10 Most Unexpected Collaborations In Modern Rock
Duets in music are nothing new, but nobody saw any of these bizarre team ups coming.
In the words of Jack Johnson, it's always better when we're together. Although, he also wrote a song called Banana Pancakes, so maybe he shouldn't be trusted.
What we're trying to say is that music history is full of great duets and rock music is a heavy contributor to that statement.
Think of David Bowie and Queen in the 80s, The Beatles working with Eric Clapton on While My Guitar Gently Weeps, and who could forget when rap and rock met head on in the form of Public Enemy and Anthrax's Bring the Noise?
Seriously, it's impossible to forget because it was so damn loud.
That collaboration must have raised a few eyebrows back in 1991 in much the same way that these ten team-ups got people wondering in the 21st Century.
What we've got here are some of the strangest pairings involving rock stars from the last twenty years or so. Whilst these all look utterly baffling whilst written down, some actually turned out pretty well when all was said and done.
Not all of them, though. Some looked weird and sounded weird, and not in a good way.
10. Ozzy Osbourne & Post Malone
Despite being from very different musical spheres, heavy metal icon Ozzy Osbourne and rapper Post Malone have pretty similar auras.
Both have unique looks, both have a reputation for causing trouble, and both could transform into a bat live on stage and nobody would even question it. Perhaps it's not that big of a surprise then that these two have paired up multiple times in recent years, each appearing as features on the other's tracks.
In late 2019, the song Take What You Want was released as part of Malone's album Hollywood's Bleeding. Not only did Ozzy turn up on the song as a vocalist, but he also shared mic time with another unlikely collaborator in Travis Scott.
That is one chaotic personnel listing.
Take What You Want would appear as a bonus track on Ozzy's 2020 record Ordinary Man, which also featured Post on the song It's A Raid. That song was written about a drunken night where the Black Sabbath frontman accidentally activated a silent alarm, causing the police to turn up at his party.
See what we mean about him and Post having similar energies?