{"id":117537,"date":"2024-04-18T15:01:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T15:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/04\/18\/john-oates-new-music-represents-who-he-is-now-i-dont-want-to-be-that-80s-guy\/"},"modified":"2024-04-18T15:01:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T15:01:31","slug":"john-oates-new-music-represents-who-he-is-now-i-dont-want-to-be-that-80s-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/04\/18\/john-oates-new-music-represents-who-he-is-now-i-dont-want-to-be-that-80s-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"John Oates\u2019 new music represents who he is now: &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be that &#8217;80s guy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-04-18\/Getty_JohnOates_041724.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Paras Griffin\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>John Oates<\/strong> is getting ready to release\u00a0his new solo album,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Reunion,<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0on May 17, and fans should be prepared for something totally different than what they&#8217;re used to from his work with\u00a0<strong>Hall &amp; Oates<\/strong>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In recent interviews\u00a0John\u00a0has said that he\u2019s moved on from the music he made with <strong>Daryl Hall<\/strong>, and that\u2019s particularly the case with\u00a0this album.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt&#8217;s compelling me to make music that is representative of who I am now, what I think about, what I feel like and where my life has kind of put me,\u201d he tells ABC Audio. \u201cAnd I can&#8217;t be held to the past.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">John says he understands that some of his Hall &amp; Oates fans may be upset by this new direction. &#8220;They love to hear this music that was so much part of their lives growing up and I get that completely,&#8221; he says, but it\u2019s just something he can&#8217;t do anymore.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt&#8217;s just one of those things. I feel like I need to represent who I am now with my music and my public persona,\u201d he explains. \u201cI don&#8217;t want to be that &#8217;80s guy, you know? I&#8217;m not that &#8217;80s guy, so why should I try to replicate that or try to pretend that I am? It feels completely artificial and false.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Fans have already gotten their first taste of <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Reunion<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, with the already released\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/OM2lP2rQB0g?t=7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>title track<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0and its accompanying video. <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Reunion<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/orcd.co\/reunionalbum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>available for preorder<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\"> now.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"raw-html-embed\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OM2lP2rQB0g\" title=\"John Oates - Reunion (Official Music Video)\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paras Griffin\/Getty Images John Oates is getting ready to release\u00a0his new solo album,\u00a0Reunion,\u00a0on May 17, and fans should be prepared for something totally different than what they&#8217;re used to from his work with\u00a0Hall &amp; Oates.\u00a0 In recent interviews\u00a0John\u00a0has said that he\u2019s moved on from the music he made with Daryl<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/04\/18\/john-oates-new-music-represents-who-he-is-now-i-dont-want-to-be-that-80s-guy\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}