8 Bizarre Music Collaborations That Were Surprisingly Successful

8. Moby And Gwen Stefani - "South Side"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBTyrKLlVwc On paper, the teaming of techno geek Moby and the midriff-bearing semi-punkster Gwen Stefani appeared to be the result of a bored 12-year-old playing around with daddy's mixing equipment. "I should layer the hot girl's whiny vocals over top of those creepy industrial beats," the precocious little tween might've said. And somehow, it sounded like a real song. A really good song, actually. Considering Stefani hadn't yet done any solo work, it was a risky proposition removing her from the ska punk confines of No Doubt and pairing her with a virtually unknown electronica artist. The timing was simply perfect, however, as Return of Saturn, the follow-up to No Doubt's immensely popular breakthrough album Tragic Kingdom, had just cemented Stefani as the poster girl for rebellious punk chicks (even if her punk credibility was a little...manufactured). Since this was still technically the 90s, and the 90s were all about celebrating weirdness for weirdness' sake, "South Side" ate up the US and Canadian Charts. And it turned Moby's brand of techno trip hop into the soundtrack of everyone's Y2K fears, making Moby a household name almost overnight. Of course, his name vanished from the commercial public's collective consciousness almost immediately. But still, "South Side" made more of a mark than it really had any right to. Stefani would later go on to have another oddly successful collaboration with rapper Eve (2001's "Let Me Blow Ya Mind"), while Moby went on to constantly be mistaken for Dr. Bunsen from The Muppet Show.