Luke Bryan on Hearing His Music in Public, Coronation Snub & His First Ever A.I. Generated Song

This December, our

first

guest scored his number one country single. You know he hasn't been single for over 16 years. You can watch him cultivate young talent on season 21 of American Idol on Sunday and Monday nights here on ABC, please welcome Luke Bryan mahogany. no, what

ever

it was from a movie, eh, 30 number one singles, there are a lot of them, it has to be one of the most. I really have to let Katy Perry listen to that number a few times. Which is very important. What is Katie's number? Know? She has a lot, a lot, but I have more diet, but I think you probably have more than Lionel, well, you know, with country country artists, they tend to have a tendency to have a lot more than your pop artists when you get a Pop artist. up there in that 14 to 15 range, that means you're like Michael Jackson, you'd think he was 12 or 13, but anyway, who's reading and counting?

But how many years passed in the course of how many? years I started I got my record deal and oh god 04 I really started putting out

music

around 2008 so yeah okay wait let me yeah come on yeah here we go this is what 15 years 30 is like yeah , okay, well, it's two years, that's nice. Well, pretty good, you know, just

hearing

you say it, I mean, I was watching you say it on the Monitor and it's pretty, uh, it's crazy, it's crazy, I mean, and you spend a lot of time as an artist in your early years. you have a hit and then you don't, you know

ever

yone's bored because they're waiting for your one hit, everyone has to do covers and, you know, guys come out and you know how to swallow, you know, Flame or whatever you have to make someone enjoy it. your show and wait for your one hit, so when you get to 10 then you'll have a full show and then when you get to 15 you'll actually have a lot of

song

s for your show, but then when you get to the point where you can't play them all it's quite nice and then people get mad and then you know when kind of situation, yeah, you start getting bad Yelp reviews and stuff like that.

Did you ever have a situation where you had a hit and then you played it twice in a show, we did that because like I said, you got it at the beginning of your career, you have to do anything for people to remember you and be Have fun, you know, while you're doing it. You know, old Boston covers and stuff, do you ever listen to your

song

? If it comes on the radio or you know well, my thing is when you walk down the street and you say you're on the phone or or whatever and you look down and you can see your name on your name on the screen and I'm like, wait a minute. , wait and I just have to pay tribute.

I always make sure I turn it up, uh-huh, and then I turn it off. Did someone catch you in that situation like at an intersection? The funny thing is, I was home last week and my two, my 12-year-old son, was playing a baseball game in a town about 15 minutes south of us. and I had to leave and I ran out of the house and I thought, oh man, the sun is going to set and it's going to be cold outside watching this game, so I'm hanging around, it's like seven o'clock and everything. any place to run and pick up anyway Tractor Supply was open thank you okay thank you Tractor Supply so I ran there and bought a hoodie and when I walked in there one of my songs was playing and I was like "Okay, goodbye to someone." I got it at the right station here, but I put my hoodie, you know, on the counter and the guy behind the counter said and I was like you, like, didn't you give it a week?

We gave it, yes, by the way. wink at a guy, a tractor supply would be a great song, it could go to number 31. We can, well, you never know, are you worried at all about this AI

music

like this? That's what I'm saying, we could connect it to that. and look what happens, why shouldn't we, oh actually we should, we did this because I was curious. I was thinking about this, you know, Drake, over the weekend and I was thinking, well, you can do that with pop music, dance music. I don't know if you could do it, the problem with me is that I'm afraid that it might actually be better than what I've written, so I think it's a real fear, but what we did is that we and you can't. like just telling a computer to do it still, although I'm sure that will happen, but it's kind of a combination of things, but this is a Luke Bryan song largely

generated

by artificial intelligence, okay, this will be interesting.

Here we guarantee that a beer will do it. I'll be there trying to find my way back home but it seems so far away but I'll keep singing my songs and let my voice be heard. I think I'm okay with the AI ​​for now, so the problem is whether I really dream. so yeah, 31 won't happen, they might actually get one of your number one hits. Did they also make the video? We put up the video, yeah, yeah, well the video is probably the easiest part of the whole deal. Will you be going to Las Vegas again this year?

We've been, we've been there this year and, it's, it's, it's, it's Las Vegas, you know, I don't do a good job staying away from the craps table, oh, that's your craps and blackjack game. and War, and well, you play warp, that's the saddest thing in the world, seeing people playing war in Las Vegas, so my nephew turned 21 and he, on his 21st birthday, came out of the closet and that It was like his big revelation. Vegas, sure, learned the flow, what you did with them, honestly, well, we met at the craps table and played, and it was like being there with your nephew, who's been with us since he was 13. right, it was like he totally became my friend around the craft table, well, a few months go by and he calls me and says, uncle Luke, can I bring some of my own and some?

Some friends come out and I'm like, yeah. You all just come stay in the room with me and you know you come in and say, yeah, it's like Elvis' style, you know, yeah, sure we go down there and it's all him and then his

first

cousin, who's everyone. obviously give money to at some point Uncle Luke calls me then Jackson Jackson calls me Uncle Luke well, they come from the main. I'm like in a little private play area where they come in and say, uh, Uncle Luke, you won. I can't believe what we just did, we were playing blackjack and this girl said she was with this lady, I think she was 35 or 36, she said she was second in the 400 meters in her entire track state and Jackson is very fast, It doesn't look like it, but it's okay.

