Ouellette Glenn The Artist | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: And of course we have a glennar J. Willett, the People's mayor in the technical actation.

0:04 Speaker 2: My new name is will let Glenn the artists. What you changed your name? No, I have to have a stage name, and that's what I pick. You're the artist formerly known as Glenn. No, they call me will elect Glenn the artists. Well, let Glenn the artist.

0:17 Speaker 1: So you use your last name first and your first name last.

0:19 Speaker 2: I don't want to be a superstar. I want to make a living. Oh you're afraid people will know you. No, no, I'm not afraid people know me. They'll know me anyway my last name. This thing is you had to pick a stage name, and that's what I picked today. Oh you know I have to pick a stage name. I thought you can just use your name. You know how artists picked these fake names and they don't really their names. That's why I like.

0:40 Speaker 1: For example, my real name is not Matt Connorton.

0:42 Speaker 2: What Matt?

0:44 Speaker 1: No, I'm I'm actually uh, I don't know if you know this. I'm actually Swedish. My my last my name is Hans Brocher. So most people don't know that about me, and that's hard to say. So I picked Matt Connorton, because I figure, what sounds more like a radio host than Matt Connorton. Such a great name. Uh so I can relate to what you're saying. Went, now, what what are you going to sing for us this morning? We got to get to out. We're we're a little bit behind because we had some tech issues. So we want to get to some songs.

1:10 Speaker 1: Because when when I when I told people you know that you were coming on today, they said, we cannot wait to hear him, saying he has the voice of an angel, and you are Would you not consider yourself a I mean, is global icon too strong of a word in the in the world of singing?

1:26 Speaker 2: Well, And I wouldn't say that, but I do, Well, you're very humble. I do do three to four mini concerts a week. Yes, from my home, and I have over nine thousand viewers that listen to that.

1:40 Speaker 1: Yes, around the world, around the world. Yes, you are global.

1:44 Speaker 2: I mean there's global.

1:45 Speaker 1: That's why I always say in terms of global icons, there's there's Tailor Swift, and there's will Lett Glenn.

1:50 Speaker 3: Oh.

1:50 Speaker 2: I wouldn't compare myself well.

1:52 Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just saying you're kind of in that that zone, that stratosphere, if you will.

1:56 Speaker 2: What are you going to sing for us? First? I'm going to do the big Medley.

2:01 Speaker 1: The BG's Medley. All right, let me queue that up here. I'm playing sound engineer today.

2:06 Speaker 2: Is this? What is this? How Peter does it on the Morning show too? Yeah? Okay, So and I will I do over a thousand songs now. And I'm not a young chick anymore.

2:16 Speaker 1: You're not a young chick. No, I don't think you ever worried a young chick. I think you've I think you've always been male unless there's something you haven't told us.

2:24 Speaker 2: And you know, we're very uh very LGBTQ.

2:29 Speaker 1: Plus friendly here, So that's fine if that, if that's nice, but not the case, I mean, if you'd like to share something with us about that, but uh, you know, it's just that I.

2:42 Speaker 2: I have I've learned to have a listening ear to music, huh. And now I can hear a song once or twice and it's in my head. Even a listening here is helpful. I have two of them, and that's that's good to have.

2:56 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, okay, So what I'm going to do and I and for those watching the video feed. I've put the camera on me so that you can see. I will put it back on Glenn in a moment. We'll let Glenn. But I'm turning the screen here so that you can read the lyrics. Well, hang on, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta click, I gotta click play, and then I'll turn it and then you'll be able to sing for us. And this is a this is very exciting. This is the Beg's medley. All right, very good, here we go. We'll let Glenn live in studio, Bees singing, Bees.

3:39 Speaker 2: And Joe. There's not lie after a kind of lie that never shown on me. And I want my life to be live with you, Live with you, baby.

4:02 Speaker 4: There's a way everybody says you do each and every little thing. But what good does it bring to me if I ain't got you?

4:21 Speaker 2: If I got you, baby, baby, you don't know what is live, baby.

4:30 Speaker 5: You don't know what is like.

4:34 Speaker 6: You love somebody, You love somebody the way that I love you, Pep, I'm going back.

