He keeps his songwriting ideas organized in a straightforward way: “I have endless amounts of voice notes on my iPhone, and as basic as it sounds, I use the Notes application,” he says. It’s nice to see that,” he says.īesides his engagement, other topics that inspired McCartney for this new album included looking back on his first taste of fame as a teenager, travel, and his life in the Laurel Canyon area of Los Angeles. I played it live now twice, and I can already see it connecting with the audience. “It has a very classic tone and energy to it. McCartney says he’s especially excited for people to hear the track “ Party for Two,” which he wrote as an engagement gift for his fiancée, Katie Peterson. “Overall, I think that the message on this album is, I’m just so grateful for all that I’ve been given.” “I’m going to be this married guy-it’s like all the sudden I blinked, and I’m a grown-up, doing grown-up things and making grown-up decisions-it just feels like I’m in chapter two of my life at 34 years old, and I’m really happy about it,” he says. This album is titled New Stage because McCartney feels like he’s entered the next major phase in his life. I’m just excited to hear everybody’s reaction.” “I realized there’s a lot of good material here, a lot of great stuff to talk about and share, and so that was when I decided to go in the studio and start writing again,” he says, “and out came this project, the New Stage album. So it’s been nice, and I’m really proud of it and think that it talks about some really important things.
But, he says, “Obviously the biggest thing worth mentioning is the fact that I was in a serious relationship, and now we’re engaged, so I was just enjoying that part of my life.”Īll of this life experience eventually led McCartney back to music. He says this long delay wasn’t intentional, but rather because “ was having so much fun!” In between albums, he took on acting roles, including a significant turn in the television show Fear the Walking Dead, as well as voice-over work for films such as Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015).
tour set for May through June 2022 to support the October release of New Stage, his first studio album in seven years.
There will be many more shows-McCartney has a full U.S. It’s a sense of normalcy that so many of us have been hoping for so long.” “It’s just so nice to see everyone’s faces in the audience, and people cheering and singing. “Honestly, it feels like recovery-it feels like the world is healing,” he says. Pop singer/songwriter and actor Jesse McCartney is based in Los Angeles, but today he’s calling from Delray Beach, Florida, where he will perform one of his first shows in front of a live audience since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
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