November 11, 2025 • 31 mins
Alessia Cara, the GRAMMY-winning singer-songwriter known for her honest lyrics and soulful voice, joins Norah in the studio. She talks about how she first started writing songs, what life on the road has been like, and the secret dreams she still keeps close. Along the way, you’ll hear intimate duet performances of songs from Alessia’s latest album.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
This episode is also available as video on YouTube. You
can visit Nora Jones channel and be sure to subscribe
while you're there.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hi, I'm Nora Jones.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Today I'm playing along with Alessia Kara.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I'm just playing long weezy, am just playing lone weezy.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Welcome to the show. I'm Nora and this is Sarah Oda.
That's me always.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Today we're joined by the incredible Alessia Kara. Unlike Brooke Dubeck,
we got a call back.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Oh boy, I was gonna say that's another two reference.
If you know, you know you finally watched it. Yes,
I knew you would love it.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I love that she came back in in the second season.
I know it's also she's.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
A Grammy winning singer songwriter with a beautiful, soulful voice
and very honest lyrics. Her debut album, No It All
came out in twenty fifteen, and she's just put out
her new album, which is her fourth album, called Love
Hyperbole came out earlier this year and it's a really
beautiful record, so check that out.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
She's just a delight and she's got such an amazing
voice and was super fun to hang with. So I
hope you enjoyed this episode. We had a lot of
fun making it. And here she is, Alesia Kara.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Well, thank you for coming, thank you, thanks for having me.
So where do you live? I live in Toronto? Is
that where you're from?
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Yeah? I was born and raised in a suburb of Toronto,
and then I moved to the city about six years ago. Okay,
so yeah, I've been in the city for a while.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I love it. I think it's so much fun.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
I always thought that I wanted to live, like in
some sort of rural area. I never thought I was
a city girl until I moved, and I'm.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Like, I love it. Well, you're young too.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
It has the good energy and yeah, a lot of
things to do.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
It's such a great city.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I was wondering if you wanted to try a song
from your new album that would be lovely you Yeah, yeah,
that would be beautiful and.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I can't wait to do this if you.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I was thinking this song fire might be a good
one to start with. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Pick me up and take me home.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Reaching through musking and boom change in my DNA inspired
minute by minute.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
All the time, I.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Always falling bomb stay, but you're rushing up brain like
it's nothing.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I'm jumping and have stuff.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
Who I'm on fire, I'm on fire.
Speaker 8 (03:17):
Who I'm on fire? Who I'm on fire?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Pick me up and send me free Golden boy and
dirty jeans painting in your life. Wondered why I couldn't
see it. Hey all the time stoodas Oh it's fine
(04:06):
and I'm mustay, but your person I brain.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Back, it's nothing.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I'm jumping the head first. Who I'm on fire? Who
I'm on fire?
Speaker 7 (04:33):
Who I'm on five? I'm on fire. I want to
be with you.
Speaker 8 (04:54):
Anywhere else is too fa. I want to be like
you are. Bewake you are, beware you are. I want
to take your places. I want to keep you saving.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
I want to be like you are.
Speaker 8 (05:20):
Bewg you be, make you.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
I'm on fire, I'm lo fat, I'm on fam time
on fire.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
Oh I'm on fire, I'm on fa.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Oh that was awesome.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Oh my gosh, that was beautiful. That thing you did,
that little jazz spin you put on that break was
so good.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Oh good. I loved your voice sounds so pretty. Oh
thank you? Yeah, an incredible day. That was so amazing beautiful.
I thought that was great.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Yeah, me too.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
It was like free and fun and feeling each other out.
That was that was great. So that's from the new album. Yes,
it's from the new album. It was like, it's it's
funny because like how how we are kind of playing
it now is like how it was written, which is
very rare for me. I don't typically like write in
the room with a bunch of people were intimate, you mean, yeah,
I kind of just do it on my own. I
get very I guess shy to like just like sing
(06:58):
gibberish out into the room. It's very with other people
with other people.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah, the gibbers singing thing is a real thing because
it's a really good way to get stuff and sort
of get a placeholder. But I imagine it would be
hard to do in a room full of more than
one person. Oh yeah, because I don't really do that either.
But with one person, if I'm writing, I don't mind
doing it really.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
So if there's another person there, it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
If if it's someone i'm writing with, I'm probably pretty
comfortable with them, but I wouldn't want to probably do
it with a stranger.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Yeah, you know, no, it's strange. I mean, I can
very like doing it just in front of anyone. Honestly,
I'm like super shy that way. But I think this
album was the first time I kind of let go
of those inhibitions and just like tried things because I
do feel like you get good stuff when you know
you maybe have another ear to tell you, like, wait,
you did something that was cool. You know that you
might think is kind of like I like that. Yeah,
(07:49):
that's like having a secretary, yes exactly, take her, yes exactly.
So I've actually found it to be really beneficial for
my writing process. So that was like the first song
we did that was done in that way. And who
was in the room for this one This producer and
great friend of mine who I've worked with for many
albums now, John Levine. He's also another Canadian who lives
(08:09):
in La so I was in La with him in
his home studio, and another producer named Jake Tory, who
are great. They're both great composers as well. So we,
you know, put a mic in the middle of the room.
