00:10Hi, how you doing? We are Ye Sayer. We're from Brooklyn, New York, here in the NME studios,
00:16and we're going to take you through our album, which is titled Oddblood, track by track, and
00:22have some hopefully very hilarious and insightful anecdotes about each and every song. The first
00:28track, Children, I don't know, our record label was a little bummed on us putting that one
00:35first, at least the American label, because they thought it would turn. I think the UK
00:39label was too. I think all labels are bummed. I think labels are just bummed. We really like
00:42the song. They did try to sweet talk us into not putting it on the album. Yeah. I don't
00:47know, man. This album would be a lot stronger if you just left off that first track. It's
00:51just weird. It doesn't have a place. Kids, you know the message about that is the man doesn't
00:55know what's up. My little kids don't like the song either. No, little kids do. That's
00:59my story, actually. My nephew likes that song. My friend has a three-year-old daughter, and
01:05she listens to the song on repeat in the car. She calls it Bells Ringing and says, more bells
01:10ringing, more bells ringing. And he called me and said, should I be worried? It's a lullaby.
01:16Yeah, that's what I said. It's a lullaby. It's about demonic children. Yeah. Well, we have
01:20another friend who has a child, and apparently she plays the song for her child when they
01:31go on their way to school. And this child, I think, wants to have his haircut in the style
01:39of one of us. Only problem is he's African-American and he can't get the locks. But he tried, I
01:49don't know. That's what I heard. What do you do to tell you? I don't know. That's a good
01:51story. I don't know. She was like, I don't know if your hair is going to look like that.
01:55I don't think that's a really good idea. Yeah. Anyway, I don't know. That's a good anecdote
02:01about that song. Yeah, that's nice. We don't need to tell the other ones. Kids like that
02:03song. Kids like that song. It's another kid's song. We're a kid band. We're idiots. It kind
02:08of looks like a kid's show with the white background. Kid bands are successful, right?
02:12Matta Red happened. Do you have to say what it was originally called? Probably not. Probably
02:19not. That's a bad idea. Let's see. What's an interesting anecdote about Matta Red? I tell
02:25you, Matta Red features very prominently a sort of obvious... Oh, we upset our manager
02:31for Matta Red. Oh, yeah. Well, when we were first recording that song, it was sort of a quiet
02:39lullaby with acoustic drums. And then Chris dropped this big beat over it. Slammed that
02:46beat. And for some reason, our manager was 10 feet away. He just kept going... I don't
02:50know, guys. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Bug out. And now
02:55it's a modern classic. Don't listen to your manager. That's the moral of the story. He works
03:01for you. You don't work for him. Contrary to what he or she believes. Oh, yes. This
03:07song I remember is kind of a sweet one. Pretty song. I wrote that one, you know, thinking
03:14about... I probably wrote it with my wife in mind. I'd say one of the strangest things
03:19I've ever seen at a show is a member of the Philadelphia Eagles, which is basically saying
03:25a member of... Leeds. A rugby team. Or Leeds. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dude who's like really known
03:33to hit people hard and stuff. Standing in the front row of our show, singing along to
03:38every single lyric going like this. It was one of the coolest things ever. This man is six
03:43foot seven. He's six foot a lot. 300 pounds. Yeah, he was fluttering. He's a big dude. Yeah.
03:48Definitely like a butterfly. So, you know, I guess that goes to show that footballers and
03:53sports figures are deeper than we might originally think. Yeah.
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