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Aloe Blacc's not too arsed about being uncredited on 'Wake Me Up'

  • November 26, 2013
  • Brad O'Mance

Aloe BlaccAloe Blacc is abso­lutely fine with the fact that no one knows it's him singing on Avicii's banjo-bothering EDM behemoth, 'Wake Me Up'.

(Avicii makes a point of not crediting the people who supply vocals and/or entire songs, you see, which is quite inter­est­ing when you think about it.)

"It's one of those things where it's bit­ter­sweet for the fans' sake; I want my fans to know that I'm doing something new," the 'The Sound Of Swing (Oh Na Na)' hitmaker told Billboard.

"But I like the discovery. When I was a young kid, I loved the song called 'Somebody's Watching Me' [by Rockwell], and I had no idea until much later that my favorite singer, Michael Jackson, was singing on the chorus."

"Now you got Aloe Blacc singing a song that even­tu­ally you'll learn is Aloe Blacc," he added hopefully.

Aloe is so happy for fans to discover his role in the song at their own pace that he's released an acoustic version of the song under his own name, on an EP he has titled 'Wake Me Up'.

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