Chris Cornell Made An Album With Timbaland In 2009
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Happy Tuesday! Just kidding, Tuesday is the armpit of the week. Anyway, Rolling Stone interviewed Chris Cornell.
You made your 2009 solo album, Scream, with the hip-hop producer Timbaland. It went Top 10, but the reviews were brutal. Was it a success or a failure?
It was absolutely a noble failure. A family friend was good friends with Timbaland’s cousin. He said, “Timbaland wants to make a song with you.” I said, “Awesome, let’s make an album.” I figured it would take two weeks, and I would have this crazy fucking record. That’s what happened. For me, it was a success. The failure in it was the record company trying to figure out what to do with it. The radio stations who had been playing my songs since 1990 — they were like, “We don’t want to play this. We can’t play this.”