I just love hanging with and love writing,
like we've been writing for my project, we've been writing
(12:49):
for some K pop artists, we've been writing for like,
we just love writing. And so Ned was like, oh,
you've never worked with Robbie. He lives up the road
Robbie desart, Like, how have you never worked with Robbie?
I was like, everyone keeps telling me to work with
this guy, Robbie. So headed to Robbie's studio, which is
literally in Alexandria, just up the road, and he started playing.
He started playing these chords and then I jumped on
(13:12):
the drums.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
I won't do that on the interview. My drums are
just over there.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
It's it's not like you're not asking for a live
musical recreation of the whole day. So he started playing that,
and I started singing some stuff, and I actually jumped
on the drums and started playing this beat, and then
we started singing, and I said, those last two lines
of the chorus Bahl dah among.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Good's that great?
Speaker 4 (13:39):
And it just felt right like it was one of
those songs that just kind of flowed. And we got
to the end of like fifteen minutes and like, oh, oh,
I think that's the song we've got the song, and
I don't know. I love it when that happens, and
I wish it happened all the time. But like there's
other songs that I worked on. There's a song right
that I just finished called Cupid, and I looked up
(14:01):
the original voice note of that and I wrote it. Originally,
I thought, oh, this would be a killer for like
a kid Royal, for like a singer rapper type artist,
and I didn't think it was for me. And there
was a bit of swearing in it originally, and I
just thought, I don't know if that'll be my vibe,
and then I sat on it. There was February twenty
(14:22):
twenty one as the original voice note.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I just finished that, like three weeks ago, I wrote.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
I wrote three or four different versions of it, like
four different verses, but I loved the chorus and I
just could never find the right combo. And then, yeah,
I think it took me three weeks of NonStop production
to like, I think I've used every instrument in my studio,
(14:50):
like my SG guitar, I used the acoustic, I used
my drums, like every single instrument I own is on
that record, And yeah, it that's forever, Like I wish
everything was like maybe because Robbie did that production on
the day, like.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Literally on the day. So I don't know.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Some songs, it just it just flows out, and then
others are a bit of a toil.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
And I know some artists these days, guy, they just
like to go single, single, single, rather than do the album.
Is there sort of a musical purist in you that
loves the whole thing of having a whole album to
put out.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I have to release an album.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
It would feel like I could never just go a
single single because I.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Don't write in.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
It feels like I would be releasing like a little
chapter that goes nowhere, Whereas I need to have it
fit a body of work because then there's no close
off period. Whereas now I've just finished this record and
I know the sound of it and I know what
I was hoping to achieve with it, and like when
(15:56):
I put it set, like the song list together, I'm
imagining the listener going on the journey and I'm like, ah,
And then when they're done with this little string interlude
that I've put on the end of that song, then
that slips into this song and it ups the mood
and then I take them into this minor key, like
I think about it like that, the same way I
(16:16):
do for a live show. So like just doing a
I don't know, just doing a single or something would
be super weird.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
And guy, you mentioned that you had written over one
hundred songs for this album instead of cutting them down,
do you ever consider just putting a hundred songs on?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
You know what? You know?
Speaker 4 (16:37):
What I did consider is I was going to do
a double album, yeah, right, and I was going to
call it Feels and Feels Good. So I was going
to put all of the ballads, like twelve thirteen ballads
on one one side, and then on the B side
was going to be all of the up tempo and
sort of more funk mid tempo stuff set. And I
(17:00):
was going to just do yeah, like literally almost playlist
my own album. And then I got to the end
and I was like, oh, I don't know, I don't
want to decide the journey for people. I'll just I'll
get my I'll get my like thirteen twelve thirteen for that.
I can remember how many I've got on there, but
it's like that's that's you know, that's the journey. And
I want them to go on and they're all my
favorite songs, So yeah, I can't wait for people to
(17:23):
hear it because maybe it's like a really good start
on the project and then and then we'll go a
lot deeper, like there's really the best ballads I reckon
I've ever written in my life, and I'm just excited
for people to hear that.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Well, like Guisibastian's new single maybe is available to stream
and download. Now, when when's the album going? When will
we get the whole collection in.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
A few months?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
So I reckon after maybe I'll probably drop another song.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I just I've just thought of.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
A really cool video idea for that, So I'm going
to try and shoot that over the next of the
while for the next song, and then after probably after
that song, I'll drop the album. But it's done, the albums,
like I'm waiting on toom. I just sent off some
mixed comments on the on the very last song to
be mixed for the record, But as far as my input,
it's all done, and so yeah, it'll be we'll be
(18:15):
sort of waiting on it for maybe a couple more months,
maybe July or something, I don't know, Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Brilliant God Well, thank you so much for joining the show.
It's such a gift to have you on, and we're
so excited for the new guys of Asking Music.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Appreciate you do it, and thank you for your votes.
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