Tag: Phil Collins

Chris Stapleton’s cover of ‘In The Air Tonight’ for Monday Night Football will give us goosebumps all year

Chris Stapleton, Snoop Dogg, and Cindy Blackman absolutely rocked this.

ESPN already revamped its announcing booth for Monday Night Football by hiring the colorful Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. Now, the weekly presentation is about to get a lot better — thanks to the musical stylings of Chris Stapleton, Snoop Dogg, and famed drummer Cindy Blackman.

On Monday, ESPN revealed a teaser for a new Monday Night Football theme song. It features the Grammy-winning Stapleton and Co. jamming out with a cover for Phil Collins’ famed “In The Air Tonight.”

Some quick thoughts:

  1. That is a perfect song for a night football game. No notes.
  2. This trio absolutely crushed it. I now want to mysteriously watch a Monday night game just by listening to it. Once again, no notes.

If this fantastic theme is part of ESPN’s approach to make Monday fall nights a flagship event again, then they’re passing with flying colors.

These teens just discovered ‘Feel it in the Air Tonight’ by Phil Collins and it’s great

It went how you’d expect it to go.

Music evolves quickly. Sounds shift, artist’s attitudes and styles change. That reflects itself through the art they create that pushes genres forward year after year.

But every once in a while, an artist creates an absolute masterpiece. A song that, no matter what time or era it’s played in, it’s going to go up.

Phil Collins’ Feel it in the Air Tonight is absolutely one of those songs. It came out in 1980 and still slaps 40 years later.

As a young Black boy who grew up listening to Hip Hop with absolutely zero interest in soft rock, I can attest. When this joint comes on, whoever has the aux is required to cut it all the way up.

Don’t take my word for it, though. Fred and Tim Williams, two 21-year old twins who review music on YouTube, played it for the first time themselves. Their verdict? It slaps.

Nah, that’s so relatable. Every single thing about it. Everyone has been down that road with this song before. Just hearing Collins’ electronic voice on the track carries you through to the beat drop after three minutes and then your soul leaves your body and you look something like this.

Yup. Looks about right. This was HILARIOUS to watch just because we’ve literally all been there with this song before.

The internet absolutely loved them discovering this song.

OF COURSE all the old heads love it. People love to get in their “what you know about this one here, youngin?!?!” bag. It’s no shock that they’re elated to see them listening to Collins.

They have more of these things on their YouTube channel, too. They’ve done Jolene by Dolly Parton.

Hilarious. And also correct — Jolene definitely slaps.

So much fun to watch. Shoutout to them for building this platform and putting people on to new music.

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