Foster the People Build ‘Houdini’ Super Track With New Dua Lipa, Eminem Songs

Legend has it that if you stand in the mirror and say “Houdini” three times, Foster the People will appear out of thin air and play “Houdini x Houdini x Houdini,” their mashup of their own song “Houdini” with Dua Lipa‘s single “Houdini,” and Eminem‘s new single — also titled “Houdini.” The other option, if for some reason the idea of Foster the People spawning in your home is unsettling, is to hear it on Instagram, where the band shared a breakdown showing their process of combining the three songs.

“There’s two ‘Houdini’s on the radio right now, one from Eminem, one from Dua Lipa,” frontman Mark Foster says in the video. “Thought it’d be fun to bring in our OG ‘Houdini’ from our first record and you know, mash the three of them up together.”

The genre-spanning mashup finds Dua Lipa singing about being flighty in a relationship and Eminem rapping about his past opioid addiction over the percussive beat of Foster the People’s “Houdini.”

“Battle of the Houdinis,” Foster the People wrote in the caption of the video, adding a reference to Charli XCX’s “The Girl, So Confusing Version With Lorde” — thankfully not titled “Houdini” — at the end: “We worked it out in the remix.”

Dua Lipa’s “Houdini” appeared on her latest album Radical Optimism, while Eminem released his “Houdini” as the lead single to his upcoming album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce), out July 12. Foster the People’s “Houdini” arrived in 2011 when the band released their debut album, Torches. It became the fifth single from the record, following “Pumped Up Kicks,” “Helena Beat,” “Call It What You Want,” and “Don’t Stop (Color on the Walls).”

Foster the People will release their long-awaited fourth studio album, Paradise State of Mind, on Aug. 16.

From Rolling Stone US.