The Chainsmokers and Blink-182 have recorded a new track together.
Yesterday, The Chainsmokers posted the news on social media, stating that they can “die happy” following the collaboration with Blink.
Just did a session with blink182 and wrote an amazing song. We can die happy now
— THE CHAINSMOKERS (@TheChainsmokers) January 17, 2019
While Alex Pall and Andrew Taggart might lack on punk-rock credentials, the pair haven’t hid their admiration of the band, even shouting them out in their Halsey collaboration ‘Closer’: “Stay and play that Blink-182 song/ That we beat to death in Tuscon, okay.”
For their part, the punk-rock trio-gone-duo retweeted the Chainsmokers with a few hearts and a pair of cheers-ing beer steins.
Blink-182 have done a hard graft building hype around their upcoming release, with no shortage of snaps of themselves working hard in the recording studio.
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Online, fans have had mixed reactions to the unlikely partnership.
https://twitter.com/markhoppus/status/1085770038643023873
Mark Hoppus responded to a comment questioning The Chainsmokers as a collaborative choice, explaining: “We’ve been friends with them for a few years and have tried to collaborate a bunch of different times, but today our schedules aligned and we were all in the room at the same time.”
Meanwhile, ex-member Tom DeLonge has been busy on extra-terrestrial related matters, with a forthcoming TBS sci-fi TV series in the works.
Photo by Danilo Lewis and Harmony Gerber
