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Alex Warren recently joined us inside the Hard Rock Hotel New York to talk with Mike Adam about the making of 'WILDCHILD,' his relationship with his “heroes” from the album’s rollout campaign, and a look back at his massive, historic hit.
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00:00a good song will always be good yeah yeah yeah you know like there's songs all the time it's like
00:05how did the song from 2010 blow up all of a sudden it's like oh it was actually in a
00:09tiktok and it's
00:10like right a great song will always be a great song it's true that's not happening to bad song
00:15you're right you're right so like that's the biggest thing is i think that you know a song
00:19that's put out today that we're like oh like good music isn't good i've said it's like who's to say
00:23in 10 years that song doesn't just blow up again yeah blow up and have another moment like a lot
00:28there's a ton of sometimes moments right now yeah yeah it's what is like kind of what's getting
00:32past the moments today trey this is your odyssey check-in we are here at the hard rock hotel new
00:40york with alex warren it is good to see you again my friend um congratulations on everything all the
00:47things um you know up to this point what's the best cover you've heard somebody do of ordinary
00:55do you have a favorite whoa i've never been asked that i think that there's a america's got
01:01talent one okay please jordan okay a really great one yeah it's got a very soulful voice so i really
01:07enjoyed that there was also america's got talent there was a woman who did it as well i'm forgetting
01:11her name but she crushed it and i reposted that as well so i like when they do them on
01:16like the
01:16talent shows yeah yeah yeah i like when they do the um the live lounge ones as well when other
01:23artists do that like i saw sienna spyro she recently covered uh olivia oh my gosh is there
01:28anyone that hasn't done a cover of that song or one of your songs whose voice you would love to
01:33hear
01:33do it i would love to hear greasy eight months do first time on her it's so like i feel
01:39like you said
01:40that like you've been thinking about it for a very long time i have been i think that she that
01:45song
01:45would really complement my voice oh i love that yeah do you feel like that song got too big is
01:52that
01:52not even a thing ordinary yeah um no no i don't think so i think i was scared of that
01:59for a very
01:59long time but i think that i've had a few other songs do really well that i'm really excited about
02:04and i think that regardless of how big a record got i think it you know it was played at
02:09funerals
02:09so it's played at weddings so many things i think the only way would have done that is that it
02:13wasn't
02:13as big as it was yeah like i think that you know those coming amongst people's lives would benefit
02:18from that song yeah and that whole too big thing is a myth right it's like i feel like you
02:23get more
02:24in your head about it than anything else yeah i also think it's like a record looks too big when
02:29the artist probably didn't do enough with it honestly i've done a lot with that song and a lot
02:35of the other songs too so i just had a really blast of kind of like giving them all the
02:38flowers
02:38yeah yeah album last year album this year wild child about to come out i mean that's quick dude
02:45was there did you feel like some kind of sense of urgency to get out another project or no i
02:50just
02:51didn't want to make sense really so we were doing the album uh on my off time and between tours
02:55so i
02:56had about two or three months in between tours and we started working on the album then and then i
03:00started going on tour so we marched and um you know whenever i'd have off time or whenever i had
03:06days
03:06off they'd fly out and finish the album and we've been working on this album after about a year year
03:10and a half so it's been really cool to kind of like you know perfect this a little bit you
03:15get it out
03:15there what song on there do you think um fans will be most surprised by oh gosh wild child's one
03:22that i
03:22think people are going to be really surprised i love that song so much that record is um is four
03:27minutes long and there's guitar solo fucking minute and a half at the end so it's really cool yeah yeah
03:32um do you do you feel like this album you know i know on the last album you had a
03:38couple of features
03:39on there did you did you reach out to anybody for this one or did you feel like this album
03:43it just
03:44didn't require it or what that's the one person okay say who she is drop the name alex no
03:51okay okay but um no we had i had amazing people play guitar from yeah there's one really known person
03:59who played who did the guitar solo at the end yeah and then um and there's uh there's a really
04:04famous guitarist who did uh guitars for the you know the title track as well so it's really exciting
04:09oh that's wonderful i i love how creative you've been with the uh like teaser videos and stuff you've
04:15got you know jennifer aniston uh kevin james and stuff like that uh is this like your strategy to
04:22become an actor yourself you're like i'm gonna befriend these people and and force them to put me in
04:27movies or is that your strategy or what are we doing here i so i write the scripts a lot
04:32of times
04:32okay okay i just have fun with it my it's so cool it's really fun yeah i like acting i
04:38never realized
04:39i would enjoy it yeah i i do and it's it's terrifying and fun but to be honest it's more
04:43fulfilling like
04:44my childhood dream of meaning like my heroes but the kevin one's crazy dude you're young like there's
04:50no way you grew up on the king of queens no i grew up with like grown-ups okay okay
04:54but even king
