i've gone off the deep end i don't want
to move but i can't sleep hey taiwan i'm
jeremy zucker and i'm chatting with joey
on icrt fm 100.
hello i'm joey and today we get a chance
to uh speak with one of my favorites uh
uber talented singer songwriter and
producer his name is jeremy the crusher
zucker right here joining us over the
webcam i've never heard that intro
before and i love it so much
it makes me sound like a professional
wrestler it does did you ever get into
wrestling when i was
really young me and my friends were
obsessed with wwe
and we would like pretend we were these
big burly wrestlers and just beat the
heck out of each other
who didn't right like from our
generation who didn't do that um jeremy
i have to congratulate you you got a
second album already
and um you know we're happy about this
one although i really want to know how
you felt about this whole last couple of
years because 2020 released the debut
love is not dying didn't really get a
chance to tour with that one and now you
have a second one like how did this
happen and how did this go how did you
pivot for the second album um
it was definitely a
not straightforward process so i
finished
um love is not dying sort of expecting
to immediately go on tour which
obviously didn't happen yeah and
myself and also a lot of other artists
sort of rely on tor for a sort of
closure um after you finish an album
because
you know you make it in this room with
very few people and then you get to
experience it with
hundreds and thousands of people so i
was really missing that closure and the
only thing i could really do with my
time once
the lockdown started was to make another
album and
i didn't have much inspiration in me
so it took a lot of like soul searching
to really
like
find out
what i really cared about and
what my voice was and where i was at in
life so now you're going on tour and uh
you probably have to combine both the
first album and the second album into
your performance have you thought about
how to do that or i mean you've done a
couple of shows already right yeah well
i've done like a couple of appearances i
haven't done my own show yet um
but you just explained my day perfectly
uh today i tried to figure out which
songs from which album i was going to
play on tour
and it was it's a really hard decision
yeah um
they're both amazing in different ways
i mean like they both mean a lot to me
in different ways and
um one of them people have had a lot of
time to sit with and one of them is
really new but
um
see there's a lot of different things
that i'm thinking about when i'm
choosing the tracks but i took like a i
did a poll on instagram
to
like basically just let the fans choose
what i was gonna play on the road and i
sort of used that as like
um
education
when i was picking my own
setlist just out of curiosity uh so far
which songs have they picked for youtube
must play or must sing so
i kinda
jumped the gun and did the survey before
the album was out oh no
maybe i'll do it again yeah you probably
need to do it again i probably should
and also i should probably not just do
it on instagram like i should do it on
twitter and everything and post a link
everywhere
um but i can pull it up right now yes
please
it's pretty cool
um
go to google sheets i mean okay i'm
gonna guess come through still on that
list probably near the top oh of course
yeah
okay so guess what's number actually
you're not gonna guess so
number one is supercuts
that's the number one song that people
wanted to play me live that people
wanted me to play live number two is all
the kids are depressed
number three is not your friend number
four is always all care number five is
18. oh good choices good choices yeah
that's what i love about your fans like
they really dig into the deep cuts and
they find songs that really appeal to
them yeah that part means a lot to me
because
my biggest fear is being like an artist
defined by one song yes
and i feel really lucky that
you know come through did amazing things
you were good to me did amazing things
a couple of my other songs got like
really cool airplay and all these
different places and
i get to sort of be like a renaissance
man
in music and music and i'm sure he
explored new things in this new album
but so far we haven't even talked about
the title okay so it's called crusher
and in the album title
you are literally standing in front of a
cory uh rock crusher so if you were to
use a few words to describe the concept
of this album without using the word
crusher or crush what would you choose
what words would you choose um
a few words to describe the concept i
mean
i hate to use this word but
revenge
almost
anger
and sort of like
breaking the chains
you know i felt like by
feeling all this anger
i didn't
i wasn't channeling it to hurt anybody i
was channeling it to sort of
validate
myself and the way i was feeling because
everyone's allowed to feel angry you
shouldn't ever deprive yourself of
feeling an emotion and
putting the anger into music
was
just very therapeutic for me
and a lot of fun and i love the album um
i don't want to be i don't want to be
basic and say that love deep end but i
do love it
but right now i want to ask you some
basic questions if you don't mind you
know to spice things up oh okay so um
it's basically either or choices all
right
when it comes to breakfast jeremy um do
you put in milk first or cereal first
cereal first
always do you have trouble understanding
people who put in milk first
yeah it doesn't
doesn't make any sense to me
you don't get you don't get the nice
sound of this dry cereal going into the
bowl very true very true you got to hear
the clinging before the pouring exactly
and when it comes to showering jeremy
shampoo first or conditioner first
that's not a discussion it's it's
supposed to be shampoo then condition
yeah scientifically yeah it's supposed
to be that but do you ever just apply
conditioner all the time yeah yeah
i only shampoo my hair like
once a week and then most of the time
it's conditioning oh nice so that's how
you do it that's how you make it look so
good i guess so it's it's a constant
it's a constant uh struggle
trying to make hair feel good but i mean
you did diet blonde
uh just last year so i guess you need to
condition it yeah it did absolutely
destroy it when i dyed it
okay when it comes to evening routine uh
brush first or floss first i've been
trying to figure that out because
i just started flossing like
every night i i only used to floss like
once a week or once a month
and
i don't know what are you supposed to do
first i i don't feel like
i feel like brush first and then floss
that's what i thought but then after i
after i floss though i want to like
rinse so i've been doing like
brush floss and then mouthwash okay so
the whole package yeah that makes sense
yeah that makes sense because if you
floss first and then you brush you're
brushing the thing back into the cavity
that's so true yeah right that's so true
oh we got someone who says no no no
yeah it always says floss first i mean
i'm gonna need a detailed explanation
zoe you guys are killing me you floss it
and then you brush it away you're not
brushing anything back into the teeth
that's scientifically impossible
i will accept that i will accept the
brush and then floss and then mouthwash
i guess
yes
but like
no no no we're not you're not we're not
brushing and then flossing and then just
leaving the things we have flossed out
in the mouth
absolutely not
or
yeah
brush and then rinse and then and then
floss
no no no you floss and then you brush
oh no
see there's a discourse there's a debate
here i couldn't i could not keep quiet i
was on this i was sitting at my desk
like this
yeah thanks guys i'm gonna i'm gonna
speak with my dentist and next time
jeremy has a new album we're gonna talk
about this again okay oh god i
absolutely love the new album crusher
jeremy and i do hope that everyone
listens to it thank you so much for
joining us here today for an interview
thanks for having me joey