Personality deficient Scarlett Johansson has attempted to make a cover album which is released today. Taking it’s title from a song off the truly marvellous album Rain Dogs, “Anywhere I lay my Head” consists entirely of Tom Waits covers.
The fact that she can’t sing will only be the beginning of your frustration in listening to this album. Not content in sucking all soul and meaning form these great songs, Scarlett, whose vocals are so low in the mix it’s as if they’ve been recorded on a walkman, somehow manages to twist the melancholy, broken down and wandering-lost central theme of Waits’ career into a vacuous vanity project.
Here’s the video for Falling down, which contains some inspired imagery to go with the reworked classic such as Scarlett having her hair done, Scarlett having her make up done and Scarlett blowing some bubble gum on a bus…
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What a dire voice – the perfect accompaniment to her lack of acting ability.
A video so dreadful it makes me want to wrench out both my eyeballs and ear drums and fling them into a mincer.
I’m surprised one of the “Scarlett activities” in the video wasn’t a-bonking a variety of rather dozy actors.
Her version of I Don’t Wanna Grow Up made me wanna throw up just like I did in my bathroom last night. 2.30 am and I was feeling like Derek Acorah must feel before he’s raped by poltergeists (or is that Barbara Hershey?) I walked into my bathroom and unleashed a vomit comet of such incredible odour and colour I almost wept for it being lost to the swirls of the ever hungry lavatory.
I mean, seriously, who thought this was a good idea? Huh? HUH? I’m angry beyond cohesive sentences and eloquent diatribe right now. Did Tom agree to this? Hello Tom, hi, it’s me, Jen, you know, obsessive fan with tattoo pending. Yeah, yeah, listen mate, look, I know you’ve got a penchant for melancholy blondes with lips like scarlet hovercraft but come on, you didn’t actually AGREE to this did you?
Did you?
Ah well, what’s done is done and can’t be undone. I await the inevitable Bjork cover album by Angelina Jolie with baited breath (and loaded shotgun).
uhhh! i don’t understand half words in her cover of falling down…
i not heard of half these yet!?!
crazy women!!
jen aka Discordia waffles more than me most of the time!!
It’s alright guys, Scarlett sent me an email today to say that she’s sorry for the album and that she plans to sew her massive lips together so she can’t make an another. mmmmmmmm.
phew.
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=255934178&p=z55934884
http://community.livejournal.com/_tomwaits_/226006.html
- So Mr.Waits diddn’t know!!
- The only original tune on the album, “Song for Jo” and live journal don’t like tooo…
*i need get a job of reseacher or something*
Waffling is awesome, it’s a real skill. And you know, the arsewipe is taking it upon herslef to tour the album at festivals this summer… I weep.
My english teacher tells me for waffling as she knows i can write!!
but moving on.. this final word on this..
take her emotionless vocals away and i would buy it in cd format,
a nice wee tribute to Tom Waits.
well,
you like it or you hate it.