I believe it was John on keys, Jake on drums,
and then just me on the mic, and we just
kept looping those chords and that little drum loop and
(08:30):
until the song was done, until I just fell out.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
It was so fun to do it that that's great
and it's inspiring.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
You're just bouncing off of each other and yeah, yeah,
I think that's a way that I didn't really know
how to write like that until maybe ten or fifteen
years ago, and it was super freeing.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
M m.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Yeah, yeah, I've enjoyed it. It's been nice.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah. Did you start writing songs when you were young?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
I mean yes and no.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
I think I kind of did it like for fun
in more of like a jokey way. When I was
kid like, I would write kind of funnier, like stupid
songs just for myself. And then as I started getting older,
I wrote a lot of poetry and short stories. I
would write stories all the time, and then it wasn't
until my teen years that I started like figuring out
how to turn those like short stories or poems like
(09:16):
into melody and rhythm. Yeah, So it was kind of
like later in life. It was always there, like writing
was always a part of my life in some way,
but I never really started, you know, turning it into
like proper music until my mid teens, I would say.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
To me, that's young. I guess I really that's older.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Well, I was much older. I was like twenty when
I wrote my first Well I wrote a couple songs
in high school, but I was twenty when I really
started getting into writing.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Okay, yeah, that's kind of that feels old to me really, yeah,
because I feel like so many people that I speak to,
like a lot of artists that you hear that, like,
I've been writing songs since I was like one, Yeah,
you know, my first album for sure, But I think
I didn't really become like a super confident writer until
my second album, which I was about I think I
was like nineteen or twenty, so around the same time
(10:04):
as you was when I really like started practicing it
fully and like doing it for real, for real.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
And so how did you start singing? What were you into?
What did you grow up around?
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Singing was something that I always did do since I
was super super young. I think when I started discovering
my own music and things that I was into, I
you know, discovered artists like Amy Winehouse that she was
a huge one for me. I loved her growing up
and in cold Play grew up listening to. My dad
is a huge Beatles fan, so I was always listening
to the Beatles, a little bit of everybody, I mean,
like Stevie Nix and Fleetwood, Mac, Lauren hill Er, Kobadu
(10:37):
shade you. Of course, I always gravitated towards like the
singer songwriter, women who like played an instrument, who were
like on stage on their own. I always loved that
and I always wanted to do that.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
So that's cool. Yeah. And your family's Italian? Yes, yes, yeah, yeah.
So did you ever hear any Italian music growing up?
Speaker 7 (10:55):
I did.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Yeah, my mom played a lot of different Italian music.
There's I mean, you can list all of them. There's like, sorry,
my mom's in the room. Also, there's an artist named
Edo Sti. There's a really big Italian artist who I
got to collaborate with a couple of years ago, which
was so cool because we grew up listening to him.
Between like my dad loving like you know, the Beatles
and Elvis and then my mom listening to Italian music
(11:17):
and stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
It was it's a nice mix.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Yeah, what do you think about trying another song? Oh
that'd be lovely. Yeah, yeah, do you want to try clearly, sure, clearly. Yeah,
Oh my gosh, yeah, let's see if this guitar it's
got a big neck, so hopefully it's okay to big.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
A million years later, here's only a million pages worth
of history. We were roaming in the desert, found in
an olive tree. No use in going back to sight
and who's wrong and toss the blame between us like
a basketball. I've learned that it takes two to tango.
(12:11):
After all, lie, smoke clean we.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
And know what?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Don't hate you? Yeah, we're run borrow time and I
don't wasting a the otion between us clothes and there.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Now we're close, and I see the.
Speaker 8 (12:40):
Fences men and slowly can we be open?
Speaker 7 (12:48):
Forget about the.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Rest start of over For the first time, I can
see clearly. For the first time, I can see you.
(13:12):
I've visited the beginning and we really grown. I've analyzed
the ending through a telescope.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
Some things can work out.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Until they just don't smokey we here, you know, I
don't hate it.
Speaker 7 (13:36):
We'll run borrow time, and I don't a waste.
Speaker 9 (13:42):
Be the ocean between us closing.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
And we're close, and I see the fences mending slowly.
Speaker 8 (13:56):
Can we be open, forget about the rest and.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Start of over for the first time, I have.
Speaker 9 (14:13):
The ocean between us clothes and we're closer, and I
see the fences Mandy slowly.
Speaker 8 (14:25):
Can we realpen?
Speaker 7 (14:29):
Forget about the rest and start.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Over for the first time, I can see clearly, first
time I can see.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
When you were starting to play out? You know where
did you start playing? Did you play in bars? Did
you play at home? For you did a lot of
stuff on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
I know I did. Yeah, I was super shy.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
I mean I still am. Like we were talking about,
I'm a shy writer. I was a very shy singer
as well, So I did a lot of it just
at home by myself when like no one was around.
That's where I like really practiced and did everything. And
then I didn't have a band until my first band,
you know, since I got signed, Like that was my
first time working with a band doing proper shows. And
was it hard to make that adjustment or was it
(15:41):
just like a relief to have people to do it with?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Yeah, it was honestly the latter. It was definitely a
relief because you know, when you're up there and as
such a shy person.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
It's kind of all reliant on you.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
And you know, I wasn't the most phenomenal guitar player,
and I can't really like shred and fill in space.
So I always felt like it was super naked up there,
and it's scary. It's scary when it's just you, you know,
because every mistake can be heard, and you know, it's
just it's very bare. So once I had this group
of people around me to one make my song sound
so full and rich, which is wonderful, but then also
(16:12):
just to have people up there with me felt really nice,
and it quickly became like a little family, you know,
it was very nice.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
That's the best the family vibes on the road. Yeah, yeah,
it's definitely. It's the only way, yeah, to be close
to the people you're traveling.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
With totally, especially when you're on you know, you're on
one bus. It's you know, I think people think touring
is maybe something that it isn't, and they don't realize
how tight knit you are and how oftentimes very you know,
not glamorous it can.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Be not at all, not at all.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
There's nothing glamorous really about being on a tour bus.
