Michael Bubleis feeling sentimental.
I had allowed the songs to choose me as opposed to me choosing the songs.
Love(out now) is his first album since the career-halting 2016 cancer diagnosis of his son Noah.
Credit: Reprise
For awhile, it seemed Buble might not return to music at all.
The singer had refocused his priorities on being a dad and wasnt interested in public life.
I never fell out of love with music.
Reprise
Not for one second, he swears.
The idea ofLoveoriginated a year earlier, with what else?
a beer and pizza-fueled jam session between Buble and his friends.
Every song you hear on this record conceptually began that day, he says.
When we [jammed], we all started to share ideas and thats where the record was born.
Not just born its where I reconnected and I remembered how much I loved [music].
I want it to be joy.
I want to do the songs I love with the people I love in the rooms I love.
He chose them all during that tipsy hangout.
It was about time and sentimentality.
One of the things I missed most was having that connection.
While hes eager for fans to hear it, he wont be paying attention to its reception.
I cant control how much it sells, what the streams are, so I dont want to know.
Because that part is not the important part.
Im enjoying the moments of just getting to really be here with you and be present.
