When he's not looking like a lifeless shell of his former self onstage, Brian Wilson is apparently recording a new album with potential collaborations from Frank Ocean, Lana Del Rey, Zooey Deschanel, and rising country star Kacey Musgraves, Rolling Stone reports.
According to an excerpt from the June 19 issue posted on Wilson's website:
"Songs in contention for Brian Wilson's next album range from the sassy 'Sharing a New Day' with Kacey Musgraves to the space-age bossa nova 'On the Island' with Zooey Deschanel to the haunting 'Last Song' with Lana Del Rey. Another possible highlight: 'Special Love,' potentially featuring Frank Ocean."
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Wilson continues with this suspiciously exuberant quote, "This project blows my mind! I had no idea we could pull this off!"
The painfully cool guest list, the comment that reads way more like a Justin Bieber Twitter post than actual words spoken by a 71-year-old musical legend — it all sounds so manufactured, like it was conjured up by a marketing team of 20-somethings desperately trying to make their grandparents' favorite artist relevant again.
Then again, it could be amazing and this could be just another shit-talking blog post by someone with no room to comment on the decisions of a guy who's been doing this for more than five decades.
According to this post from Wilson's Facebook page last night, he agrees.
"To my fans: it kind of bums me out to see some of the negativity here about the album I’ve been working so hard on. In my life in music, I’ve been told too many times not to fuck with the formula, but as an artist it’s my job to do that — and I think I’ve earned that right.
I’m really proud of these new songs and to hear these great artists sing on them just blows me away. I love what we’ve done.
I would think that after making music for more than fifty years, my fans would understand that I’ll always do what’s in my heart — and I think that’s why you are my fans. So let’s just wait until the album comes out because I think you just might dig it as much as I do.
Love and Mercy, Brian"
