Here Comes Your Man (2021–…): Season 2, Episode 4 - A New Career In A New Town - full transcript
Jordan struggles to keep control over his album when his producer continues to push for more mainstream output.
♪ I don't mind being
left out in the rain ♪
♪ I don't care ♪
♪ You can do anything ♪
♪ Take my hand and lead
me up to your place ♪
♪ Dry my hair and cover me ♪
♪ Wrap me in your grace ♪
(low, upbeat music)
- Hey, did you hear that?
- Yeah, on take my hand?
I know, I was off.
- We can take care of that.
Just a little bitta' auto tune.
- Do you think we need it?
- Everyone uses it. It's okay.
- Yeah, but I could just do another take.
- All right.
Let's do another take.
♪ Take my hand and lead
me up to your place ♪
♪ Take my hand and lead
me up to your place ♪
- Okay, this is the one.
♪ Take my hand and lead
me up to your place ♪
- That was the one.
(upbeat music playing)
- You got it.
- You think Guss'll like it?
- I hope so.
- Well, boys, you've done it.
You wasted my time.
- You didn't like it?
- This was supposed to be a single.
- What if the album doesn't need a single?
- It's a debut, it needs a single.
- It's a platform release.
Send 'em to smaller venues, word of mouth
- We need to get on the
streaming playlists.
We need dedicated adverts near colleges.
We need a single.
- We'll Call Simon, he can do it.
- Simon's in New York, call Caden.
- No.
- What?
- If we need a single I'll write it.
I don't need some stranger
to write for my voice
- Jordan, This is completely normal
- But I can do it Gus.
- Do you have anything ready?
- I've got some ideas, I'll figure it out.
- I'll tell you what,
it takes two hours to
drive to the race track
two hours to finish eight beers
and two hours to drive back.
You have six hours.
See you at 5:00 PM.
- He took my jacket.
- Can't do a song in six hours
- ♪ But I feel bad ♪
♪ there isn't way to make it all better. ♪
♪ So I just stay back ♪
- Now. How's the guitar go?
Where are the chords?
- Um C,
E minor, A minor,
D minor, G.
- Uh, Show me.
(guitar music)
why are you playing it so fast?
- Well, it's a single, it
needs to be up tempo, right?
- Needs to be whatever it needs to be.
- Yeah, but Gus said he's
not gonna be satisfied
unless we can make something that'll sell.
- Well what do you want?
- I want it to be slower.
Having trouble cracking,
going from the- the uh
chorus to the bridge.
That's where we are. Okay.
- And that's where you're stuck.
- Yeah. To get into the bridge.
And I wanna add the F nine
- Then. Yeah, just go straight to the F,
let's try something
(guitar music)
- From the G so
- Yeah. You still get that G
(inaudible)
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- Now just keep going.
(inaudible singing)
right?
- I like that
- Goes somewhere else, right?
- Yeah. (mumbling)
- Yeah.
♪ I see the forest through the trees. ♪
♪ I know exactly this means ♪
- Its forest for the trees, right?
- What do you mean?
- Don't get lost in the
forest for the trees.
That's how the saying goes isn't it?
- Yeah, but I'm saying I'm, I'm not lost
and I know what's going on.
- Do you wanna keep it that way?
- Yes I do.
♪ I see the forest through the trees. ♪
♪ I know exactly what this means. ♪
♪ I know there's things
that you don't see ♪
♪ but this pain is still so new to me. ♪
♪ Cause I ♪
♪ wanna love you but ♪
♪ I feel bad ♪
♪ There isn't a way to
make it all better. ♪
(low music playing)
- Yeah. Yeah this is really great boys.
- You like it?
- I think it's a fantastic start.
- Start?
- We thought it was finished.
- (laughs) What you thought
this was the single?
Come on Jordan.
You've done some really good work
but please remember why you're here.
- Why am I here?
- To listen to me.
I know what I'm talking about.
You can agree with me or not.
I really don't give a fuck
because nothing leaves this
studio without my approval.
And I cannot give this my approval.
Not yet at least.
The good news is we're not too far off
we just need to add a little auto tune.
- Nope!
We don't need auto tune.
I can do another take.
I, I can stay here all
night if we need to.
- You wanted to write the song, right?
You did.
Six hours are up.
- It won't sound right.