So if you're around a bunch of strangers or you
don't get along, it can be taxing. It's yeah, you know,
so it's it's so nice to have a team that
I really love and feel very close to. Has it
changed a lot over the years.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
It's changed slightly.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
One of my band members, actually Eric, I think he
did some of your tech. Eric Krazinski, he was here. Oh,
I think he's the one who kind of put us
in contact many years ago. He's doing producing now, so
he doesn't really do too much live stuff anymore. And
then unfortunately my bass player passed away oh this year,
which is very devastating. Yeah, so my drummer is still
(17:17):
the same, thank you. My drummer is still the same.
You know, a couple of things have moved around, but
I still feel very close to everybody. Even the ones
you aren't tourn with me anymore, feel super close to
them and we.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Talk all the time. So yeah, things change.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
But yeah, yeah, But also being young, because you start
out so young, to be on the road that young,
it can be really hard.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Yeah, it was. It was challenging. It was very challenging.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Were you the youngest of the bunch or were there
a lot of other young people within the group.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
I was the youngest. I had my guitar tech Leo
was around my age. He's like maybe three years older
than me. Everybody else was a lot older than me. Okay,
that was another thing too, yeah, which and they were
all men, Like I have my my manager Victoria, but
she wasn't on the road road with us very much,
so she's the only girl that was on the road.
(18:04):
Now I have my bass player now as a girl,
which would be so fun to.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Have her on the road.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Yeah, when you're traveling with a bunch of men who
are a lot older than you, it could be.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Very challenged, that's the thing. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Yeah, I don't know what your experience was like, or
if you had many other women on the road or
people your age. Thankfully, it did become a family. It
felt like I had a bunch of big brothers around
me all the time, which is very nice. But there's
a good situation, yeah, yeah, but there is that little
void of just having you know, people your age.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Yeah, it's a different thing. Yeah, it's a different energy.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I had someone in my band early on who is
my best friend and my age, and we just groofed
around the whole time, and the rest of the band
was like ten to fifteen years older than us, And
when I think back, I just think of us being
so annoying, probably just like doing pranks.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
My best friend used to travel with me too, and
I feel like that was our dynamic as well, like
mooning people.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Like oh oh wow, yeah, I mean, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Because we're a kid thing, we were really just teenage boys,
I guess exactly.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Yeah, yeah, it's the same exactly. It was the same
exact dynamic with my best friend, and I feel like
everybody was just so sick of us.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yeah, but you don't realize until you're older. But gosh,
we had fun.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Yeah, I know, Oh my god, we were just having
a good time, so much fun.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Yeah, Because you have to have moments to be a kid.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
I feel like this, this industry can kind of launch
you into adulthood really early on, and so it's nice
to just have moments to just be a young person,
you know.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
And I also think we do this because we love
it and it is fun. Yeah, so you got to
find a way to keep it fun. So you're going
on tour, Hm, that's exciting. Yeah, I'm so excited.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
It's been a long time since I've toured because my
last album I released, like.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
You know, amidst like COVID time.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Yeah. Yeah, so I haven't toured since twenty nineteen, so
it's going to be Oh that's a long time.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
It was like a very transformative six years. I mean,
as any six years are. I think, yeah, six years
is a long time. But yeah, I just feel really excited.
I feel like very antsy to get back out on stage.
It's going to be going to feel really good. M Yeah,
I think so.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
I hope so, I know it will, but obviously nervous
because yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I was gonna say, are you a little bit since
you haven't done it in a while?
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Yeah, yeah, to some degree. It's like riding a bike.
It's like wobbly at first, right, So I imagine I'll
be a little bit nervous in the beginning. I'm always nervous.
But it feels like I'm doing it again for the
first time in a weird way. It's strange, but.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
That's kind of a beautiful thing, I think, yeah, because
there's that first time excitement and energy coming back in.
You know. Yeah, I'm excited for you, and I hope
you bring your dog for a little part of the
tour practice having the dog on the bus.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Yes, I think it'll be good.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
The Canadian run is pretty short, so that might be
a good tester. That's a big take care see if
she'll be a good tour dog or that's good.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I find that it's really hard to get off the
road and not know what to do with yourself sometimes.
So did you end up finding like little other things
to do with yourself any hobbies?
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Yeah, there were a few different things, honestly that I
picked up. I'm like a such a hobby person. I'll
like hyper fixate on something for months and then we'll
find another thing. I mean, first of all, I like
really tried to practice cooking. I got into cooking a
lot random other things I got into like tarot cards
and taro so I do that. I learned like all
about like perfumes and sense and I started collecting perfume,
(21:18):
which is a random thing, but it's just become like
a part of my life now, Like I know all
about like the notes and the top notes.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
And all the different perfumes. Well, you smelled really good
when you can't remember. I was like, oh, yes, smell nice.
Whatever that is a compliment. I appreciate that, thank you.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
Yeah, I've been really into the alchemy of perfume, so
it's those are like some little things that I've been into.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
It's funny, I've always felt like not being on the
road for a long time and not having any plan
to look ahead to, it's a weird place to be
for a musician.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
It can be hard, especially when you know a lot
of my friends and people in my life are not
in the industry, so they have regular jobs and so
when I'm just like sitting at home, they have lives
and I'm just like, what am I doing? Yeah, And
it's it's strange, and I'm sure you probably find too.
It's like this job is very like zero or a thousand.
There's no like in there's no one hundred.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Yeah, It's like you're either on and you're like touring
the world and go, go, go, or you're just like
having an off period where you're doing nothing, and that
can be very jarring emotionally, mentally, physically.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
So yeah, it's always so.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Strange because you know, everyone in my life just like
has their day to day routine, and I find when
I'm home it's very weird.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I feel like, what do I do with myself? You know,
it's a test, I think, yeah, for sure. Well, i've
seen some of your clips on YouTube. You should definitely
start a comedy routine. Really, yeah, you're funny man, really,
oh totally.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Oh my gosh, I love that. Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
I would love to.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Honestly, that's been kind of like a secret dream of
mine to like start acting and like yeah, and I
mean in school I started, like in high school, I
was like a theater kid, so I did a bunch
of plays and I was always doing like you know,
improv and stuff. So okay, it's always been something that
I found fun. I could see that being a thing
for you. You think, yeah, I think you're good at it,
and you know you like it, so.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Yeah, it would be fun. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
I have to just get over the fear of like
that I'm not good at it or that I wouldn't
be good at it and just like try it. Yeah yeah,
maybe who knows.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
You're good? Thank you, good doll. You're gonna go far.
