The boys of Lonely Island are back with another hilarious hit and this time they’ve teamed up with 90′s balladeer and former Dancing with the Stars contestant, Michael Bolton.
The “Jack Sparrow” song, which premiered on the Mother’s Day episode of Saturday Night Live, hosted by Tina Fey, features a standard Lonely Island club beat, mixed with Bolton’s mesmerizing vocals. The results? Perfection.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Bolton discusses his first thoughts on working with Andy Samberg and his crew,
The Lonely Island guys reached out to my management and said they wanted to do this. I said, “I love those guys. But what are they thinking?” I was automatically scanning through my memory banks of the most wicked language and visuals. You want to work with guys like this. But at the same time I get invitations to perform at the Vatican!
They love to get you where you just can’t believe what you’re looking at and then hit you with the funny. I’ve been all about humor and all about laughing since I was a kid. That’s just who I am. I’ve been kicked out of every class. Andy and I were talking about that. Neither one of us had our Bar Mitzvah because we couldn’t take Hebrew school seriously.
I did not know this about you Mr. Bolton, and now that I do – I respect you.
Lonely Island-er, Akiva Schaffer discusses his long-time love affair with Bolton in an interview with AOL,
He has a tan. Not like a weird one, but one that makes him seem very worldly, like he’s seen the sun from a lot of different angles from all over the globe and at different levels from the equator or whatnot that gives him a well-rounded, sunny look — he’s the man.
In the past, Lonley Island has teamed up with artists such as T-Payne for “I’m on a Boat“, Akon for “I Just had S*x” and Justin Timberlake for their breakout hit, “D*ick in a Box“.
The Lonely Island’s new album “Turtleneck and Chain” is available in stores now.
