Release of Lonely Island CD

A few months ago Michael posted about being involved in and Andy Samberg project...well it is being released on May 10th and Michael is featured in a track entitled Jack Sparrow.  Check out more info here:

 

http://www.artistdirect.com/entertainment-news/article/the-lonely-i...

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Permalink Reply by sylvia doughty on June 2, 2011 at 11:18pm

Thanks for the link Judy and it was an interesting read and it is great that he is being discussed in so wide a circle even if at times I felt Eric was losing himself in that circle or he certainly lost me - had to go back to the beginning a few times !!! LOL

 

Sylvia.   Your wee Scottish friend.

Permalink Reply by sylvie boisvert on June 3, 2011 at 2:59am

Hi Judy, thanks for sharing this. I personally feel that it does make it funnier if you know who Michael Bolton is, because obviously, with his clean image the shock value is greater  like Kathy said. I don’t know that the SNL boys did it for that reason though, but it’s a point of view..Remember in an article Joy posted on the second page of this thread, the guys said it wouldn’t have been the same if they did it with Josh Groban… They actually said they picked Michael because “dude’s a legend”! :D Maybe they were aiming to reach 2 demographics: the 20-somethings and their parents, who knows… Well thanks again for sharing Judy, take care. Hugs, sincerely, Sylvie from Canada

Permalink Reply by Joy Arban on June 3, 2011 at 2:18am
More about Michael and Jack Sparrow.............it's all good. "The Michael Bolton Revival" they call it.....everyone is loving MB these days. But we have always loved him right girls?
Joy
I have only copied the parts of the article about Michael. If you want to read the whole thing, click on the link.
May's best singles: M.I.A., Black Keys and Michael Bolton?

by Ed Masley - Jun. 1, 2011 10:02 AM
The Arizona Republic
 
 
The Michael Bolton revival is on as we look back on May's best singles, from Lykke Li's one-woman girl-group revival to Tyler, the Creator's, shock-rap stalking song, to M.I.A.'s team-up with French electro producer SebastiAn to the Black Keys reinventing Buddy Holly to Drake sampling a song I never would have dreamed he'd even know and more.

10. The Lonely Island, featuring Michael Bolton: 'Jack Sparrow'

This could do for Michael Bolton what "Pulp Fiction" did for John Travolta, a truly hilarious Lonely Island song where Andy Samberg and his buddies bring in Bolton to provide what the singer describes as "a big sexy hook" for the hip-hop track they're working on. So Samberg sets the tone with some typical hip-hop bravado, rapping "Night starts now, baby roll with us/Chickies snappin' at the neck when we rollin' up." Then Bolton steps in for the hook to sing the praises of his new obsession, "Pirates of the Caribbean," totally committed to making lines like "He's the pauper of the surf/The jester of Tortuga" resonate with all the melodrama in the Bolton arsenal - a brilliant vocal by a guy who's suddenly a billion times more likeable for having done this.




Permalink Reply by sylvia doughty on June 3, 2011 at 11:44am

Thanks Joy for putting in !  Michael certainly has started something only to hope the impetus keeps going long into the release of Gems !! :)

 

Sylvia.   Your wee Scottish friend.

Permalink Reply by sylvie boisvert on June 3, 2011 at 2:44pm

Hi Joy, what a wonderful title for an article! :D You have to feel sorry for the poor souls who don’t know that he never left though… :D Thanks for sharing this Joy, take care. Hugs, sincerely, Sylvie from Canada

Permalink Reply by Kathy Rosario on June 4, 2011 at 7:33am

Thanks Joy for another enlightened soul has been touched by Michael Sparrow Fever!!!!!!!!!! Can't get enough PR for a job well done!!!!!

Kathy and LAFD Bob

Permalink Reply by meggy on June 3, 2011 at 3:30pm

Joy, thanks for that article, and if you find anymore, I love reading anything about our Michael...BTW how many more days til

your date with Michael:)!

