Chapter 1: Who is Cody Simpson and what are his latest projects?
it is wednesday my dudes hello bedwetters and welcome back to the we mean well podcast hosted by louise adal din and jack archdale strap yourselves in for what will be a truly insightful and life-changing experience Okay.
I think this might be, Jack, the biggest star we've ever had in the podcast studio. Oh, stop. Easily, Cody. No, easily. We've got Cody Simpson in here.
Stop. How are you, mate? I'm so good. How are you guys?
Very, very well.
Now, can I say, I thought your accent would have been more Australian, but we're just saying it's very... Don't scare me. Fucking straight away. No, it's very a mix of Aussie-American. Okay. Because you've been there a while now.
Now I'm going to be talking like this the whole time.
Yeah. G'day, mate.
How are you, copper? So fucking good.
Are you guys wearing this one? Of course. Oh, that's all we do. We'll be reining it in for you. I thought so.
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Chapter 2: What challenges did Cody face when returning to music?
the way people were responding to it was like, I, I hoped that that's how it would go, but it's like, nice. You do it. And then it does go that way.
A hundred percent. I was one of them.
Suspicions. You know, people are going to like, yeah. And yeah, it was, it was cool to, to see that. Happened that way. I don't know.
Was there any trepidation going back in the music at all after, what was it, a six year hiatus?
No, it was an excitement. It was like a joy. It was a real like state of play, feeling like a kid, excited to be back doing it back in LA where I, where it all started for me, like where I, you know, half grew up and just, and, and, and to kind of go back because I really wanted to and was excited to. And I think that, that I wanted to capture that joy and,
And I think that the where I'm at in my life is really reflected in the way the music sounds, which is like the feeling I wanted to get across.
Yeah. Well, they're unbelievable. They're like I would get ready to it putting on makeup, even driving in the car. Like they're proper bangers. Yeah, thank you. Because you would have started when you were like 13 or 14. Yeah. And then you took a pretty long break. Yeah. Because you opened for Biebs when you were like 13.
Yeah. We did the Australian tour last year. I was, yeah, I was 15 maybe. Wow.
Also, I'm fucking calling bullshit on the American accent.
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Chapter 3: How does Cody balance swimming and music careers?
Seven.
Seven.
Seven years.
I sound just like you guys. I love it. Kiwi accent is one of my favourites in the world.
It's a good one. Okay, that's good.
It is a good one. Kiwi and South African.
Mm.
Two of my favourite. I love listening to them.
Mate, I think they're great as well. I had a mate to that point you were saying where people go overseas, they're there for a bit shorter and they come back with an accent. He went over to South Africa for three months. It was a school exchange. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he left. He's a little country boy and he came back. You know, he's like, see you boys. I'll see you later. And he came back.
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Chapter 4: What is the inspiration behind Cody's song 'Baby Blue'?
I was like, sign a record deal, move in LA, you know? They're like, what the hell? And then the next time I come back, like, We shut down Wet n Wild to like shoot the video. Brother. And I invited my whole. I invited like 30 of my school friends.
Oh, they would have loved you. I would have loved that even now they'd be fine.
To shoot this music video. And I'm like, do you guys all want to be in my video? You don't have to do anything. We just shut down the water park. You just have to ride rides all day and they're going to film it. They're like, no, I've got sock washing to do.
I'm all good. Thanks, mate. I got English.
No thanks. Like what is going on, you know?
Yeah. Where did you grow up? Did you grow up Queensland around the Gold Coast? Gold Coast, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Gotcha. Are you back there now? Because I keep seeing you on a balcony with lots of trees. That sounds like I'm watching you from afar with binoculars.
That's exactly what it sounds like, Louisa.
I saw it on your story.
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Chapter 5: How does Cody describe his songwriting process?
I swung everything into it. Like sat down and backtracked on the, you know, like every, every decision, you know, was like, was towards it and, and in absolute favor of, of putting myself in the best possible position. And at the end, and then after that, it's just like how the dice roll on the day. Yeah.
And so if, if, if there's nothing else you can do, it's like, you know, and I feel like I got what I wanted to, I proved to myself what I, I was capable of in the pool and gave myself a four-year window to do it and I did it in that window. And so after that I was like, there's nothing else I'm going to get out of this if I do this for another four years.
I think I'm going to – and I was really excited to go back and do this again.
100%. Well, mate, I don't know if you – I don't want to compare co-ops here. If you look behind you, mate. See that Walker Show Society champion ribbon? Oh, yeah. What is this? I got that this year for the floral arranging back at my hometown of 1,800 people. Are you a florist? Turns out I am.
Well, no. Man of many layers. I think it was rigged.
We can all talk about coming with games.
I think it was rigged.
I'd argue you don't look like a florist. That's exactly right. Keep them guessing. Yeah, exactly, right? Keep them guessing, mate. There's layers to this. There's layers to it.
On this podcast, you can see that there, karaoke behind us, that beautiful backdrop. So I dress up as different artists and perform their song. I said to Viola, I said, should I dress up as Cody and do a karaoke for him? And she said, we don't want to scare him off, mate. So I did.
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Chapter 6: What was Cody's experience working with Flo Rida?
And I'll record the entire song. As gibberish. And sort of be... Just such the melody? Sometimes I'll get to the end of the day and it'll have been, you know, six hours and I'm kind of burnt and I've got the whole song where there's no lyrics.
Wow.
And the whole thing is just like, this didn't happen for Baby Blue, but like, for example, it would have just been like I was humming.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It'd be a version where like there was no lyric. It's just... A gibberish.
Release that for people who are terrible at remembering lyrics. Idea for the next single.
Just call it gibberish.
And then you go, what does this feel like to me? What should it be about? Yeah. You know, and that's how a lot of it happens for me.
Was Baby Billy the first one you wrote when you came back?
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Chapter 7: How does Cody handle public perception and criticism?
People… I think I know what you, I don't want to interject. Your potential is like a road and people like reach varying points along that road. And that's through circumstance, luck. Exactly.
You know, fucking geographical position, talent. For sure. There's so many factors that can determine how far you reach of your potential, I think.
No, totally. And a lot of it is like work too and just compounding work and momentum and like, You know, the hardest thing to do is get the car moving. Yeah. You know, but like once you do, like it's easier to keep it, you know, and add more fuel to it and go, you know. And so like I just find I got to get the car moving and work and the harder I work, the luckier I get kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah.
I want to try and get every drop out of me. Okay.
I see where this is going.
I want to ring every drop out of the towel before I'm gone. Way better.
That was very way better.
That's usually how we're talking. We're trying to be wise and mature here.
I was like, I think Lou does as well.
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Chapter 8: What life lessons has Cody learned from his journey?
I pee in the shower even if I'm not showering.
Yeah. What about I'm going broken?
Just passing outside.
Yeah. Peeing in the bath, that's got to be a green. I mean a red. While you're in it still?
Yeah, because then you're bathing in your own pants. Oh, red. It depends on if it's. You do it. Ladies and gentlemen, if you'll allow me. It depends. If you'll allow me. If it's one of those ocean baths, you know what I mean? What bath are we talking about?
No, your own bath.
Like a bathtub in your house.
How big's the bathtub?
Okay, what about the Olympic pool?
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