I think this is better than the original. The Olivia version is bratty. And I like bratty and especially Olivia’s variant of same! But the Tove Lo version is just deeper and has more going on emotionally.
Video
Got Me
Now this is a hard song on the drums. Those polyrhythms! Damn impressive.
Out Wiped
This isn’t that hard as far as drumming goes, but Sina is so crazy precise and fun to watch, who cares?
She covers much harder songs of course, but that’s just big fun.
Rhiannon Live
I’m not a fan of a lot of 1970s music as most of it is boring pap. But this is an exception; this live performance is perfect. One of the top 10 I’ve ever seen by anyone I think.
Charis
I wish I had 1/100 the charisma of Hayley Williams.
And she accurately hits notes while moving around like that. How?
Future Tensor
This, though, is my favorite song of the past five years if I had to pick. It feels like the future. And it’s deep with allusion and infused with the hyper-reality of our age. It’s not beholden to anything but floats above it, relentless in both its embrace of the inevitable and the critique of it having to be. And it does it all with a buoyant insouciance that no other artist can match.
ivana – 23
Great song. And she sings clearly enough that I can understand the lyrics in a language I need it slow to grok spoken. Whoever they paid to do the lighting in that vid was worth every penny too.
Sofia Reyes & Danna Paola – tqum
This is very modern poppy but still a fun song and video.
Process
You can definitely tell how poorly-socialized and childlike a lot of Gen Z and younger Millennials are. That one of the women refers to herself as an “underage 21 year old” is really telling, I think. She does seem to have a mental age of about 9 or 10 so she’s not wrong.
Unfortunately, many women call anyone they are not attracted to “creepy.” I hope I do not have to explain why this is a very bad thing.
At least Courtney (creator of the above video) seems sane and normal.
Shelter
This is one of my favorite songs and also one of my top five favorite covers. That lady has some pipes on her — especially to sing Mick Jagger’s part and Lisa Fisher’s too (which is fantastically hard).
That song is only getting more relevant again (alas for us all).
Summer II
This is also an excellent version:
It’s nice to see an older woman do it. I’d murder god to bring Big Mama Thornton back so she could sing this song, though.
Boys of Summer
Great fucking cover. She has the perfect voice for this song. “Boys of Summer” has some of my favorite lines from any song, by the way. This stanza:
“Out on the road today
I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac
A little voice inside my head said
‘Don’t look back, you can never look back'”
So much meaning and allusion in so little space. I’m no Don Henley fan, but he nailed it there.
Daydream
Great cover.
Struck In
Those are some skills right there, ya’ll:
Her chair looks really uncomfortable though.