2023年2月18日土曜日

Special / Lizzo (2022)

ポップ R&B というべきか。Lizzo の最新アルバムは強力な ポップ性で補強されています。

まず何といってもヒットした "About Damn Time" でしょう。Pharrell Williams ばりのディスコ・チューン。ギターとベースが決まって、グルーヴとポップが同居しています。
Lizzo のフルートもいい感じ。
レコード・オブ・ザ・イヤーになるだけのことはあります。

Beastie Boys の "Girls" をサンプリングした "Grrrls"、Lauryn Hill の "Doo Wop (That Thing)" からのメロディ借用の "Break Up Twice" (これは Mark Ronson との共作でもあります)、Coldplay の "Yellow" を大胆に切り取ったその名も "Coldplay" など、話題性に欠きません。

いずれも、キャッチーですが、"About Damn Time" と並ぶポップ・チューンかつLGBTを扱った "Everybody's Gay" もいけてます。


  1. The Sign
    • Music by Eric Frederic, Nate Mercereau, Michael Ball
    • Produced by Ricky ReedPhoelix
  2. About Damn Time
    • Music by Frederic, Blake Slatkin, Malcolm McLaren, Ronald Larkins, Larry Price, Stephen Hague
    • Produced by Reed, Slatkin, Terrace Martin
    • Samples the song "Hey DJ" performed by The World's Famous Supreme Team, as written by Malcolm McLaren, Ronald Larkins, Larry Price and Stephen Hague.
  3. Grrrls
    • Music by Max Martin, Ilya Salmanzadeh, Benjamin Levin, Slatkin, Andrew Wansel, Adam Horovitz, Rick Rubin
    • Produced by Slatkin, Pop Wansel, Martin, ILYA, Benny Blanco
    • Samples the song "Girls" performed by Beastie Boys, as written by Beastie Boys and Rick Rubin.
  4. 2 Be Loved (Am I Ready)
    • Music by Peter Svensson, Martin, Savan Kotecha, Salmanzadeh
    • Produced by Martin, Kotecha, ILYA
  5. I Love You Bitch
    • Music by Mike Dean, Omer Fedi, Slatkin, Joseph McVey
    • Produced by Slatkin, Fedi
    • Samples the song "I Hate You Bitch" performed by Z-Ro, as written by Z-Ro and Mike Dean.
  6. Special
    • Music by Martin, Wansel, Ian Kirkpatrick, Daoud Anthony
    • Produced by Wansel, Kirkpatrick, Daoud, Martin
  7. Break Up Twice
    • Music by Leon Michaels, Mark Ronson, Thomas Brenneck, Nicholas Movshon, William Bell, Booker T. Jones, Lauryn Hill
    • Produced by Ronson, Reed
    • Interpolates the song "Doo Wop (That Thing)", as written and performed by Lauryn Hill.
  8. Everybody's Gay
    • Music by Frederic, Wansel, Kirkpatrick, James Johnson
    • Produced by Wansel, Kirkpatrick, Reed, Mercereau
  9. Naked
    • Music by Kirkpatrick, Wansel, Anthony, Frederic, Robert "Kool" Bell, Ronald Bell, Claydes Charles Smith, Dennis Thomas, George Brown, Richard Westfield, Alton Taylor
    • Produced by Wansel, Kirkpatrick, Reed
    • Samples the song "Summer Madness" written and performed by Kool & The Gang.
  10. Birthday Girl
    • Music by Jonathan Bellion, Michael Pollack, Stefan Johnson, Jordan Johnson
    • Produced by The Monsters and the Strangerz
  11. If You Love Me
    • Music by Kid Harpoon, Mercereau
    • Produced by Kid Harpoon, Mercereau
  12. Coldplay
    • Music by Frederic, Mercereau, Gavin Tennille, Chris Martin, Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion
    • Produced by Reed, Quelle Chris, Chris Keys
    • Samples the song "Yellow" performed by Coldplay, as written by Chris Martin, Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, and Will Champion, and samples the song "Sudden Death" performed and written by Quelle Chris & Chris Keys.


  • Lizzo – vocals (all tracks), flute (track 2)
  • Phoelix – bass, programming (1)
  • Thomas Pridgen – drums (1, 8)
  • Nate Mercereau – electric guitar (1, 2, 8, 9, 11); acoustic guitar, bass, drums, piano (11)
  • Ricky Reed – programming (1, 2, 6, 8, 9, 12), bass (2, 6, 8); glockenspiel, guitar, synthesizer (2); instrumentation, keyboards (8, 9)
  • Blake Slatkin – programming (2, 3), ; instrumentation, keyboards (3)
  • Victor Indrizzo – drums, percussion (2, 8)
  • Terrace Martin – vocoder (2)
  • Benny Blanco – instrumentation, keyboards, programming, vocals (3)
  • Ilya – instrumentation (3), programming (3, 4); bass, drums, guitar (4); additional programming (6)
  • Chris Keys - Instrumentation (12)
  • Max Martin – instrumentation (3, 6), programming (3, 4, 6); bass, drums, guitar (4)
  • Rickard Göransson – bass, guitar (4)
  • Peter Carlsson – drums, guitar (4)
  • Pop Wansel – instrumentation, programming (3, 6, 8, 9); keyboards (6, 8, 9)
  • Johan Carlsson – organ, piano (4)
  • Jasper Harris – piano (5)
  • Daoud – guitar (6, 9); instrumentation, keyboards, piano, programming, Rhodes solo, saxophone (6)
  • Ian Kirkpatrick – instrumentation, keyboards, programming (6, 8, 9)
  • Nick Movshon – bass (7)
  • Larry Gold – conductor, string arrangement (7)
  • Tommy Brenneck – guitar (7)
  • Leon Michels – keyboards (7)
  • Mark Ronson – keyboards (7)
  • Jordan Johnson – instrumentation, keyboards, programming (10)
  • Stefan Johnson – instrumentation, programming (10)
  • Michael Pollack – keyboards (10)
  • Kid Harpoon – drum programming, Mellotron, pianosynthesizer (11)


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