00:05:34.040singing in the same Edwin McCain voice
00:05:35.820i don't know i don't know like the full fiona catalog no i don't i mean there's like it's an
00:05:40.540old one i mean i i'm fiona has an ability to cut through your sternum no it's just beautiful it's
00:05:46.620like you'll say don't fear your dreams
00:05:49.680remember when i was so sick and you didn't believe me oh my god
00:05:59.840guess who took care of you okay if you had to you hated that okay okay you're dropped into a new
00:06:07.300body okay this is like a movie a magical movie where you dropped into a new body whatever okay
00:06:11.500and for whatever reason some 13 going on 30 type of thing yeah sorry keep going and for whatever
00:06:16.740reason like the task at hand is that like you have to become you have to make yourself into
00:06:20.940like a famous pop or just any kind of musician okay singer songwriter whatever okay with your
00:06:27.180own tunes let's just say okay and you have like one day in this alternate world where it's like
00:06:31.980kate if you can make it happen and it's not you so it's not attached to your own identity you're
00:06:36.900in some obscure other body okay whatever or some some parallel universe but you've been dropped
00:06:42.240into a life where they're like tomorrow's your audition for example okay tomorrow's the big
00:06:46.820audition for being okay even though that's not how it works do you know what i'm saying so the
00:06:51.020goal isn't artistic integrity or anything like that or what you want to be the goal is like you
00:06:55.820get 10 million dollars if you can get the record contract people to sign on let's just say okay
00:07:01.100question is and you have to go in there right now and you have to sing or fake an original0.62
00:07:08.220okay what's the song what is it and let's hear it fuck okay because the thing is like you you can0.57
00:07:14.760sing i imagine like you can sing pretty good right but i have to be clear no but the here's0.62
00:07:21.280my question are you saying it's my voice are you saying i can yeah i can adopt anyone's voice no
00:07:26.680no i'm actually saying what would you do if right now it was 10 million dollars for you to commit
00:07:31.220otis redding no i'm saying it has to be an original they're like in three two one and
00:07:39.540right has to be an original that i'm writing in the moment like like you've been shoved into the
00:07:43.880room like you're in a dream so like right here i'll give an example okay i'll try to do it but
00:07:47.720not really okay so i have nothing it cannot be an existing song okay go and i can't overshoot my
00:07:52.240voice so i don't even know what i'm doing okay okay i'd be like i like literally nothing okay
00:07:56.240i'd be like it'd be like okay they're like go go okay right see i'm already waiting and i just
00:08:01.300have to start and be like uh okay because it has to be a song there's no lyrics there okay it would
00:08:07.840have to be like and i couldn't lean on previous like things i've written in my life nothing so
00:08:11.900it's just like the chair ain't strong no more okay that's not it all right hold on all right
00:08:18.120it's impossible just try try it's impossible that no i actually i refuse it's so scary i know but
00:08:23.980that's why i just said the chair isn't strong anymore and like a like it was lame is it was
00:08:28.380horrifying and i'm rain isn't uh i don't know i don't like this it's actually giving i really
00:08:35.420actually don't like this game it's it's the worst game i mean it's it's a game i only feel safe
00:08:40.680proposing because i don't think i'd be good at it do you see what i'm saying of course no if you
00:08:45.420were to suddenly excel oh yeah right what if this was my way of like dropping an original on you
00:08:50.340well that's what people classically do with singing singing singing is often weaponized
00:08:53.940against the non-singing i find socially well and there's something that i can't it's very
00:08:59.420difficult because i have i struggle my jealousy over those who can sing the ability to sing
00:09:04.820if i could sing i can't even imagine the person i would be a monster i mean i would be monstrous
00:09:10.300And I would be, you know, I just to have that power, to have that power over people is so closest profound for the instrument that you can sort of channel like the finest, let's say, like melodies and harmonies and whatever.
00:09:28.640Right. Most let's say if you have the instrument in your goddamn throat, gullet and diaphragm or whatever.0.98
00:09:34.880OK. And you can thus sing the most beautiful things ever written by the most beautiful whatever.0.99
00:09:39.960Right. Yeah. Basically achieving something beyond human. Right. Like you're becoming a god.
00:09:47.300Yes. You are becoming a god. But but I have a hostility toward people that think singing like here's what the godly status is the ability to have personality within the singing voice within the beauty.
00:09:57.300right and that's the thing that is remarkably rare and a lot of people mistake they think0.93
00:10:01.880because they can sing in the scent of a you know in a peasant's sense in a bastard sense
00:10:07.540they think somehow they're that the magic's working just because like you're hitting the
00:10:12.500note people they sing like this okay this is what i was hoping for i have to be honest
00:10:16.820this is what i was asking for earlier this is what makes me crazy it's like usually someone
00:10:21.780who's had a cocktail or something and it's like it's what is it it's this very it's um i hate to0.97
00:10:29.880gender it but it's usually kind of like some bitch some like you know at a party or something1.00
00:10:36.160do it like that or just somewhere who's like he's like hey like okay like watch this does1.00
00:10:42.900this make me a singer okay i can't think of a song that way fuck um give me a little give me0.82
00:10:48.800one reason to stay here okay like that like what is that why don't you do the verse instead i don't0.95
00:10:56.960want no one to squeeze me okay that's the better verse what you were giving you were singing give
00:11:01.560me one reason to stay here but here's my thing kate kate kate wait i need to say something yeah
00:11:08.320the reason the game came up is because you did something with your voice earlier and i was
00:11:12.020reminded of how you have the ability to do an impression of that kind of style or variety of
00:11:16.820styles of singing. Right. And this would be a question for me is if you can do an impression
00:11:20.540of a certain style of singing, how are you any different than the singer themselves? Right.
