Steve Burns is an American actor and television host best known as the original host of the long-running children's preschool television program Blue's Clues from 1996 until 2002, for which he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy in 2001. and Jack Harold Upton Brown Cultural Enrichment Endowment Fund.
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This free event is open to the public and sponsored by the TLU Jessie S. I haven’t been the host of a children’s television show in many years but it just felt very natural to make this record,” says Burns.Ĭurrently, STEVENSTEVEN is planning a single show in Brooklyn after the album drops next month.Join TLU for as we welcome actor and musician Steve Burns on Tuesday, February 21, at 7 p.m. “If there was a transition I didn’t feel it. He admits that this album doesn’t fit into those ideas of being malleable and interactive, but he thinks there is still a place for this kind of music and is hoping kids grasp it. What wasn’t hard to grasp for Burns, though, was a re-entry into children’s media. “I think that the kids space in general is a malleable, interactive platform as opposed to a television show or simply an album, it has to be something that can be pulled apart and interacted with and played with.” “It’s interesting because when Drozd and I were writing a record I kept saying, ‘If I’m five, what is a record? Do I care about a record if I’m a five-year-old kid?’ Shouldn’t this be an app?,’” says Burns. The children’s space has changed a lot in the decade since Burns left it, and he says he struggled with knowing if making an album was even relevant in 2017. Burns says they talked about making the album entirely a narrative, but after five years of working on it, they were just running out of time. “So the criteria that Drozd and I used were based on questions like ‘is this moving us?,’ ‘is it making us laugh?,’ ‘is it making us feel something or inspiring us?’ If it didn’t affect us then it wasn’t good enough.”įoreverywhere also includes a trilogy of songs about a unicorn falling in love with a rainbow princess who plays guitar.
“If you consider the spectrum of children’s emotions, people write a lot of music for kids to make them feel ‘YAY!,’ and there’s much more to every person than just one or two happy emotions,” he says. The album has a lot of elements typical of a children’s record, including a song about potty training, dubbed “Ok Toilet Bowl.” But Burns says he didn’t want the songs to have the fake cheeriness that a lot of kids content can give off. Blue’s Clues taught me that you can’t be lazy about the curriculum that you’re writing in a song.” “My training as a host informed every aspect of my interest in writing for children. “I was the host of a children’s television show and that’s why I wrote a kids record,” says Burns. STEVENSTEVEN wrote songs on weekends when Drozd wasn’t busy with the Flaming Lips, and recorded them in an Oklahoma studio with a mutual friend.īurns describes the music on this album as psychedelic children’s rock opera that is very much influenced by his time on Blue’s Clues, where everyone was animated except for him. It could be either, but it’s definitely for both,” says Burns.įoreverywhere will be released on February 24 digitally on the STEVENSTEVEN website, iTunes, Amazon and Spotify.
“We’re very interested in music that’s maybe for kids and maybe for adults. Burns is now returning to the kids space for the first time with a new children’s music album, Foreverywhere, created with Steven Drozd of the Flaming Lips.
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series Blue’s Clues first aired, and nearly 15 years since Steve Burns stepped down from his role as host of the long-running hit show. It’s been more than 20 years since Nick Jr.
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