Guy Sebastian fights back music industry with his latest song
Proving a point, Guy Sebastian has turned pugilist poet and come out swinging at those who say he is past it with a new single the star is calling his “fight song”. LISTEN TO THE SONG.
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Proving a point, Guy Sebastian has turned pugilist poet and come out swinging at those who say he is past it with a new single the star is calling his “fight song”.
“I wanted to write my own little fight song that was a bit of fuel to keep going,” Sebastian told The Daily Telegraph as he described his new track Before I Go.
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“There were quite a few things said to me, just words and statements that I needed to shed.
“So often in this industry people tell us we’ve had our day or we’ve had our time.
“I was feeling a bit insecure in all those things and when I sat down to write this song.
“I felt like I needed something that was going to inspire me throughout the process. I wanted to feel in a good place.”
Since winning the first series of Australian Idol in 2003 Sebastian, 37, has had hit after hit, becoming a veteran of the business and changing in rhythm with the swinging pendulum of popular music.
“I think it is something that every artist feels,” the father of two said.
“It is actually pretty hard being a pop act at the moment as well, which is probably an adjustment that needed to happen. Major labels have put a lot of effort into pop music for a long time but now you’ve got labels recognising the trend towards indie acts.
“You can either crumble in that challenge … you change with it or you stay the same and you get driven over by those changes.
“I just feel like this life I’ve been given, it is not something I want to waste. I am not ready to just be driven over by an evolving and changing industry.”
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