00:11:24.300Okay. Now it's, of course it's the audacity to put the frame around it and say, this is my voice
00:11:29.000and this is my art. Right. So like, I sometimes I'm like, could I like, is the only thing stopping
00:11:34.960me from being not an opera singer? Okay. But like, like technically, like, is it just the balls to be
00:11:42.800like that wasn't it i can't panic or like or like the balls to be like so i'm gonna treat my voice
00:11:53.080like it's a thing yeah and some people it's that they just have yeah some people feel some people
00:11:59.100and that's what the mastery of a certain style of singing does sometimes it's like the uncanny
00:12:04.700valley right a term i've never fully been able to latch on to so uncanny valley from what i
00:12:10.120understand yeah and it was explained to me um by dear friends that that like john early um no
00:12:17.020because i had a conversation about it i'm sorry no um but but but the idea the perfect example is
00:12:22.980tom hanks in the polar express okay which the animation is almost human right it's almost human
00:12:30.200and yet it's not human right so is this live action no it's animation it comes right up to
00:12:35.540the point of being real however it's not and it's exactly in that space of it almost being real
00:12:43.360being almost so real but it being undeniably not real that's the uncanny valley when something is
00:12:47.840like almost the thing but somehow it being so almost a thing but not the thing pronounces
00:12:53.500how deeply it's not the thing so it's like someone who can imitate perfectly a certain style you go0.86
00:12:58.820oh wow cool yeah yeah no that sounds like that but it's fucking you're never you know that but0.92
00:13:04.780you're not that you're not like i can do a joanna newson like that's what i used to do see i'm0.97
00:13:10.780actually too embarrassed to do i can't do it because see i'm doing it right now i'm trying
00:13:14.140to pretend okay okay like like okay um we speak in the song i don't even know the lyrics like
00:13:20.540i am blue and darn well made me dog made me bow like a horse oh no no no no and i think joanna
00:13:32.440is brilliant I think she has a prophetic voice and I think her you know she's an incredible
00:13:36.400lyricist and all of that and so me doing that right this is huge this is huge go on go on
00:13:41.100I can barely scream again for a million reasons unfortunately you're not what I'm not Joanna
00:13:45.740Newsom no to my to my chagrin what to your knowledge you're not but um but that so I'm
00:13:55.460like yeah the uncanny valley that is where a lot of people dwell I think artistically and creatively
00:14:00.680And that's why so much doesn't work. And that's what, that is like the lightning bolt and the
00:14:05.160visceral reaction to something that feels good because you're like, Oh no, that actually is
00:14:08.620the thing. It's no longer this like, you know, kind of feeling around the dark to, to, to be
00:14:14.420the thing. It just is it. Um, no, I have a, I have something to say, um, but I don't know where we're
00:14:20.120at. Is it time for a break? No. Okay. We got like two minutes. Okay. So no, no, I'm blown away. And
00:14:24.900there's, I may even, this just goes to show how these things work. I may even draw a comparison,
00:14:29.620an irrelevant metaphor to tracy anderson okay and because i'm doing the workouts daily and so
00:14:35.160it's amazing the way it just seeps in you know what you put in just stays um but but the thing
00:14:40.980is right like because a lot of people believe that if they can do an impression as a singer
00:14:45.760that they have somehow bested them or revealed like this is a bergsonian notion right that mimic
00:14:52.920why is mimicry funny because it reveals that people are are a set of mechanical plastic yeah
00:14:58.900yeah a set of mechanical repetitions that if it's repeatable and recognizable by that thing it
00:15:03.720reveals how unconsciously that person's always doing the thing right yeah yeah so but it's like
00:15:09.900just because someone can do an impression of a thing doesn't devalue it right correct like like
00:15:15.300you're saying right so it's like and yet sometimes they think it can't and the difference is mimicry
00:15:20.340versus here's i'm sorry i'm sorry this is like slow and boring but i have to get it out okay
00:15:24.640because I've really been sticking, sticking in my craw recently. It's, it's so obvious and yet
00:15:29.840so hard to perceive, but the difference between, um, someone mimicking someone's steps in any
00:15:36.160sense, okay. Literal or not literal. And someone, okay. The perfect sort of sum up would be this
00:15:41.960line of, um, don't seek to follow in your master's footsteps, seek what they sought. Okay. So the,
00:15:49.140you know, it's like, what did Joanna Newsom say to herself when she wanted to sing? She didn't say,
00:15:53.820i'm gonna try to sound like this thing right she's singing and that is the cast off of her
00:15:58.360attempted singing there is a physical cast off but the voice right so then it's like so if i try to
00:16:04.520sing what happens like like what gets in the way it's like it's like this thing i read about style
00:16:10.720like in art or whatever being like the thing you do badly like that's like if everyone did the
00:16:17.900thing perfectly it'd be the same style is like oh i actually don't articulate my words well or like
00:16:23.800oh you know whatever whatever it is right anyway but the intention behind i think we're wrapping
00:16:28.420up but the intention behind thing and this comes up in tracy anderson workouts because
00:16:31.520you are following her movements but she wants you to discover them internally at the same time the
00:16:36.360failure is doing it like it's the is the mimicry of the external that you're perceiving versus
00:16:42.280the intent mimic not mimicking but understanding the intention doing it and then seeing like what
00:16:47.840your body your voice anything does i don't know i think it's huge no i like that it's true you
00:16:52.420gotta go to a break though okay let's go to break just when i've deadened it with abstraction
00:16:55.980some of the people like it i am what i am folks
00:16:58.900this is rider strong and i have a new podcast called the red weather it was many and many a
00:17:08.820year ago in a kingdom by the sea in 1995 my neighbor and a trainer disappeared from a commune
00:17:15.540it was hard to wrap your head around it was nature and trees and praying and drugs so no