Diana Ross and Phoebe Bridgers to Feature on Jack Antonoff's '70s-Themed Minions: The Rise of Gru Soundtrack

Diana Ross and Phoebe Bridgers to Feature on Jack Antonoff's '70s-Themed Minions: The Rise of Gru Soundtrack

People-News·2022-05-11 14:02

Phoebe Bridgers, Jack Antonoff and Diana Ross

Phoebe Bridgers, Jack Antonoff and Diana Ross

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Jack Antonoff is bringing a star-studded group of musicians together in the name of Minions.

Produced by the 38-year-old Bleachers frontman, the official soundtrack for Minions: The Rise of Gru, the latest Despicable Me film, was announced Tuesday and features a slew of high-profile musicians you may not expect to appear on the same project, from Diana Ross to Phoebe Bridgers.

Combining covers of '70s classics with brand-new songs, the 19-track set — set for a July release via Decca Records — will see Ross, 78, and Australian band Tame Impala perform a duet titled "Turn Up the Sunshine" — which will drop May 20 — and Bridgers, 27, deliver a take on The Carpenters' 1972 hit "Goodbye to Love."

Elsewhere on the soundtrack, Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes and Verdine White of Earth, Wind & Fire will perform the funk band's 1975 classic "Shining Star," St. Vincent (aka Annie Clark) is set to sing a version of Lipps Inc.'s 1979 dance banger "Funkytown," and hip-hop collective BROCKHAMPTON will put their spin on Kool & the Gang's "Hollywood Swinging" from 1974.

Additionally, both Caroline Polachek and G.E.M. will sing Nancy Sinatra's much-covered 1966 classic "Bang Bang," while K-pop star Jackson Wang is going to perform Patrick Hernandez's "Born to Be Alive" from 1979, and Bleachers will cover "Instant Karma!" by John Lennon, originally released in 1970.

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