Beastie Boys:
"While we were working on Hello
Nasty I was listening to a lot of bossanova. Mario [Caldato]
is originally from Brazil and he knows quite a bit about 60's
Brazilian music. He turned me on to a number of things, but in
particular, I couldn't stop listening to both Jorge Ben and Antonio
Carlos Jobim. At some point when I was listening to Jobim's "Aguas
De Marco" I decided that I wanted to write and record a couple
of bossanova songs. I guess that's kind of like saying "I
was watching Michael Jordan play basketball and I decided that
I want to play for the Bulls." Sure you do. ["Twenty
Questions" was] started in the Dungeon and then finished
over at RPM. Miho from Cibo Matto has an amazing voice, and she
too is in love with old bossanova music. She came into the sudio
toward the end of our recording and put down some vocal tracks"
- Adam Yauch, 1999
Press & Print Media:
"[The] tropical cool of "Twenty
Questions" come[s] off as [a] novelty" - Rolling Stone,
1999 |