André 3000 has surpassed Tool for the longest Hot 100 hit of all time. As Billboard reports, his track “I Swear, I Really Wanted To Make A ‘Rap’ Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time” charted at #90 on the Hot 100 this week — it’s the first song on his new instrumental album New Blue Sun. It clocks in at 12 minutes and 20 seconds, longer than Tool’s “Fear Inoculum,” which is 10 minutes and 21 seconds and debuted at #93 back in 2019. André 3000’s track notched 5.8 million streams over the past week.
I definitely thought this was an onion article when I read that song title.
He intended to write a light novel but ended up making a song instead.
Craziest is that this isn’t even Andre’s longest song if you count [Do Ya Thing] (https://youtu.be/IzTWZhScSxE) clocking in at like, 14 mins almost
Oh wow, this was fucking terrible and I enjoy hour long chill loops on YT… It’s like elevator music, 90s ocean wave sound effects, and bad flutes had a child and that child was Hitler.
How the fuck is this on any hot list?
It’s also apparently the longest song title ever on the Billboard 100
The takeaway for me here is that Taylor Swift has a 10+ minute song.
I’m a big ambientish electronic instrumental music listener, and I thought the track name was amusing so I went and checked it out. I got halfway but it’s not doing much for me.
It started out with some almost Rue the Whirl by Boards of Canada vibes which I’m a fan of, but it doesn’t seem to go very far and seems to focus on whether it sounds OK in that moment rather than as a full song journey. I’ll pass, but good for him for doing whatever the fuck he feels like.
One of my favourite 10min instrumental songs for comparison, which sort of shows what I mean by journey. The peak hits around 5 mins in Moya - Godspeed You Black Emperor.
“The Slang Word P(*)ssy Rolls Off The Tongue With Far Better Ease Than The Proper Word Vagina. Do You Agree?”
Was my personal favorite.
I need a follow up about vulvas.
I forgot about this guy, and now I see him everywhere. Haven’t listened to his album, I think I should, because I’m totally out of the loop lol
My go to music for household chores: Duke Ellington’s Mood indigo (From the album Masterpieces by Ellington). It’s 15:26 long and I know every part of the song that I can almost use it as a timer.
