[Music] Josh Homie we are you know we're close we're not far away from the release of your first song from this brand new album which is called villains now officially announced produced by Mark Ronson um and the first song that you're GNA be sharing with the world um what's it [Music] called it's called the way you used to do thank you because I was definitely
going to that up I guess I I guess I never thought about how confusing that is but it's kind of exciting though are you sure I think you did I have no interest in manipulating any oh okay just go Um how do you feel when you're sort of on the eve of releasing music you pour your heart and soul into it and I mean you know when you first started releasing records compared to now that
that that sense of anticipation or expectation how does it make you feel I have a great sense of relief because it's a bit like uh going like you hold this and then someone they hold it and you walk away and you go it's yours yeah yeah yeah I I it's a relief because I don't have to hold it anymore and um and it's none of my business now you know cuz you you
can't you can't guarantee that it will do like that's just too that's too iffy for me to get involved in but you have to make a decision about what song people are going to hear right you have you put the whole album out on in its enti don't get me wrong I always thought it should be the song I just like you know and and because it just sort of claimed to be the one that was like I'll
do it you know cuz there is a certain amount of like yeah you know who's going to run this Gauntlet all right that song I got yeah I got I'll go for it man yeah you know and I think that that a song that jumps right up and says I'll dance that gaet you know uh is is really like um I'm thankful for that because um no matter what it does I'm like look at it
they jump right up look at you girl look at you proud of he wanted to do it proud of you proud of you yeah because I think it's much different for me than it is for somebody else on the other side of that you know um you know I'm glad that that one jumped up and wanted to dance its way through the gauntlet so I'm like no let the boy go let him go and there
it is man we love it um it's called the way you used to do yes yes uh by Queens of the Stone Age song number one taken from an album it's actually song number two yeah slow clap with with some Boogie no that was from the song you know he just he slow clapped me but at least he put some swing in it yeah um but it's the second song on on the on the fourth
coming album um which is again you know if we're looking at things in the terms of what albums mean and the structure of albums always feels like you know yeah single number two number two it was going to be number one except for Fe you know just CL his way in there um that is a good time that's a good time you know and really the central the central component of that song is the most
simple thing you've ever done yeah and when you clap right now I think when you clap in Tempo this is where I'm going to geek out some people will hear that like four on the floor but when that clap comes in even before you hear anything else around it it's clearly swinging yeah and and I but I it all stems from what you love too I I I I you know in the morning mornings can
be tough are you a morning person nope I I I also am not a morning person unless we stayed up and then I'm like it's the morning I feel a sense of Pride you know it's like but um I'm looking for ways to avoid grumpiness in the morning cuz that's not a way to start the day so this is it cab Callaway Dean Martin you know if you listen to mini mini the
mucha and like all the swinging stuff you know know or this there's this cat CW Stone king that's from Australia that's great to that's plays in an old manner you know that almost 20s Jazz you know or um you know um this this big band Rhythm yeah man it's just wonderful and um and that sort of swing just after morning after morning after morning for like a few years of
just going there you know you start to go yeah what would what would it sound like if we did that yeah like where do we belong in all of this yeah and I think it's where influence is one of the greatest things ever is like you you know influence shouldn't be like we should copy that because that's gross but but it should be like where do I belong in this too how is it resonates
with me already when I listen to it so if I were going to be that where do I be and all that you know it's it's it's like a of those really great moments where I listen to the listen to you and I go wow you know and it also feels to me like and I said this when I heard it the first time in the other room a while ago and uh and you didn't punch me which
was a relief um and I said I said it feel does this not get across any punching things does it I said it feels like uh no one knows has a has a sister has like a swinging sister like or or like like just a really cool like a good like a best friend well you said you said that too and you were like I think you finally got to something that could take on that song too because you know I
think sometimes you you have a if you're lucky enough to have a a successful moment you're sort of like that's on one side of the scale always and someone's waiting to like can you put something to level it off yeah and well just means you don't have to end with that song now you can probably start with it start with it well but also you know I love that
song and I love playing that too so I don't I don't get sick of stuff like that because you know that's like um I'm thankful for that song and and all and and it's came from a good place and so what's there to get what's there to get mad at you know when people like we're not going to play our hit song it's like well yeah because you're going to spend all your time getting out of your own