Speaker 7 (23:11):
Thank you You're gonna.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
That's great. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Thank you so much, Thanks so much for doing this.
Thank you do you want to do one more song?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
I love Do you Feel like It?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
This was the first one that really stood out to me.
I love this song. This is subside. Yes, yeah, it's
It's got a really cool chord structure, and I love
the words on the chorus too, and there's like three
choruses and they're all really good.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Yeah did you happened? I don't know this just how
I wrote it. I don't know why.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
It's so interesting when I you know, I've been rehearsing
it with my band and like playing it live. I'm
always like, where does this start? Really like it feels
like an endless loop, almost like there's no real start
or end.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
It's just kind of I kind of love that.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
I love loopy songs me too.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
But it's cool when it gets the first thing, I'm like,
oh I love this course.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Oh wait, there's no there's a course. They're all good,
thank you.
Speaker 8 (24:21):
That's what they say times is parckage.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
They don't waste annoying, Greevy's did enough.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
And fighting with and they.
Speaker 8 (24:43):
That will so sad, nohing good evertheless.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Good that was never came U staying up, falling off
track so much. I is shut up food too close
to the sun. Who was she was made up through
a punch?
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Has a tag one.
Speaker 8 (25:19):
That's what they say times just park change that are
ways staying away, leaving us, stay.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
And fighting with?
Speaker 3 (25:40):
And nke that also side is it open over side
walk scraping on east going halves on a tenerie on
know why everything was holding.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
It's still blurr in the distance.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
That's why I'm clutching my fist and off. All this
is is why it is you don't get the same
day twice?
Speaker 5 (26:20):
Still heavy night.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
There's something that will you don't feed why.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
God thing good everlast?
Speaker 2 (26:37):
The girl of was never came back?
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Stay in the falling half track so much? I listen
through to the close to the sun.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
Who was she was made.
Speaker 7 (26:55):
Through the punch? I had to take one.
Speaker 8 (27:00):
That's what they say, tangious parking, change.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
That homeway, staying away, we even w stay live.
Speaker 8 (27:19):
And fighting with.
Speaker 7 (27:21):
And they have also said.
Speaker 8 (27:42):
All this says when it is you.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Don't get the same day twice.
Speaker 8 (28:01):
Staffyn, there's something that wrong.
Speaker 7 (28:07):
You don't feed fay good everlast? The good that was
never came in?
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Stay alive for the nof track so much asten food
too course to the sun.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
Who was she was made.
Speaker 8 (28:37):
Through a part said to take one. That's what they say.
Speaker 6 (28:47):
Times just park.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
Change.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
There are ways standing away.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
We even want silas like.
Speaker 7 (29:05):
All so sad.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Yeah, you're awesome, Thanks so much for doing this. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
This is so fun. It was great to hang and play.
I hope we get to do it again sometimes. Yes,
I would love to.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
Maybe when I have my sketch comedy show, I'll come back,
We'll do an interview with that.
Speaker 7 (29:34):
I'd be honest.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Yes, absolutely, Yeah, that'd be amazing. That'd be fun. And
you know, have have a great time on tour. Thank you.
He's going to be so happy. It's gonna feel good. Yeah,
it's gonna be great. Thank you so much. I appreciate
you time. All right, Ah, that was so fun. She's
so sweet. Her voice is amazing.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
I know, it's so gorgeous in the room. It's like
it's like butta, butda, butta.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
So she's hilarious.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
She's so fun Like if you go down the YouTube
rabbit hole of her stuff that she's put up, she's
really really funny.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
She's got all these skits and stuff that she does
great impressions. Yes, she does we forgot to go there. Dang,
next time. We're friends now, okay? Cool?
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Actually I didn't get her number. It's fine, Okay call me, Alessia,
call me. We don't have to put that in, but
we will. No, we had so much fun. She's great.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
If you'd like to know the songs.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
We played on this episode, the first song was called
Fire from her album Love and Hyperbole, released in twenty
twenty five. The second song is called Clearly from the
same album, and the third song is called Subside, also
from the same album.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Special thanks to Alessia Kara for joining us today. We'll
be back next week with Sarah mcglaughlan. Woohoo.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Norah Jones Is Playing Along is a production of iHeart Podcasts.
Visit Norah Jones channel and be sure to subscribe while
you're there.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I'm your host, Norah Jones End.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
This episode was recorded by Matt Marinelli, mixed by Jamie Landry,
Audio post production by Greg Tobler, artwork by Eliza Frye,
Photography by Shervin Linez. Produced by Nora Jones and Sarah Oda.
Executive producers Aaron Wan Kaufman and Jordan Runtogg. Marketing lead
Queen and Naike thanks a lot for listening.
This episode is also available as video on YouTube. You
can visit Nora Jones channel and be sure to subscribe
while you're there.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hi, I'm Nora Jones.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Today I'm playing along with Alessia Kara.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I'm just playing long weezy, am just playing lone weezy.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Welcome to the show. I'm Nora and this is Sarah Oda.
That's me always.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Today we're joined by the incredible Alessia Kara. Unlike Brooke Dubeck,
we got a call back.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Oh boy, I was gonna say that's another two reference.
If you know, you know you finally watched it. Yes,
I knew you would love it.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I love that she came back in in the second season.
