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Chesney also talked about Setting The World On Fire and why he chose P!NK as his collaborator.
“I told her when we were in the studio, ‘You sing like you live in your own insanity,'” he said. P!NK, who in a surprising moment called in, said, “I never felt so understood!” P!NK continued: “I loved the way our voices sound together, very, very much. We sound like we’ve been singing together for a long time.”
Chesney agreed and thanked P!NK for not only her contributions to the song but for her friendship.
“Once we got into the studio and started singing together, like she said, it was as if we had known each other our whole lives, it was almost family really,” he said. “You cannot replace that certain blend, or chemistry if you will, and I just thank you very much for singing and being a part of my life and being a part of Cosmic Hallelujah.”
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There's more here: http://blog.siriusxm.com/2016/10/21/...o-shoes-radio/
She wants to sing with him, so performance is probably coming soon.
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Whose idea was it to enlist Pink for "Setting the World on Fire"?
When I first heard that song I knew that the melody was just different. There was a certain thread of angst and energy that runs through the undertow of that song. It wasn't enough for me to sing it myself. It needed the female perspective to make the song emotionally authentic. And I thought who has a voice that can make all these emotions authentic? Who has the voice to draw people in? And there's a lot of great singers out there but, to me, Pink's voice can hold all those emotions and more. She's the best.
So good that you basically just hand the chorus over to her.
[Laughs] No doubt about it. But that's what makes the song great, I'm this narrator in the verses. I'm drawing people in and getting them close — "Shh, come here I gotta tell you something"—and then boom here she comes! And she just rinses them!
Originally the album was due for release in July and was set to be titled Some Town Somewhere. When did the change happen?
This record took a lot of twists and turns and variations and it's unlike any that I've ever done because I thought I had it done. When we got the OK from Pink's camp to release "Setting the World On Fire," it made me stop and reevaluate. Initially, I really wanted that song to be the first single. But we couldn't get my world and her world to parallel at that moment.
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http://www.rollingstone.com/country/...-break-w447015
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