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'Have You Heard of Christmas?' with Matt Rogers
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Comedian, musician, and Las Culturistas podcast host Matt Rogers joins us to discuss his new holiday album, Have You Heard of Christmas?
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Alison Stewart
This is all of it from WNYC I and all this week we are leaning into the holiday season. Joining us today is actor, comedian Las Culturistas, podcast host and self proclaimed prince of Christmas, Matt Rogers, who has recently released his debut holiday album full of hilarious bangers. It's titled have youe Heard of Christmas? As Billboard described it, the album is quote, designed to both celebrate the monolithic holiday and skewer its cultural oversaturation. And that Rogers expertly puts Christmas under the microscope, playing out every last seasonal scenario with wit, charm and plen of holiday cheer. Named after his 2022 musical comedy special, the album includes 12 original tracks with some special guests including Everything youg Want featuring indie pop group Muna, which Rolling Stone called the song an emo Christmas anthem. And it's Las Culturistas podcast co host Bowen Yang. They get their boy band groove on with the song Roc a Fella Santa.
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Matt Rogers (performing or singing)
I want to see Jimmy Fallon come out the building because that's where he works. I want to see Al Ro where he works. I want to see Jenna Bush Hager come out the building because that's where she worked. And I want to see the big, big, big, big, big big tree at Rockefeller Center. Rockefeller Center. Catch me a Rockefeller Center. Wish I could live at the center. It's mostly about the trees. That's what it's really about for me. Kathy Lee, all respect for Ann Kari, Seth Meyers, Cecily Strong, Meredith Vieira, Kelly Clarkson, Rachel Maddow in a suit. Give it up y' all for the roots. Amy Maya, Tina Fey, Adie Bryant, girl hey, Barbara Walters, Willard Scott in the center. We forget the knot. Bryant Gumbel, Katie Couric, Lorne Michaels. You already know it. Carson Daly still would be.
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Alison Stewart
The new album is titled have you heard of Chr that debuted at number four on Billboard's comedy chart. Matt Rogers will also be here in town Saturday, December 23rd at 7:30pm at the town Hall. And he joins us now for a listening party and to preview the show. It is really nice to meet you, Alison.
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Matt Rogers
It's so nice to meet you. What an amazing intro. Thank you so much and for playing my tune.
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Alison Stewart
We went hard for it. Oh, we got more. We've got more. Let me tell you.
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Matt Rogers
Oh, I love it.
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Alison Stewart
And by the way, for folks who are like, oh, Matt Rogers, I know the voice. It's because Matt has become a panelist on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me as well.
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Matt Rogers
Yes. It's one of the scariest moments of my life. Whenever I'm on that show. I could release an album, perform in front of thousands of people. But being on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me is nightmarish.
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Alison Stewart
You mentioned this whole album sort of started out as a joke a few years ago. Would you share the origin story with our audience?
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Matt Rogers
Yeah. So I came up as a comedian in New York City. I think I was 27 years old and I was just looking for a new show to put up in New York. And I was watching an interview with Martin, Mariah Carey, and the interviewer kind of said the quiet part out loud. She was like, wow, so this Christmas thing, you really make money every year, huh? And Mariah didn't even deny it. She was like, yeah, of course, darling, whatever, etc. And I was like, I just think it's so funny to acknowledge the capitalist thing of Christmas and acknowledge that it's this, you know, the seasonal ubiquity of the Christmas album, the Christmas pop star, the whole Christmas machine. And so as a joke, I said, I'm going to put up a one man show. That's my Christmas album. And I wrote an entirely original Christmas album with, you know, at the time it was nine songs, now it's 12. I started doing it at the Duplex in New York city, tiny little 70 seat cabaret theater. And then it just grew and grew every year to the point where now I tour with it nationally. I released it as a special last year on Showtime. And now Capitol Records earlier this year was like, do you want a record deal? And I was like, are you sure? Because yeah, I do. Now you're making your own bed and you're gonna have to sleep in it. So now they've let the monster loose and I am the prince of Christmas and I'm here forever, baby.
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Alison Stewart
So at what point in that journey, in that journey, the J word, did you sort of realize, okay, wait, this is going past being sort of funny? Like, this can actually be a real thing. This can actually be a creative outlet on top of it.
