David Hasselhoff (!) to go Metal?

From the "I swear I am not making this up" file...

Former "Knight Rider" and "Baywatch" star, German singing sensation, and all around pop culture punch line David Hasselhoff sez he wants to "record a couple of heavy metal songs" for his next album.

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/david-hasselhoff-to-record-a-couple-of-heavy-metal-songs-for-his-next-studio-album/

Best comment under the article so far: "FUCKING HOFFSTYLE!"

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David Hasselhoff has told the German news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur that he is recording "a couple of heavy metal songs" for his next studio album. The 66-year-old "Baywatch" and "Knight Rider" star said: "Why not? I do not have an album title yet, but it should read: 'Everything is allowed'. I do everything. Because I can. Because I want to."

Hasselhoff has a successful singing career in Germany and neighboring Austria, where, in 1985, his debut album, "Night Rocker", unexpectedly shot to No. 1 on the local chart. His second and third albums, "Lovin' Feelings" and "Looking For Freedom", eventually topped out at No. 5 on the album chart in West Germany, as well as being immensely popular in East Germany. The single "Looking For Freedom" was a hit, reaching No. 1 on the German chart, and was seen by many Germans on both sides of the Iron Curtain as a makeshift pro-unity song, according to The Post.

Even though Hasselhoff is of German descent — there's a village named Hasselhof outside Frankfurt — it wasn't his ethnic connection that resonated. "I think Germans rather like the American-ness about him," Hanna Pilarczyk, a culture writer for Der Spiegel, told The Hollywood Reporter. "Also, his music is very simple and it's something to clap along to. Germans like to clap along to very straightforward rhythms."

Back in 2014, Hasselhoff was invited to perform at the Austrian hard rock and heavy metal festival Nova Rock, where he appeared after IRON MAIDEN. He told Kurier.at at the time that he was a heavy metal fan. "I like IRON MAIDEN and METALLICA," he said. "That's the kind of music I like to hear."

Last fall, MINISTRY leader Al Jourgensen revealed that he teamed up with DJ Swamp to remix Hasselhoff's cover of Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline". "It was the most surreal project I've ever been involved with," Jourgensen told Billboard. "I didn't even have to take acid, and I felt like I was trippin' balls. David Hasselhoff has a new album coming out, some originals and some covers, and for whatever reason — and this is the part that still perplexes me since I haven't met David Hasselhoff yet — he decided I would be the perfect person to mix this. [Laughs] So it's, like, 'I'm game! I'll take the challenge. This could be cool.' And sure enough, man, as soon as I heard it, I felt like I was on some of Timothy Leary's best MDMA I've ever been on."

Does Germany have no standards anymore?

He’s pulling a Pat Boone.

^^ Bah. Hasselhoff ist WAY more tr00 und krieg than Boone.

He should do a full album of German metal covers.

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Honestly, it's about time. I always wanted Hass to go this direction. He's always had metal in his blood, I can tell.

I'm being serious.

He should start a band called “Night Watcher”.

Get it?

I guess he gave up "looking for freedom" then?

Troublezone wrote:

He should do a full album of German metal covers.

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The German Soundscan album sales chart wouldn't be able to handle that much awesomeness. It would melt down and implode.

It's the steely gaze, no one can resist.

He should do a metalized cover of "cheeseburger in paradise" and of course have an accompanying video.

He should cover Queensryche's "Night Rider".

I can't believe you small-minded so-called "free thinking metalheads". A lot of you still praise Fates Warning, even though they had ONE good song ON A COMP 35 years ago. There are a TON of W.AXL.ROSE fans here. Can he sing. Nope. Is he attractive like the Hoff? Maybe if the Hoff made sweet sweet love to a Marara Mole Rat. All I am saying is, the Hoff brought together good and evil then put on a sparkling jacket on top of a wall to squish together a lot of people who had been estranged.

If you have read this far, you know this is parody. But, to be honest? He really did some cool things for unification.

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I can't believe you small-minded so-called "free thinking metalheads".  A lot of you still praise Fates Warning, even though they had ONE good song ON A COMP 35 years ago.  There are a TON of W.AXL.ROSE fans here.  Can he sing.  Nope.  Is he attractive like the Hoff?  Maybe if the Hoff made sweet sweet love to a Marara Mole Rat.  All I am saying is, the Hoff brought together good and evil then put on a sparkling jacket on top of a wall to squish together a lot of people who had been estranged.

If you have read this far, you know this is parody.  But, to be honest?  He really did some cool things for unification.  

That pep talk made me think of the speech before they build the "Deathmobile" in Animal House!