Hugh featured in new LonelyIsland music album

[jo]

pitchfork.com/news/50942-watchlisten-the-lonely-island-featuring-robyn-go-kindergarten/

Watch/Listen: The Lonely Island Featuring Robyn: "Go Kindergarten"

Plus: Tracklist for new Lonely Island album revealed

By
Jenn Pelly
on May 29, 2013 at 10:17 a.m.


UPDATE: The Lonely Island have also revealed the full tracklist for The Wack Album. In addition to previously announced guests, it also features Kristin Wiig, Hugh Jackman, Too $hort, and more. Check it out below.

Comedy rap group the Lonely Island (aka Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer) have gotten Swedish pop queen Robyn in on their antics. She sings the hook on their new song "Go Kindergarten".

The video consists of "dance rehearsal" footage featuring dancers with paper bags over their heads and is loaded with #hashtags. The song comes off the Lonely Island's upcoming third album, The Wack Album, out on June 11 through Republic, which will also feature Justin Timberlake, Solange, Lady Gaga, Kendrick Lamar, Pharrell, and more.

The Wack Album:

01 Dramatic Intro
02 Go Kindergarten [ft. Robyn]
03 Hugs [ft. Pharrell Williams]
04 Diaper Money
05 YOLO [ft. Adam Levine and Kendrick Lamar]
06 You’ve Got the Look [ft. Hugh Jackman and Kristen Wiig]
07 Spell It Out
08 Semicolon [ft. Solange]
09 Where Brooklyn At? (Interlude)
10 Spring Break Anthem
11 I'm a Hustler
12 We Are a Crowd
13 I F****d My Aunt [ft. T-Pain]
14 Meet the Crew
15 3-Way (The Golden Rule) [ft. Justin Timberlake and Lady Gaga]
16 I Run NY [ft. Billie Joe Armstrong]
17 I Don't Give a Honk
18 We Need Love
19 The Compliments [ft. Too $hort]
20 Perfect Saturday

It's on pre-order at Amazon.

Jo

[jo]

Posted on a Hugh Jackman fansite --

hughjackmanetwork.blogspot.in/2013/06/ziesha-napier-report-hugh-jackman-raps.html

Sunday, June 2, 2013


Ziesha Napier Report :- Hugh Jackman Raps On New Album By The Lonely Island


If you’re a fan of “Saturday Night Live” – and even if you don’t follow the program – then you definitely know of The Lonely Island, the rap trio consisting of comedians Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone. They’re most noted for the Emmy-winning song “Dick in a Box,” “Jizz in My Pants,” “Like a Boss,” and the Grammy-nominated “I’m on a Boat.” In a couple of weeks, on June 11th, they’ll be releasing their third album entitled The Wack Album — and there’s a very special guest on one track.

Along with Kristen Wiig, Hugh Jackman will be singing on a song called “You’ve Got The Look.” Actually, to clarify, according to Andy Samberg himself, the number features Hugh rapping — something he had to get a little schooling for. Check out Andy’s account of finding Hugh for the song:

Possibly the most surprising guest appearance comes from Hugh Jackman on the song, “You’ve Got the Look.”

The sultry rap track is about a scantily girl in a club seeking attention… by exposing one of her breasts. “I’d like to think you were looking in the mirror/ Said to yourself, ‘Something’s not right here.’/ Time to shake things up, so you shook one out/ Your hair wasn’t working so you took one out.”

Samberg explained how Jackman wound up rapping about an exhibitionistic woman: “I played [Jackman] on ‘SNL’ and did a terrible impression of him,” said Samberg. “It was all about how he plays two sides in his career, where he’s this Broadway guy but he’s also the action hero. And he loved it, so he came on ‘SNL’ and played Daniel Radcliffe and I played him again. When we went to do ‘You’ve Got the Look,’ I had done all the temp vocals and we were brainstorming about who would be the best guest star. Akiva said, ‘How about Hugh?’ And I was like, ‘I kinda know him!’ So we sent it to him and he said, ‘Yes, absolutely.’”

Since Jackman’s not a natural rapper, the guys in The Lonely Island walked him through his parts. But for more actual hip-hop professionals, the comedians usually gave them a little guidance and then let them loose.


