Skip to Content

Musicians are forever pushing the envelope, honing their crafts, stretching their limits.

Or they’re just trying to get as many #1 hits as possible in order to sell more records and make more money to buy big cribs with multi-car garages and basketball courts in the basement.

To that end, artists frequently collaborate with other artists to experiment with style and sound. Sometimes they cross the genre lines and what results is… unexpected. 

Nearly an entire season of The Real Housewives of Atlanta was dedicated to Kandi Burruss‘ quest for songwriting credits in Country music and she teamed up with Sara Evans to make it happen.

Some of these collaborations are wildly more successful than others, but when rap meets country or when pop meets metal, it feels weird. So weird it’s good.

Here are 11 weird musical collaborations that totally work. Get ready to groove!