12/9/2023 0 Comments Tim heidecker fear of death![]() “I’m not going to rush-job anything, because I want to make something that is extremely meaningful. “There’s some pressure coming from the CEO of Spotify about artists needing to work harder and put out more records,” she says sarcastically, in reference to recent comments from the streaming giant’s Daniel Ek that the traditional album cycle is over. “So for now, there’s nothing to report.”Īs for Mering, she’s hard at work on the next Weyes Blood album, which will be the follow-up to last year’s “Titanic Rising.” “For the shows we make, the margins do not allow for million dollar surpluses to be added to the production budgets to hire COVID safety teams,” he says with a laugh. Reilly and Fred Armisen in Showtime’s fall series “Moonbase 8,” which was shot well before the pandemic, he’s in no rush to resume production on any Tim & Eric projects or his own cult favorite “On Cinema” franchise. And although Heidecker will star alongside John C. Heidecker and Mering hope to perform music from “Fear of Death” together at some point when COVID quarantining is no longer necessary (“We’re getting body scans so we can be turned into virtual 3D performers,” he says). “We countrified it! We fried it in some Canola oil.” So we did ‘Let It Be’ in a major key, which gave it a totally different energy,” Heidecker says, acknowledging the absurdity of covering one of the most beloved and familiar rock songs of all time. “We were playing this game where we did Beatles songs divorced from their melodies. “Fear of Death” is rounded out by a studio rendition of “Let It Be,” which expands on the backstage version the pair recorded last year. By writing the melody, it still felt like me.” The things Tim was saying in that song definitely were things I felt but never would have said that way. “I sent Natalie and Drew the lyrics and said, if you want to take a crack at writing a tune for this, I’d be very humbled and honored.” Says Mering, “I can write melodies really fast, but I tend to labor over lyrics for a really long time. “This kind of Mexican cantina music was playing over the loudspeaker and I wrote a few verses to it,” Heidecker recalls. The pedal steel-flecked opener “Prelude to Feeling” sets the mood for those ruminations, as Heidecker and Mering croon, “Sit on back in your favorite chair/ You don’t have to be anywhere/ Put your headphones on, if you dare / You’re about to feel.” From there, the pair dabbles in peppy country rock (“Come Away With Me”), sad piano balladry (“Nothing”) and the Laurel Canyon-y closer “Oh How We Drift Away,” which finds Mering crafting music to lyrics Heidecker wrote on his phone while hiding from his kids on a family trip to a farm. Those days are coming to an end, and it’s sad.” My body wants to eat cupcakes and pizza and cheeseburgers. I’ve got a clock ticking that is my body and it will fail me at some point. “There’s dark stuff in the world, but there’s also my own mortality and the fact that I’m in middle age now. “I don’t go around thinking about dying all of the time, but that can be therapeutic to talk about or sing about,” Heidecker says. And maybe for me, it was good to break up my seriousness with levity and have fun with the music.” So making serious music with Tim actually didn’t feel that far off from what he normally does. “I tend to write really sad songs, but in theater there’s the happy mask and the sad mask, and they’re not mutually exclusive. “I take Tim & Eric very seriously and I think it transcends comedy and becomes art,” Mering says. He knows all these other amazing musicians.”ĭriven by their shared love of ‘70s singer/songwriters like Joni Mitchell and Paul Simon - “It would feel a little silly to incorporate trap beats into my work,” says Heidecker - the pair developed a quick and easy rapport in the studio, untethered to Heidecker’s more familiar comic sensibilities. “He just said, ‘I’ll get a studio and get Stella from Warpaint to play drums, and the Lemon Twigs are in town, and there’s a string section, and it’s all going to be cool.’ That would stress me out, personally, but he was able to pull it together.” Adds Mering, “Drew is a super-connector. “He made it seem easy,” Heidecker tells Variety.
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