4:49 Speaker 2: You must choose this. There's something that's telling me that I'm my goal on and the life all and out within massive that day the day I left, before I left her standing on her own because I started to cry, which started the whole world laughing happ but I didn't see that the joke was on me. I looked at those ties, running my hand over my eyes, and I when I fell out of my bed, burting my head from things that I've had. No smile and every lasting smile and smile that can bring you near to w

6:18 Speaker 2: Don't you ever ever let me find you gone, because that would bring me a tear to.

6:29 Speaker 5: These words has lost his glory.

6:33 Speaker 2: Let's start a.

6:34 Speaker 5: Brand new story now, my love, Right now.

6:42 Speaker 2: They'll see no other time and I can show you how, my love. Let's stock an everlasting worth and dedicated to them all to and I will beat you all my life. I'm hear it.

7:07 Speaker 5: You should call me now.

7:13 Speaker 2: You think that I don't mean a thing, I thing a single word I say it only worth pen. Words are all I have to take your heart away it ownly, work and word They're all I have. You take your heart away? Thank you?

7:46 Speaker 7: Wow?

7:48 Speaker 2: Uh well, let Glenn amazing.

7:51 Speaker 1: By the way, Can I just say, have all the performances I've heard you do that is by far the.

7:56 Speaker 2: Most recent, the most recent.

7:59 Speaker 1: Yes, I'm just saying so obviously, Oh, are you getting some fan appreciation there on your phone?

8:07 Speaker 2: I am, but been taking out the volume.

8:09 Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, what inspired you to I like the song?

8:14 Speaker 2: What's the song?

8:15 Speaker 1: I started to laugh by the beg's you kind of added to your own you say this, I'm like I started to laugh.

8:20 Speaker 2: Ha ha ha. All my songs, our cover songs. You have to change up the wording. That is the rule. Yes, everyone who you know?

8:28 Speaker 1: We have a lot of musicians on the show who play cover songs and they always change fifteen percent of the wording.

8:33 Speaker 2: Yeah.

8:34 Speaker 1: Yeah, like Brooklyn Mike when he plays songs, he always changes fifteen percent of the wording. Yeah, sometimes sixteen or even seventeen percent. So that's very good. Good, good on you for doing that. If you are just joining us, we have a global icon and superstar, Glenn. I'm sorry, we'll let Glenn. So we'll let Glenn is officially.

8:52 Speaker 2: Your stage name. Yes, like Glenn the artist, will.

8:55 Speaker 1: Let Glenn the artist. Okay, Now it's important to be precise about this because brand is important. Is it will let Glenn Comma the artist like Glenn the artist, or but is it will let Glenn Dash the artist? Is any part of that in parentheses like will let Glenn, and then in parentheses the artist is there an asterisk next to artists? Okay, I just look, you have to be branding matters and consistency matters, and a lot of the artists.

9:25 Speaker 2: Well, I don't know.

9:26 Speaker 1: She probably saw a funny meme on her computer.

9:28 Speaker 2: But I'm trying to.

9:29 Speaker 1: Give you career advice here. This this is very important. So you know I'm trying to help you, Glenn. You know I have many are awful clients that I work with. I'm why because what so you just assume he knows everything already because he's an older gentleman. I think I have some I think I can help him. I think I have some some wisdom to share.

9:47 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, do you know why I won't get it? I won't get an agent. Why they tell you what to do? That's right, That's what I'm doing. I'm trying to tell you what I do. Your money. I've print my own tickets now you yes, cost a lot less.

10:02 Speaker 1: Wow, you're practically printing your own money at the same time. Then if you're saving.

10:05 Speaker 2: Money, yes, I say fifteen percent, you save fifteen percent? All right? I do my own posters. You do, I recommend that I when I go to our city, that I play on their FM station for nothing. In turn, I'm getting your suppose excellent. Well, very good, very good. Have you Have you been on other FM stations? Yes?

10:29 Speaker 1: Oh really? You've performed live? Or you just send them some music?

10:32 Speaker 3: No?

10:33 Speaker 2: Live? Oh wow, I give them an hour? You give them an hour? Well they're one in Springfield. There's three of them. May I do all three in the morning.

