For better or worse, I still relate to art echoing emotions felt in my youth.
Today I learned the Girlpool‘s Cut Your Bangs is a cover (hat-tip genius.com community) of a Radiator Hospital twee pop track. For months, I still cannot get that track out of my head, notably the chorus refrain.
Girlpool slows it all down and pointedly highlights via dynamics and vocal harmonies this:
When you lie to me
it’s in the small stuff
Get’s me in the feels every time … not that there aren’t other barbs present in the original’s (lovely) up-tempo scat. Props to Girlpool for upgrading emotional impact of a 2 minute song.
Apologies for crappy formatting and such.
Original: https://open.spotify.com/track/1JdGVa0eAPovycGrGV03SS?si=fLIQWAiIRqWAqs9XHy8L6g
Cover: https://open.spotify.com/track/75T4FO7bShVDfUN1ZDA9yP?si=ZY-bnp0gRmmKCrAJQw48Fg
Lyrics: https://genius.com/Radiator-hospital-cut-your-bangs-lyrics
Radiator Hospital live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8ToqdHsoxo
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