{"id":174784,"date":"2025-10-02T08:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T08:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/174784\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T08:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T08:54:08","slug":"the-song-dave-grohl-said-was-the-easiest-he-ever-sang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/174784\/","title":{"rendered":"The song Dave Grohl said was the easiest he ever sang"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dave<\/p>\n

(Credits: Far Out \/ Exclusive Media Group)<\/p>\n

Thu 2 October 2025 3:00, UK <\/p>\n

The film Saturday Night Fever has tricked the modern world into thinking that two things are true. Dancing like John Travolta and singing like The Bee Gees<\/a> is easy.<\/p>\n

In the cinematic celebration of disco, the hip-thrusting actor moved across the technicoloured dancefloor with the sort of ease your average weekend club dweller could only dream of. And the astonishingly difficult three-part falsetto of The Bee Gees was the high-pitched engine behind this trendy new wave, fooling people into thinking they could sing along with relative ease.<\/p>\n

Because let\u2019s not forget, in 1978, upon the release of this film and the burgeoning interest of disco that it coincided with, singalong music fans were more accustomed to the gruff realms of traditional rock and roll. Sure, Robert Plant and Ozzy Osbourne could soar<\/a> with the best of them, but the palette in which it was presented was more conventionally suited to the masculine voice. But disco changed all of that, for better or worse. <\/p>\n

Rock fans pushed back against it<\/a>, defending what they thought was their right to protect \u201cproper music\u201d and tried to avert people\u2019s attention back to the likes of Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. You could say they won, giving way to a further three decades of rock supremacy, later led by the likes of Dave Grohl.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But Grohl rather ironically arranged heavy rock songs with disco inspired sensibilities, quietly highlighting the ridiculousness of music\u2019s reverse snobbery. While he famously labelled his drum introduction to \u2018Smells Like Teen Spirit\u2019 as a rip off of The Gap Band<\/a>, he later decided to pay homage to the flared trousered icons of the late 1970s, when performing on the BBC with Jo Whiley. <\/p>\n

Grohl said, \u201cWe\u2019ve been going down to our studio every day and filming things and recording things, and this one day we had our list of things we were supposed to do, and it said, \u2018Record a cover song for Jo.\u2019 And while we were having this conversation, somebody said, \u2018Hey, have you seen that Bee Gees documentary?\u2019 And I was like the last person on earth \u2014 the only person that hadn\u2019t seen it! So I was, like, \u2018Why don\u2019t we just do a Bee Gees song?\u2019 And someone was just, like, \u2018Okay, how do you wanna do it?!\u2019 And I said: \u2018Well, let\u2019s do it like the Bee Gees.’\u201d<\/p>\n

It was an unfiltered celebration of disco by a band that many rock fans would be keen to label one of their own. But while they might not have been pleased with the song choice, they may have found Grohl\u2019s experience of recording the song as relatively easy, as somewhat of a consolation and proof that disco is, in fact, an inferior genre.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cWe started recording the instrumental track, and then I thought, \u2018Okay, well, I\u2019m gonna go out and sing it\u2019 and let me tell you, I have never, ever in my life sung like that, but it was the easiest song I have ever sung in my entire life! I sang the song, and it was like six minutes and I was done. I should have been singing like this for the last 25 years!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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