13 years ago I made an album and sold it in my hometown. I re-released it last week and it reached #4 on the iTunes comedy album charts. Nostalgia is an amazing thing. AMA!

How do you sell an album to an entire town? It's not like a monorail.

😂 in my hometown, not to my hometown

Is there a chance the track could bend?

Not on your life, my Hindu friend…

The tab came off my pudding can.

Then take my pen knife, my good man!

I swear it's Springfield's only choice,

Throw up your hands and raise your voice!

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!

WHAT IS THIS

I'm so confused.

They're references to a song from the Simpsons. A charlatan sells the town on a monorail, and it's a parody of the musical "The Music Man."

I need to step up my pop culture game. You guys just crushed it.

No problem, listened to some of your album, good job. I don't know you, but I'm happy for you.

❤️❤️❤️ I love kind people. Thank you 🙏🏻

Hi! How did you promote it to reach #4?

Hey! 👋🏼

Believe it or not, I just made a couple posts about on social media and it sort of snowballed. It was a pretty big hit around here when I first made it, and I think people had a lot of nostalgia tied to it with high school and college memories.

I think it really got its legs from those people being so excited about it and making posts and sharing it!

Who are you?

Alex Sheridan. Who are you?

M. Turner

That’s such a cooler rap name than Alex

A. Sheridan isnt that bad tho

Thanks R. Sunfall. Maybe I’ll pivot 🤷🏻‍♂️

It's close to R. Sheridan, whose fucking amazing, so there's that.

Go on...

Rob Sheridan, Nine Inch Nails... that's some lofty company!

Ah, yes. My father.

Do you remember how long it took you to make the album?

Years lol. I had no intention of making an album, originally. I just made songs for fun, and then one day I decided to throw them all together into an album.

I’d say probably three years worth of creating.

Am I on the album?

Potentially. There were a ton of people on it. What’s your middle name?

Gary Oldman

You are not.

So you haven't done anything new in 13 years?

I put out another album in 2013 called Heartbeats. A bit different style than my first project.

I’ve taken a few years away from music (life gets in the way) but gotten back into it these last few months. I’m actually getting ready to release some more stuff soon, and the re-release of The Feelgood Movement was a bit of a play to drum up interest in the new stuff.

Okayy... was the melody from “dancin in the rain” original and were you the first to use/make it? Because I noticed it released before Down With Webster’s hit “Your Man”, which is obviously very similar to this beat/melody. Edit: spelling

Good ear! I wish I could say they sampled my track. I actually had a bunch of people send me links to that song when it came out, with people thinking they copied Dancin’ in the Rain.

We actually both just happened to sample the same song: Honey Cone - Girls It Ain’t Easy

Ohh okay, thank you! Was curious of this. Congrats on the #4!

I appreciate it! Congrats on graduating from BYU 🥳

Do you like The Beatles?

Of course. Do you like Tom Petty?

Of course. Do you like trains?

Only cabooses. You?

Were you going for a feeling similar to The Slim Shady LP and The Marshall Mathers LP when you made the album?

A better question: were you inspired by Eminem or Weird Al Yankovic when making your album? The song “Intro 2” reminds me of the opening of “The Real Slim Shady” from TMMLP1 and “Intro” reminds me of the “Curtains Up” skit from The Eminem Show. When I say Weird Al, I recognised a writing style similar in the goofy beat in the background in one of the songs. Also “The Feelgood Movement” sounds like something that he would name an album.

Thanks for listening to it!

I may have been going for a bit of an Eminem vibe. I was a hugeeeee Kanye fan at the time, too. To be honest, I respect what he’s done, and think he’s insanely creative, but I’ve never been a huge fan of Weird Al’s music. It’s just a little too over the top for my taste.

It’s funny, a lot of the humor on The Feelgood Movement is sexual in nature, but at that point in my life I don’t think I had done anything other than kiss a (one) girl 😂

Well, you certainly nailed the Slim Shady vibe! Excellent work!

Thanks so much! That means a lot!!

Who are you????

Alex Sheridan. Who are you, FergiePoots?

Was it difficult to get onto Spotify?

Not at all! There are services like TuneCore and Distrokid that make getting into all of those services a breeze.

Letting you in on those companies really removes a lot of the cool factor and legitimacy of having stuff on Spotify, iTunes, etc 😂

Did you make your own beats? P.S Why do you remind me of lil ugly mane

I do make all my own beats. Those ones were all made using Sony Acid, but I use Logic X now.

Lol, I’ll need to look ugly man up!