Mac DeMarco: 'Here Comes the Cowboy' Interview | Apple Music

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[Music] wake up wake up you thought I was gonna ease you in with the lilting sounds of birds and perhaps rolling waves from a meditation sounding mm-hmm album but no I'm hitting you with the realness there are people excited about new music next marker mm-hmm oh you sound so good you

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sleepy I think I'm gonna give you a cuddle nestled in today's world record is uh song number 11 on here comes the cowboy 13 songs and full on a brand new record and our guest for the entire hour today is mr. DeMarco talked us through this song Matt I mean we just played it

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for everybody and we're hearing it ahead of the album coming out and so why is that and what is it what do you love about it and hmm it's based I mean I had the phrase which i think is Shakespearean again I've done it a couple times in the past yes take a catchphrase run with it but this

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song I actually wrote it's one of the older older demos that I had when I met before I made the record and I had recently watched that away szustak you mentary that came out yeah yeah yeah and for most of my life I was always like now blur I'm a blur guy like I don't know about oasis you know I've said

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heard Wonderwall too many times like everybody else but then I saw that documentary and I was immediately like oh my god this is the best band that's ever that's ever existed and that happens with me with every rock duck like that queen movie came out right now but see so what

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happened was I was trying to write in a way sis song with this song it doesn't really sound like in a waster song but they were attempt yeah that was my attempt took the music you're making is beautiful wouldn't you know what I've heard of the album so far and I mean you called this your you know your

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cowboy would be country out kind of thing but you know it's definitely as far as songwriting goes like you know once again you've obviously just just strive to create something that's true to yourself so where where were you when you made this what kind of movie you win

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why are we hearing like we're hearing it I don't know yeah it's you know these quizzes still the beginning of me thinking abut I haven't thought about that's why I have this interview right yeah exactly the guy's got the most Awkward interview Ron use me as practice I'm yeah I'm game

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but I think I don't know I it's a weird record you know the cowboy song came about and I was like okay that's a good vibe why not mm-hmm I had a couple other songs you know just right when I had a spare moment on on tour at the house and you know the same crap I'm always doing like a

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self-reflective third person you know by autobiographical whatever right I mean you know simple sparse slow great in green is the way the way I listen the way I talk about nobody is it sometimes if you're lucky on a celebration you go to go to a restaurant yeah and they have

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like a Michelin star or something something really fabulous little issues you just know you're in for a good night you get there and it's just a dish you gotta water is the one with the freshly made pasta oh yeah they evil yeah fresh truffle oh yeah in a little little Sun

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it's like four ingredients yeah that's their signature dish it's like 400 bucks - yeah you made a $400 record called nobody is a stunner well thank you very much I like that song I think the last time you spent much time on beats one you were probably a pack house at the pack

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house with Anderson yeah yeah that's right yeah which is a great moment I love that show and hopefully it will come back when he's not out there and can consistently touring around Europe playing to 15,000 people and gone for too long I've been so bored he's been gone a long time

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but he's striking while the iron is hot yeah of course you gotta do what you gotta do I know and you didn't DJed on that first episode I think sorta yeah I mean it was a bit of a bit of it I think the first one was kind of like okay let's try and you know okay here we go

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but it was you know I just like going over there and hanging out with those guys what are you what's it what's I mean just for people who have never had the experience of walking in the pack house and hanging out with AP and his crew free nationals the whole vibe and who knows he's gonna roll in like what is it

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what does it like being a musician and a creative and a human being inexperienced fee I think I mean that place is great because it's like you know especially for me I never it living in New York I didn't really I had homies that were like you know in bands and whatever but

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I there was no didn't have any like collaborative kind of vibe going on there and these guys I can go hang out they lie me for some reason i like dem a lot and we can go hang and we've become good friends and they're all like very very very good musicians hmm so as much as I

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enjoy hanging with them I'm uh I can also sit there and be like damn what you know what what and then you know that because they're all these crazy players you know other people will come that are also crazy and then it's this crazy I don't really play that often because I would just embarrass myself but just

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drinking it in or just you know right get on the dicks and select yeah on ipod [Music] [Laughter] bring a guitar and just bring an iPod exactly would you play like little shows after your show DJ do things like that just to kind of play other people's music and continue to be a part of it

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always just fun for you I - yeah I mean I'll DJ every once in a while because I think people think that I can like fill up a bar so I wish I can you know I don't really and they'll often pay to reach out great but uh usually it's like you know maybe a slowed down version of

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like a Huey Lewis song with like a youtube fart compilation and sound light on top of it right right it's a new style of DJing let's put it that way yeah yeah it sounds like it comes from the origins of mashups yeah but it's yeah Zach just way stranger yeah yeah slow down Huey Lewis yeah your power of

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love at the half speed my goodness gracious sports classic you know I was talking to the cover of that record - it's like they're kind of in this like maybe like something like that and I was talking about it last night Clubhouse I'd like to that's what I mean that's I

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think that's my next endeavors starting a clubhouse but maybe we were talking last night maybe if you had to enter through like a manhole cover it was really nice under there yeah that'd be nice you know but that kind of Huey Lewis style Clubhouse subterranean

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sewer entry I mean I'm not one to invite myself to a wedding or anything but can I join well we'll have to run it by the commute house I mean where would you tell me about your clubhouse on my own show and allow me invitation amen it's the committee man I don't call the shots man you just

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told me so right there you are the committee are you talking about I come to you tomorrow cuz you are a committee you're the judge the jury and the executioner and I come to you with my hands open like this to the boss I say mr. DeMarco please don't talk about some

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committee doesn't exist they look to you for the answers they look to you for the answers you come to me mad day of my best warning Mac I've known you for so long you know your mother and my mother were friends we grew up on the same block we had our differences but who doesn't I come to

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you with my palms open out of respect out of respect it's out of my hand let me join listen I bought you a gift I bought you a gift I want to play it for you I bought you a gift alright everybody thanks for tuning in we're listening to Huey Lewis it's 64 after he's bryggen rock and roll back to

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the Big Apple it's it's back of the daddy of the morning right that was my favorite song all they record at all and I actually spoke to Huey about six months ago JD's road show and so I went out to the horizon arena we still it was Hine backstage interviews great it's like

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three hours long it's up on someone our website oh my god make it about go to my favorite was actually haunted soul what the album was saying in the first place some Wranglers up near the bellybutton and Mac DeMarco and the Wranglers you know nice little thin flannel sleeves

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rolled up above the elbow tucked into those jeans and a nice mullet up top god Huey this is almost ASMR yeah I love it I love the look I love Huey god bless I just want to see if you listening if you loose in the news and I know we've got running out of time but you know how often do you get the cowboy

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in the house it's gotta be done I wonder if you're going into Huey Lewis in the news what other artists it recommends hmm I'm gonna say they're gonna give you haul notes Oh number one is holding us yeah they probably also give you and also this weirdly enough you can go from Huey

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Lewis and the news straight into this and I'm gonna enter with this Oh yeah thank you yeah this is the one of this is 1984 is to me one of the greatest times of all time it's official bro I'm in the clubhouse yeah hell yeah membership approved cards in the mail