I heard Jay-Z's song Young Forever on the radio this morning and thought that it sounded very much like a song from the 80s. Being a product of the 80s - it cannot be proven (easily) that I ever had a mullet - I have a keen ear for the sound of the synthesizer. Sure enough, I learned that it's a re-work of Alphaville's 1984 Forever Young (video here). Young Forever (featuring Mr. Hudson) appears on Jay-Z's latest album The Blueprint 3, which also contains Run This Town (featuring Rihanna and Kanye West) and Empire State of Mind (featuring Alicia Keys).
Alphaville's version failed to reach the American Top 40 getting only as high as #65. As of today Jay-Z's version (video here) is at #33 on the Billboard Top 100, which was up from #44 last week.
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