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"The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends, the experimental rock crew&amp;apos;s collaborative album featuring everyone from Bon Iver and My Morning Jacket&amp;apos;s Jim James to Ke$ha and Nick Cave, was first released to limited retailers as part of Record Store Day this past April. But on June 26th, the album will receive a full-scale, nationwide release. &amp;quot;I think the intention was all along that we would put it out (as a proper release),&amp;quot; says frontman Wayne Coyne, who attributes the delay to the gaggle of legal negotiations that Heady Fwends required. &amp;quot;We have people like Bon Iver and Ke$ha and Chris Martin, and they&amp;apos;ve got 12 lawyers that have to sign off on stuff and that usually takes about a year,&amp;quot; he explains. &amp;quot;We wanted them to do it over a weekend.&amp;quot;\r\nCoyne says the project&amp;#xA0;not only resulted in unexpected musical partnerships, but also intense friendships. &amp;quot;I believe I&amp;apos;ll probably be friends with Ke$ha for the rest of our lives,&amp;quot; he says of the &amp;quot;Tik Tok&amp;quot; singer, who is featured alongside rapper Biz Markie on the track &amp;quot;2012 (You Must Be Upgraded).&amp;quot; The pals are also exchanging ideas for Ke$ha&amp;apos;s upcoming LP, though Coyne admits, &amp;quot;I don&amp;apos;t know how much the public will see. We&amp;apos;ll do songs, and then she&amp;apos;ll take these songs and her producers and all that will take ideas from it ... Sometimes we&amp;apos;ve gotten together thinking we&amp;apos;re just gonna do one song, and we&amp;apos;ll walk out with four different songs. We&amp;apos;ll stay awake all night just laughing and just having the time of our lives.&amp;quot;\r\nNot every Heady Fwends partnership has gone so smoothly, however. After releasing a racy video for the Lips&amp;apos; collaboration with Erykah Badu on a cover of Roberta Flack&amp;apos;s &amp;quot;The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face&amp;quot; &amp;#x2013; a risqu&amp;#xE9; clip in which the neo-soul singer and her sister both appeared in the nude &amp;#x2013; Badu issued a statement on Twitter that suggested the Lips singer never obtained her approval for the video.\r\n&amp;quot;Believe me, I was warned and knew that she was an unpredictable freak,&amp;quot; says Coyne, who was on a plane when the online melee occurred and suspects that Badu&amp;apos;s remarks were spurred by her fans&amp;apos; reaction to the clip. &amp;quot;A lot of the Erykah Badu audience does not know or give a shit or will ever care about the Flaming Lips. That&amp;apos;s the side of it that she fights for,&amp;quot; he explains. &amp;quot;I didn&amp;apos;t take it serious. I took it as, she&amp;apos;s being controversial. A lot of the things that were said I thought were just fun, and it was fun to play along with. That&amp;apos;s the beauty of Twitter.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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