Singer-songwriter and now author Jake Shears and Seth Meyers shared a cocktail together and reminisced (above) about their first meeting, when his former group Scissor Sisters was a musical guest on SNL.
Shears told Meyers that the backless women’s jumpsuit he wore caused a lot of controversy.
They also covered Shear’s memoir Boys Keep Swinging, which is about being in Scissor Sisters, his youth, and living in New York.
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Shears worked in New York City as a go-go dancer: “I loved the attention. I loved getting up on a bar and taking my close off and having fun. And then I realized this is getting boring what else can I do? Should I be a singing go-go dancer?”
Shears said that Cher tracked him down on Twitter and he ended up singing on one of her songs.
And the revelation he had after writing the memoir: “I realized what a whore I’ve been…You think you’re fine and you think you’ve lived this normal life and then you get it all down on paper and you’re like, ‘wow, I’ve slept with a lot of people.'”
Shears also performed his brilliant track “Creep City” off his self-titled new album.
Shears told THE FADER in May: “Every song on the record is one live take with eight or nine people playing together. It was exhilarating to not feel confined to a grid. We basically ditched the middleman, and I was able to create something that was truly my own. I’ve never felt so cocky about anything I’ve made.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1ibUt-Coqc
Shears is also on tour for his album.
