Katy Perry performed during the part-time show of the 2015 Super Bowl XLIX at the University of Phoenix in Glendale, Ariz.
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When the news announced for the first time this pop star, Katy Perry Inside a blue rocket and take off in space in a launch scheduled for April 14, NPR music editor Hazelnut Took in an internal NPR music chain.
“Quick name 20 artists who should go to the space before Katy Perry,” she said.
NPR employees have accessed on the occasion, although it has been pointed out that Perry is not entirely lacking in astronautical good faith, having, in 2010, published a song on intimate relations with an extraterrestrial. However, it was not difficult to find many musicians whose extraterrestrial references are more convincing.
Here are 20 musicians whose work on the theme of space has forged new paths and has opened enough amazing dimensions in sound to win seats in the vessels, according to the opinions of the musical critic Ann PowersVideos producer Nikki Birch, Associate of response to the Tucker Ives network, engineer Valentina Rodríguez Sánchez and myself. With apologies to David Bowie, Gustav Holst, Gil Scott-Heron and Sun Ra, the following list is limited to living musicians, who could, theoretically, go to space.
Countdown:
1. Marshall Allen
The heir to Sun Ra, who was 100 years old last year, knows better than anyone “space is the place”.
2. George Clinton
The Cosmic Commander of Mothership P-Funk was inspired by Uhura at Star Trek, as he said to spit in 2020. Clinton said that while the Parliament recorded his seminal album Connection to the parent ship“We were not attached to this planet for a minute.”
The funkadelic p-funk MotherShip exhibited at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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3. Elton John
“Rocketman”, the star’s first major success, was inspired by the legend of science fiction Ray Bradbury. It was used as alarm music for several crews On the discovery and shuttles of the Atlantis space.
4. John Williams
Williams composed and produced the scores for Star Wars And And the alienWho both won the Oscars. Star Wars was appointed the greatest film score of all time by the American Film Institute in 2005.
5. Erykah Badu
The intrepid Queen of Neo-Soul Dreams of living in a space shuttle, As she said at NPR JokerAnd in other interviews, shared stories from his frustrated efforts to meet foreigners.
6. Bilal
At the height of the pandemic, he broadcast his acclaimed Experimental Soul EP 2020 live live Voyage-19 (Badu appears on one of its tracks), going up the spirits of thousands of earthlings confronted at the house.
7. Peter Schilling.
While David Bowie is no longer with us, the main character of his classic song “Space Oddity” found a new life in Schilling’s tube in 1983 “Major Tom (Coming Home.)”
8. Nick Rhodes
The founding keyboardist of Duran Duran Duran is an obsessive space whose musical project of another world “Astronomia” with Wendy Bevan extends over four distinct albums. “Thanks to our sound tapestries, we explore the unlimited dimensions and transitions in the universe”, ” He usefully explained on the group’s website.
9. Thundercat
A protégé of Badu which relies on Afrofuturist traditions, the songs of the musician in Grammy Winning include “Lost in Space” and “Jameel’s Space Ride”.
10 Rushing
After attending the launch in 1981 of the Columbia space shuttle in 1981, the Canadian progressive rock trio was moved to write several songs. “Countdown” includes the audio of real astronauts who speak to Ground Control and have been used as an alarm clock for astronauts on the missions.
11. Bjork
The artist’s affinity for universes other than ours is naked in “Earth Intruders”, “Pluto” and “Cosmogony”, as well as … well, almost everything in it.
12. Afrika bambaataa
The revolutionary DJ and the record producer helped lay the foundations for subsequent black science fiction, robot cosplay and Afrofuturism. Put it on a shuttle on “Planet Rock”.
13. Phillip glass
Spatial exploration is in good place in several of the operas of the contemporary classical composer, such as Einstein on the beach,, The journey and an obscure work based on a science fiction novel by Doris Lessing, The manufacture of the representative of the planet 8.
14. Pink Floyd
Going out his own “Space Rock” label, the group’s connections with worlds beyond include Play live on the broadcast of the BBC of the first landing of the Moon in 1969. Former guitarist and singer David Gilmour said That the Soviet cosmonauts brought a cassette of Floyd Rose to the Mir space station in the 1980s. And NASA used the song of the group “Eclipse” to wake up a Rover Mars in 2004.
15. Janelle Monae
“I’m a huge space of space”, Monae told Conan O’Brien while promoting The 2016 film Hidden figuresWhere she played the pioneer of the NASA engineer, Mary Jackson. The Afrofuturist singer, whose words include “my spaceship leaves at 10:00 am” and “I am a foreigner of space”, told O’Brien that her dream is to go to space. Someone sends Janelle Monae to space!
New York – September 10: The musicians Janelle Monae and Big Boi play on stage at the BMI Urban Awards at Jazz at Lincoln Center on September 10, 2009 in New York. (Photo of Ray Tamarra / Getty Images for BMI)
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16. Quartet Kronos
On more than five decades, the musicians of this venerable contemporary classical group paid tribute to Sun RA and incorporated space sounds recorded by NASA in their music. There is even a song by a show in the Star Trek universe paying to the group.
17. Bootsy Collins
His signature “Space Bass” is in the shape of a star. The same goes for his glasses. And its stellar creative outing goes from songs such as “Stars has no names (They-Just-Shine)” at work on Parliament Connection to the parent ship And the experimental faxion of the Science Metal Group he helped to find in 2007.
18. The Grateful Dead
The surviving members, Mickey Hart, Bob Weir and Bill Kreutzmann, were nominated by a member of the NPR staff for the favorite of Trippo fans “Space“Who appeared on the group’s live album in 1981 Dead. But the group’s technological team also designed monitor systems and headphones which were then adapted by NASA.
19. Brian Eno
Few musicians have applied themselves so diligent to imagine what space looks like. A sponsor of ambient music, ENO composed “New Space Music” as well as music for the 1989 documentary For all humanity. “Individual electronic notes … descend like stars falling from a dark sky,” wrote astronomer Adam Frank In an NPR review.
20. BTS
Why should the group’s supernatural popularity be limited to our planet? BTS’s Songs “Mikrokosmos” and “134340” (which Refers to a Lonely Little Asteroid) and the Solo Song “Moonchild” by RM, A Member of the Group, WERE ADDED TO NASA’S Playlist for an Eight Day Mission to the Moon On The Artemis 2 In 2024. Members of the South Korean band have also collaborated with coldplay to create such space-themed hits as “my universe” and “the astronaut.”
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