I know it's also she's.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
A Grammy winning singer songwriter with a beautiful, soulful voice
and very honest lyrics. Her debut album, No It All
came out in twenty fifteen, and she's just put out
her new album, which is her fourth album, called Love
Hyperbole came out earlier this year and it's a really
beautiful record, so check that out.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
She's just a delight and she's got such an amazing
voice and was super fun to hang with. So I
hope you enjoyed this episode. We had a lot of
fun making it. And here she is, Alesia Kara.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Well, thank you for coming, thank you, thanks for having me.
So where do you live? I live in Toronto? Is
that where you're from?
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Yeah? I was born and raised in a suburb of Toronto,
and then I moved to the city about six years ago. Okay,
so yeah, I've been in the city for a while.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I love it. I think it's so much fun.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
I always thought that I wanted to live, like in
some sort of rural area. I never thought I was
a city girl until I moved, and I'm.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Like, I love it. Well, you're young too.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
It has the good energy and yeah, a lot of
things to do.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
It's such a great city.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I was wondering if you wanted to try a song
from your new album that would be lovely you Yeah, yeah,
that would be beautiful and.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I can't wait to do this if you.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I was thinking this song fire might be a good
one to start with. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Pick me up and take me home.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Reaching through musking and boom change in my DNA inspired
minute by minute.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
All the time, I.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Always falling bomb stay, but you're rushing up brain like
it's nothing.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I'm jumping and have stuff.
Speaker 7 (03:00):
Who I'm on fire, I'm on fire.
Speaker 8 (03:17):
Who I'm on fire? Who I'm on fire?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Pick me up and send me free Golden boy and
dirty jeans painting in your life. Wondered why I couldn't
see it. Hey all the time stoodas Oh it's fine
(04:06):
and I'm mustay, but your person I brain.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Back, it's nothing.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I'm jumping the head first. Who I'm on fire? Who
I'm on fire?
Speaker 7 (04:33):
Who I'm on five? I'm on fire. I want to
be with you.
Speaker 8 (04:54):
Anywhere else is too fa. I want to be like
you are. Bewake you are, beware you are. I want
to take your places. I want to keep you saving.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
I want to be like you are.
Speaker 8 (05:20):
Bewg you be, make you.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
I'm on fire, I'm lo fat, I'm on fam time
on fire.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
Oh I'm on fire, I'm on fa.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Oh that was awesome.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Oh my gosh, that was beautiful. That thing you did,
that little jazz spin you put on that break was
so good.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Oh good. I loved your voice sounds so pretty. Oh
thank you? Yeah, an incredible day. That was so amazing beautiful.
I thought that was great.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Yeah, me too.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
It was like free and fun and feeling each other out.
That was that was great. So that's from the new album. Yes,
it's from the new album. It was like, it's it's
funny because like how how we are kind of playing
it now is like how it was written, which is
very rare for me. I don't typically like write in
the room with a bunch of people were intimate, you mean, yeah,
I kind of just do it on my own. I
get very I guess shy to like just like sing
(06:58):
gibberish out into the room. It's very with other people
with other people.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah, the gibbers singing thing is a real thing because
it's a really good way to get stuff and sort
of get a placeholder. But I imagine it would be
hard to do in a room full of more than
one person. Oh yeah, because I don't really do that either.
But with one person, if I'm writing, I don't mind
doing it really.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
So if there's another person there, it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
If if it's someone i'm writing with, I'm probably pretty
comfortable with them, but I wouldn't want to probably do
it with a stranger.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Yeah, you know, no, it's strange. I mean, I can
very like doing it just in front of anyone. Honestly,
I'm like super shy that way. But I think this
album was the first time I kind of let go
of those inhibitions and just like tried things because I
do feel like you get good stuff when you know
you maybe have another ear to tell you, like, wait,
you did something that was cool. You know that you
might think is kind of like I like that. Yeah,
(07:49):
that's like having a secretary, yes exactly, take her, yes exactly.
So I've actually found it to be really beneficial for
my writing process. So that was like the first song
we did that was done in that way. And who
was in the room for this one This producer and
great friend of mine who I've worked with for many
albums now, John Levine. He's also another Canadian who lives
(08:09):
in La so I was in La with him in
his home studio, and another producer named Jake Tory, who
are great. They're both great composers as well. So we,
you know, put a mic in the middle of the room.
I believe it was John on keys, Jake on drums,
and then just me on the mic, and we just
kept looping those chords and that little drum loop and
(08:30):
until the song was done, until I just fell out.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
It was so fun to do it that that's great
and it's inspiring.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
You're just bouncing off of each other and yeah, yeah,
I think that's a way that I didn't really know
how to write like that until maybe ten or fifteen
years ago, and it was super freeing.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
M m.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Yeah, yeah, I've enjoyed it. It's been nice.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah. Did you start writing songs when you were young?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
I mean yes and no.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
I think I kind of did it like for fun
in more of like a jokey way. When I was
kid like, I would write kind of funnier, like stupid
songs just for myself. And then as I started getting older,
I wrote a lot of poetry and short stories. I
would write stories all the time, and then it wasn't
until my teen years that I started like figuring out
how to turn those like short stories or poems like
(09:16):
into melody and rhythm. Yeah, So it was kind of
like later in life. It was always there, like writing
was always a part of my life in some way,
but I never really started, you know, turning it into
like proper music until my mid teens, I would say.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
To me, that's young. I guess I really that's older.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Well, I was much older. I was like twenty when
I wrote my first Well I wrote a couple songs
in high school, but I was twenty when I really
started getting into writing.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Okay, yeah, that's kind of that feels old to me really, yeah,
because I feel like so many people that I speak to,
like a lot of artists that you hear that, like,
I've been writing songs since I was like one, Yeah,
you know, my first album for sure, But I think
I didn't really become like a super confident writer until
my second album, which I was about I think I
was like nineteen or twenty, so around the same time
(10:04):
as you was when I really like started practicing it
fully and like doing it for real, for real.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
And so how did you start singing? What were you into?
