dave grohl is a N.E.R.D
What’s the deal with Dave Grohl and the Neptunes? I can’t drive five miles without hearing a song on the radio from one of these two artists. Man those guys must be getting P.A.I.D. Grohl has no less than four projects running around the billboard top 100 right now. You got the new foo fighters record, his drumming on the single for the amazing Queens of the Stone Age, you got your newly released Nirvana record and then you got all the old Nirvana songs that pepper the airwaves continuously. That’s nutz. Then you got The Neptunes (a.k.a N.E.R.D), who besides getting some mediocre rotation for their N.E.R.D album have the production credits for just about every artist on the airwaves right now. The Justin Timberlack song with the sweet drum break in towards the end? That’s the Neptunes. My favorite part of that song is when the sensitive Justin whispers something like, “Don’t worry, I ain’t going to hurt you baby, it’s just me – Justin.” That’s classic. I also really like the “You know, I used to dream about this when I was a
little boy…” bit too. That song got it all, including the call out “Now, everybody dance” commanded with about as much soul as Al Gore. The ‘tunes are also responsible for the new Nelly song, the new No Doubt song, Mystikle, Jay-Z, N’SYNC, Ludacris, Busta Rhymes. Chances are, if your groovin’ to it, then The Neptunes produced it. So It only makes sense that if I was some head commercial radio guy, it would be a forgone conclusion that the only logical step to secure the airwaves from anything new getting through would be to have The Neptunes and Dave Grohl just start writing songs together and only those songs would make it on to the radio. Radio entropy – it’s only a matter of time.