10:39 Speaker 1: So there's a station in Springfield you do a three hour concert.

10:42 Speaker 2: No, there're three FM stations there. Oh I thought you meant three hours. No, nor each one hour.

10:47 Speaker 1: Springfield, Massachusetts or Springfield, Illinois.

10:50 Speaker 2: Springfield, Massachusetts.

10:52 Speaker 1: Now, uh so three hours. So so three stations in Springfield. So you have a very strong presence in Springfield. I do like if you if you were to book like the Springfield Megadome, you'd probably sell it out.

11:03 Speaker 2: I would fill it, You would fill it, You would fill it.

11:06 Speaker 1: You know it holds eighty thousand people, right, the Springfield Megadome.

11:10 Speaker 2: In Springfield, Massachusetts. No, the Megadome? There is it? The Ultra Doome? What is that called? It doesn't fit see eighty thousand.

11:19 Speaker 1: Oh no, it's like seventy five thousand. I exaggerated. No, but you could fill that in Springfield. No, what's the population of Springfield?

11:26 Speaker 2: One hundred and fifty five thousand.

11:28 Speaker 1: So how many of them would you say are your fans of that percentage? Probably half? So I'm not good at math. So yeah, I'm thinking seventy thousand.

11:35 Speaker 2: I've sold ten thousand tickets there before you have? You sold ten thousand tickets though one but my tickets down one hundred and twenty five dollars either.

11:43 Speaker 1: Were you the headliner, you probably had a strong opener though. Two that kind of tickets. I mean, that's pretty good. I had a thousand tickets.

11:48 Speaker 2: My carts are two hours, okay, and in the half in the middle of it, I do a half hour comedy. You do I do? It's so funny? Well, I would hope so, because I don't do it the way that I. I look at people's eyes and I picked. Someone said, you're ready to be embarrassed, get on stage? Really call them up. That's your hook? Are you ready to be embarrassed? Get on stage? What's your problem? Say? What's your problem?

12:14 Speaker 1: I'm a realistic So you're so it's a form of crowd work. It is, but you're actually Jenny knows.

12:19 Speaker 2: I love crowd work. So that's exciting. He's so lying. But the thing is, I call him on stage. A lot of people don't do that. So you make people get on stage. Wow, I don't like you.

12:30 Speaker 5: Wow.

12:31 Speaker 2: Why that's scary. I'll kill people if I do that. Behind you sing one note, ear drums will just shut. They're not singing, they're just telling them what their problem is. Yeah, and then you solve the joke or whatever. I thought you were going to have them sing with you. No, no, no, no, wow. So this is quite a show.

12:51 Speaker 1: You do so you so you sing, and then in the middle you do you do this half hour form of comedy and then you sing again.

12:58 Speaker 2: All right, my first, my first comedy show. I got a couple of divorced. Okay, it was appropriate. The mayor twenty six years Yeah, And on the wedding night he told her to go take a shower. I'm gonna get some beer. He came back three hours later. I can smell the other woman. And twenty six years later, he still does it right, So I had him. Twenty six years later, she can still smell the other woman. No, he's still chief on her. Oh okay, I was gonna say they had bought two tickets. Friday said he had two concerts.

13:26 Speaker 2: Yeah, that day in the sam arena, and uh he promised her he would quit. Uh huh? So I said, would you stand up please? Yeah? Yes, would you come to the stage please? Remember there's ten thousand people here, ten thousand people. You can't embarrass me. You're playing the big room. Oh h well that's the biggest ep. Okay. Uh, you're so modest, the average of five six.

13:47 Speaker 1: Five six thousand. Yeah, all right, you're killing it out there.

13:51 Speaker 2: That was the whole plan. So what well, of.

13:53 Speaker 1: Course, so what did so you brought him up up on stage?

13:56 Speaker 2: And what did you do? Did you get him? Did him a good scolding?

14:00 Speaker 5: Kill your wife?

14:00 Speaker 2: Because I've talked to her before, Uh that you were no longer going to cheat on her. So you last cheated on Thursday? She says, what, yes, I did, and you're gonna go again on Sunday because you're you told her you wouldn't cheat anymore. The tickets are only for Friday Saturday, so I suspect Sunday after church, you're gonna go cheat. Uh huh how do you know that? Are you? I am? Wow? Why even bother going to church? Right, talk about being a hypocrite. Right, well, you got to set yourself up for the next week of sin.

