In molti si sono chiesti da dove nasce la collaborazione tra i Queens Of The Stone Age e Mark Ronson, produttore del settimo album appena annunciato della band californiana.
A questa domanda ha risposto ieri Josh Homme, in un’intervista con Zane Lowe su Beats 1, dove il quarantaquattrenne nativo di Palm Springs ha raccontato di aver conosciuto il produttore inglese durante la sua partecipazione all’ultimo album di Lady Gaga e di essere entrato subito in sintonia con il suo modo di lavorare e di intendere la musica.
La vera scintilla è scoccata grazie ad Uptwon Funk:
“I think one of the reasons was to act like a talisman as a reminder of listening to ‘Uptown Funk’. It’s very tight and vacuous. It sounds fucking great.
Ronson, a sua volta, ha espresso grande entusiasmo riguardo il coinvolgimento in veste di produttore in Villains:
Queens are and have always been my favourite rock n roll band ever since I walked into Tower on Sunset and bought ‘Rated R’ in the summer of 2000, so it was incredibly surreal to be welcomed into their secret, pirate clan—or the ‘jacuzzi’ as Josh likes to call it.
I also knew that my super fandom alone would not keep me in the jacuzzi. There were moments during the making of the album in which i was aware I was watching my musical heroes craft something that was sure to become one of my favourite moments on any Queens album. And to have some part in that felt like being in a dream–a very heavy, dark, wonderful dream.
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