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Matt Rogers
I feel like it's become this weird meta project where it was this thing I observed at first, which was, wow, the ubiquity of Christmas, like, is so funny to me. And now that I have the record deal, I've literally just said yes to every single opportunity just to see how far it can go, and I am tired. I will tell you like, a Christmas album, because you have to start recording it in, like, June, because everything that happens during the winter is prepared in the summer, Obviously, a little peek behind the curtain and vice versa. So I started recording this Christmas album in June and July in la, prepared the videos in September, started getting the materials together in October, announced it in October, started promoting it and performing it in November. Now it's December. We're actually in the Christmas season. So that's. This is really the imperial phase of the whole thing. The star is burning bright, and soon it will just end. On December 26, it will be over.
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Alison Stewart
Allison, how are you keeping up your. Your. Your Christmas stamina? Because there's a. There's a performance aspect to this whole thing.
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Matt Rogers
Oh, yeah, I'm on tour. I'm doing the. I'm. I've. I've been to every city you could think of. Actually started in London. I did six shows in London in the middle of November because, get this, they don't have Thanksgiving, so you can just go right to Christmas. I mean, the pilgrims didn't even have to come there, so they don't even have to wait to start playing the Christmas music. They can do it in the. Whenever they want in November. So I did my shows there, and it's kind of just been full steam ahead. Like, I probably have a show, you know, every other day this week. I'm performing three days in a row, and then I'm wrapping it up at Town hall on Saturday. So it's. It's a. It feels like both a marathon and a sprint, to be honest.
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Alison Stewart
What's something you've learned about the process of recording an album that you didn't really know or understand before?
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Matt Rogers
That's a really good question. So I think that one of the most fun things about creating a pop record is how many ways you can use your voice. Like, I feel like there's singing and then there's being a recording artist. You know what I mean? And like, sometimes it's just. It's just like, building in, like, little vocal harmonies and using your voice and insane ways to create a sound. I have the most amazing producer. His name is Leland. He's worked with Troye Sivan. He actually executive produced his latest album as well as mine, Selena Gomez. He's worked with Carrie Underwood, Kelsey Ballerini. And he's just so good at knowing when we're in the booth, like, how to give me a direction, how to use my voice to get this pop sound. Because I would never have known. I mean, I'm just a comedian that's, you know, for years faked being a singer, and now there I am in the booth, like, expected to create a pop record. And thankfully, I had a great pop Sherpa.
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Alison Stewart
But you have a good voice. You can sing. Did you ever have aspirations to be a singer before? Comedian?
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Matt Rogers
I mean, I think, like, every young gay child is in their room sort of pretending they're either Britney or Christina, depending on which side of the binary you fall. You know what I mean? Like, and I think I was, you know, always when I was a kid, I was obsessed with American Idol, and I became that kid who was in my backyard, you know, singing riffs and doing sustained belts and thinking no one could hear me, you know? And I just think it was definitely always in the back of my mind that it was something I wanted to do, but never thought it could be possible. And I think comedy has really been a great way into it for me, because you can sort of fake your way into it as long as you commit hard enough and you're having fun. People believe it and they're having fun. And so far, we're selling it pretty well, I think.
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Alison Stewart
My guest is Matt Rogers. The name of the album is have you heard of Christmas? He'll be at the town hall this Saturday. It's a listening party. So let's listen to a Christmas tune. This one's for the club. Christmas in the club. Yeah, it's called Also It's Christmas, the first track on the album. Let's listen and we could talk about it on the other.
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Matt Rogers (performing or singing)
I see my breath in the air before me but that's not. Cause it's cold, your body moves and it tells a story dying to be told in the dark of the night I feel like I've been locked up tight for centuries that's history. Wants you to make me come alive Also it's Christmas. Did I mention that it's Christmas in this club? Also it's Christmas tonight is the night we celebrate his son. It's Christmas.
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Alison Stewart
Why was that the right track to kick off the album?