What did you grow up around?
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Singing was something that I always did do since I
was super super young. I think when I started discovering
my own music and things that I was into, I
you know, discovered artists like Amy Winehouse that she was
a huge one for me. I loved her growing up
and in cold Play grew up listening to. My dad
is a huge Beatles fan, so I was always listening
to the Beatles, a little bit of everybody, I mean,
like Stevie Nix and Fleetwood, Mac, Lauren hill Er, Kobadu
(10:37):
shade you. Of course, I always gravitated towards like the
singer songwriter, women who like played an instrument, who were
like on stage on their own. I always loved that
and I always wanted to do that.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
So that's cool. Yeah. And your family's Italian? Yes, yes, yeah, yeah.
So did you ever hear any Italian music growing up?
Speaker 7 (10:55):
I did.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Yeah, my mom played a lot of different Italian music.
There's I mean, you can list all of them. There's like, sorry,
my mom's in the room. Also, there's an artist named
Edo Sti. There's a really big Italian artist who I
got to collaborate with a couple of years ago, which
was so cool because we grew up listening to him.
Between like my dad loving like you know, the Beatles
and Elvis and then my mom listening to Italian music
(11:17):
and stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
It was it's a nice mix.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Yeah, what do you think about trying another song? Oh
that'd be lovely. Yeah, yeah, do you want to try clearly, sure, clearly. Yeah,
Oh my gosh, yeah, let's see if this guitar it's
got a big neck, so hopefully it's okay to big.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
A million years later, here's only a million pages worth
of history. We were roaming in the desert, found in
an olive tree. No use in going back to sight
and who's wrong and toss the blame between us like
a basketball. I've learned that it takes two to tango.
(12:11):
After all, lie, smoke clean we.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
And know what?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Don't hate you? Yeah, we're run borrow time and I
don't wasting a the otion between us clothes and there.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Now we're close, and I see the.
Speaker 8 (12:40):
Fences men and slowly can we be open?
Speaker 7 (12:48):
Forget about the.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Rest start of over For the first time, I can
see clearly. For the first time, I can see you.
(13:12):
I've visited the beginning and we really grown. I've analyzed
the ending through a telescope.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
Some things can work out.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Until they just don't smokey we here, you know, I
don't hate it.
Speaker 7 (13:36):
We'll run borrow time, and I don't a waste.
Speaker 9 (13:42):
Be the ocean between us closing.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
And we're close, and I see the fences mending slowly.
Speaker 8 (13:56):
Can we be open, forget about the rest and.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Start of over for the first time, I have.
Speaker 9 (14:13):
The ocean between us clothes and we're closer, and I
see the fences Mandy slowly.
Speaker 8 (14:25):
Can we realpen?
Speaker 7 (14:29):
Forget about the rest and start.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Over for the first time, I can see clearly, first
time I can see.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
When you were starting to play out? You know where
did you start playing? Did you play in bars? Did
you play at home? For you did a lot of
stuff on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
I know I did. Yeah, I was super shy.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
I mean I still am. Like we were talking about,
I'm a shy writer. I was a very shy singer
as well, So I did a lot of it just
at home by myself when like no one was around.
That's where I like really practiced and did everything. And
then I didn't have a band until my first band,
you know, since I got signed, Like that was my
first time working with a band doing proper shows. And
was it hard to make that adjustment or was it
(15:41):
just like a relief to have people to do it with?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Yeah, it was honestly the latter. It was definitely a
relief because you know, when you're up there and as
such a shy person.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
It's kind of all reliant on you.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
And you know, I wasn't the most phenomenal guitar player,
and I can't really like shred and fill in space.
So I always felt like it was super naked up there,
and it's scary. It's scary when it's just you, you know,
because every mistake can be heard, and you know, it's
just it's very bare. So once I had this group
of people around me to one make my song sound
so full and rich, which is wonderful, but then also
(16:12):
just to have people up there with me felt really nice,
and it quickly became like a little family, you know,
it was very nice.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
That's the best the family vibes on the road. Yeah, yeah,
it's definitely. It's the only way, yeah, to be close
to the people you're traveling.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
With totally, especially when you're on you know, you're on
one bus. It's you know, I think people think touring
is maybe something that it isn't, and they don't realize
how tight knit you are and how oftentimes very you know,
not glamorous it can.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Be not at all, not at all.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
There's nothing glamorous really about being on a tour bus.
So if you're around a bunch of strangers or you
don't get along, it can be taxing. It's yeah, you know,
so it's it's so nice to have a team that
I really love and feel very close to. Has it
changed a lot over the years.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
It's changed slightly.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
One of my band members, actually Eric, I think he
did some of your tech. Eric Krazinski, he was here. Oh,
I think he's the one who kind of put us
in contact many years ago. He's doing producing now, so
he doesn't really do too much live stuff anymore. And
then unfortunately my bass player passed away oh this year,
which is very devastating. Yeah, so my drummer is still
(17:17):
the same, thank you. My drummer is still the same.
You know, a couple of things have moved around, but
I still feel very close to everybody. Even the ones
you aren't tourn with me anymore, feel super close to
them and we.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Talk all the time. So yeah, things change.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
But yeah, yeah, But also being young, because you start
out so young, to be on the road that young,
it can be really hard.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Yeah, it was. It was challenging. It was very challenging.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Were you the youngest of the bunch or were there
a lot of other young people within the group.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
I was the youngest. I had my guitar tech Leo
was around my age. He's like maybe three years older
than me. Everybody else was a lot older than me. Okay,
that was another thing too, yeah, which and they were
all men, Like I have my my manager Victoria, but
she wasn't on the road road with us very much,
so she's the only girl that was on the road.
