What makes putting the singer songwriter spin of these top 40 pop songs so entertaining and fun?
It’s a great song. It’s hard to hear how good it is in the way it was executed, but it’s a great song. It’s kind of an impossible song to write because it is so mundane, so right down the middle. I could never write a song like that, I’ve tried. Chris Colingwood from Fountains of Wayne and I talk about this all of the time- how those songs are just impossible to write. It takes someone who only knows English as a second language to write a song like that. I think the Matrix wrote that song… or the devil. It’s fun to play those songs. It’s like way so beyond and so not beyond at the same time. Honestly I recorded it because I think it’s beautiful. The new project you have coming out is an album with Mandy Moore. How did the collaboration with Mandy come about? From my friend Inara George of The Bird and the Bee. Mandy is a fan of Inara’s. She called Inara to collaborate and Inara got together with Mandy. Within 20 minutes Inara said,”You know you should meet my friend Mike because he