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Matt Rogers
I feel, by the way, what your listeners don't know is that Allison is vibing. Okay? She is living for my tune, and I'm living for it. Okay. I just want to say it did exactly what it was supposed to do in the way that you reacted, which is it's supposed to sort of be sort of a club vibe that then hits you with Christmas as sort of like an afterthought. Because I think one of the funniest things, like, about the pop music Christmas album is, sure, it's about Christmas, but it's really about something else, which is like, participating in the capitalism of it all. So for me, it was like, how do I do? Like, a big pop Christmas first single? That feels appropriate for, you know, my community. But that also is Christmas. And I thought, what if it was just, you know, we're in the club, we're meeting someone, we're having that hot, tense moment, by the way, if we're gonna leave. Also, it's Christmas, and my parents are with me, and I'm staying with my sister. Her kids are there. We're gonna have to be quiet. I don't know if you're down with that, but if you still want to hook up, that's great. Or is this weird? You know what I mean? So Christmas being one of the horniest times of the year. I needed a horny club banger. I just did.
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Alison Stewart
There will be chair dancing, just so you know. We got a text that says, hi, Matt, it's Renee from Brooklyn Crab. We worked together many years ago.
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Matt Rogers (performing or singing)
Oh, my God, Renee. Hi, Renee.
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Matt Rogers
Renee was one of my managers.
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Alison Stewart
See, we worked together many years ago when you made me laugh at every shift. So happy to hear your voice with Alison on wnyc. Congratulations, and thank you for the many memories and. And continued laughs.
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Matt Rogers
So I worked at the best seafood restaurant in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Crab and Red Hook, for, I think, four years. And while I was doing that, I was. I had started the podcast, and I was still doing, you know, UCB in New York, the Upright Citizens Brigade. So. But I was a waiter for 10 years, and four of them were at that job. Brooklyn Crab, I got really good at crap. I was the waiter who would crack the crabs for you, because not everyone's good at that. Alison, I'm really good with my shears. I got. I snap on those gloves, and I'm like Dr. Matt, when it comes to seafood and crab cracking, you've got skills. I have a second career going is what I'm saying.
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Alison Stewart
Hey, listeners, if you would like to call in and join us on the air, feel free or you can text to us. 2124-3396-9221-2433. WNYC. Maybe you're a fan of Matt Rogers, of the podcast, of the album, of his.
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Matt Rogers
Maybe we worked together at Brooklyn Crabs.
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Alison Stewart
Maybe you worked together somewhere with him on the, you know, the back shift. Hey, 339-692-212433, WNYC. My guess is Matt Rogers, the name of the album is have you heard of Christmas? So, you know, we've been joking about, like, it's funny, but there's also a social message underneath all of this. This consumerism. You mentioned capitalism. What aspects of Christmas consumerism did you want to take on and poke at?
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Matt Rogers
You know, I think that it's just so funny that Christmas, we obviously have it because it's the birth of Christ, but it feels like that's the 15th thing on. And so I sort of like, when I was creating the track list, I was like, what is on everyone's mind? You know what I mean? There's like, you know, Christmas heartbreak. There is, you know, Christmas consumerism, like you said. There is, you know, the characters of Christmas. And so basically, when I was putting together the album, I have the title track, which is called have youe Heard of Christmas? Which is sort of about this idea that it's a big ballad. And basically it's supposed to be this inspiring ballad that sort of unites the world because we all have this in common, which is Christmas. And you realize as I'm singing the song that I don't know what Christmas means. I don't know what it is. I don't know why we have it or why we celebrate it. And that's kind of satirizing the idea of the fact that, like, you know, this is supposed to be like a religious holiday, but we don't ever think about that. It's just about so many other things.
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Alison Stewart
Let's hear that track. This is have you heard of Christmas?
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Matt Rogers (performing or singing)
Have you heard of Christmas? Have you heard of Christmas? Day after day we turn the channels and we try to tune it out that sound of pain we cause to each other at times it feels like we're fighting just to reach out and feel something. It's like we've forgotten that one thing we all have in common have you heard of Christmas? It's when children gather round have you heard of Christmas we all know that Christmas sound Christmas sounds like ooh Christmas sounds like ooh have you heard of Christmas?
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Alison Stewart
Christmas, that's the title track from Matt Rogers album. Have you heard of Christmas? This is the. The earnest question, what does Christmas mean to you personally? Are you a Christmas. Are you a holiday person?
