Nile Rodgers is Teaming Up with Keith Urban to Create 'EDM-Country' Music is Happening
The game needs change. Legendary funk purveyor, Nile Rodgers is reportedly working with Australian
The game needs change. Legendary funk purveyor, Nile Rodgers is reportedly working with Australian country singer Keith Urban on a new country music/EDM crossover project they’re categorizing as “EDM-Country.” We can’t imagine how that would sound but during a recent interview with Yahoo Music, Rodgers gave a little breakdown of what fans can expect:
“I really pushed him to sing at the top of his range,” Rodgers said of the collaboration. “Keith was nervous about it; he wanted to do another take. But I told him I loved the way it sounds…His fans may have some kind of problem at first. But my biggest records have always been like that. A lot of people, the only record they ever bought by David Bowie was ‘Let’s Dance’. That’s at least [seven] million albums — he’d never sold anything near that before. So his fanbase got angry: ‘This sucks! This is not Ziggy Stardust! That’s not Scary Monsters!’ But it was huge because it spoke to a broader audience. I think a record like this will speak to a broader audience [for Urban], and the country people will come around.”
Stay tuned.