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15 Unexpected Musical Collaborations The news of Lou Reed and Metallica making an album together elicited many different reactions, from Velvet Underground fans crying, “Sell out!” to Metallica fans asking, “Who’s Lou Reed?” We often forget that musicians of all genres are out in the same pasture, and they inevitably rub shoulders with one another on tour, in the studio, or at award shows. Every once and a while we get a strange collaboration to remind us of this fact, and when very different artists decide to combine their respective art forms, the results can impress, disappoint, or even just bewilder. Here’s a list of 15 collaborations that the music world never saw coming.

15 Unexpected Musical Collaborations

The news of Lou Reed and Metallica making an album together elicited many different reactions, from Velvet Underground fans crying, “Sell out!” to Metallica fans asking, “Who’s Lou Reed?”

We often forget that musicians of all genres are out in the same pasture, and they inevitably rub shoulders with one another on tour, in the studio, or at award shows. Every once and a while we get a strange collaboration to remind us of this fact, and when very different artists decide to combine their respective art forms, the results can impress, disappoint, or even just bewilder.

Here’s a list of 15 collaborations that the music world never saw coming.

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