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Matt Rogers
You know, ever since I was little, I grew up on suburban Long island. And so Christmas is. We get Christmas fever there big time. And so I will say, I will definitely come out and say it was mostly about the gifts for me when I was little. Like, I knew I would see my cousins, which was huge, and I knew I would get gifts, and that was really what it was about. Certainly now it's become more about, like, food, you know, it's definitely an excuse to engorge yourself and imbibe alcohol, I suppose. But it really, to me was more about family and, you know, the giving of it all. The giving and the receiving, if you will, of the gifts and, you know, just, just that's what I would remember most of it about it. And I will say that the family of it all has become a lot more complicated as I've gotten older because I think it was 2016, it was November 2016, I was doing Thanksgiving with relatives. And it became very clear at that table that we had extremely different thoughts about, let's just say, the political figures, you know, without naming any gosh, gosh damn names. But, like, it was. It was like, oh, wow, this is going to be a more difficult thing now to get because it was getting so thick. And I actually have a song on the album called Imma have your back this Christmas, which deals with, you know, queer people telling each other, listen, whatever goes down at your Christmas, if your family kicks you out because you have a different opinion and you're liberal and gay, you can come with me and listen. If I burn my uncle's house down because I don't like something he says, you will lie to the police and tell me that I was at your house. And we have each other's back, girl. So it's just about. It's like a sort of comedic satirization of, like, community in the face of all this political differences and just how far we'll go in our radicalization.
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Alison Stewart
My guest is Matt Rogers. The name of the album is have you heard of Christmas? The live show is coming to Town hall this weekend. We'll talk about that after a quick break. This is all of it. This is all of it on wnyc. I'm Alison Stewart. My guest is Matt Rogers, the actor, comedian and singer. His new album is called have youe Heard of Christmas? He's bringing the live show to the town hall this Saturday at 7:30pm I do wanna play some more tracks from the album, but I wanna hear about the show a little bit. Uh, how many costume changes?
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Matt Rogers
Okay, there's one costume, but it's really good. And yes, it was inspired by something I saw at the Taylor Swift Eras tour. Okay, I'm giving you a bright white short suit with a fierce black boot so I can stomp around the stage just like Taylor. And this actually was my year of, my year of going to pop star concerts. Like, I really did my research because I knew I was gonna have to give it at the end of the year. So, you know, I, I'm doing the white short suit. My band is all in uniform. We're, we're killing it. We feel good about what we're wearing.
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Alison Stewart
What have you learned from Eras and from Renaissance that you've been able to, to use in your stage show?
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Matt Rogers
You know what's funny? Like, I did see, I saw, get this, I saw Eras four times. I saw Renaissance twice. I also, I mean, I had nothing but time this year because of the strikes. So.
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Alison Stewart
Right.
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Matt Rogers
I mean, all I had to do was, you know, record an album and promote it. But earlier in the year I was out here and what have I learned? I mean, it's just about fun and commitment. Like, I think it was years ago. One of my biggest inspirations is Amy Poehler and I read her in her book called yes, Please, Please. She said, she said, if you have fun, they have fun. And I have always thought that, but I had never seen it written out in print. And I was like, you know what? That is so true. Like you can get away with anything if you're just out there having fun. And so I just go out there and have fun. I still, I mean, this material, some of it is years old. I've been doing it since 2017 at the Duplex and now it's fully recorded. We're giving you a full pop show version of the album and we're having a really good time. I signed vinyls. Afterwards, I get to hang with people. My musical director is named Henry Kapersky. He's actually my ex boyfriend turned musical director. Love wins. Two gay men can be on the same stage in the name of attention, even though they've broken up. You know, I mean, we're having a blast. It's a really fun show. And the town hall is the culmination of it in such an amazing space. So we hope to see everyone out.
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Alison Stewart
Two things. The follow up to the Amy Poehler. There's something that she says in that book which I use regularly in my life. She says sometimes, good for you, not for me.
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Matt Rogers
Perfect.
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Alison Stewart
One of those things when something comes at you, someone comes at you.
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Matt Rogers
Yeah. That's a very in your 30s thing that you realize, like, you know what I mean? Like, good for you, not for me. I'm actually going to bed.
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Alison Stewart
And the follow up to the Beyonce tour is there's a moment in the film where she said, you saw the film? Yes.
