Onstage Offstage by Michael Buble

Author:Michael Buble
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Doubleday Canada

Don't Take Away Their Dignity

Some time after I’d made my second album, I was on a flight with my tour manager, Chris Chappel. We were seated in first class, and I had expensive Hugo Boss suits in a bag that I wanted to hang up. I handed them to the flight attendant in a way that sounded too much like a demand. They were worth something like ten thousand US dollars. I said, ‘Could you hang these suits?’ because they were going to get creased. Chris felt I was being rude. I always say that if I was twenty-one when success had happened, I would have been a nightmare. Looking back, an episode like that makes me cringe. Chris told me I’d acted like a diva. I’d embarrassed him. And he was absolutely right: I had behaved like a jerk. I spent the rest of the flight humiliated, feeling like the kind of person my parents had taught me not to be.

You get self-absorbed out of necessity, trying to survive this life. And when you come home, it’s hard to sit down with everyone else, because you’re used to doing what you want to do when you want to do it. There’ve been times when I’ve looked in the mirror and said, ‘Get over yourself.’ I have to remind myself to stay true to my roots, not to let my temper or my ego get the better of me. In 2007, I had released my third album, Call Me Irresponsible, and I was sitting with record sales of thirteen million. I was feeling cocky, and about to start promoting my world tour with appearances on big American daytime shows, like Live With Regis & Kelly and Rachael Ray. I had a big world tour coming up, with shows booked in arenas for the first time in my career. I was getting major radio play. I was riding high.

CBS Sunday Morning wanted to capture me shopping in my hometown, so I took them to a popular public market. I wanted to show them a soup place I love. I was bragging about it. So, we went up to the counter and I was about to order soup for the cameras, and the girl serving me said, ‘Turn off your cameras, please. We don’t allow cameras here.’

And I said, ‘Listen, this is CBS, and I’m Michael Bublé, and all I’m doing is telling them that you’re great. So don’t trip about it. It’s okay. It’s the greatest soup. It’s a huge amount of press, it’s a huge TV show.’

And she said, ‘I said, turn off the cameras.’

Oh, my God, I was angry. Me being me, instead of being the reasonable person and saying to the TV guy, ‘Okay. Turn the camera off,’ I said to the girl, ‘What the hell? You guys are getting so much goddamn business that you don’t need this gigantic TV show to come and have me testify to how great your soup is? I’m sorry, big shots, sorry you’re doing so well.

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