Posted by Ziesha Napier at 9:59 AM

[jo]

More details --

www.pedestrian.tv/news/entertainment/the-lonely-island-on-their-new-album-hugh-jackman-/8aa50bbf-ab07-49f0-a5ea-ca3923c63dcf.htm

But it's not all frivolous, at least not when considering the group's collaborators which on this album includes Pharrell Williams, Justin Timberlake, Adam Levine, Kendrick Lamar, Solange, T-Pain and Billie Joe Armstrong as well as showtune-prone Aussie actor Hugh Jackman.

As patriotic Australians, we honed in on that last one to get a better understanding on what it was like to work with Wolverine.

Pedestrian: Can you tell us about the track with Hugh Jackman?

Jorma: It's the one we're most excited about.

Andy: Golden Globe winner.

Pedestrian: Academy Award nominee.

Jorma: He was robbed.

Andy: He was totally robbed.

Jorma: Who won?

Pedestrian: Daniel Day-Lewis?

Jorma: Oh he's a good actor. Maybe he wasn't robbed.

Andy: He wasn't totally robbed. Maybe it was a tie. That song is called "You've Got The Look". It's with Hugh Jackman, the three of us and our good friend Kristen Wiig. It's in the style of this old R&B band Cameo who were big in the 80s and 90s that we used to love. We sang the temp vocals for it and wanted a guest in that style. We were talking about who would be awesome and surprising to get for it and we thought of Hugh because I used to do a really horrible impression of him on SNL. It was terrible but the joke of it he really liked. It was a talk show called Two Sides because Hugh Jackman has two sides of his career. The more elegant, operatic singing musical side. And the rough and tumble Wolverine action side. And he was tickled by it and actually came on SNL to do the sketch with me which was a lot of fun. So we were friendly from that and we knew he could sing, obviously, we'd all just seen Les Mis and enjoyed it so much. We wanted a guy who had gravitas and talent and a sense of humour who could joke around with their image so we asked him and he said 'yes'.

Pedestrian: What's the song about?

Andy: Without giving too much away it's basically about a new trend that ladies may or may not be wearing at parties.

Jorma: I'm going to say with authority that it's Hugh Jackman as you've never seen him before.

Pedestrian: How did you record him?

Andy: I feel like the majority of the guests on this record we were in the room with them, but Hugh was an exception because he was in Canada shooting something. But we video Skyped so I was looking into his eyes when he recorded. I'll tell you this, I saw no fear.

Look out for the full interview next week.

[birchie]

I'm not into rap, comedy rap or raunchy comedy so I won't buy the CD but I hope Hugh's number becomes available to download by itself.
Sue

[jo]

You can listen to and even download the song from this link --

musichotsex.tumblr.com/post/52465901139/the-lonely-island-youve-got-the-look-feat#

Hugh is probably a great pop music lover - wasn't Rolling Stones his big favorite? And didn't he save for David Bowie's concert when he was young.

The beat is very catchy and Hugh fits right in smiley-happy096


Jo

[rmtndew]

I could only listen to some of it. Definitely not family rated! I've downloaded it to listen to later when there's no possibility of my niece or nephews running in. But I like that he's having fun with his career and not taking himself too seriously. I think that's part of the reason why people love him so much. (And he's nice and talented and handsome. )

- Alicia

[jo]

LOL - definitely not family-rated!

[carouselkathy]

Hysterical! Love it. It's a fine companion to that modern classic, "Dick In a Box" Can't wait for the video. Giggle.

[mamaleh]

Definitely giggle producing. What makes it funny is how seriously he takes the lyrics. I wonder what the video will look like.

Ellen

[rmtndew]

Will they do a video? Don't they only do those for singles, or are comedy albums different? My only experience of comedy albums are Weird Al's so I'm a little unsure. lol

- Alicia

[carouselkathy]

He's won a Tony for TBFO, an Emmy for hosting the Tony's, and an Oscar Nomination for Les Mis. Wouldn't it be loverly if he won a Grammy for the booby song?

Ellen, where do you find the giggles sign? Apparently, I just found it by typing the word giggles. That didn't happen before!

[jo]

Wouldn't it be loverly if he won a Grammy for the booby song?

I've thought of the same thing giggle

[mamaleh]

Jun 8, 2013 15:46:39 GMT -5 carouselkathy said:

He's won a Tony for TBFO, an Emmy for hosting the Tony's, and an Oscar Nomination for Les Mis. Wouldn't it be loverly if he won a Grammy for the booby song?

Ellen, where do you find the giggles sign? Apparently, I just found it by typing the word giggles. That didn't happen before!

