Foster the People Build ‘Houdini’ tremendous observe with new Dua Lipa and Eminem singles. KEVIN WINTER/GETTY IMAGES/THE RECORDING ACADEMY; STEPHEN J. COHEN/GETTY IMAGES; AARON J. THORNTON/GETTY IMAGES
Legend has it that for those who stand in the mirror and say “Houdini” 3 times, Foster the People will seem out of skinny air and play “Houdini x Houdini x Houdini,” their mashup of their very own tune “Houdini” with Dua Lipa‘s single “Houdini,” and Eminem‘s new single — additionally titled “Houdini.” The different possibility, if for some motive the concept of Foster the People spawning in your house is unsettling, is to listen to it on Instagram, the place the band shared a breakdown exhibiting their course of of mixing the three songs.
“There’s two ‘Houdini’s on the radio right now, one from Eminem, one from Dua Lipa,” frontman Mark Foster says in the video. “Thought it’d be fun to bring in our OG ‘Houdini’ from our first record and you know, mash the three of them up together.”
The genre-spanning mashup finds Dua Lipa singing about being flighty in a relationship and Eminem rapping about his previous opioid dependancy over the percussive beat of Foster the People’s “Houdini.”
“Battle of the Houdinis,” Foster the People wrote in the caption of the video, including a reference to Charli XCX’s “The Girl, So Confusing Version With Lorde” — fortunately not titled “Houdini” — at the finish: “We worked it out in the remix.”
Dua Lipa’s “Houdini” appeared on her newest album Radical Optimism, whereas Eminem launched his “Houdini” as the lead single to his upcoming album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce), out July 12. Foster the People’s “Houdini” arrived in 2011 when the band launched their debut album, Torches. It grew to become the fifth single from the report, following “Pumped Up Kicks,” “Helena Beat,” “Call It What You Want,” and “Don’t Stop (Color on the Walls).”
Foster the People will launch their long-awaited fourth studio album, Paradise State of Mind, on Aug. 16.
From Rolling Stone US.