"The cult ranges from TV cook Rachael Ray (who campaigned for their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) to art-song duo the Bird and the Bee (who recorded an album of their songs for Blue Note) to Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard (who wrote a paean on Pitchfork) to Killers singer Brandon Flowers (“Everything you need to know about writing a hit song, it’s in ‘Rich Girl,’ ” he said) to Gym Class Heroes’ McCoy (who has Hall’s face tattooed on one hand and Oates’s on the other). To such people, the current Hall & Oates moment is, quite literally, a renaissance. “Renaissance artists considered themselves midgets on the shoulders of giants,” says David Macklovitch, singer-guitarist for electro-funk duo Chromeo and Columbia grad student—a band he considers “an Erasmus or Petrarch to [Hall & Oates’s] Homer or Plato.”"
Surreal, anyway you slice it. I knew about the Bird and the Bee album--it's a work of real conjuration--but in no way did I imagine it represented such a groundswell of enthusiasm extending to, my God, Rachael Ray.
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