(18:04):
Now I have my bass player now as a girl,
which would be so fun to.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Have her on the road.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Yeah, when you're traveling with a bunch of men who
are a lot older than you, it could be.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Very challenged, that's the thing. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Yeah, I don't know what your experience was like, or
if you had many other women on the road or
people your age. Thankfully, it did become a family. It
felt like I had a bunch of big brothers around
me all the time, which is very nice. But there's
a good situation, yeah, yeah, but there is that little
void of just having you know, people your age.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Yeah, it's a different thing. Yeah, it's a different energy.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I had someone in my band early on who is
my best friend and my age, and we just groofed
around the whole time, and the rest of the band
was like ten to fifteen years older than us, And
when I think back, I just think of us being
so annoying, probably just like doing pranks.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
My best friend used to travel with me too, and
I feel like that was our dynamic as well, like
mooning people.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Like oh oh wow, yeah, I mean, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Because we're a kid thing, we were really just teenage boys,
I guess exactly.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Yeah, yeah, it's the same exactly. It was the same
exact dynamic with my best friend, and I feel like
everybody was just so sick of us.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yeah, but you don't realize until you're older. But gosh,
we had fun.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Yeah, I know, Oh my god, we were just having
a good time, so much fun.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Yeah, Because you have to have moments to be a kid.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
I feel like this, this industry can kind of launch
you into adulthood really early on, and so it's nice
to just have moments to just be a young person,
you know.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
And I also think we do this because we love
it and it is fun. Yeah, so you got to
find a way to keep it fun. So you're going
on tour, Hm, that's exciting. Yeah, I'm so excited.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
It's been a long time since I've toured because my
last album I released, like.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
You know, amidst like COVID time.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Yeah. Yeah, so I haven't toured since twenty nineteen, so
it's going to be Oh that's a long time.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
It was like a very transformative six years. I mean,
as any six years are. I think, yeah, six years
is a long time. But yeah, I just feel really excited.
I feel like very antsy to get back out on stage.
It's going to be going to feel really good. M Yeah,
I think so.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
I hope so, I know it will, but obviously nervous
because yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I was gonna say, are you a little bit since
you haven't done it in a while?
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Yeah, yeah, to some degree. It's like riding a bike.
It's like wobbly at first, right, So I imagine I'll
be a little bit nervous in the beginning. I'm always nervous.
But it feels like I'm doing it again for the
first time in a weird way. It's strange, but.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
That's kind of a beautiful thing, I think, yeah, because
there's that first time excitement and energy coming back in.
You know. Yeah, I'm excited for you, and I hope
you bring your dog for a little part of the
tour practice having the dog on the bus.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Yes, I think it'll be good.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
The Canadian run is pretty short, so that might be
a good tester. That's a big take care see if
she'll be a good tour dog or that's good.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I find that it's really hard to get off the
road and not know what to do with yourself sometimes.
So did you end up finding like little other things
to do with yourself any hobbies?
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Yeah, there were a few different things, honestly that I
picked up. I'm like a such a hobby person. I'll
like hyper fixate on something for months and then we'll
find another thing. I mean, first of all, I like
really tried to practice cooking. I got into cooking a
lot random other things I got into like tarot cards
and taro so I do that. I learned like all
about like perfumes and sense and I started collecting perfume,
(21:18):
which is a random thing, but it's just become like
a part of my life now, Like I know all
about like the notes and the top notes.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
And all the different perfumes. Well, you smelled really good
when you can't remember. I was like, oh, yes, smell nice.
Whatever that is a compliment. I appreciate that, thank you.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
Yeah, I've been really into the alchemy of perfume, so
it's those are like some little things that I've been into.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
It's funny, I've always felt like not being on the
road for a long time and not having any plan
to look ahead to, it's a weird place to be
for a musician.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
It can be hard, especially when you know a lot
of my friends and people in my life are not
in the industry, so they have regular jobs and so
when I'm just like sitting at home, they have lives
and I'm just like, what am I doing? Yeah, And
it's it's strange, and I'm sure you probably find too.
It's like this job is very like zero or a thousand.
There's no like in there's no one hundred.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Yeah, It's like you're either on and you're like touring
the world and go, go, go, or you're just like
having an off period where you're doing nothing, and that
can be very jarring emotionally, mentally, physically.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
So yeah, it's always so.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Strange because you know, everyone in my life just like
has their day to day routine, and I find when
I'm home it's very weird.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I feel like, what do I do with myself? You know,
it's a test, I think, yeah, for sure. Well, i've
seen some of your clips on YouTube. You should definitely
start a comedy routine. Really, yeah, you're funny man, really,
oh totally.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Oh my gosh, I love that. Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
I would love to.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Honestly, that's been kind of like a secret dream of
mine to like start acting and like yeah, and I
mean in school I started, like in high school, I
was like a theater kid, so I did a bunch
of plays and I was always doing like you know,
improv and stuff. So okay, it's always been something that
I found fun. I could see that being a thing
for you. You think, yeah, I think you're good at it,
and you know you like it, so.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Yeah, it would be fun. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
I have to just get over the fear of like
that I'm not good at it or that I wouldn't
be good at it and just like try it. Yeah yeah,
maybe who knows.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
You're good? Thank you, good doll. You're gonna go far.
Speaker 7 (23:11):
Thank you You're gonna.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
That's great. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Thank you so much, Thanks so much for doing this.
Thank you do you want to do one more song?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
I love Do you Feel like It?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
This was the first one that really stood out to me.
