Coming up.' And I happened to be sitting with one of my best friends, Steven Drozd, from the Flaming Lips, who is also my favorite musician and a multi-Grammy Award-winning musical wizard. And I was like, 'Yes, man, I can write a groundhog song. Nickelodeon asked me to write a song about a groundhog. Tell me a little bit of about how Foreverywhere - which you first created as an album in 2017 - how did that come together? And then how did we come to have this amazing Audible Original? I still don't feel like a celebrity, as you said, but it is cool to have been- cool is such an inadequate word - but it is very wonderful to have been even a small part of so many people's childhoods.ĪW: Now, you've been doing voiceovers. And it's very humbling, and just super awesome. And it hasn't been until fairly recently that I've been able to kind of fully appreciate it. And just because of how incredibly neurotic I am, I never really watched it, you know? And so, I guess I really just wasn't present for the success of Blue's Clues, and I guess I never really allowed the scope of how many people were watching it to really hit me when I was on it. It all felt like a very personal experience to me. I mean, when I was on the show, I shot that on a blue screen, and all I could see was a couple of lights and a camera. It is very wonderful to have been even a small part of so many people's childhoods. I'm just very close to the reboot, and it's allowing me to kind of finally, 20 years later, see Blue's Clues. Blue's Clues is being rebooted right now, and I'm super involved with that, actually. So, 17 years after you left the show, how are you doing with the whole Blue's Clues legacy? So, I'm one of those moms who watched you from most of your 1996 to 2002 run, and for whom you are still very much a bit of a celebrity. I had two children who were obsessed with Blues Clues when they were young. Welcome, Steve.ĪW: Hi! So, we're going to address the elephant in the room right off the bat. While you'll soon get to know this super fun and engaging - as well as music-filled children's offering, you probably already know Steve from his award-winning and childhood-anchoring turn as the original host of Blue's Clues. Note: Text has been edited and may not match audio exactly.Ībby West: Hi, I'm Audible editor, Abby West, and I'm particularly excited today to be talking with Steve Burns, narrator of the new Audible original, Foreverywhere , which was written by Gabe Soria, based on the songs and album that was created by Steve and Steve Drozd, for their 2017 album also called, Foreverywhere. Listen in as Burns talks with possible superfan editor Abby West about what Blue's Cluesmeant to him, his hopes for Foreverywhere, and what it meant for this accomplished voiceover actor to take on so many characters for this narration. And if you guessed that there's more to this story, you're right on track. There's also a Giant named Rick, a spider named Betsy, and the guitar-shredding Princess Rainbow. It's the story of a young unicorn, who is possibly the last unicorn, and his quest to form the best band in the fantastical world of Anyville.

Their friend and writer Gabe Soria created a script based on that album and thus, Audible Original Foreverywhere was born. It helped that Burns is the original host of the hit children's show Blue's Clues and Drozd is the Grammy Award-winning musical mastermind behind rock band The Flaming Lips. When Steve Burns and Stephen Drozd came together as StevenSteven to create their idea of a children's album the results were unsurprisingly epic.

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