ITT: When dadrockers try to act hip and current

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>pushing 50, Rhodes and LeBon decide to hire Justin Timberlake and Timbaland to help them sound trendy and 2000s in the hope they'll score one last big career hit
>too bad it didn't work--the album fell off the charts in three weeks

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Beach Boys doing disco, Culture Club, and rapping.

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I always thought Mick Jagger was the King of "trendy/current > fail." His two 80s solo albums, She's the Boss and Primitive Cool, tried to latch onto the Michael Jackson Nu-R&B wave and failed miserably IMO. Jagger's solo career was pretty much a wash (artistically, at least) until Rick Rubin convinced him to do a straight rock record.

Every Black Sabbath album since Born Again (though Seventh Star and Dehumanizer have their moments).

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I like it desu.

Was Aerosmith the only dadrock band successful at "hello fellow kids"-core?

Liz Phair S/T. Embarrassing album that cost her her indie audience, left teenyboppers confused, but she got one (obnoxious) hit out of it.

Chubby Checker. That album he did in Holland in 1971 has to qualify. Of course Chubby wasn't having any hits at the time but this psychedelic detour didn't exactly help him.

What dadrock bands have had actually good "comeback" albums?
I vote for Ratt desu

How about when Sammy Davis Jr. dropped the Vegas lounge act and decided to get down with the bell bottoms and Afros crowd? Isaac Hayes produced and actually a pretty good album.

jaded is a great song.

Frank Sinatra's attempts at covering contemporary pop in the 60s-70s somehow didn't work. Some of the songs weren't bad but he never "got" the stuff the way he knew the Berlin/Porter songbook like the back of his hand.

Any time a dadrocker tries to do duets with current artists (Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Mick Jagger, etc)

The Moody Blues sounded awful when they adopted New Wave/synth sounds in the early 80s that did not fit them at all.

Vanilla Ice tried to revive his career by doing nu metal.

It didn't work.

His late Reprise run is pretty embarrasing. Some Things That I've Missed is a gross miscalculation.

Think Trilogy: Past, Present, and Future.

The Past disc is all Tin Pan Alley standards. Sinatra was in his element here and did all these songs excellently.

The Present disc is him trying to do contemporary pop which really didn't work.

The Future disc is the wtf moment when he takes the listener on a journey through the solar system, as if they thought Sinatra trying to do Rush or Styx was a good idea.

Only because of the best song doctors in the business.

>Frank Sinatra
>Tony Bennett
>rocker
>rock
Uh...

Donna Summer's Another Place and Time which tried to incorporate New Jack Swing sounds, although it produced a hit single, the album was poorly received and failed to reignite her career.

>DUDE DRUM N BASS

He did ok with 60s pop, it was in the 70s where the wheels kind of fell off of him.

Why don't other bands do that then?
Why did Linkin Park's latest shit fail so miserably?
There's more to this than just that.

Bowie's entire career was about being current, and he did it well.

Aerosmith just happened to come back at the right time in the late 80s when the business was ruled by song doctors and MTV rather than artistry.

And why did they succeed throughout the 90's and early 00's?

When Dee Dee Ramone tried rapping
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In the case of LP, it was the exact opposite. They started out as an industry plant and then after that kind of music died out, Warner told them they were free to make whatever the fuck music they want. The results speak for themselves.

>threading your own comment
cringe

Built-up momentum and good marketing. That they weren't knocked out of the park by grunge was kind of a feat considering that many of their 70s peers also had Desmond Child-engineered late 80s comebacks as well, but didn't survive much past 1991.

Then again, the adult contemporary album she followed it with was even worse.

Basically anything Madonna did after the early 90s.