- It will sound right, because
I'll make it sound right
Because that's what I do.
- I just want it to sound pure.
- If you wanted it to sound pure,
you should have gone
to a fucking open mic.
We have records to sell here okay?
So Jordan, thank you
very much for your work.
Brady, Thank you for recording.
Leave!
- That song meant something.
It meant so much and it's just gone.
- As soon as you sang it, it was gone.
The music will never really belong to you.
It doesn't matter if you
have the masters or not.
Once it reaches the
audience and the critics
they're gonna tear it apart
and put it back together
in a way that means something to them.
I know you don't want to hear this
but intent doesn't matter.
- You're right.
I didn't want to hear that.
- Y-You're a really special artist Jordan
but realize it's gonna be
really fuckin hard for you.
- Why?
- Because you know exactly what you want,
And we don't like that
in these here parts.
- Why do you still work for Gus?
You could do your own thing,
Open your own studio. You don't need him.
- Gus trusted me when no
one else did, I owe him.
Not, not gonna lie though,
A place of my own would be pretty cool.
- Nothing's stopping you.
- So what's the plan, man.
- Just fly back home in a of days, I guess
- Back to being a scrawny LA asshole huh?
- It's who I am.
It's where I belong.
- Well, we'll miss you, Jordan Bloom.
It's been real fun.
- It's been real fun.
- I know what you're feeling.
You're feeling like you lost.
I'm gonna let you on a secret.
You won, you recorded an album.
You did it! So, cheer up
- Another?
- Yep!
(sound of disgust)
- Brady?
- Yeah.
- I don't know if people
are gonna like me.
What the fuck was that?
- I just don't think
I've ever given a goddamn
If anybody ever liked me or not
You just focus on the music.
- Well, the album will come out
and we'll see if it makes waves or not
- Easier to make waves you rock the boat!
- What?
- Look, Gus said something that was true.
If you wanted to sing
a song just to be pure
go to an open mic.
(guitar music)
♪ So you'll always have
a peace of my heart. ♪
♪ No matter how far you run from me ♪
♪ always have a peace of
my heart whether or not ♪
♪ You want me, ♪
♪ you'll always have
a peace of my heart. ♪
♪ Always have a peace of my heart. ♪
♪ You'll always have me, Can't give back ♪
♪ the peace of my heart. ♪
- Thank you.
(audience applauding)
- Let's give it up for
Natalia Hope everybody!
Wow! Wow!
I can't hear you, come on!
A little bit more (inaudible)
All right awesome, amazing!
All right, next up.
We have coming all the way here
from sunny Los Angeles, California.
We have
Jordan Bloom!
- Aren't you gonna play with me?
It's our song.
- It's your song, man.
(audience applauding)
- How y'all doing? (laughs)
I've been uh, lucky
enough to record an album
here in town for the last few months.
I'm gonna play a song from that album
that I think is pretty damn good.
And if it makes waves, maybe
I'll get to keep playing it.
This is "Without Hesitation."
♪ I see the forest through the trees. ♪
♪ I know exactly what this means. ♪
♪ I know there's things you cannot see. ♪
♪ but this pain is still so new to me. ♪
♪ Cause I ♪
♪ wanna Love you but ♪
♪ I feel bad. ♪
♪ Is there a way ♪
♪ to make it all better? ♪
♪ So I just stay back. ♪
♪ But now I can say without hesitation ♪
♪ That I know it ain't wrong. ♪
♪ Let's not waste time
over complications. ♪
♪ Cause we don't have that long ♪
♪ And I ♪
♪ wanna love you but ♪
♪ I feel bad. ♪
♪ There isn't a way to
make it all better. ♪
♪ So, I'll just stay bad. ♪
♪ But if you would try to
see what you couldn't ♪
♪ Ever see before. ♪
♪ I know what it's like ♪
♪ I'll help you make sense of ♪
♪ the things you can't ignore. ♪
♪ Cause I'm ♪
♪ gonna miss you but ♪
♪ It's our time ♪
♪ Never be a way ♪
♪ to make you come closer so ♪
♪ I guess this is goodbye. ♪
Thank you.
