Also, as Hutchence added in The Album Network interview, “Andrew, Garry and I have all had children.” Hutchence hooked up with producer/Gang Of Four guitarist Andy Gill to start work on his lone solo album during 1995, while Andrew and Tim Farriss got involved in production. It just seemed like the logical time to take a break.”ĭespite this, the band remained busy in the interim. “We have recorded an album every 12 to 18 months over the last five or six years… With the completion of, we also fulfilled our contract with Atlantic Records. “We really wanted to get off the old carousel for a while,” Hutchence told Australia’s The Album Network magazine in March 1997. “We really wanted to get off the old carousel” Plus, from what I’ve heard from Diplo recently, it sounds like this is just the beginning of him working with artists in the country world again, so stay tuned.Divorced from the times, however, it’s a lot easier to appreciate Elegantly Wasted for what it actually was: a vibrant and purposeful return from a band who desperately needed to get off the treadmill after producing nine albums in just 13 years and touring relentlessly around the world. The collab promises to be huge for each artist, and of course, will expose all of them to three totally new fan bases, which is pretty damn cool. I feel like this is the personification of all those “when you put the playlist on shuffle” memes, and while the song certainly won’t be for everybody, I just think it’s cool to see three such different artists working together and trying something new. ‘Cause life is so much sweeter when you taste it I threw away the bullets and I gave it away The pistol on the counter keeps starin’ at me In terms of the content and lyrics, Koe’s verses and lyrics definitely fit right in his wheelhouse style: Everybody we’ve showed it to has been really excited about. I was like, ‘Oh hell yeah.’ So we gave it to Kimball, we kinda worked it up, and then we went to New York and do some stuff with it. “He threw some drums in it, a little guitar and bass drum. With some added bass drum and guitar, the new song seemed way more in line with Koe’s musical style, and he ended up loving it: That night he sent me a track from Kodak, and was like, ‘What do you think about this? This is more your style.’” And we’ll work together, let’s cook something up one day.’ “And I was just gonna tell him, like legit, me and Dre are on the plane coming back, and I’m listening through everything, and he was kinda waiting on an answer.Īnd I was like, ‘Man, I think I’m just gonna you know, do my own thing. So Koe had planned on pretty much saying thanks, but no thanks, and keeping the idea in mind for something else down the road… And then he kinda hit me up, and he had a couple different artists he was sending me and sent me this Kodak track.Īnd I just kinda told him, you know, none of this is really going kinda the way that I’m wanting to throw the music out there.” “Diplo hit me up, a song he was… he was just wanting to work together. It’s Texas meets Florida and the first song of the next chapter of Thomas Wesley.”ĭiplo mentions “Wasted” was written by him along with Kodak Black in Miami while Kodak was “on his rock star vibe,” so now I see why it seemed like a natural fit to bring Koe in too:Ī post shared by diplo a little of the story of how the song came to be from Koe’s perspective: we went down to everglades and shot this video… then I linked with one of my favorite texas rockstars in the down in denton, texas and we worked this song into a masterpiece. he sang this song while he batted a beat on his chest I just tracked it like that on iphone. It started in miami where I wrote a bunch of songs he was on his rock star vibe. I been wanted to get started again but I needed to tap into something that felt raw and crazy. I got to close stagecoach, I made a song with the same song) a 5x platinum song learned to rope battle. “I put out a country album almost 3 years ago and it became one of my most streamed projects ever. Koe later confirmed it was actually coming on the Whiskey Riff Raff podcast, and since then, it’s just been a waiting game for when we’d finally get to hear it.ĭiplo took to Instagram to share a little bit about his inspiration behind the song earlier, saying he wanted to get back into country after his Diplo Presents Thomas Wesley, Chapter 1: Snake Oil album in 2020, which featured the 5x Platinum song with Morgan Wallen called “Heartless”: We actually first got a hint this might be happening back in March of 2022, and then the trio was posting videos of them all hanging out in Miami filming the music video in August. After much ado, “Wasted” is officially out everywhere, which features the surprising combination of EDM/pop producer Diplo, rapper Kodak Black, and no other than Texas rock star Koe Wetzel.
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