The Foo Fighters Fucking Hated Doing Carpool Karaoke
NME - It seems that James Corden’s ‘Carpool Karaoke’ is not always as fun as it seems, as Foo Fighters have said that they found the experience “a little uncomfortable”.
The band made their debut appearance on the popular segment for Corden’s ‘Late Late Late Show‘ last month – where they belted out karaoke renditions of Foos classics ‘All My Life’, ‘Best Of You’, ‘Learn To Fly’ and recent single ‘The Sky Is A Neighborhood’ from acclaimed new album ‘Concrete And Gold‘. However, it seems that after a while, the band found the experience somewhat tiresome.
“By hour three in dude’s car it got less fun,” guitarist Pat Smear told NME. “It kinda went on. When we stopped at Guitar Centre, that felt like we were done, but it was like ‘this is halfway’.”
Love this little peek behind the scenes of Carpool Karaoke. As an industry insider who gets to (stand/sit in the background or usually just off camera entirely) see content creation first hand from behind the scenes, it’s a grueling process. Countless takes and re-takes centered around perfectionist talent that refuses to put anything out that is less than 100% quality – which, in turn, is what makes them so successful. Now take that process and cram it into a tiny little car with an annoying host (I like Corden a lot but let’s not pretend he’s not annoying after long periods of time) for hours upon hours, and make the talent a superstar rock band. Used to performing on the road in front of hundreds of thousands of screaming fans with drugs and booze. Now they’re on a set for 10 hours being fed karaoke songs for a TV show in an SUV. Gotta imagine they’re not the first to be sightly annoyed by the whole thing, despite dozens of episodes of smiling happy go lucky celebs belting out tunes.
Leave it to Dave Grohl to speak the truth.
Dave Grohl said that it was “a little uncomfortable”, but didn’t doubt that James Corden was a real music lover. However, he wasn’t too happy about being made to sing his own songs.
“Oh he definitely is [a music lover],” Grohl told NME. “And he’s a very nice guy. But y’know, I don’t mind singing my own songs at Glastonbury or The O2 but if I had to sing you a song right now I’d be too embarrassed.”
After Smear said that “singing other people’s songs would have been easier”, Grohl added: “I could do that all day. We did The Ramones, and Rick Astley, but they didn’t use it. I don’t know why.”