14:34 Speaker 2: You know their divorces. You got the house, okay, yeah, he didn't want to do counsel me right right? Wow? Okay, yeah, and there and their Sundays twenty six years old. Now I says, will we have a child? Yeah, but he's twenty six years old, no longer a child? Right, move on, right?

14:48 Speaker 1: Yeah he can Yeah, he can probably fend for himself at this point. Well that that's great. So you're you're effectively you're doing God's work with your comedy. That's too nestled in the middle of your singing. That's very exciting.

15:04 Speaker 1: When's your next show?

15:06 Speaker 2: My next show is at June twenty eight? Where will that be? In Providence? In Providence? I love Providence at the outdoor outdoor concerts. Oh, are you doing a festival? I'm doing two festivals. Why you're gonna have about five thousand I'm gonna have about six thousands. Wow. And then I'll be in a parade which is three miles long and it's a night parade. That's all it up, almost like they would they do it in Miami. They do it at night and uh, and there's fifty thousand people in the streets that there's three miles wow side.

15:40 Speaker 2: So that's one way they get exposed.

15:43 Speaker 1: How do you how do you say festival in French? Is it festival FESTI festival wow? Well, see, I kind of knew.

15:51 Speaker 2: I do a lot of songs in English and in French at the same time.

15:54 Speaker 1: Yes, I also not a suitor in the BJ's the BJS, the Beg's medley.

15:59 Speaker 2: You wrote your are with which I can't do. That's impressive. And I changed my knee to moir.

16:06 Speaker 1: I noticed that too. Yes, So are you trying to appeal to the Celindian crowd.

16:11 Speaker 2: I'm trying to appeal. For example, I now do a couple of Asian songs, and I will say you do Asian, I will want to do one paragraph. Are you doing pop.

16:19 Speaker 1: Songs because that's a big market right now.

16:21 Speaker 2: They're they're a ballads, okay. Uh, there's an artist in China that I do, there's one in in in Pakistan. There's a couple in the Philippines I do. I do a song called Don't Stop the car I do it in French, English and in It's East from Australia, so they call it the the carpet, the carpet, the basket carpet, the basket carpet. It's their way words of words. They have a way of words. I tried it, and and and I'll do it. I'll do it one paragraphing Spanish. I have to learn that stuff. And then more and more they're ask me to do it again.

17:06 Speaker 1: By the way, I've always liked the way you say, uh, the Philippines, the way you say the Philippines.

17:11 Speaker 2: Oh, yes, that too. What do you want to uh?

17:14 Speaker 1: So, unfortunately we don't have as much time. I see that, but we can. We can do another song. What would you like to uh sing? At least you at least because it forces you to choose like the very best. I feel like we're getting the very best of We'll let Glenn, the artist.

17:30 Speaker 2: I gave you six dong inspect to do for it. I'm doing too.

17:33 Speaker 1: I know, well, no, no, not to no, We'll we'll have time for a couple more. I'm just saying, let's let's get to another one and then probably at least one.

17:38 Speaker 2: More after that. Let me go to but uh, but I did.

17:42 Speaker 1: Want to get an update from you on your virgeoning career, my virgin career. No, not virgining, burgeoning.

17:48 Speaker 2: I'm not making a bundle yet. Virgining would have implied that you know you're the minute not making enough money to replace Home Dupo. Then I can leave home Dupo, Home dup, Home Dupo, Home dup to plot. Ah, we we here or something. That's all you know is we we Uh?

18:07 Speaker 1: No, I know like French fries and French.

18:09 Speaker 2: Toast, and but that's English French. Oh, English French. That's the thing. So I promised Chris Martin that I would do uh Chris Martin of Coldplay.

18:18 Speaker 1: Yes, he's your new best friend, right, my best friend. You were telling us off air you've been in contact with him.

18:23 Speaker 2: It's that it last night. Wow. Uh he just popped right up. He found one of he found me doing he found a version of me doing yellow, and he threatened to sue you. No. Oh, okay, he knew I change.

