Michael Bublé and Carly Pearce released their gorgeous duet, “Maybe This Christmas,” just in time for the holiday season. The two worked together on the past season of The Voice, although Bublé reveals that he was a fan of Pearce, and her vocal talent, long before she served as a Playoff Advisor for his team.
“Before it was even finished, I was already calling her, before we ever shot The Voice,” Bublé tells Everything Nash. “I was calling her and saying, ‘I don’t know exactly what this is. I know conceptually what’s happening here.’ I remember; it was me on the guitar and I was singing, ‘I’ve been running all my life / I’ve been running, don’t know why / But I’m running out of time, it’s the truth.’ That’s how it started.”
Bublé has by now written hundreds and hundreds of songs. But even he admits that “Maybe This Christmas,” a song he wrote with Chase McGill, Greg Wells and Jann Arden, was very much a spiritual, otherworldly experience for him.
“Listen, as a songwriter, when something is honest and so real, you just know,” Bublé acknowledges. “That doesn’t come from me. No joke, my wife made me this kind of man cave, where there’s this little studio I work from. I was sitting in the man cave, and I was having a hell of a time coming up with a chorus. And I remember I was sitting there, and I thought, ‘You know what? I’m doing a Christmas song about Him, and God was not included in this song.’ I looked up and I said, ‘God, give me the words. Lord, put the words in my mouth.’ No joke, boom. No joke, three minutes.’
“And I remember that I had ‘All the snow falling down in the city and the good souls below, and Him calling out to the Lord, ‘Give me your light tonight,'” he adds. “I remember calling Chase McGill and Jann and saying, ‘Guys, it happened. It came. It’s here.’ It could be the most fulfilling thing in the whole world, songwriting, when the puzzle comes together, when somehow those words are put into existence.”
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For Bublé, “Maybe This Christmas” was a reminder to him of his spiritual beliefs, and why what he does really matters.
“We do what is scientifically impossible,” Bublé reflects. “Any good scientist will tell you that something cannot come from nothing. It’s impossible. It is. It’s just not physically possible. Yet, we walk into a room with nothing, not a thing, and we walk out with something, but not just something. Something that can change the world, inspire greatness, save lives. It’s crazy. It’s proof. When I hear music, I hear the voice of God. So this was a very cool thing to witness.”
Bublé got to cross a big item off of his bucket list recently, when he made his Grand Ole Opry debut. The global superstar joined Pearce to sing “Maybe This Christmas” at the historic venue.
“I’m telling you, it was unreal,” Bublé recalls. “I called my mom and dad. I called everybody. I was like, ‘You don’t understand.’ Okay, being in the circle, yes. Amazing. To be in that church, and to get to stand in the place where the greatest of all time stood, and to get to pay tribute to the history, was amazing. But it wasn’t as amazing as getting to walk in with [Pearce], and watching her. She looked like an 11-year-old, so excited, introducing me to the security guard, and showing me all of the pictures, and then going, ‘And there’s my picture.’
“It’s adorable, because it’s so refreshing,” he continues. “And then to get backstage, and I’m meeting all these gigantic stars, and they’re so talented, and there’s not a door closed. I was like, ‘There’s not a door closed! ‘All the doors are open and people are coming in and out. I end up singing for an hour.”
“Maybe This Christmas” can be found at MichaelBuble.com.