![]() I think my ideas tend to be project based, and conceptually every record or TV show or whatever it is starts with: what do I see the finished product being, or what is the vehicle by which these things can live in? For this record, once I kind of stumbled onto the idea of, “Oh, here are a few songs that are not very ironic. But in my real life it’s a great focusing, centering, de-egoing kind of thing to have in your life, and it’s been a very positive, great thing these past few years.ĭid you find differences between your method for writing the music for In Glendale as opposed to how you normally write for comedy? It’s like, “Oh, you didn’t hear? She’s terminally ill.” It’s a fun, new angle to be completely perverted and dark and confusing. I’m always the first to make a joke if someone asks how my baby’s doing. I know there was a Check It Out episode about diapers, and it was in that first few months where that material was very fertile with the baby kind of stuff. I think with the fatherhood thing, there’s an episode of Bedtime Stories about Eric and I teaching John C. A lot of times when I write, it’s just this stream of consciousness thing where you’re pouring out whatever ideas are on the tip of your brain, and this was what was on my brain. You can only write so many fake, ironic songs in a certain style. I just thought that if I established this rule of moving my real life out of my work for no reason, it seemed dangerous and interesting to do that, and this was a good opportunity to break that rule. As much as I’ve never really brought my real life into my work, it became sort of me asking why I was doing that at this point. ![]() It had been on my mind all throughout my wife’s pregnancy, and of course the first year was kind of when I was writing some of these songs. ![]() I think when I was writing the songs for this record, it was really very new and fresh. Has that had a pretty big impact on your writing in general and not just with this record? Another way to think about it is that it kind of makes sense that an actor or writer is gonna be a musician, because they’re all somewhat drawing from that same pool of stuff inside you that makes you wanna go out and make stuff.Ī lot of In Glendale centers on you being a dad. But I think musicians, comedians, actors, painters-a lot of us start out with a variety of interests in the creative field, and one of them sort of leaps out in front of the other, or there’s a job that becomes available that leads you in another direction, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that you don’t still have passion for those other things. I feel like it’s kind of unfortunate that there’s this stigma about if a comedian makes music, or a musician tries to do something funny, or if people just stray from their lane that they’re known for, people tend to think that it’s illegitimate or not good or whatever. Have you seen those two things, comedy and music, as sort of interchangeable in a way? As he discussed in our interview, Heidecker, who’s played a character capable of shooting milk from his nipple on command and a skullet-sporting perverted asshole boss, saw the role of himself as the weirdest he’s done yet. In Glendale is a genuine look at how seriously nonsensical life is in what’s supposedly the simple domestic life. What’s more is that the songs don’t just speak to parents. Still relatively new to fatherhood, Heidecker’s domestic cautionary tales aren’t so much silly as they are painfully and hilariously relevant. ![]() The album is weird, but it’s definitively familiar, too. With song titles like “Good Looking Babies” and “Cleaning Up the Dog Shit,” In Glendale is almost misleading from the start as it would be perfectly reasonable for those familiar with his work to assume Heidecker is just talmbout weird/funny/gross/literal bizarre shit. The only difference is that this time the comedy doesn’t come from what looks like a midnight public television show inspired by PCP. Before fans of Heidecker’s comedy shit the bed, though, it’s important to understand that Heidecker’s real life isn’t some 180-degree turn into crysturbating singer-songwriter drivel.
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