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Post by The Cincinnati Kid on Jan 7, 2022 13:25:02 GMT
Couldn't fit it all in the title, but it also features some prominent background vocals by Bruce and he has a producer credit as well. Christian Love is credited with vocals, too, but I don't hear him as much. It definitely feels like a Bruce track. Maybe he'll cover it on a new Beach Boys album The Weeknd, Tyler the Creator, and Bruce Johnston. How about that for a musical combination?
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Post by Kapitan on Jan 7, 2022 13:29:27 GMT
Couldn't fit it all in the title, but it also features some prominent background vocals by Bruce and he has a producer credit as well. Christian Love is credited with vocals, too, but I don't hear him as much. It definitely feels like a Bruce track. Maybe he'll cover it on a new Beach Boys album The Weekend, Tyler the Creator, and Bruce Johnston. How about that for a musical combination?
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Post by Kapitan on Jan 7, 2022 13:38:22 GMT
I hope we find out how this collaboration came about. Was it through Tyler or through Abel (writing "the Weeknd" as a name feels just so odd...he's Abel Tesfaye!). Did Bruce bring it to them, did one of them go to him? Tyler certainly has a very wide range of tastes; I can't say in Tesfaye's case, though he certainly at least covers a lot of pop territory. And Bruce occasionally drops some modern reference, like around the reunion time, when he was praising Bruno Mars so much, or back in the '90s when he was high on the High Llamas/Sean O'Hagan.
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Post by The Cincinnati Kid on Jan 7, 2022 13:46:45 GMT
Couldn't fit it all in the title, but it also features some prominent background vocals by Bruce and he has a producer credit as well. Christian Love is credited with vocals, too, but I don't hear him as much. It definitely feels like a Bruce track. Maybe he'll cover it on a new Beach Boys album The Weekend, Tyler the Creator, and Bruce Johnston. How about that for a musical combination? Had to post it as soon as I got in the office haha. I wonder, is this the biggest collaboration a Beach Boy has been involved in? I guess Elton John would be right up there with Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me, but that was just vocals.
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Post by The Cincinnati Kid on Jan 7, 2022 13:54:33 GMT
I hope we find out how this collaboration came about. Was it through Tyler or through Abel (writing "the Weeknd" as a name feels just so odd...he's Abel Tesfaye!). Did Bruce bring it to them, did one of them go to him? Tyler certainly has a very wide range of tastes; I can't say in Tesfaye's case, though he certainly at least covers a lot of pop territory. And Bruce occasionally drops some modern reference, like around the reunion time, when he was praising Bruno Mars so much, or back in the '90s when he was high on the High Llamas/Sean O'Hagan.
Bruce is an interesting guy. Wasn't he working with Daft Punk a couple years ago? Another thought is that Abel is going to be part of a C60 tribute type show and that's how they were brought together. Edit: It was Skrillex, not Daft Punk.
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Post by Kapitan on Jan 7, 2022 13:56:25 GMT
A sort of updated Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon... Bruce is on a Weeknd album on a track produced with Tyler, who was a part of Odd Future with Frank Ocean, who almost appeared on a Brian Wilson album. Boom: reunion.
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Post by The Cincinnati Kid on Jan 7, 2022 13:58:24 GMT
I missed that Christian also has a writing credit as well. You'd think Mike would have wanted to get involved in this one, I could see his vocals in the lower range along with Bruce and Christian.
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Post by Kapitan on Jan 7, 2022 14:00:15 GMT
I wonder, is this the biggest collaboration a Beach Boy has been involved in? I guess Elton John would be right up there with Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me, but that was just vocals. In terms of the artist worked with, or success of the song?
Brian has worked with bigger stars (whether classic rock figures like Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, and Elton John, or younger people like Kesha). "Wipeout" with the Fat Boys was a #12 hit, and David Lee Roth's "California Girls" hit #2. They seem sillier now, but they were big hits by popular artists.
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Post by The Cincinnati Kid on Jan 7, 2022 14:04:39 GMT
I wonder, is this the biggest collaboration a Beach Boy has been involved in? I guess Elton John would be right up there with Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me, but that was just vocals. In terms of the artist worked with, or success of the song? Brian has worked with bigger stars (whether classic rock figures like Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, and Elton John, or younger people like Kesha). "Wipeout" with the Fat Boys was a #12 hit, and David Lee Roth's "California Girls" hit #2. They seem sillier now, but they were big hits by popular artists.
I guess I mean how big the artist was at the time of release. The Weekend is coming off of a number one album and Super Bowl appearance. Blinding Lights broke a lot of records as well: "...topped the Hot 100 for four weeks, and went to become the song with most weeks spent in the top 5, top 10, top 20, top 40 and top 100 on the chart, as well as the first song to hold a spot in the top 10 on the chart for an entire year."
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Post by Emdeeh on Jan 7, 2022 14:07:00 GMT
Bruce also sang on at least one track on The Wall.
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Post by kds on Jan 7, 2022 16:32:57 GMT
Bruce also sang on at least one track on The Wall.More Beach Boys were supposed to contribute backup vocals, but they apparently opted not to due to the dark subject matter. On the biggest name a Beach Boy has collaborated with, I'd have to still say it was Paul guesting on a Brian Wilson album, even if Paul may have been slightly past his "expiration" date in terms of being relevant, he's still Paul McCartney, and just came off a pretty successful album, and was still filling arenas and stadiums.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2022 0:18:52 GMT
If the Beach Boys were smart they would have done this song on their own with just the five of them playing and singing and had a number one hit and become Define Superstars for all of eternity
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Post by B.E. on Jan 8, 2022 1:12:39 GMT
I can't say I like this very much. At the start, I got some minor BB85-Bruce vibes, but as the song wore on it's only the background vocals that remind me of Bruce or the Beach Boys. Unfortunately, there's not much to it, either. And I can't really distinguish his or Christian's voice.
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Post by The Cincinnati Kid on Jan 8, 2022 15:00:38 GMT
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Post by carllove on Jan 8, 2022 16:58:39 GMT
Haha - Bruce! “Who wouldn’t know about The Weeknd? I stay up to date, not to worry.”
Great article! Thanks for posting The Cincinnati Kid!
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