{"id":300217,"date":"2025-11-21T23:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T23:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/300217\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T23:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T23:10:11","slug":"sam-fender-shares-new-song-im-always-on-stage-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/300217\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Fender Shares New Song &#8220;I\u2019m Always On Stage&#8221;: Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK rocker Sam Fender is an extremely big deal in his homeland. Last month, he <a href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2326714\/sam-fender-wins-2025-mercury-prize-for-people-watching\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">won the Mercury Prize<\/a> for People Watching, the album that he released earlier this year. The day after his big win, Fender released his Elton John duet &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2326777\/sam-fender-shares-elton-john-collab-talk-to-you-from-people-watching-deluxe\/music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Talk To You<\/a>.&#8221; It&#8217;s the lead single from his upcoming People Watching deluxe edition. Today, he&#8217;s got another new song that&#8217;ll be on that deluxe.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Fender&#8217;s new track is an awfully pretty ballad called &#8220;I&#8217;m Always On Stage.&#8221; He co-produced it with Markus Dravs, his collaborator for half of People Watching. (He recorded the other half with the War On Drugs&#8217; Adam Granduciel.) Over chiming acoustic guitars, Fender sings passionately about feeling disconnected from his own famous-guy life: &#8220;There&#8217;s gack and drink and steroids on the counter\/ Do you think you&#8217;re some kind of rock star?\/ I did all that when I was on the dole\/ But the money didn&#8217;t stretch as far.&#8221; Listen below.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The deluxe edition of People Watching is out 12\/5 on Capitol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UK rocker Sam Fender is an extremely big deal in his homeland. Last month, he won the Mercury&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-300217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}