ass yeah you know what I mean l letting you know let the cheeks go loose so the stick will drop out um you know that song is amazing and I and I and you know how was it when you find you know when you got the guys in the room to kind of play it for the first time and get that and get a feel for it well the way you used to do was the the first song I had and we were
actually on tour at the end of the last record and I had this I was setting up a home studio and I thought well I should test it and make sure it works cuz I don't make demos I cuz I just don't believe in them you know but I I said well I'll test it and I just wrote that thing and came up with a song and I I liked so much I was like I can't listen to this cuz I don't want to get sick of
it you know so I didn't listen to it for a year and a half but knew it was there and I would sometimes go you know and I thought oh I can't even I W I won't sing it you know and I played for the guys once and and I think that immediate reaction is a great litmus test for if something is good or not and everyone you I just put it on the room and didn't do anything and and
within a few seconds the everyone was like what's this and I was like great okay great so I'm not going to listen to this for the next year and that's great you know and so it was the first song for this record and it was the only song we really knew wow and but but it was like this is the direction you know I think one song becomes the sort of
Talisman for where you're going you know who's the first person you played the finished version of the way you used to do to uh to Brody yeah what did she say um you know Brody's such an honest person and our relationship is like you have to be honest about the music and um and she was she was very complimentary and I was really relieved yeah a bit Yeah a bit it's about her
anyway so so you met Mark when you working on Gaga right I did I'd met him uh a couple late nights before that here and there within an hour of working him on with with him on this Lady Gaga stuff the the references that glossery you use to talk about stuff and what was important to him and um I realized that there's Grand overlap of interest and Fascination and Elation in the in in
making music you know cuz you know for you you're producer Josh you produced vultures you produce monkeys you produce Queens of the Stone Age you know you've learned what you need to know to make your your your record sound big so why a producer at all and in particular beyond the glossery why him because you know how you want your band to sound yeah
well and and in to a to a certain extent I know that it could also I could render someone M so it's unchangeable you know and so there's a safety in knowing that but also I I think it's um it's our seventh record and we H we have uh the luxury of having found a sound that's ours but by the seventh record if you're not careful that's parody and you end up cartoon character on the wall and I
think um there's a need to sort of identify who you are now and while the the most dangerous game is to retain that sense of self and take the risk to be something new and I I I realized that that's really where I wanted to go with this especially because that would be exciting too if you could if you could unlock that code of re orientating your
sound um then you're you know your newest record needs to be the very best one that's made off of the experience and failures of the last one so that you could actually I mean that could make you a better person you know you could leave baggage behind there's so much that could happen if you make a great record and you really mean it was it exciting was it fun to make uh you know
what's interesting is that we always have fun because we get along and we are honest and talk about things um but they get more difficult to make somehow uh you know you think you're you're making something that wasn't there but somehow it feels like I'm mining taking something out and then it's gone you you were asking why Ronson too and I I think one of the reasons was to act like a
talent been as a reminder of you know you know listening to up Town Funk right it's very tight and vacuous it sounds great and I was like I I want I knew I wanted to make something very tight and with the air sucked out of it and very clear you know and so he was just a great reminder that's just as an opening and then his desires are so beat Centric
and so are mine that we had this tremendous amount of overlap and then you know that sort of giggling over the gold like the excitement of creating something he has that during making of this we ke I kept calling things we're going to Crescendo camp where things take over for a second because it's was like why can't something take over the mix and bury it and then you let when
it's when the you know when the uh tablecloth is pulled you you reveal this next thing and um he was very into that idea so was Mark Ranken who we worked with on the last record um as well and so you know you you get these philosophies that you start working on on and they they sort of take over what's going on with the video you going I'm assuming you're going to make a
video for it we are um yeah can't give away too much of that yet but um it's going to be nuts yeah yeah what's the worst treatment for a video that you've ever received to memory I think it's the video that I did for in my head right where I just was that we were making this video and I was looking at the thing back and I was like this is terrifyingly awful and I just
split I split and it's like where's where Josh going I was like he went home yeah I was like my name is Paul y'all and I just you out yeah cuz you were looking at the monitor yeah and I was like I you know I was in a particular state of mine did you say goodbye did you la exit no you got a French exit that you're just like you when the phone's not ringing that's me