{"id":11032,"date":"2014-02-28T15:28:46","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T15:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=11032"},"modified":"2014-02-28T15:28:46","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T15:28:46","slug":"thunderstruck-on-the-cello-of-course-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/28\/thunderstruck-on-the-cello-of-course-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderstruck on the cello, of course it is."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2Cellos is a Croatian cello duo, consisting of Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser. Signed to Sony Masterworks since 12 April 2011, the two were discovered after uploading a music video of their cello-only cover of Michael Jackson&#8217;s &#8220;Smooth Criminal&#8221; to YouTube. The video, originally posted on 20 January 2011, features Sulic and Hauser facing off alone in a large white room, playing Jackson&#8217;s tune.In fact, before they became partners, the two cellists were sometimes considered rivals, competing against each other in music contests.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-11032-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2CELLOS-Thunderstruck.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2CELLOS-Thunderstruck.mp4\">https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2CELLOS-Thunderstruck.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Released in 2011,their debut eponymous album, includes covers of songs by U2, Guns N&#8217; Roses, Nine Inch Nails, Sting, Coldplay, Nirvana, Muse, and Kings of Leon. Their second studio album, entitled In2ition, came out early 2013, and features new twists on a diverse range of classic tracks with a few surprise vocal and instrumental duet partners including Elton John, Lang Lang, Naya Rivera, Steve Vai, Sky Ferreira and Zucchero. The album was produced by the legendary Bob Ezrin . Other tracks include covers of AC\/DC&#8217;s &#8220;Highway to Hell&#8221; featuring Vai, Coldplay&#8217;s &#8220;Clocks&#8221; featuring Lang Lang, Muse&#8217;s &#8220;Supermassive Black Hole&#8221; featuring Rivera, an Italian version of &#8220;The Book of Love&#8221; by The Magnetic Fields entitled &#8220;Il Libro Dell&#8217;Amore&#8221; featuring Zucchero, Karl Jenkins&#8217; &#8220;Benedictus&#8221;, and &#8220;Oh Well&#8221; featuring Sir Elton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2Cellos is a Croatian cello duo, consisting of Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser. Signed to Sony Masterworks since 12 April 2011, the two were discovered after uploading a music video of their cello-only cover of Michael Jackson&#8217;s &#8220;Smooth Criminal&#8221; to YouTube. The video, originally posted on 20 January 2011, features Sulic and Hauser facing off&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/28\/thunderstruck-on-the-cello-of-course-it-is\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Thunderstruck on the cello, of course it is.&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[201,132,447],"class_list":["post-11032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-music","tag-random-shit","tag-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-2RW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11034,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11032\/revisions\/11034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}