I love this song. This is subside. Yes, yeah, it's
It's got a really cool chord structure, and I love
the words on the chorus too, and there's like three
choruses and they're all really good.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Yeah did you happened? I don't know this just how
I wrote it. I don't know why.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
It's so interesting when I you know, I've been rehearsing
it with my band and like playing it live. I'm
always like, where does this start? Really like it feels
like an endless loop, almost like there's no real start
or end.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
It's just kind of I kind of love that.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
I love loopy songs me too.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
But it's cool when it gets the first thing, I'm like,
oh I love this course.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Oh wait, there's no there's a course. They're all good,
thank you.
Speaker 8 (24:21):
That's what they say times is parckage.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
They don't waste annoying, Greevy's did enough.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
And fighting with and they.
Speaker 8 (24:43):
That will so sad, nohing good evertheless.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Good that was never came U staying up, falling off
track so much. I is shut up food too close
to the sun. Who was she was made up through
a punch?
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Has a tag one.
Speaker 8 (25:19):
That's what they say times just park change that are
ways staying away, leaving us, stay.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
And fighting with?
Speaker 3 (25:40):
And nke that also side is it open over side
walk scraping on east going halves on a tenerie on
know why everything was holding.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
It's still blurr in the distance.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
That's why I'm clutching my fist and off. All this
is is why it is you don't get the same
day twice?
Speaker 5 (26:20):
Still heavy night.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
There's something that will you don't feed why.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
God thing good everlast?
Speaker 2 (26:37):
The girl of was never came back?
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Stay in the falling half track so much? I listen
through to the close to the sun.
Speaker 6 (26:52):
Who was she was made.
Speaker 7 (26:55):
Through the punch? I had to take one.
Speaker 8 (27:00):
That's what they say, tangious parking, change.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
That homeway, staying away, we even w stay live.
Speaker 8 (27:19):
And fighting with.
Speaker 7 (27:21):
And they have also said.
Speaker 8 (27:42):
All this says when it is you.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Don't get the same day twice.
Speaker 8 (28:01):
Staffyn, there's something that wrong.
Speaker 7 (28:07):
You don't feed fay good everlast? The good that was
never came in?
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Stay alive for the nof track so much asten food
too course to the sun.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
Who was she was made.
Speaker 8 (28:37):
Through a part said to take one. That's what they say.
Speaker 6 (28:47):
Times just park.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
Change.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
There are ways standing away.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
We even want silas like.
Speaker 7 (29:05):
All so sad.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Yeah, you're awesome, Thanks so much for doing this. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
This is so fun. It was great to hang and play.
I hope we get to do it again sometimes. Yes,
I would love to.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
Maybe when I have my sketch comedy show, I'll come back,
We'll do an interview with that.
Speaker 7 (29:34):
I'd be honest.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Yes, absolutely, Yeah, that'd be amazing. That'd be fun. And
you know, have have a great time on tour. Thank you.
He's going to be so happy. It's gonna feel good. Yeah,
it's gonna be great. Thank you so much. I appreciate
you time. All right, Ah, that was so fun. She's
so sweet. Her voice is amazing.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
I know, it's so gorgeous in the room. It's like
it's like butta, butda, butta.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
So she's hilarious.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
She's so fun Like if you go down the YouTube
rabbit hole of her stuff that she's put up, she's
really really funny.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
She's got all these skits and stuff that she does
great impressions. Yes, she does we forgot to go there. Dang,
next time. We're friends now, okay? Cool?
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Actually I didn't get her number. It's fine, Okay call me, Alessia,
call me. We don't have to put that in, but
we will. No, we had so much fun. She's great.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
If you'd like to know the songs.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
We played on this episode, the first song was called
Fire from her album Love and Hyperbole, released in twenty
twenty five. The second song is called Clearly from the
same album, and the third song is called Subside, also
from the same album.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Special thanks to Alessia Kara for joining us today. We'll
be back next week with Sarah mcglaughlan. Woohoo.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Norah Jones Is Playing Along is a production of iHeart Podcasts.
Visit Norah Jones channel and be sure to subscribe while
you're there.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I'm your host, Norah Jones End.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
This episode was recorded by Matt Marinelli, mixed by Jamie Landry,
Audio post production by Greg Tobler, artwork by Eliza Frye,
Photography by Shervin Linez. Produced by Nora Jones and Sarah Oda.
Executive producers Aaron Wan Kaufman and Jordan Runtogg. Marketing lead
Queen and Naike thanks a lot for listening.
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Ruthie's Table 4
For more than 30 years The River Cafe in London, has been the home-from-home of artists, architects, designers, actors, collectors, writers, activists, and politicians. Michael Caine, Glenn Close, JJ Abrams, Steve McQueen, Victoria and David Beckham, and Lily Allen, are just some of the people who love to call The River Cafe home. On River Cafe Table 4, Rogers sits down with her customers—who have become friends—to talk about food memories. Table 4 explores how food impacts every aspect of our lives. “Foods is politics, food is cultural, food is how you express love, food is about your heritage, it defines who you and who you want to be,” says Rogers. Each week, Rogers invites her guest to reminisce about family suppers and first dates, what they cook, how they eat when performing, the restaurants they choose, and what food they seek when they need comfort. And to punctuate each episode of Table 4, guests such as Ralph Fiennes, Emily Blunt, and Alfonso Cuarón, read their favourite recipe from one of the best-selling River Cafe cookbooks. Table 4 itself, is situated near The River Cafe’s open kitchen, close to the bright pink wood-fired oven and next to the glossy yellow pass, where Ruthie oversees the restaurant. You are invited to take a seat at this intimate table and join the conversation. For more information, recipes, and ingredients, go to https://shoptherivercafe.co.uk/ Web: https://rivercafe.co.uk/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/therivercafelondon/ Facebook: https://en-gb.facebook.com/therivercafelondon/ For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iheartradio app, apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com