{"id":51225,"date":"2025-04-09T11:18:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T11:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=51225"},"modified":"2025-04-09T11:18:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T11:18:54","slug":"adam-sandler-on-his-new-netflix-special-playing-guitar-his-favorite-taylor-swift-song-every-album-we-listen-the-first-day-it-comes-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=51225","title":{"rendered":"Adam Sandler on his New Netflix Special, Playing Guitar &#038; his Favorite Taylor Swift Song: \u2018Every Album, We Listen the First Day It Comes Out\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The comedian reveled in the discomfort of taping the Josh Safdie-directed \u2018Love You.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a moment in\u00a0Adam Sandler\u2019s new\u00a0comedy\u00a0special,\u00a0<em>Love You<\/em>, when the comedian picks up an acoustic guitar and very intently and fluently\u00a0plays \u201cMalague\u00f1a,\u201d the classical guitar instrumental by Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona, before he launches into \u201cMutterin\u2019,\u201d a comedic song about murmuring negative asides under his breath.<\/p>\n<p>In Sandler\u2019s first Netflix special in six years, he finds humor in most things \u2014 whether it be a low-brow, scatological sketch about a wish-granting genie, or a clever riff on non-sensical word pronunciations as he toggles between spoken bits and songs. But one thing Sandler takes very seriously is his musicianship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was a kid, my dad had an acoustic guitar, and he would play \u2018Malague\u00f1a.\u2019 That song means a lot to me,\u201d Sandler tells\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0One day, Sandler \u2014 who was already taking guitar lessons while growing up in Manchester, New Hampshire \u2014 came upon a Stratocaster in a store window. \u201cI was in bands all through junior high and high school and I said, \u2018Oh my God, I would do anything for that guitar.\u2019 My dad said, \u2018I\u2019m not just going to get it for you, but if you learn \u201cMalague\u00f1a\u201d note for note, I\u2019ll get that guitar for you.\u2019 I practiced it for a year until my father was impressed enough he got it for me when I was 12. I think of that every time I pick up a guitar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And he picks up the guitar a lot in\u00a0<em>Love You<\/em>, which was directed by Josh Safdie, whom Sandler worked with to great acclaim on the 2019 drama\u00a0<em>Uncut Gems<\/em>. Instead of the usual comedy special where the comedian walks out onto a brightly lit stage to applause,\u00a0<em>Love You<\/em>\u00a0opens with a decidedly more frantic, in-your-face tone.\u00a0\u00a0Sandler pulls up to the venue dealing with a shattered windshield, he\u2019s then barraged by autograph seekers, he can\u2019t find a clean hoodie to wear, his coffee order is wrong, and he\u2019s running\u00a0late. Once he gets on stage in the darkly lit small club \u2014 a deliberately disheveled\u00a0Nocturne Theater in Glendale, California \u2014 things aren\u2019t much better: there are technical glitches with the screens, and a stray dog even wanders onto the stage.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adam Sandler: Love You | Official Trailer | Netflix\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FwZ_0YCd8qw?feature=oembed\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-origheight=\"281\" data-origwidth=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When Safdie came to him with his slightly skewed vision for the special, Sandler says, \u201cIt definitely took me a little while to go \u2018yes.\u2019 I just thought we were going to shoot the show because I had been doing the show for a while and I had that down, so I was excited to do that, but Josh kept saying, \u2018Let\u2019s try to do something different.\u2019\u201d The special is a scaled-down version of the arena show Sandler took on the road last fall, which grossed $28.5 million in 27 shows, according to Billboard Boxscore.