Role Model plays us unheard recordings from 'Chuck Timely & The Hourglass' | Voicenotes
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AI GeneratedRole Model shares the raw origins of his music by revisiting old voice notes. He discusses the evolution of several tracks, from initial melodies captured in Miami to spontaneous studio collaborations, highlighting the gap between early demos and final polished versions.
I sound drunk in every one of these.
It's very interesting.
I'm like, I haven't listened to them in a long time.
Cause once the song gets made,
you just kind of toss them to the wayside,
but I sound drunk in all of them.
I'm not.
It's cool.
It makes me want to like put out,
I'm not going to do that or even like put that out there,
but it does make me want to put that out.
It's role model and this is voice notes with capital.
We could start with what I,
with Chuck's mantra,
which is track one on the album.
I came up with it walking around in Miami.
I was in Miami for some reason.
I don't go there often.
And for some reason that came to me.
I got back to my hotel room and I just recorded it,
but I'm really not singing it well.
So don't judge me or nothing.
♪ I am deserving of something real ♪
I was figuring it out.
♪ This love will find me back to you ♪
♪ I say now ♪
Different words there at the end,
but the first part ended up staying.
I am deserving of something real, something true.
It ended up being.
The intro to the album, like Miami.
What is that?
That just feels so you though.
You're like so Miami.
I was there for some like weird gig
that we had to do for like the NHL.
And then, but I was walking on the street
and I think it was at a time when I was trying
to figure out what to do for the intro of the album.
And I was like, it'd be cool if it was like a mantra
and like an acapella moment.
And I had that melody and somewhat of a message.
Big hockey guy.
This album is super inspired by hockey.
None of them are like funny though.
I wish I had like funny things.
These are all like me at home alone.
Come on, you Jake Shane.
There's gotta be a voice note in there somewhere from him.
I, well, no, there's certainly not a voice note
of Jake Shane.
I would never let that man in the studio or my house.
And almost all my voice notes are from my house
or my studio.
And that's not where Jake Shane is not allowed
in those two areas.
So no, there's more to that, but I'm scared.
I don't wanna even go down that.
For wedding song, or it used to be called wedding song.
It's called The Wedding.
And there was a day when we were humming this thing
and there were no words to it yet.
And it was this.
I went to my first wedding as an adult for the first time.
And then,
cause it wasn't gonna be about a wedding.
And since we had that melody,
I went home immediately after the wedding
and wrote a chorus.
And it was like this.
Okay.
That's enough.
Cause I can't sing very well on this.
All right.
I'm figuring it out.
I was, I'm not a wedding guy.
And that's why I kind of avoided it my whole twenties.
And, but I went to one and it weirdly affected me.
I didn't think it would.
And so that was kind of what the song was about last night.
And told myself I was never getting married again.
This was like the beginning of joy.
This one I didn't write at home on my couch.
This one we had to figure out in the room.
It was just me and Mason.
You know, that's how the magic is made.
You just have to mumble and then you figure it out later.
And that's how joy was born.
Kind of had to mumble our way there.
Honey, do it.
That was the first time I played something on guitar
and actually liked it enough to keep it
and not make the boys change it.
I'm not a guitar player,
but I'm not a guitar player.
But I found something and I started singing over it.
And I was like, we have to keep it.
This is the one cool thing I've ever done on guitar.
♪ I see myself in you ♪
♪ I don't know, I know you feel small ♪
♪ But soon you'll finally see it all ♪
♪ That I wish you'd give us the world ♪
Really depressing to listen to that.
But that was the beginning.
And that was the first time I actually wanted
to keep something that I played on guitar
and keep the chords.
So I got cool points for that.
♪ You said I'm all yours as you mean it honestly ♪
♪ I think I'd sell my left foot for some company ♪
♪ I'm hungry, eager, burning a hole in the speaker ♪
♪ Love songs don't come easy for me, but I live it ♪
I sound drunk in every one of these.
It's very interesting.
I'm like, I haven't listened to them in a long time.
Cause once the song gets made,
you just kind of toss them to the wayside.
But I sound drunk in all of them.
I'm not.
It's cool.
It makes me want to like put out...
I'm not going to do that or even like put that out there,
but it does make me want to put that out.
Just like the versions of them.
Like this, like this one,
like for Service Receipt too,
this was a completely different melody for the chorus.
And then I was listening to it today for this.
And I was like,
maybe this melody was better than the one I went with.
♪ One more night ♪
It's cool.
It's better than what I did.
♪ One more night ♪
But then I changed it.
And it's like,
♪ One more night ♪
Went pop with it.
But that might be cooler.
And now you guys are getting in my head
and I don't know if this whole video is good for me.
Uh-oh, re-release.
Yeah, no.
See, that's what I don't want to put out there.
Let me look in my...
Give me one moment.
♪ Randy's coming home, she's coming home for Christmas ♪
We tried to make a Christmas song at one point
and our friend Randy,
Little Miss Randy was in the studio.
And so we started,
anytime she'd come in,
we'd usually try and just like make a song
about her on the spot while we're in stations.
And that was ours.
Randy's coming home.
She's coming home for Christmas.
But the thing is, is I like love the way it's...
I hate what I'm saying
because I'm talking about Christmas,
but I like it so much
that I might actually make a song about it.
Or of it.
♪ Randy's coming home, she's coming home for Christmas ♪
♪ Randy's coming home, he's coming home for Christmas ♪
It's too good.
That will do something with that.
Randy is coming home
and she is coming home for Christmas.
Yeah, that's all I got.
I don't have any good ones.
This is Role Model and this is Voice Notes with capital.
Maybe one where you're like,
yay.
Yay, this is Voice Notes with capital.
I'm Role Model.
This is Role Model.
It's Role Model and this is Voice Notes with capital.
That's better.
This is Role Model.
It's Role Model and this is Voice Notes with capital.
Good.

