Brian Wilson: 'All I Ever Wanted To Be Is T-Pain'

[Mr. Cohen]

New article on Reuters!!!:

Brian Wilson, on telephone from across the Atlantic in sunny California, told us something we'd never suspected.

"All I ever wanted to be is T-Pain," the writer of "Good Vibrations" told one very surprised reporter.

Really?

"When I heard 'Rappa Ternt Sanga', I thought, 'Oh my God!' This is the best thing since Phil Spector's record. This is better than 'Be My Baby'!"

Wilson spent most of the '70s in bed listening to Spector records over and over while his legend as eccentric genius ballooned, along with his weight. At one point, the Beach Boys auteur weighed over 300 pounds. So for Wilson to compare T-Pain's breakthrough album to Spector's classic '60s teenage dramas was a quite a shock.

"I remember, I told my band that we had to use autotune. We had to! Darian, one of my bandmates, kept saying, 'No, no, Brian. We like the old sounds. That's what makes your music so cool.'"

That's when Wilson delivered the kicker: "Don't you want a number 1?"

In the end, Brian had to phone up his old friend and ex-wrestler Joe Thomas to recreate the new sounds he was hearing in his head.

"Brian called me up out of nowhere. He kept asking me, 'What's a rapper turned singer?'" Thomas said. "I didn't know what he was talking about. Was this about a candy wrapper or something?

"He said, 'Naw, man, like the Fat Boys.' Brian is a huge Fat Boys fan. And as the conversation continued, I realized how his band had been stifling his artistic creativity a bit. He needed room to breathe."

So Wilson flew to Illinois that same night and recorded "six or eight" songs, he guesses, at Thomas' home studio. Free to use autotune as he pleased, Thomas claims the vocals Wilson laid down are some of the best the singer has recorded since Pet Sounds.

The genesis of his new album, B-Pain: Songs in the Key of Pain, emerged from that one fruitful session.

"It's mostly wistful songs, gentle songs about life. But we also threw in a couple of rockers I'd written for my rock 'n' roll album that I'm still working on," Wilson explained.

Jeff Beck and other celebrity guests contributed to the album's unique adult contemporary sound, a melange of steel drums, steel guitars, and polished vocals.

"Like the old days," Thomas said.

"I can't wait until T-Pain hears it," Wilson beamed before hanging up the phone.

[Gertie J.]

source ?

[bluesno1fann]

I seriously hope this article is a joke!

[rn57]

Better he emulate T-Pain than T'Pau.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwrYMWoqg5w

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

Yeah, this is a joke

[Micha]

Is it April 1st already?

[Blue2013]

Is it a bad thing that I want  B-Pain: Songs in the Key of Pain to be a real album?

[Lowbacca]

Better he emulate T-Pain than T'Pau.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwrYMWoqg5w

. . or T'Pol.

[lee]

Is it a bad thing that I want  B-Pain: Songs in the Key of Pain to be a real album?

I was thinking the same thing! 

[rn57]

Better he emulate T-Pain than T'Pau.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwrYMWoqg5w

. . or T'Pol.

I dunno....Brian could probably rock a pair of Vulcan ears bigtime.

[leggo of my ego]

Is it April 1st already?

I dunno.

If proven to be true it could 'splain a lot...