Mary (M&M's)!

 

Permalink Reply by Joy Arban on June 7, 2011 at 6:35am

12 days!!!!!!!!

June 19th Sunday-Beacon Theatre New York City

Can't wait..........

Permalink Reply by Joy Arban on June 7, 2011 at 6:19am
Magazine

Saturday Night Live Recap: Michael Bolton Wins, Osama Loses

  • 5/8/11 at 2:52 pm

Saturday Night Live Recap: Michael Bolton Wins, Osama Loses
(Photo is Michael with the pirate hat on when he says the famous line "Now Back to the Good Part!")

Oh hey, did you know Tina Fey was pregnant? In case you didn't, Saturday Night Live trotted her out for its Mother's Day episode, but it fell a bit flat. There were precious few repeated characters (though Stefon made a remarkable appearance that had both Bill Hader and Seth Myers once again cracking up), and Michael Bolton really stole the show.

Most Likely to Garner Michael Bolton a SNL Hosting Gig
Michael Bolton made a rather auspicious appearance in Lonely Island's digital short "Jack Sparrow." He should never, ever, however, dress up in drag.

Permalink Reply by Kathy Rosario on June 7, 2011 at 8:59am

I agree with the last statement wholeheartedly!!! Michael stole the show without the Erin spot but I am sure he didn't want to disappoint the SNL gang and not meet their request. Michael is always a gentleman and a consummate professional!!! And quite a comedian at that!!! Thanks for the article Joy :)

Kathy and LAFD Bob 

Permalink Reply by Joy Arban on June 7, 2011 at 6:30am

Another great article................

Magazine
The Lonely Island on Their New Album and Michael Bolton’s ‘Adonis’ Physique
(Photo of Lonely Island guys)

The Lonely Island on Their New Album and Michael Bolton’s ‘Adonis’ Physique

  • 5/9/11 at 1:30 PM

SNL power trio Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone — a.k.a. the Lonely Island — spit rhymes like seasoned rappers, with swagger so convincing we’re not even sure it’s satirical anymore (dicks in boxes aside). “People are counting on us,” they announce on “We’re Back,” the opening track of their new album Turtleneck & Chain, which features a cavalcade of high-profile guests, including Rihanna, Beck, Snoop Dogg, and Nicki Minaj. Vulture sat down with the guys at Universal Records HQ for a freewheeling talk about Michael Bolton (who is also featured on T&C), Chewbacca, and, of course, turtlenecks and chains.

Take us through the genesis of the title — why Turtleneck & Chain?
Samberg: That was our signature look in high school. We've been in it for a while.
Taccone: We all have pictures from either picture day or graduation of us wearing that exact look, usually with a very terrible V-neck sweater over it.
Samberg: Or a blazer —
Schaffer: Or a low, cardigany kind of sweater.
Taccone: The thinner the chain, the better.
Samberg: And you can't smell it in the photos, but we're all wearing Drakkar.
Taccone: I was wearing Fahrenheit.
Samberg: Fahrenheit or Drakkar. Sorry, gentleman's choice. I think we all loved that look both ironically and unironically.
Schaffer: It worked its way into some videos, then into a line from "I Just Had Sex," you know, "She let me wear my chain and my turtleneck sweater." And then we were like —
Taccone: Let's go with it.
Samberg: It became a whole song.
Taccone: The one with Snoop, obviously [the title track].
Schaffer: Or maybe we made that one first.
Samberg: I think we made it first, and then we put it in "I Just Had Sex."
Taccone: Right, right, because we decided, let's embrace it.
Samberg: And then right around that time, we decided, (a) that we were definitely gonna try to bring that look back, and (b) that it should probably be the title of the record.

Now that warm weather is upon us, though, what advice would you give for beating the heat while wearing a turtleneck and chain?
Samberg: Just go dong-out.
Schaffer: Also, you could go sleeveless.
Taccone: Sleeveless and dong-out?
Schaffer: You could just go completely pantsless, like Alvin and the Chipmunks. They wore turtlenecks with no pants.

