But you learn from that and you grow from that, and there's often times great art from that. Groban: You're exorcising the demons a little bit when you sing about love lost and the things that didn't quite work out. That's where I am right now, which is that when it comes along again, I'll be there to grab it.ĪP: Is it easy singing about your breakup? But when love comes my way again, kick up the gospel choir because I'm not going to let it go. And sometimes it's a song like "I Believe," which we close the album with, which is that my past has been crap. Sometimes it's just "I Just Called to Say I Love You" and it's really as simple and cheesy as that. Groban: The reason I think people relate to Stevie Wonder's love songs is because they really, truly, genuinely make you feel the way you feel, the way love is. The singer talked about "Coffee Town," singing about relationships, album sales and more in a recent interview.ĪP: You cover Stevie Wonder's "I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)" on the album. Groban, who turns 32 this month, isn't just building his musical resume: He'll star as a failed rock band member working as a barista in the upcoming CollegeHumor indie comedy "Coffee Town," written and directed by "Arrested Development" writer Brad Copeland. "For a guy who's at the top of the label chain to also say, 'Let's take chances and let's make music that just makes us feel really, really good' was so impressive to me," Groban said of Cavallo, who has also produced records for the Goo Goo Dolls, My Chemical Romance and Paramore. Records chairman and Green Day producer Rob Cavallo. Groban doesn't have Rubin by his side on "All That Echoes," out this week.
It felt like I was getting a lot of it out of my system lyrically and musically, so it was a little bit of a sadder record." I was going through a lot of changes in my life. "The last record, I was very proud of it, and it was a good record, but it was sad," he continued. "I'm in a different place, different mindset and the same thing goes - but I wanted the record to feel more energetic, more dynamic, more positive, more rhythmic and uplifting," he said. Josh Groban enjoyed singing sad songs about a breakup on his last album, 2010's Rick Rubin-produced "Illuminations." So when the singer started recording his latest album, which is about another breakup, he changed his approach.
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