<\/p>\n<p>Though Sandler knew some of the curveballs that were going to come his way at the Nocturne, Safdie\u2019s\u00a0plan kept Sandler on his toes, and gives the special a jagged edge. \u201cThat made it more exciting the days we were shooting,\u201d Sandler says. \u201cI definitely never knew when something was going to come at me and throw the rhythm off, and I had to try to react and keep the show going as smoothly as we could. It made it more of an electric vibe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As if there wasn\u2019t enough disruption, an unplanned kerfuffle breaks out between some audience members. \u201cIt was kind of early on in the show, and then all of a sudden you felt some hostility in the crowd,\u201d says Sandler, who quickly diffused the situation. \u201cWhen you\u2019re on the road, it\u2019s going to happen. Things get out of control in the audience and you got to react to it and try to calm things down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just as his 2018 special,\u00a0<em>100% Fresh,<\/em>\u00a0ended with a sentimental, sweet musical tribute to the late Chris Farley, his friend and former\u00a0<em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>\u00a0castmate,\u00a0<em>Love You<\/em>\u00a0similarly concludes with \u201cHere Comes the Comedy,\u201d a warm salute to the healing power of comedy, as footage of the dozens of comedians who have influenced and delighted Sandler since his youth appear on the finally operational monitors. In the six-minute number, written by Sandler and his longtime musical partner Dan Bulla, Sandler plays the Stratocaster his father gave him when he was 12.<\/p>\n<p>Sandler apologizes that he\u00a0has to cut the interview short because he\u2019s in the middle of pre-production on\u00a0<em>Happy Gilmore 2<\/em>, his sequel to his 1996 comedy classic. The movie will start shooting in New Jersey next year and Sandler\u2019s already teased that the new version will include a number of cameos, just as the original did, including Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, who sported a\u00a0<em>Happy Gilmore<\/em>\u00a0cap at this April\u2019s Coachella.\u00a0\u201cHe\u2019s gonna come by. He\u2019s a very nice guy,\u201d\u00a0Sandler said\u00a0on\u00a0<em>The Tonight Show<\/em>\u00a0on Aug. 20.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cYou guys would love him in real life. What a big, handsome guy. Funny and cool as hell. He\u2019s a stud and he\u2019s so funny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no word on whether Kelce\u2019s girlfriend, superstar\u00a0Taylor Swift<em>,<\/em>\u00a0will also make a cameo, but Sandler is an unabashed Swiftie.\u00a0He and his family attended a Los Angeles show on the Eras tour in August 2023, as well as the Los Angeles premiere of\u00a0<em>Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour<\/em>\u00a0concert film. When asked his favorite Swift song, Sandler struggles to pick just one, but it\u2019s clear he has plenty riffling through his head from years of being the ultimate girl dad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything [my two daughters] throw on I love, but one of the first ones they threw on when they were young was \u2018The Best Day,\u2019\u201d he says of Swift\u2019s sentimental track about her mom from 2008\u2019s\u00a0<em>Fearless. \u201c<\/em>We connected with that when the kids were young. Every album, we listen the first day it comes out. There\u2019s not a song they don\u2019t know every word to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like Swift, Sandler is no stranger to the\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>\u00a0charts. Between tunes like \u201cThe Chanukah Song,\u201d\u00a0<em>The Wedding Singer<\/em>\u2019s \u201cGrow Old with You\u201d and \u201cThe Thanksgiving Song,\u201d as well as his Grammy-nominated comedy albums, Sandler\u2019s landed on 10 different charts, including topping the Comedy Albums chart in 2019 with his\u00a0<em>100% Fresh<\/em>\u00a0album. It\u2019s something he\u2019s kept an eye on since his early days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was young and my albums came out, I worked with Brooks Arthur,\u201d he says, referencing the renowned late music producer whom he collaborated with for nearly 30 years.\u00a0\u201cHe\u00a0\u00a0used to talk to me about his charts and I\u2019d ask him, \u2018How are we doing on\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>?\u2019 I always wanted to know.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The comedian reveled in the discomfort of taping the Josh Safdie-directed \u2018Love You.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":51226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-taylor-swifts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Adam Sandler on his New Netflix Special, Playing Guitar &amp; 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