18:35 Speaker 1: Oh gotcha right, because you always changed fifteen percent.

18:38 Speaker 2: He wasn't happy. Yeah, anyways, so I'm gonna do yellow Okay, let me find it here.

18:45 Speaker 1: If you are just joining us, we have We'll let Glenn the Artist here with us in a studio live during the first hour here of Matt connorson Unleashed on this uh Saturday morning. Here it is, of course June sixth, twenty twenty six. We are live from the studios of wm H ninety five point three FM, and you can stream the show from anywhere. Go to Matt connorton dot com, slash live or the new Matt connorton Unleashed dot com. And I will go ahead and make this full screen so you can see the lyrics, and I will turn the monitor here for those of you watching the video feed you can see what we do.

19:19 Speaker 1: I'm playing sound engineer this morning. And uh are you are you ready?

19:23 Speaker 3: Uh?

19:23 Speaker 1: We'll let lend the artist. I am all right, here we go.

19:29 Speaker 2: Dedicated this you Chris Martin. Dedicated to Chris Martin. Wow do you think he's listening?

19:34 Speaker 7: All right?

19:34 Speaker 2: See if you can get him on the show for me?

19:35 Speaker 7: Thank you do do do do.

19:55 Speaker 2: Do do do Yello enjoy Look at those stards, Look how they shine for you and everything that you do do you Yeah, they were all called yellow. I came along and I wrote that song for you and all the things that you do, and it was called yellow Souse.

20:38 Speaker 5: Then I took my turl.

20:44 Speaker 2: And what a thing you have done? And it was called yellow. Your skin? Your skin, yeah, your skin and bone they turn into such.

21:05 Speaker 5: A beautiful.

21:08 Speaker 2: And you know, you know that I loved you, so you know, you know I love you.

21:18 Speaker 3: So oh oh.

21:33 Speaker 5: Because you know I love you, So I swam across.

21:44 Speaker 2: I jumped across for you, And why a thing you do?

21:55 Speaker 2: Because they were all yellow. I drew alive. I drew a line for you. Oh what a thing you do?

22:12 Speaker 2: And it was all yellow and your skin, your skin, oh yeah, your skin and bone they turned into something so beautiful. And you know, you know, I bleed myself dry or you, I'd be myself draw, I would bleed myself help draw. Uh ah, it's true. Just look how they shine for you. Look how they shine for at all.

23:18 Speaker 2: Look how they shine for Look how they shine for you, Look how they shine for us, Look how they shine Look at the stark Look how they shine for you

23:46 Speaker 2: and all the things that you use.

23:53 Speaker 1: Thank you, Wow, Glennard, I'm sorry. We'll let Glenn the artist do any rendition of Yellow and Uh. Now, I think it's probably inevitable that you'll you'll be receiving some further communication from Chris Martin, probably this time wanting to do a duet with you. Can you imagine re releasing that song cold Play featuring We'll let Glenn the artist He's.

24:18 Speaker 2: Had gifts before doing duets from the audience.

24:22 Speaker 1: Yes, well there you go. So it only makes sense that he would invite you to do such.

24:28 Speaker 2: What do you think now, would you accept an opportunity like that or do you feel that you're sort of why wouldn't I?

24:35 Speaker 1: I don't know, I mean, of course, I okay, Well all right, well very good.

24:40 Speaker 2: Think of all the exposure you've.

24:43 Speaker 1: Been talking about being exposed a lot this morning, and I think that's great.

24:48 Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. I agree.

24:50 Speaker 1: You don't want to violate terms of service of any of these social media sites.

24:54 Speaker 2: Shuld I do Open Arms Journey? Or should I do? I probably should do that? Should I do it? I should do Bet of Roses because you heard it in January and it's a different song.

25:04 Speaker 1: Now, Oh it's a different So this will be this will be a mean, this will be a new version of Bet of Roses the.

25:11 Speaker 2: Same versions that I've improved it. You've improved, you're singing it often and it gets better.

25:16 Speaker 1: Have you sang the new and improved version on the radio before, Yes, on the morning show? Oh okay, but you probably sang it differently on the morning show than you're going to sing it here, because you're always improving it, right, Yes, all right, there's a reason I'm asking you that.