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Matt Rogers
Oh, absolutely.
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Alison Stewart
Of course. Why did I even ask where? She says, I'm. I'm me and I'm her on stage, but I'm not responsible for what she does on stage. Right.
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Matt Rogers
That's so funny. I get it. I get it.
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Alison Stewart
I was gonna ask how is the. Is Matt Rogers on stage? How much is the same as Matt Rogers, who I'm talking to now? How much do you know? Does that Matt Rogers on stage just do his own thing?
- [21:17]
Matt Rogers
He's a little hornier and flirtier than I might be if you met me out in the wild. Like, say, me right now, this afternoon. I'm not who I'm gonna be on stage tonight in Seattle. You know what I mean? Seattle, get ready. I don't know what's gonna happen when, you know, my version of Sasha Fierce arrives on stage. I sometimes I call it Matt Rogers, and I'm just Matthew. I'm Matthew sitting here right now. That's also a therapy technique.
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Alison Stewart
Matt Rogers takes the stage. Let's listen to another track from have you Heard It's Christmas. This one is called Hottest Female up in Whoville.
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Matt Rogers
Yes.
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Alison Stewart
So that refers to the Grinch who stole Christmas, right?
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Matt Rogers
Yes, it sure does. I'm. I'm embodying the character of Martha Mayhoovier here. Just some background on. It is. So people don't realize this, but Mariah Carey actually wrote a song for the Grinch called Where Are youe Christmas? Which is the song sung by Cindy Lou. Who? The child in the film. And I was watching the movie, and I'm like, see, if I'm Mariah Carey watching this movie, I identify with Martha May. Where's the Mariah Carey song for Martha May Hoovier? And so I wrote it.
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Alison Stewart
He wrote it. Let's listen to Hottest Female up in Whoville.
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Matt Rogers
Did you ever wonder what it feels.
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Matt Rogers (performing or singing)
Like.
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Matt Rogers
To be that girl?
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Matt Rogers (performing or singing)
Listen. Hottest female up in the land. I think Your wife is calling I'm the who who Screwing a man Mad drippage down my neck that's my who jewels these men are dialing up acting straight fools he wants some Mara May who that's why he's not with you I'm the only hot ho up in Whoville Men know if their wife won't, I will he's trying to get this mother May Whoville sex is what I do Cause I see a by the case straight killer ice I'm the Whoville stealer I heard there's a Grinch. I'mma definitely this Grinch.
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Alison Stewart
Our engineer almost fell out of her chair.
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Matt Rogers
I love it. Thank you, engineer. That was the point.
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Alison Stewart
Juliana is just. You're making her day.
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Matt Rogers
Listen, it's tough to be Martha May. She's the only single woman up in Whoville, and the other women don't want to be friends with her. You know what I mean? Like, it is. It's. It's very hard for her to call herself a feminist in the climate that she exists in, because the women don't have her back. They don't empower her. You know, all she has is the Grinch responding to her texts. And, you know, it's. It's tough. It's tough up there in whom for Martha May, but she does what she needs to do.
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Alison Stewart
We just got a comment. This song is insane.
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Matt Rogers
It is. You're gonna love my album if you think, well, if insane is being used not as a pejorative.
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Alison Stewart
So when you're writing a song, a comedy song, what comes first? Is it all about the lyrics first? Is it about the intention of the song? Is it about you start with a nut of a joke and then build around that.
- [24:43]
Matt Rogers
So that's a really good question. I think for me, what comes first is the concept. And then I try to match that concept to a genre that feel suits it. So, for example, if I'm talking about Martha May, you know, lighting some candles and letting the jacuzzi run so she can have the Grinch over. That to me recalls an early aughts Mariah Carey mid tempo R and B jam. And so I just try to match that idea so that I can heighten the comedy. Like, for example, you know, there's, you know, a song on my album called Everything youg Want, featuring the band Muna, which is very much like an emo pop song. It's like mid tempo and it's very, you know, it sort of lives in the past. It's me trying to recall a relationship in My past so that I can wish him well. And that, to me, is very much a Muna song. If you're fans of the indie pop group Muna, they do sort of have this, like, emo, sad girl pop. They do a lot of, you know, their words are like breakup songs you can shake your ass to. And that was sort of like a little bit where I was at when I was writing that song, and I felt that would best heighten the content. So it's really just about finding what it is that you want to say and what you think is funny, matching that to a genre and exploring it the way you'd write a sketch. I mean, pop music songwriting and sketch comedy pretty much go hand in hand in terms of structure. So it's really fun for me, as someone that studied sketch and character comedy for a very long time, to explore pop music in this way. I was always really inspired by, like, the Lonely island and anyone that did musical comedy. So that's where that comes from.