04:55of queens you have to think like my parent i grew up with everyone loves raymond i grew up with
04:59uh
05:00you know you had tim allen's home improvement yeah yeah i grew up in that world because my parents
05:05loved it yeah yeah so you know i i definitely grew up with kings of queens i just that's not
05:08what i
05:09necessarily you know gravitated towards i gravitated towards like you know grown-ups and all that stuff
05:14you know yeah yeah yeah so it's really cool to kind of like be able to work with these people
05:19are these people in your phone now yeah they are yes so like all right you shoot a video with
05:24jennifer aniston right and then i imagine the follow-up text afterwards it's got to be awkward
05:31right like what do you say oh hey watching the morning show thinking of you like what's what's
05:36the follow-up text like do you use the number or is it given as like a courtesy thing and
05:41you're
05:41not really supposed to use it i use them okay i use them so there there's a exchange yes that's
05:48beautiful people a lot actually i text having the most i think okay kim's great um yeah no i text
05:53all
05:53of them jen jen's a sweetheart jen does these things every sunday that's really fun i i've yet to go
05:58but i
05:59hear they're fun that's wonderful before we wrap up um i wanted to get your uh thoughts on this do
06:05you
06:06feel like today music is viewed too much as content oh how do you mean like i don't know i
06:16just feel
06:17like um there's this uh pressure to produce constantly right like be putting something out
06:25constantly and the shelf life for songs is less and less and it's viewed as like a drop and not
06:32just
06:33necessarily something that you live with dissect and continue to play until the next album comes up
06:41i think because it's so saturated there's so many like it's always been saturated but i think before
06:45the label got to pick who made it right like before you had to sign your life away and you
06:51know all of
06:51a sudden people if you you played the game right and you kissed the right you know and all of
06:56a sudden
06:56you got to play on all these tv shows yeah yeah now it's in the it's in the the fans
07:03perspective
07:03it's now who do the fans want to blow up and right depending on a viral video it could be
07:08anyone yeah
07:08and now there's a ton of people who have moments and everyone trying to capitalize on the moment and
07:13everyone kind of using the same strategies for that so i think that oftentimes it comes in disingenuous
07:18and people oftentimes have to just keep producing music music to kind of get past that little
07:24threshold of what that moment was and now becomes a big moment you are now a big moment and everything
07:28right right i think that it's just a part of the game because you have to look at there's songs
07:34that
07:34from 10 years ago that are blowing up again totally so so like a good song will always be good
07:39yeah yeah
07:40you know like there's songs all the time where it's like how did the song from 2010 blow up all
07:45of a
07:45sudden it's like oh it was actually in a tiktok and it's like right a great song will always be
07:50a
07:50great song it's true that's not happening to bad song you're right you're right so like that's the
07:55biggest thing is i think that you know a song that's put out today that we're like oh like good
07:58music isn't good i've said to everyone's like who's to say in 10 years that song doesn't just blow up
08:03again yeah blow up and have another moment like a lot of there's a ton of songs having moments right
08:07now yeah it's what is like kind of what's getting past the moment stage right and it's really difficult
08:12this year's really hard for music there's so much music yeah and so many people are so not over
08:16last year's music right right so all of a sudden i was like what there's so much this year there's
08:20so much last year what am i supposed to listen to it's true man it's almost because we have access
08:25to so much music now it's almost overwhelming at times like you know how many new artists can i be
08:32listening to at once you're right i think that for an artist's career in today's age the first two
08:38albums they have so much to say and so they're so close together and i think after those two things
08:42you go live life a little bit more and you write an album two or three years yeah yeah like
08:47for me
08:47at least like this is my second album but you know my first album is 21 and songs right lots
08:52right
08:52dude right um in a time when a lot of people are five years right right right right so i
08:57just didn't
08:58i thought all these songs were so pivotal to who i am as a musician i don't want to get
09:01rid of any of
09:01them yeah this album was all stuff that was written this year and the end of last year and they're
09:07like
09:07there's 13 songs right right like these are songs that are about me you've you've known me for this
09:13amount of time now like you've known they're post-ordinary so you know you've known me for
09:17this amount of time and i feel like this is now like it feels like a debut album because it
09:21feels
09:21like this is me as a musician this is me as an artist like this was that was me becoming
09:25one you
09:26know and so i think i'll flip that out and i'll go start family and i'll enjoy life and figure
09:31that out
09:32play shows and be able to come back in a few years and say like this is what i want
09:36to say
09:36when you have things to say right right the best yeah yeah yes she comes and goes when she has
09:41things to say and she's very intentional what she said yeah yeah oh my goodness man i could talk
09:48to you for the whole day but i know you have a burrito to get to and other things going
09:53on so
09:53alex yes yes thank you so much congratulations on everything brother appreciate you so much of course