This is not a drill --- Sting and Shaggy have teamed up to collaborate on a new album.
To be clear, this is indeed Shaggy of "It Wasn't Me" fame, and Gordon "Sting" Sumner from The Police. It's not, like, Shaggy from Scooby Doo and Sting from pro wrestling teaming up to solve crimes and/or beat up the bad guys. (Frankly, I think Sting would handle the heavy lifting on both the investigative and muscle sides of that team.) This is indeed two musicians of seemingly disparate backgrounds joining forces to whip up a record that we can all enjoy.
And frankly, why not? What's stopping them? Sting's had some interest in reggae even dating back to his Police days, so if anything, he's probably overdue to make an album with an actual reggae artist. And Shaggy can't very well be a reggae fusion artist if he isn't fusing reggae with something else.
I'm not going to buy this album but what the heck, tip of the hat to the two of them for making it. This seems to be the general consensus about this whole project, as exemplified by this review from NME's Jordan Bassett. He only gives it two stars, yet he can't bring himself to fully pan it.
If Shaggy and Sting make another record, they absolutely have to title it "Cheery Abomination." Anyway, here's the first single, judge for yourself!
To be clear, this is indeed Shaggy of "It Wasn't Me" fame, and Gordon "Sting" Sumner from The Police. It's not, like, Shaggy from Scooby Doo and Sting from pro wrestling teaming up to solve crimes and/or beat up the bad guys. (Frankly, I think Sting would handle the heavy lifting on both the investigative and muscle sides of that team.) This is indeed two musicians of seemingly disparate backgrounds joining forces to whip up a record that we can all enjoy.
And frankly, why not? What's stopping them? Sting's had some interest in reggae even dating back to his Police days, so if anything, he's probably overdue to make an album with an actual reggae artist. And Shaggy can't very well be a reggae fusion artist if he isn't fusing reggae with something else.
I'm not going to buy this album but what the heck, tip of the hat to the two of them for making it. This seems to be the general consensus about this whole project, as exemplified by this review from NME's Jordan Bassett. He only gives it two stars, yet he can't bring himself to fully pan it.
"There’s something weirdly enjoyable about this cheery abomination of an album. The camaraderie is palpable. These are staggeringly, beautifully unselfconscious men, insulated by success, and they have honestly no idea how ludicrous they look and sound....Their hearts are in the right place, even if their better judgment was sunning itself somewhere in Kingston."
If Shaggy and Sting make another record, they absolutely have to title it "Cheery Abomination." Anyway, here's the first single, judge for yourself!
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