(Audience applauding)
♪ [Woman] I've been looking for someone ♪
♪ Like you, a kind man who's
honest and who's true. ♪
♪ The kinda man who will
love me just way I am ♪
♪ Who will love me, the
good, the bad, the ugly. ♪
(country music playing)
left out in the rain ♪
♪ I don't care ♪
♪ You can do anything ♪
♪ Take my hand and lead
me up to your place ♪
♪ Dry my hair and cover me ♪
♪ Wrap me in your grace ♪
(low, upbeat music)
- Hey, did you hear that?
- Yeah, on take my hand?
I know, I was off.
- We can take care of that.
Just a little bitta' auto tune.
- Do you think we need it?
- Everyone uses it. It's okay.
- Yeah, but I could just do another take.
- All right.
Let's do another take.
♪ Take my hand and lead
me up to your place ♪
♪ Take my hand and lead
me up to your place ♪
- Okay, this is the one.
♪ Take my hand and lead
me up to your place ♪
- That was the one.
(upbeat music playing)
- You got it.
- You think Guss'll like it?
- I hope so.
- Well, boys, you've done it.
You wasted my time.
- You didn't like it?
- This was supposed to be a single.
- What if the album doesn't need a single?
- It's a debut, it needs a single.
- It's a platform release.
Send 'em to smaller venues, word of mouth
- We need to get on the
streaming playlists.
We need dedicated adverts near colleges.
We need a single.
- We'll Call Simon, he can do it.
- Simon's in New York, call Caden.
- No.
- What?
- If we need a single I'll write it.
I don't need some stranger
to write for my voice
- Jordan, This is completely normal
- But I can do it Gus.
- Do you have anything ready?
- I've got some ideas, I'll figure it out.
- I'll tell you what,
it takes two hours to
drive to the race track
two hours to finish eight beers
and two hours to drive back.
You have six hours.
See you at 5:00 PM.
- He took my jacket.
- Can't do a song in six hours
- ♪ But I feel bad ♪
♪ there isn't way to make it all better. ♪
♪ So I just stay back ♪
- Now. How's the guitar go?
Where are the chords?
- Um C,
E minor, A minor,
D minor, G.
- Uh, Show me.
(guitar music)
why are you playing it so fast?
- Well, it's a single, it
needs to be up tempo, right?
- Needs to be whatever it needs to be.
- Yeah, but Gus said he's
not gonna be satisfied
unless we can make something that'll sell.
- Well what do you want?
- I want it to be slower.
Having trouble cracking,
going from the- the uh
chorus to the bridge.
That's where we are. Okay.
- And that's where you're stuck.
- Yeah. To get into the bridge.
And I wanna add the F nine
- Then. Yeah, just go straight to the F,
let's try something
(guitar music)
- From the G so
- Yeah. You still get that G
(inaudible)
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- Now just keep going.
(inaudible singing)
right?
- I like that
- Goes somewhere else, right?
- Yeah. (mumbling)
- Yeah.
♪ I see the forest through the trees. ♪
♪ I know exactly this means ♪
- Its forest for the trees, right?
- What do you mean?
- Don't get lost in the
forest for the trees.
That's how the saying goes isn't it?
- Yeah, but I'm saying I'm, I'm not lost
and I know what's going on.
- Do you wanna keep it that way?
- Yes I do.
♪ I see the forest through the trees. ♪
♪ I know exactly what this means. ♪
♪ I know there's things
that you don't see ♪
♪ but this pain is still so new to me. ♪
♪ Cause I ♪
♪ wanna love you but ♪
♪ I feel bad ♪
♪ There isn't a way to
make it all better. ♪
(low music playing)
- Yeah. Yeah this is really great boys.
- You like it?
- I think it's a fantastic start.
- Start?
- We thought it was finished.
- (laughs) What you thought
this was the single?
Come on Jordan.
You've done some really good work
but please remember why you're here.
- Why am I here?
- To listen to me.
I know what I'm talking about.
You can agree with me or not.
I really don't give a fuck
because nothing leaves this
studio without my approval.
And I cannot give this my approval.
Not yet at least.
The good news is we're not too far off
we just need to add a little auto tune.
- Nope!
We don't need auto tune.
I can do another take.
I, I can stay here all
night if we need to.
- You wanted to write the song, right?
You did.
Six hours are up.
- It won't sound right.
- It will sound right, because
I'll make it sound right
Because that's what I do.
- I just want it to sound pure.
