We call it “Everybody Music” because it’s really our best effort at making music for all ages at once and is why we named the album Foreverywhere. How would you describe the music you make as STEVENSTEVEN? But we were both so busy it took us forever to do it. The song came together so joyously we decided we had to write a kids’ record together. Years later, Nickelodeon asked me to write a song about a show about a groundhog which I did with Steve and that was our first kids’ music. But then The Flaming Lips took me on tour and we became friends. It got good reviews, but nobody bought it. So I released a whole record Songs for Dustmites. He started making my mediocre songs so much better. I went to the studio and Steve was there and it really was 10 minutes later we were sitting on the floor laughing hysterically. If the state of my pleated pants was any indication of the wig technology I’d be given, I made the right choice to leave. I was in my 30s and going bald, so I just knew that I was done. But he was kind of impressed and called me and asked if I’d wanted to work together. He confessed later he only listened because he thought it would suck so bad. I cashed in every favor I had to send the guy a CD of my music. I was blown away by The Flaming Lip’s Soft Bulletin, still my favorite record of all time, and I knew someone who knew someone who knew the producer. I’d always been a closet musician and into music production.
I would never drive a Charger! That’s a cop car. The one that got me really mad is the one that said I died in a Dodge Charger. I don’t want to associate Blue’s Clues with those things. If you repeat something long enough on the internet it kind of just doesn’t go away. You see it politically, the truth, verity doesn’t necessarily matter. In the current age of information, things that get on the internet with enough traction are indelible. Then it became in a way just so interesting. What did you make of all those ‘Steve Is Dead’ myths?Īt first, it was highly disturbing because it bothered my mom so much and I would just be furious. Since you left Blue’s Clues, there’s been a lot of, uh, rumors about your well-being. Here, Burns talks about forming STEVENSTEVEN, those Blue’s Clues days, and how internet rumors of his death have been greatly exaggerated. It’s fun, catchy, and exactly the type of music most parents can listen to and not feel compelled to go all Van Gogh after the 11,000 th playing. And the lyrics tell tales about Unicorns who used to front rock bands having existential crises and a fact-driven song about kids pooping that sounds like the theme of the weirdest gameshow of all time. On their new album Foreverywhere, Burns and Drozd play the sort of glittering, psychedelic tunes children of the 70’s may have heard out of their parent’s 8-track. During his stint as a solo artist, Burns opened for The Flaming Lips and made an appearance in the band’s film Christmas on Mars. And he’s back in the children’s entertainment business with a new album and new sidekick: Steven Drozd of The Flaming Lips.īurns and Drozd have been buddies for a while. While the internet might swirl with rumors of his death, Burns is very much alive. His adventures with his evidence-leaking, cerulean-shaded sidekick became one of Nickelodeon’s biggest hits and one of the most enduring (and memeable) children’s shows thanks in no part to Steve’s aw-shucks approachability and the way he spoke plainly to kids. Wearing a green rugby shirt and armed with his handy dandy notebook, Steve Burns entertained children from 1996 to 2002 as the human host of Blue’s Clues.
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