That giggle icon took me completely by surprise when it popped up. I wouldn't have known how to insert it if I'd tried. Seems just typing the word "giggle" summons it up.

Ellen

[jo]

giggle giggle giggle

[njr]

Jun 8, 2013 10:51:02 GMT -5 jo said:

You can listen to and even download the song from this link --

musichotsex.tumblr.com/post/52465901139/the-lonely-island-youve-got-the-look-feat#

Hugh is probably a great pop music lover - wasn't Rolling Stones his big favorite? And didn't he save for David Bowie's concert when he was young.

The song is very catchy and Hugh fits right in smiley-happy096


Jo

What do you click on to listen to it?

Nancy

[jo]

There is a black box on the lower left hand corner ( facing it) -- wait a while until you see the arrow and then click. The double bars will appear and the song is ready to play. Hope it works for you.

Jo

[carouselkathy]

I almost forgot.....He won a Golden Globe for LES MIS!! Perhaps a Grammy for a song about one wayward globe? OK, I think I'm done now. giggles.

[mamaleh]

Ha! Good one, Kathy.

Now I'm entertaining a slightly unsettling thought: Did Oscar or Ava hear their dad's latest effort? He'd have some 'splainin' to do.

I often wonder how kids feel about their celeb parents' doing very revealing scenes or recording stuff like that, even if intended as parody.

Ellen

[jo]

I have also wondered if Oscar, at least, has seen XMEN Origins:Wolverine ( after he breaks out from the tank until he reaches the farmhouse) or even XMEN 2 ( when he runs out from the adamantium room) wolverine ... or has seen SNL with the Christmas Kangaroo

Hugh has once mentioned that if you are from the theatre, nudity is something that is almost perfunctory - probably referring to the constant changes in costume, sometimes with people around you. Or there are scenes in movies these days where nudity or suggestive scenes are matter of fact ( remember his TV movie with one of Deb's friends, Rebecca Gibney ). I think maybe their perspective is a little different from an audience member, as actors are taught or trained to let go of various inhibitions.

[carouselkathy]

Kids are surrounded by age inappropriate images and language. It would be difficult to prevent them from exposure to off color comedy and adult language. However, discussing concerns about these topics with children has to part of the parenting job these days. Kids are going to see and hear age inappropriate material. Hugh and Deb are responsible parents, and this song is probably not the first job-related adult language situation their kids have heard or seen. They are the children of actors.

[thompson]

i really like this song

[mamaleh]

Jun 9, 2013 1:17:55 GMT -5 carouselkathy said:

Kids are surrounded by age inappropriate images and language. It would be difficult to prevent them from exposure to off color comedy and adult language. However, discussing concerns about these topics with children has to part of the parenting job these days. Kids are going to see and hear age inappropriate material. Hugh and Deb are responsible parents, and this song is probably not the first job-related adult language situation their kids have heard or seen. They are the children of actors.

Of corse; they haven't exactly been living under a rock. Just thinking about the possibility of being surprised by something their dad has never done before or their friends teasing them. Kids are exposed to everything these days, but every kid reacts differently.

[carouselkathy]

Jun 9, 2013 6:11:57 GMT -5 mamaleh said:

Jun 9, 2013 1:17:55 GMT -5 carouselkathy said:

Kids are surrounded by age inappropriate images and language. It would be difficult to prevent them from exposure to off color comedy and adult language. However, discussing concerns about these topics with children has to part of the parenting job these days. Kids are going to see and hear age inappropriate material. Hugh and Deb are responsible parents, and this song is probably not the first job-related adult language situation their kids have heard or seen. They are the children of actors.

Of corse; they haven't exactly been living under a rock. Just thinking about the possibility of being surprised by something their dad has never done before or their friends teasing them. Kids are exposed to everything these days, but every kid reacts differently.

You're right, Ellen. I only meant to say that it's very difficult to shelter kids from inappropriate language, lyrics, images, etc. that they may be exposed to these days. We deal with these situations all the time, even in elementary school. Every kid does react differently, and that certainly effects how we adults deal with their concerns on an individual basis. One child may be disturbed by inappropriate words while the student in the next chair is typing them on the computer. The computer age has enhanced learning and communication, but it certainly has its challenges.

[marymagdalene]

Interesting song... giggle!

[apetricc12]

Hugh has such a naughty sense of humor. I love it.

Annette P