Kanye West, the National, and More Team Up for Global Citizen Project

Kanye West, The National, and Ellie Goulding are among the first artists announced to contribute to Metamorphoses, a forthcoming compilation album from Global Citizen. Helmed by Mumford & Sons’ Ben Lovett and Global Citizen co-founder and CEO Hugh Evans, the project will include 12 new songs with crowd-sourced lyrics from around the world. More artists will be announced soon; lyrical submissionsare open until March 31, ahead of the record’s release this fall. Watch a trailer below. 

The Global Citizen project aims to end extreme poverty by 2030, as well as tackling climate change. Last year, the Global Citizen Festival took place in New York.

“We are very excited to explore the creative possibilities of the Metamorphoses project, setting the words of others to music and bringing communities together to fight poverty,” said the National’s Aaron Dessner in a press release. “Global Citizen is doing very important, pro-social work and we are honored to be able to contribute to it.”

In the press release, Lovett said:

Metamorphoses has the potential to break down our preconceptions of the voices of creativity, what different people around the world are thinking and who has the right to be heard. In my own life, I’ve experienced people trying to define me and put me in boxes and categories. Through collaboration we can show people how those lines can be blurred and are ultimately redundant. The artists involved in this project are some of the most genuine artists the world has to offer. Artists like Kanye West, and The National are doing something globally important that is touching people down to their DNA. And these masterfully creative people are going to be interpreting incredible submissions from people across the globe. It has been a joy reading all of the submissions we received over the past six months. I’m truly excited to see what we will create together.

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