Michael Bubleis Peter Parker.
Not literally, of course.
“I wanted to be Spider-Man,” he tellsEntertainment Weekly.
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“I still think I’m Spider-Man.
I am a huge comic book nerd.
In fact, it might have been almost as challenging as fighting a super-villain.
‘The Best of Bublé’.Reprise/WEA
“The producer hated it,” Buble explains of recording the track back in the early 2000s.
“He didn’t get it or the cultural relevance of it.
He’s like, ‘Yeah, man.
I thought it was kind of stupid.'”
Which actually worked against the singer initially.
“She had guessed that I would do from 50 to 150,000 copies.
What was I supposed to think?'”
It was like, ‘Come on, this has to go on there.'”
“It’s very personal,” he continues.
“There’s not a song on there that the record company [chose].
It was me going, ‘This one and this one.’
They weren’t all the biggest hits, but they meant something to me.
The common denominator is a connection with an audience.
And I always keep that in my head.”
“It is a recurring theme,” he explains.
“With ‘Feeling Good,’ I had this idea to create this James Bondesque theme.
There’s always a cinematic idea between each of the arrangements.
It’s what I do best.”
“It’s a scientific impossibility for something to come from nothing,” he adds.
“I’m an idiot,” he says with a laugh.
That song is so Michael Buble.
It’s a great f—ing song.
But thank God now I can put it out and give it the love it deserves."
“He’s such a hero.Red Light, Blue Lightis one of my favorite records of all time.
I’ve always loved that New Orleans swing, and I’ve always loved Elvis.
Elvis was my number one.
So it also has that little bit of rockabilly.
It’s just what moves me.”
It’s another shelved track from theHigheralbum one Buble also regrets not including.
He recorded it as a tribute to his wife, who is from Argentina.
“My wife is the greatest thing that ever happened to me,” he says.
And I’m dealing with the boss.
I love Latin culture.
In my house, we speak Spanish, and I love the music and the food.
I love that even though I speak like a caveman, I can converse in it.
Buble credits its success to songwriter-producer Jason Goldman’s work on it.
“It is so raunchy and sexy.”
It already has one major fan besides Buble.
“Derek Houghheard it the other day,” Buble says.
“He came to visit us and the second he heard it, I watched his wheels turning.
He was doing this stuff with his hands where I could see him choreographing and twisting.
He looked at me, and he goes, ‘Can you send this to me?
Can I do this onDancing With the Stars?'”
But he wrote the first version of it when he was only 17 years old.
“When I wrote it, it was in waltz time,” he recalls.
What if we double-time it?’
So then I knew I had to change the lyrics.
They’re this or that.’’'
“Alan would get into these loops, and he came up and started to play this.
I started to sing, and Amy said, ‘Why don’t we write about meeting somebody?’
It didn’t take us long.
We sat there and started to write, and we came up with that soaring chorus.”
“And that’s how the video starts.”
And I would look at him like he was crazy.
It’s always going to be okay somehow."
“That song for me was an interesting one artistically,” he adds.
“Because I had written it on the piano, and I’m a feeble piano player.
I had gone to my co-writer Alan and he did not like the song.
To this day, I don’t think he does.
He was like, ‘That’s it?’
He felt like there was such simplicity there.”
The song, which he wrote early in his career, came to him in the shower.
“I remember being in the shower and going, ‘Alright, God, drop the song.’
I remember getting out of the shower and thinking, ‘Did I steal this?’
It was so complete.”
“Home” did not impress Chang either.
“He was like, ‘That ending is so predictable.
We know you’re going to go to that chord,'” Buble says.
“And I would be like, ‘Yeah, isn’t it great?'”
“My mind wanted that simplicity,” he says.
Weirdly, the more complicated they were, the longer I liked them.
Even though he included “Home” on his best-of album, Buble is kind of over it.
“I don’t hate it,” he clarifies.
“But I would probably say out of all of them, ‘Home’ isn’t my number-one pick.
It means a lot to me that it means a lot to people.
A lot of servicemen and servicewomen tell me that this song is an anthem for them.
Emotionally it helps me because, just functionally as a songwriter, you grow and you change.”