- If you wanted it to sound pure,
you should have gone
to a fucking open mic.
We have records to sell here okay?
So Jordan, thank you
very much for your work.
Brady, Thank you for recording.
Leave!
- That song meant something.
It meant so much and it's just gone.
- As soon as you sang it, it was gone.
The music will never really belong to you.
It doesn't matter if you
have the masters or not.
Once it reaches the
audience and the critics
they're gonna tear it apart
and put it back together
in a way that means something to them.
I know you don't want to hear this
but intent doesn't matter.
- You're right.
I didn't want to hear that.
- Y-You're a really special artist Jordan
but realize it's gonna be
really fuckin hard for you.
- Why?
- Because you know exactly what you want,
And we don't like that
in these here parts.
- Why do you still work for Gus?
You could do your own thing,
Open your own studio. You don't need him.
- Gus trusted me when no
one else did, I owe him.
Not, not gonna lie though,
A place of my own would be pretty cool.
- Nothing's stopping you.
- So what's the plan, man.
- Just fly back home in a of days, I guess
- Back to being a scrawny LA asshole huh?
- It's who I am.
It's where I belong.
- Well, we'll miss you, Jordan Bloom.
It's been real fun.
- It's been real fun.
- I know what you're feeling.
You're feeling like you lost.
I'm gonna let you on a secret.
You won, you recorded an album.
You did it! So, cheer up
- Another?
- Yep!
(sound of disgust)
- Brady?
- Yeah.
- I don't know if people
are gonna like me.
What the fuck was that?
- I just don't think
I've ever given a goddamn
If anybody ever liked me or not
You just focus on the music.
- Well, the album will come out
and we'll see if it makes waves or not
- Easier to make waves you rock the boat!
- What?
- Look, Gus said something that was true.
If you wanted to sing
a song just to be pure
go to an open mic.
(guitar music)
♪ So you'll always have
a peace of my heart. ♪
♪ No matter how far you run from me ♪
♪ always have a peace of
my heart whether or not ♪
♪ You want me, ♪
♪ you'll always have
a peace of my heart. ♪
♪ Always have a peace of my heart. ♪
♪ You'll always have me, Can't give back ♪
♪ the peace of my heart. ♪
- Thank you.
(audience applauding)
- Let's give it up for
Natalia Hope everybody!
Wow! Wow!
I can't hear you, come on!
A little bit more (inaudible)
All right awesome, amazing!
All right, next up.
We have coming all the way here
from sunny Los Angeles, California.
We have
Jordan Bloom!
- Aren't you gonna play with me?
It's our song.
- It's your song, man.
(audience applauding)
- How y'all doing? (laughs)
I've been uh, lucky
enough to record an album
here in town for the last few months.
I'm gonna play a song from that album
that I think is pretty damn good.
And if it makes waves, maybe
I'll get to keep playing it.
This is "Without Hesitation."
♪ I see the forest through the trees. ♪
♪ I know exactly what this means. ♪
♪ I know there's things you cannot see. ♪
♪ but this pain is still so new to me. ♪
♪ Cause I ♪
♪ wanna Love you but ♪
♪ I feel bad. ♪
♪ Is there a way ♪
♪ to make it all better? ♪
♪ So I just stay back. ♪
♪ But now I can say without hesitation ♪
♪ That I know it ain't wrong. ♪
♪ Let's not waste time
over complications. ♪
♪ Cause we don't have that long ♪
♪ And I ♪
♪ wanna love you but ♪
♪ I feel bad. ♪
♪ There isn't a way to
make it all better. ♪
♪ So, I'll just stay bad. ♪
♪ But if you would try to
see what you couldn't ♪
♪ Ever see before. ♪
♪ I know what it's like ♪
♪ I'll help you make sense of ♪
♪ the things you can't ignore. ♪
♪ Cause I'm ♪
♪ gonna miss you but ♪
♪ It's our time ♪
♪ Never be a way ♪
♪ to make you come closer so ♪
♪ I guess this is goodbye. ♪
Thank you.
(Audience applauding)
♪ [Woman] I've been looking for someone ♪
♪ Like you, a kind man who's
honest and who's true. ♪
♪ The kinda man who will
love me just way I am ♪
♪ Who will love me, the
good, the bad, the ugly. ♪
(country music playing)