Brandi Carlile
speaker
146 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 23 May
Brandi Carlile’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that's more than I can explain, but it's also more than I could have asked for.
Yeah.
Not for a long time. I mean, imagine that, you know? Like, think how that could have gone. It was like an existential crisis for me. It could have gone really wrong. Like, that first time I put a lyric down in front of Elton John, what if he hadn't have been able to write a song to it?
It was all down to Elton had this vision. It was like at first he was like, okay, he was trying to conceptualize what it would be. He goes, okay, we're going to be like Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. And then he would call me a week later and go, no, no, no, it's the Eurythmics. And then he would call me a week later and go, no, it's Buddy Holly and Patsy Cline.
And then one day he just called me and he said, no, it's going to be us. Let's have it just be us, but we're not going to do anything anybody expects from us. And then the vision just came clear.
It was wild going to see Elton in Vegas. I remember coming down that long hallway and I could hear his voice, speaking voice before I saw him. And I had spent so much time as a kid growing up with Live in Melbourne and Tantrums and Tiaras and all of his interviews.
And it was his voice and I was like, oh my God, I'm going to come around the corner in a minute and Elton John is going to be sitting there.
In a tracksuit, but there was a lot of pink. There was a lot of pink.
There's no discussion. If Elton doesn't like it, he just yells, cut the line, and it's gone.
He makes decisions very, very quickly. It's not really even to be thought about. So there's no time to really stew in your kind of artistic, you know, whatever. It happens very quickly. He's a quick, quick songwriter.
We haven't performed many times. We did Dodger Stadium.
Much more eager.
Yeah. The first time we actually sang together, though, I don't know if you remember this exact, the exact first time we actually ever sang together in real life was in Joni's living room. On that country song.
No. What a sentence. It was an old country song that I've loved since I was a little kid called You Can Tell Your Friend They're With You, He'll Have to Go.
Paul McCartney would come.
That's amazing. Harry Styles.
It's getting more and more common. I started seeing it happen at all the tributes and stuff like that. But now I think it's just kind of a part of it because they look like monitors on stage, so you can't tell. But I'm sure that it's interesting because a lot of musicians haven't figured out how to not look at them when they're performing, so I hate seeing that.
But at the same time, it provides some spontaneity because then a musician can take a request out of the audience and actually play a song.
But the crazy thing is I never saw a camera. We don't know where they were. They were fixed little tiny things. So we fucking forgot about them constantly. And just our behavior is reflected in that, you know, it was a very strange concept. And I don't know. I think for that reason, it's like, it's a wild ride.
Oh, it's just, it's like about that moment, like when you have kids, like where it's like they depart you in some way. It can even happen when they're young and you're so devastated and you're so proud at the same time and you don't know which feeling to pick. It's about that.
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