Music

Josh Groban says his concerts lead to sexual favours

by Dan MacRae

Adult contemporary megastar Josh Groban sat down with Playboy recently for the mag’s long-running 20Q feature. Josh chatted about his girlfriend Kat Dennings, pop provocateur Miley Cyrus (he thinks she’s great and envies her “gives no fucks” attitude) and how at one point he was emailing back-and-forth with Lauryn Hill.

Oh, and he also talked about how his concerts can sometimes lead to a sexual favour later being performed on a date after the show. It’s something that gets the 20Q off to a quasi Maxim Bro-y start.

TO THE QUOTEMOBILE!

Q1
Playboy: You’ve sold more than 25 million albums of swelling, romantic ballads that make women weep. Your new album, Stages, is mostly Broadway songs from A Chorus Line, Les Misérables and other shows. For people who don’t know your music, how would you explain what you do?

Josh Groban: My music has always been a little hard to define. It’s rooted in more classically inspired pop music. In the 1960s, 1950s and 1940s there was a much more full, rich, fluid style of singing, everything from Johnny Mathis to Mario Lanza. I generally shy away from saying it’s opera or classical, out of respect for that music. It’s a more traditional pop music that people aren’t used to today. Emotionally, a lot of the stuff I do is romantic. I tell the guys who come to my shows, “This is two hours of a very long night.” Wink wink, nudge nudge. I’m the amuse-bouche, if you will.

Q2
Playboy: So can we look forward to the Josh Groban “You Will Get a Blow Job at the End of the Night” tour?

Josh Groban: [Laughs] Listen, no guarantees, but it is highly probable you’ll get a BJ — or at the very least an HJ — by the end of the night.

We suppose you can’t put “highly probable blowjob” on the ticket, can you? Ticketmaster might have a policy about that.

Josh also says he’s partied with Kid Rock and Mike D. A cheerleading outfit was involved.

Q18
Playboy: When you hang out with your pal Kid Rock, do you go to his house or does he come to yours?

Josh Groban: I don’t live in Malibu anymore, so we haven’t hung out in a while. We probably couldn’t be more different as human beings, but we’ve had some very interesting nights together. I vaguely remember putting on, over my clothes, the cheerleading outfit of a stripper who’d been there the night before and then dancing on Kid Rock’s pole. I was very drunk. Mike D was there, and I played the organ, and then we smoked cigars. He also had a brilliant English professor there. I was thinking, This is nuts.

This has been your Josh Groban talks about oral sex and Kid Rock update for August 14, 2015.

[h/t Stereogum]