Michael Bolton sings on the track "Jack Sparrow." What did you learn from working with him?
Samberg: That if you're going to remain in the limelight past your thirties, you should look handsome and stay in great physical shape.

He's ripped?
Samberg: He's rocked! Dude is a heartthrob.
Schaffer: He's like six foot something.
Samberg: We should be so lucky to be half the man.
Taccone: Guess what: We won't be.
Samberg: We're already in much worse shape than him, yes.
Schaffer: And he can shop right off the rack, that's like the craziest thing. He's got the bod for it, you know?
Samberg: Michael Bolton can buy suits right off the rack. He's an Adonis.
Taccone: Not a lot of people know this, but like Michael Bolton, the soccer player Pele is perfectly symmetrical. Like, his face and his body, all the way down on both sides. Not a lot of people are like that.
Samberg: I didn't know that about Pele. How do you know that?
Taccone: Because they were trying to study him. They were like, "Why is he so good at bicycle kicks and shit?"
Schaffer: And it's because of his body's perfect symmetry.
Samberg: So he has perfect balance. I wonder if that guy Lionel Messi is that way too.
Taccone: Let's go there right now and check him out.
Schaffer: Go measure him.
Samberg: Just go to him. Go to Spain and measure him.
Taccone: Tonight.
Samberg: He's Argentinian, isn't he? Where's he from?
Taccone: Who cares? We're going to Spain.

There are so many big names on the album. Can you talk about anyone you've approached with a song concept and it didn't work out?
Schaffer: It's happened, but we wouldn't want to sell anybody out. Usually it's just scheduling and stuff, especially at SNL where we're hitting a deadline. Like, if they're not free on the day we need them, and if we're going for big stars, they're usually pretty busy.
Samberg: But we've been really lucky.
Taccone: It's become easier as we've made a lot of stuff, so people can kind of see what we're about. Trying to describe some of these joke songs would be very difficult, but we usually mock up the songs, too. We'll have Andy doing the person's part.
Schaffer: Right, they don't have to use their imagination. We'll send them an MP3 — it has kind of a template for the whole song, so they can really hear what they would be doing.
Samberg: We asked the guy who played Chewbacca to do a song and he nutted in our faces.
Schaffer: Um, I didn't want to out anybody.
Taccone: The reason could have been because we kept calling him "The Guy Who Played Chewbacca."
Samberg: Like, "Hey, the Guy Who Played Chewbacca, do you want to be on this song?" And then before we finish the sentence, there's just hairy, Wookie nut all over our face.
Taccone: We should have called the album "Wookie Nut."

What's the story behind "Two Worlds Collide," where Kenan Thompson plays Reba McEntire?
Taccone: That idea came from a fellow SNL writer, Emily Spivey.
Schaffer: Kenan [Thompson] and her.
Samberg: It was a live sketch where Kenan showed up to do PSAs. It was supposed to be Reba McEntire, and instead it was him dressed as Reba McEntire. It played ... pretty good, but it got cut. And we were obsessed with it. So we were like, "Hey, can we make it into a song?" And they both were graciously into it.

Jorma, you directed and co-wrote the film adaptation of MacGruber. When is Lorne Michaels going to green-light a "Laser Cats" movie?
Schaffer: Well, I think we could green-light it right now, since it would cost $45.

People have always speculated about the fifth Beatle. Is there a fourth Lonely Islander?
Taccone: Bill Pullman.
Schaffer: I can't believe you just decided to spill the beans on that.
Samberg: God.
Schaffer: He's our ghostwriter.
Samberg: Pullman, yeah. We're all like Eazy E and he's our Ice Cube.

Permalink Reply by Joy Arban on June 7, 2011 at 6:33am
So great to hear the Lonely Island telling everyone what we have all known for years:
MB is handsome, in great shape, is a heartthrob, has a hot bod, is an Adonis !!!

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