🎙️ MINI - Kevin Parker flew a helicopter while eating a hotdog 🌭 🚁

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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App Good afternoon everyone. It is Will and what He
Brought to you by Yui. This after earn a huge announcement,
tame I Parlor just announced the Deadbeat Tours coming to
Australia this October. Chickens on sale Friday eighty twenty seventh
of February. He's not gonna want me to say this
to his face because he's a very very humble guy.
But Kevin Parker, who is Tamim Paler, obviously hailing from

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Western Australia, a guy who has collaborated with Dua Lipa,
The Weekend, Lady Gaga, Travis Scott, Mark Ronson, Guerrillas, Rihanna,
Asat Rocky, so many more. He just won a Grammy
number three in the Hottest Countdown that happens on another
station this year with Dracula, which was obviously the single
from the brand new Deadbeat record. He really is the

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talisman for Australian music doing huge things on a global scale.
Welcome to Will and Woody, Kevin Parker, Kevin, how are
you hey?

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Guy's good?

Speaker 1 (01:07):
How are you yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Good Man?

Speaker 3 (01:09):
I'm just like sort of strolling around my studio. I
feel like I talk better if I'm doing this, you know,
you know when you're like walking and talking at the
same time.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah, it's I'm a strutter on the phone as well.
I feel like as soon as I sit down, the
thoughts don't come.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah, exactly, what's with that?

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Thanks so much for coming on. We really appreciate it.
Pumped about the fact that you are going to be
touring Deadbeat Record this October. Woods and I are completely
enamored with the place that you made this for a
lot of people haven't been down to the southwest of
Western Australia. It is absolute God's country. It looks like
you used a record for an excuse to bow yourself

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up down there for a whole two years, so it
always a convenient excuse.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
I'm going to just go to your Instagram post actually
where you said another album that almost killed me two
years of sweat and tears and self neglect. But I
wouldn't have it any other way. I'd love to just
focus on the self neglect that went on there. So
are we talking like no showering for a while, Kevin.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Yeah, just all sorts of sort of self care just
sort of goes out the window. But I mean, like honestly,
it's like it's part of it, you know. It's like
it's kind of out like it's like if you're not
going a bit feral, then you're not getting as lost
in it as you could. To me, it's like it's like, yeah,
like having like long fingernails and like you haven't shaved

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and you smell a bit, you know, like you've got it,
and you're just sort of like completely you know, you're
like mister Burns in that the Casino episode.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Did you have any moments where like your wife would
come and visit you, like during the record, like she
brings over some croissants or something and was pretty rattled
by the site.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah, she does what she can, but she knows, you know,
she's not at the first radio either. She knows how
to how to deal with me in that state in
those times.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
I mean in the creative process there because I know,
like down the other end of the spectrum, you know,
because you can push that to five her Trent Resner
talk about their first nine Inchnurs record and how it's
like I'm only I'm getting on the getting the art
out of myself if I'm going on these massive vendors
and you know it. And I think he said I
couldn't do it again otherwise I die. So he has
he has process now where he's like, I just get

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up everyone. I think the quot he used was like,
I can't control when lightning happens, but I can be
ready for it.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
I can. Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
I mean obviously it's a slippery slope. And you know
it's like every album I do, I get better at
sort of balancing that. This was the album where I
was like, I'm not going to lose my mind. You know,
I'm just going to stay. I'm going to stay like
arms with you. Just give in to it. I do
whatever I have to do to feel like I'm doing

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something special. You know, I want to be lost and
I want to feel like I'm like working on a
song that could like bring about world peace. You know
that's going a delusion that you're you're like, this song's
going to change the world. You know, you like you
can only you only get into that Kanye West like
mind frame bias by just diving into it. You know,
if you've got to let rationality go out the window

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a little bit, is what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
I know, I know You've worked with Lady Gaga, Kevin,
and we actually spoke to her about the fact that
the songs come to her. So when she's like writing
an album, she says she's actually listening for things to
come to her and then she just puts that down
on paper. But she talked about the fact that it
always happens to her during her sleep, like she'll be
in the middle of her sleep and something will come
to her. I know you said you're like your seven hours,

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But does that happen to you at all, Kevin, where
it's just like, oh God, another banger at three am,
I've got to go and put this down.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
No.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Weirdly, it never happens to me. Oh I never get No.
I've heard people about like I've heard about people like
hearing songs in dreams. I don't know why. I'm just
I'm too busy doing completely random stuff, you know, with
a hot dog.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
There's this joint.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
You know, it's like, my dreams aren'tors inspired, there's just
complete randomness.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Oh that's awesome, Hey, mate, congrats on another record, on
another amazing achievement. In the industry. I read an interview
with you recently were you're saying it was so scary
releasing something that you've been working on for two years
because he's you know, waiting for someone to.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
Say they hate it.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
But it's just amazing that you continue to make music.
It's such a high quality for so long. Now it
feels like you've been you know, just pioneering and like
just really flying the flag for Australia and even all
these different people that would know you and bump into
it's cool to think like, oh, if you meet Kevin Parker,
like I'm happy that he's the representation of Australia, you know.
So thank you so much for the music. I love

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all the tours did and hopefully we'll see you down under.