Michael Bublé celebrated the release of his brand new album Nobody But Me on Friday in New York City with an exclusive, intimate concert for fans during his iHeartRadio Album Release Party at the iHeartRadio Theater.
During the show he performed songs from the new record, as well as some standards, and talked about the new album.
When asked about the song "Someday," co-written by Meghan Trainor and Harry Styles, Bublé joked that he was actually the fifth member of One Direction (presumably after Zayn Malik left, of course), and then said this about the group:
"I know all those boys, they're great. Again, listen, fame screws you up. It messes people up. I think when it happens at a young age, and you're always in the spotlight, it's ... I mean any one of you people in the [crowd], I'm telling you, you can admit it to yourselves, 21 years old, you're getting rich and famous, and cameras on you all the time ... I can't imagine."
Bublé also talked about recording "Someday" with Trainor.
"For those of you who are Meghan Trainor fans, and you think 'oh what would she be like if I met her,' well she's exactly how you hope she would be," he said. "She's an incredibly talented woman, really a force of nature. I mean, she walked in the studio, and when I say she took over, she took over!
"She came with her mom and dad, who I obviously fell in love with, they're cute, and she just walked in, she ended up putting on a teddy bear onesie that Ariana Grande bought her, and she took over. When I say took over, not just a great singer, not just a great musician, literally took over the production. Sat down, and started sitting on the mixing boards, and started with the pro-tools, and just ... she's a monster, she's amazing. I feel really, really fortunate to have worked with her."
Nobody But Me is Bublé's ninth studio album and seventh major label studio record, and features 10 songs, including the title track as the first single.
During his iHeartRadio Album Release Party, Bublé performed songs with three backup singers, a full jazz band, and his pianist Alan. He kicked the show off with "Nobody But Me," and also performed songs like "Today Is Yesterday's Tomorrow" (he called this song one of his favourites on the album), "I Believe In You," "I Wanna Be Around," "My Baby Just Cares For Me," "The Very Thought of You," and "God Only Knows."
The Canadian crooner also performed some Bublé favorites like "Haven't Met You Yet," "Everything," and "Home." He even did a short, spontaneous cover of Beastie Boys' "Girls."
Bublé told the crowd he's really proud of the new album.
"There was just a great sense of fulfillment when we knew that we were bringing a lot of the folks that love the standards, that we were going to bring even more authentic sounding standards," he explained, "and we knew that we were writing even better songs for the people that love the pop music."
Original article at iHeartRadio.