In today's random Michael Bolton news, the singer recently signed onto Genius to annotate Kanye West's "Never Let Me Down," which samples Blackjack's "Maybe It's the Power of Love." While Bolton said that he was surprised that they reached out to him, he revealed he was flattered, but wanted to first approve of the song and it's content before he signed off on it. Of course, Bolton was very happy with it and even called the outcome beautiful. The full annotation can be found below.
When Kanye and Jay-Z’s publishing reps reached out to me about clearing this sample, I was surprised and flattered I wrote this song in the early 80s. If you told me back then that 20 years later it would have a second life in the work of two great hip hop artists, I would have called you crazy! Happy as I was, I wanted to make sure that I was cool with the content of the song before giving the go-ahead. So I had them send me the lyrics. I read them, and I thought “I love this. It’s great. What a positive message.” And the song turned out beautifully — I’m totally happy with it
