Hey Ocean!

0:20Hey, it's Matt with MSN.C. I've got Hay Ocean here. One of the coolest, as I tweeted to you yesterday, one of the most eclectic coolest records I've heard in so long. And I read an interview with you saying you guys wanted to make it less cutesy. Still very cute record, but what did you mean by that? Well, I think we kind of had a label for a while as being, I mean, obviously, I'm adorable, so we couldn't get away from it. True. We just wrote kind of like Happy Go Lucky sort of, you know, I played a glock and spiel and it was kind of like light music, but I think we just wanted to show people that we had a lot more depth than just maturity. Yeah, maturity. Maturity. Doesn't a glock open the record? What is that instrument? The first thing you hear? It's a columba, actually. What is that? Columba is an African thumb piano. Well, amazing. Yeah, it's adorable. It is adorable. It's super cute. So the record is called is and you guys sound like a little bit of everything on this record.

1:14So what is Hay Ocean? We just are. I mean, this record is, you know? Thank you. Yep, just so you know, we exist. And now that's kind of what this record was about too. We are three songwriters and we have an amazing band and really we're just trying to write good pop music and music that inspires us and I've taken a lot of influence from a lot of different artists and... Yeah, it was us just trying to be ourselves, which can be hard sometimes. I think everybody struggles with that. And actually our last album was called It's Easier to Be Somebody Else. It was, I think that's the issue we deal with all the time. It's like, you want to stay strong, you want to believe in yourself and just like and believe in your music and you're, you know? Make me want to dance.

1:59It's one of the coolest like Michael Jackson crazy ass horns going on. So make a new dance up. I'm sorry. You make me want to dance with one of the lines, right? Yeah. Yeah. So you know the moves because it's our move is one of the lines in the song. What is your move? What is your dance move? I think that refers to more of like in a relationship, you know? You have a dance move though? Do we have a dance move? Like do I have a dance move? Do each of you have a dance move? When you hit a dance floor, what do you do? I do like a little like a shuffley thing. You know, like it's just kind of like a little thing. You know, it's like a happy, bop-y shuffle. What's yours? The chicken wings. Alright, for Tessie? I've been learning, I've been learning about the glory of the guns recently,

2:46which is because I never know what to do with my hands. I'm kind of a tall, gangly guy. So I'll be like, where I was like dancing like this, and then be like, I don't know what to do with my arms. Someone's like, just do the guns. Anything you do with guns? It's amazing. You can just be like guns anywhere. Guns. Guns. Guns. Guns. We used to go five questions, five quick questions, one more answers. Road or studio? Studio. Road. Road. Road. Good now? We've decided on answering. Alright, Landon or McCartney? McCartney, I think. Landon. McCartney. When you hear a song what hits you first, lyrics melody or rhythm? Rhythm.

3:32Melody. Lyrics. Song you've written your most proud of. It's a band. I mean, it's got to be in it. Either or. You have to be recorded, to be honest. Yeah. Okay, so recorded? I don't know. I would say then if as a band, I would say I'm a heart. It's like a nice collective thing where we're all singing rejoiced fully together. That's a mistake for me. Because it's been waiting to be on an album for a long time and I feel like it's finally on an album and it feels good. Cool. I think right now, probably one of my favorite songs to play at least for us is making new dance up because it's, I just never thought I'd be able to write a song like that. And really, and I love thriller and I love some of that Whitney Houston stuff and it's just like

4:20yeah, so cool to make that kind of music, you know. Cool. And in one word, hey Ocean. Platypus. What?