- [26:14]
Alison Stewart
Well, let's listen to that track, Everything youg Want featuring Muna.
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Matt Rogers (performing or singing)
I still want the world for you I mean it Everything you want Even if you can't get that from me Me go get everything you want Reminiscing on these memories I hope you get a cold brew coffee I think you like it cold I hope you order Chinese food Or do you like Italian? I don't know. Don't get everything you want all the stuff you like Wish I forgot we did not take very long. Two and a half months felt like forever in my mind. Now I'm realizing that that is not a long time. Also, we were wasted Almost every chance we got it was Christmas. Right now I'm thinking about it. Did we date in September? Also? What is your last name? I don't remember.
- [27:51]
Alison Stewart
My guest is Matt Rogers. That's everything you want from his album. Have you heard of Christmas? Anybody else? We need to shout out who's on the album or in the live show?
- [27:59]
Matt Rogers
Oh, absolutely. I mean, of course, my best friend, Bowen Yang, who you might know from Saturday Night Live. Sort of an icon over there. I can't stop glowing with PR that he was in a sketch. It was four people in a sketch. It was him, Kate McKinnon, Kristen Wiig, and Maya Rudolph. Okay. And that was my best friend up there. Just a sketch. You gotta watch it on YouTube if you haven't watched it, everybody. But he's on my song Rockefeller Senna, which is an ode to Rockefeller Senna. You are kind enough to play it at the Top. And then I have my producer, Leland. He's amazing. He's on my song imma have your back as well as, you know, this incredible artist called Vincent who is just amazing. And yeah, I, I just had the best time making this. And Muna is that track. And kiss, Katie Gavin's voice on that. On that track right there. Everything you want. And I just think she is one of the best of our generation and I think they're still going to be, you know, killing it in like 40 years. I. I just think they're the mess, the best. I couldn't believe I got her on my album. It was incredible.
- [28:57]
Alison Stewart
The name of the album is have you heard of Christmas? Matt Rogers will be at the town hall this Saturday night at 7:30pm I'd like to thank you for les Culturistas podcasts. I wake up Wednesday mornings I'm waiting for my friends Matt and Bowen. Gotta hear what they gotta say. Oh, every.
- [29:13]
Matt Rogers
Oh, you're the best. It's still so fun for us.
- [29:16]
Alison Stewart
I'm so glad you did.
- [29:18]
Matt Rogers
I mean, listen, it's really, it's so funny because we started that podcast in 2016 and we literally were like, are we really gonna start a podcast now? Aren't they kind of done? And then thank go. Um, you know, here we are seven years later and it's given us like everything. I mean, it's really such a great community of people that listen to the podcast and we still have so much fun doing it. It's just me and my best friend having a play date every week and it's not a hardship.
- [29:46]
Alison Stewart
Well, thanks for letting us eavesdrop on your play date. Matt Rogers, thanks for being with us.
- [29:52]
Matt Rogers
What a pleasure it was to be here. Thank you so much and for playing the tracks. And I really hope to see everyone at the show.
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Alison Stewart
And you, we're gonna go out on imma have you back this Christmas.
- [30:03]
Matt Rogers
Yes. You know, this Christmas I might need some help.
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Matt Rogers (performing or singing)
Listen. Hey, girl, what's the matter? Seems like you don't have that shine it's like every year when Christmas comes around you always lose your mind Is it your job or your man or your occupation that's getting you down? We're your girl, you can tell us now. Well, first let me say you are my very best friends and I know that when you address me as girl, you know that I'm a man. Yeah, yeah. Well, honestly this Christmas I am feeling kind of strange I don't wanna hear my relatives say we think you're wrong we think that you're not right. You live a rolling gas.
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