Mike Shinoda and Mark Hoppus wrote a song together from scratch on stage as part of a keynote presentation at MIDEM in Cannes earlier this month.
“You’re really gonna see how the magic happens,” Variety‘s Shirly Halperin explains, before introducing the unlikely pair, who begin to craft a song in real time.
The song that arrive at — at least the verse and chorus we are treated to — is basically what you’d expect from such a collaboration: a sparse beat, and some Shinoda keyboard work with a Blink-esque vocal melody and power chord guitar parts.
It’ll be interesting to see if anything further comes from this pairing. Until then, take a crash course in songwriting (while under pressure, in public, in France) with the 35-minute video, below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwrcFWg1Jsw
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