Well, they actually bet this woman on a hundred-yard dash in the parking lot and won a hundred dollars, and I think they invented a new form of gambling unless, literally, the valet guy had to say, wait and there they run, like this that when she was on stage that night, you know, I thought, give me the damn hundred, so I gave her the 100 back and was like you're like, if you're racing 21-year-old kids in the parking lot, this is your 100, but she's not. It was on the show, it wasn't on the show, so I kept it.

Uncle Luke Bryan is with us talking about fishing as we are. trying to talk about our fishing trips, that's right, that's right, you were talking to Huey Lewis backstage he's hanging out in the back, which is crazy, yeah, he's just running around back there, yeah, we're keeping him there Yes, we won't let him go. I started making the meat and tree cheese trays back there, but no, I'm a big fan of him and I never got to meet him, but like I said, it was fun, you guys, what season is it 21? I said about how long he does he.

You've been on the show, this is our sixth year with me and Katie again all the way, yeah, and Ryan's been there from the beginning. Who does Lionel like the most? You or Katie. Oh, God, don't put me in that trouble. Well, I mean. Lionel, you know, Lionel, you know, he's one of those '80s guys, he probably likes Katy Perry. I thought for sure you were going to say, well, you know, Lionel is, I mean, he's a national treasure, he really is, yeah, and he's funny because uh. Well, we'll do promotional things for the show and it's Lyle, Katie and I, and when people interview Lionel, they just like us and Katie we just sit around and because Lionel is so interesting, she just teaches me to like him. he teaches you how to be a star, to be humble and attractive, he has always been like that, that is interesting throughout his career, that is why everyone loves him and it must be difficult to be humble like Lionel and Katie are going to sing at the

coronation

of the King Charles. right, yeah, I didn't know what a

coronation

was, I thought it was like, I thought it was a form of condensed milk or something, but carnation, yeah, I said, yeah, you're all going out with the Dukes and the Earls and You know, the only Dukes and Earls I've ever been with, I drank shotgun beer, you know, in high school, but that's what they say, although why wouldn't they invite you?

I didn't understand, you know, I guess. uh, maybe you're too American for them, they probably had country music in England too. You know, I actually played there and people showed up. I mean, I'm not sure they appreciate the cards, but you know? like everyone else, we know Australia, we know like Keith Urban, what do you know about any English country music artists? Well, that's it, you're going to get me in trouble because I don't know, yeah, but I didn't hear you. You know there are some I've had some Irish country singers, but there's a big festival they put on certainly in London and I've played it a couple of times and we did something in Munich, we did a German, a Munich German, same thing. but we did Sweden and it's pretty crazy to go there and know that you have fans, yeah right, it must be strange, it must be especially strange when you go to a country where English is not the first language and then people singing here obviously, eh, Prince Charles, or he wasn't at my concert there so I didn't get the invitation, maybe he's mad because you didn't invite him to that and now he's the king and you could be beheaded at the end. from this we all know that you I will stay I will stay in Tennessee I will be good and will host the show.

You know we have some surprises. Your friend Blake Shelton convinced you to do American Idol. Yes, he did it. I advised you to ask him if he should do this. He said yes, I think so. I called him and he at that moment, um, was like man, he's going to change your life and he really has. I mean, when you're in a cab in New York City and the cab driver who's from another country says See you on American Idol, it really puts you in front of a completely different audience and you don't know it when you sign up, but it's been, It's been a really, really fun thing and now that you know that Blake is leaving The Voice, you know the country boy, you know that I own the domination, I dominate, you know, Dominique, as you know, we had predicted it from day one, just come in and come.

Come in and get us a place whose ranch is bigger, yours in Tennessee or Blake's in Oklahoma, well if you add all mine up they're bigger than his, how's your mother? My mother is crazy and my mother has been in this. She lives on the beach but she wanted, she wanted me to buy the beach, a house 100 yards closer to the beach. Oh, I think she wanted you to buy the beach, which would be problematic, but I don't have, yeah, that's Blake. Blake can buy. those things for his mom, but uh no, but her, she's just the fact that she and my wife have created all this fun stuff on Instagram, as long as they get along, I'm like they know him. everyone go pick flowers and dig weeds, all things they won't put on Instagram.

That seems fine to me. Your mom posted this on Instagram and I wonder if you have approval now? This is a high school photo, yeah, and this guy right here. I mean that's you that's the most muscle mass I've ever had there and yeah that was a uh so we called it a football game with the girls oh yeah I played football and somehow in the last minute I got into it and the boys are the cheerleaders and that photo uh was never really supposed to leave their house and here we have it there you go, I mean, as embarrassing as it is for you, I mean the twins here, I think they looked like they had makeup on. and they're done my friend Paul.

I hadn't seen Paul in 30 years. You know, he only used his green one. Paul was like, you know, the guy who listened to Ozzy Osbourne and stuff, so he decided to become Rogue and wear the green one. shorts, look, oh, that's Paul, right there, that's Paul, oh, he looks like the guy who would listen to Ozzy Osbourne, well, it's great to have you here. American Idol is Sunday and Monday nights at eight o'clock here on ABC Luke Bryan.