25:36 Speaker 2: But so you're gonna do, uh.

25:37 Speaker 1: You're gonna do Bet of Roses, Bet of Roses by bon Jovi. This will be the last one, unfortunately going when we don't have time to do more than this. But we had if you are just joining us, we had some little tech issue earlier. Peter came and helped us with that. But because this will be the first time you singing bet of Roses on the radio exactly the way that you're about to do it, you're gonna get the world premiere treatment, the world radio premiere of Glenn r J will lets I'm sorry of old habits, all old habits, the world radio premiere of We'll let Glenn the Artist performing Beta Roses.

26:12 Speaker 2: You are listening to to waluminate world premiere. Here it comes you get to move it, joy better, browth it

27:05 Speaker 2: being here wasted and wounded. Addition, hold again. Oh, I'm trying hard to capture that moment this morning that I don't know because a bottle of bocas still logged in my head and some blonde girl gave me nightmares, and I think that she's still in my bed, but she's not.

27:35 Speaker 2: As I dream about movies they won't make of me when I'm dead, but an I can't fist. I wake up and frenchkiss that morning while some watching banks.

27:54 Speaker 5: He sits on me in my head.

27:57 Speaker 2: While we're talkalking, and all of the things that I long to believe above all the love and truth and do you mean to me? And the truth is my baby, You're all that, all thevery.

28:21 Speaker 5: I want to lay you down, lay you down on.

28:25 Speaker 2: A bed better broses, fortune, knight, just where I fleet on a.

28:34 Speaker 3: Bed of day.

28:39 Speaker 5: I want to be just as close as that.

28:42 Speaker 2: Body goes by, Lordie, and lay you down.

28:52 Speaker 5: Down on a bed a better bruise. Will I so excuse me? Each time that takes on my.

29:05 Speaker 2: I can't say the words a King's ransom, and times I did each night to see there's the pay from. I still run out of time, and it's hard to get through till the bird on the wireflies me back to you and I close my eyes and whisper, baby, I'm blind love to you.

29:34 Speaker 5: I want to lay you down, lay you down to a better bed of BROTHI or to night.

29:46 Speaker 2: Just why I sleep on a better bed of day? I want to see just as close as if holly ghost see is my litt.

30:02 Speaker 5: And lay you down down on a bed a broad.

30:14 Speaker 2: Well, the hotel bar hangover, whiskey gone dry, and the bark heaper's week cook and she's getting media eye.

30:22 Speaker 5: And I might have said, ya a lad ah, so hard I think.

30:28 Speaker 2: That I could die.

30:31 Speaker 8: Oh yeah, bed off road.

30:41 Speaker 5: For to night to night. Just well.

30:51 Speaker 9: Oo, wanna lay you down at.

31:05 Speaker 2: Ahead of rose Now you close your eyes. No, I'll be thinking about you tonight, the spy while my mistress, she caused me to stand in her spotlight again? How dare her? Tonight? I won't be alone. But you know I don't mean that I'm not lonely. I've gotten nothing to proof for it you that I die to keep.

31:45 Speaker 8: I want to lay you down down on a bed of bedad of roses, fortune night.

31:55 Speaker 2: Just why I sleep on a bed of it? I want to get that float as.

32:06 Speaker 5: The boy ghosted by local.

32:12 Speaker 2: And made you down down. I want to lay you down, down, down on a bed of roads. What good night does plant? I sleep on a mad of me. I want to be that float as a whole he goosed my go

32:46 Speaker 2: oh and lay you down.

32:52 Speaker 5: On a bed of road.

33:02 Speaker 2: For how long? That song is? Well the words are kind of dark. Huh. Everything should be in white and black background. Yes, oh, I thought you meant the lyrics and seeing through this, I gotta go up and down, right up and down. You know what I'm on stage? Yeah, it's just totally different.

33:20 Speaker 1: I know I've seen I've seen you on stage. Yes, uh, well, like lend the artists, thank you so much. We are out of time. Unfortunately, we will have you back of course. Always wonderful to see you, my friend. Thanks so absolutely sorry about the tech issues earlier, but uh but you know, but we got a few in and it was wonderful to get caught up with you.