How many artists does it take to make a hit record? Triple J attempted to find out by getting 40 of the top 100 artists on their top 100 records countdown to come together and make a hit song. Triple J breakfast hosts Matt and Alex enlisted 40 of the world's finest musicians to try and make this record from scratch and it didn't go so well. Even after gathering names like Lorde, Diplo, Skrillex, Flight Facilities, Flume, Ben Folds, Reggie Watts, Gotye, Kingswood, Alt-J, Disclosure, The Presets and of course Rick Astley into one room, the group of artists were unable to get anything going.
The humorous six-minute video features some classic musician attempts at acting and some awful attempts at writing a song. A variety of different ideas are thrown out there including sibling guitar verses, Ben Folds tickling the ivory and Skrillex mistakenly dropping the bass, to the delight of a few like Allison Wonderland and Steve Aoki who was readying his raft to ride over the other artists. The final straw for the tenuous collaboration comes when the two hosts won't let Rick Astley give up on them and after walking out, the rest of the artists still in the room, storm out in protest
Check out the full roster of artists who appear in the video below (via In The Mix) and head to Triple J's website to vote for your favorite song in the top 100.
Musicians featured
Bluejuice
Lorde
Kingswood
Ball Park Music
Flight Facilities
Illy
San Cisco
Allday
The Jezebels
Bertie Blackman
Paul Kelly
Megan Washington
Flume
Reggie Watts
alt-J
The Presets
Tkay Maidza
Lisa Mitchell
Diplo
Skrillex
Steve Aoki
Courtney Barnett
Ben Folds
Andy Bull
Alison Wonderland
Violent Soho
The Preatures
Little Dragon
Highasakite
Hilltop Hoods
ásgeir
Angus & Julia Stone
First Aid Kit
Disclosure
Peking Duk
Sticky Fingers
Thelma Plum
Rick Astley
Gotye
Vance Joy
