Seems everyone’s got a free set of hands to massage Scarlett Johansson’s flailing ego when it needs a rub.
Following the soft slapped applause of Scarlett’s apparent “sexual awakening” to sounds of Bowie a few weeks back, imagine our delight when we received Anywhere I Lay My Head – her collection of Tom Waits covers – yesterday. It goes some hog to be the most glorious vanity project going, and even with TV On The Radio boffin Dave Sitek and Yeah Yeah Yeah’s Nick Zinner pulling strings still manages to leave ‘I Don’t Want To Grow Up’ sounding like a lukewarm Euro-pop rendition of ‘Kumbaya’.
Here’s the video ‘tape’ to ‘Falling Down’, originally from Waits’ 1988 live record Big Time and the debut release from the ample-bosomed horse whispering thesp. Somewhere in the background you should apparently be able to make out Bowie pining away.
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Anywhere I Lay My Head is out on the 20th of May through Atco/Rhino.
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as someone said on another forum
its like courtney love on downers
I love Scarlett....
and want to do several different depraved sex acts with her!
she looks so much like my ex girlfriends sister....
everytime i see her i ask, why did i pick the ugly one?!?! when i couldve been pretending to have been going out with scarlett :(
^^^^you got her number handy?
The sister that is not your ex.
Hi
This is your ex girfriend, I appreciate 'the ugly one' remark, luckily for me I have said much worse about you in public!<3
Can I have your sister's number?
it sounds like Nico
and is nowhere near as bad as the album's title track.
insult to Nico
Wow
She really cannot sing.
And why the fuck is Salman Rushdie in the video?!?
Good question.
And why is Scarlett allowing such a middle-weight author to fawn all over her?
I quite like the song, but her voice is just kind of rubbish.
Conclusion: Go and buy some Tom Waits.
She's got a very
errr, distinctive voice, our Scarlett.
Overall... what, 3/10?
This video link is utter shite
takes ages to load some wanky advert then falls over
She can't even nearly sing
and Sitek is massively overrated.
Erm...
I expected to be greeted with something at least interesting. The woman can't even hold a fucking choon. Granted she's REAL hot, but those vocals are piss poor. Comparisons to Courtney Love (WTF?!), at least she writes her own stuff and has a good/belting voice.
I didn't want to be that cynical about it but that video (with Salman Rushdie?!) is just awful...
it is pretty awful
shes still pretty though
She
sounds like Sinead O'Connor.
well
I was actually impressed.
Me too...
Not half as bad as I thought it would be. Her voice sounds pretty good.
Hmm...
Annie Lennox?
....
ozzy Osbourne?
I think its really good
I wasn't prepared for how *sad this song would be....the 'indie cool' pointomoter is off the scale however...
.
Good on her for showing a bit of substance.
agree w/ most
this is eminently forgettable...a musical dildo for Ms. Johannson.
The video is far worse than the song...pretentious, lame and without any cleavage.
Not very good, is it?
It's a pity her make up artist could not do the same to her "singing" voice, which fell down even with DB's help.
Still as long as you look good that's the main thing. And that space she's hogging at the expense of some people with real talent, well it would have gone to waste anyway.
meh
I preferred her old nose.
"...ample-bosomed horse whispering thesp."
Fantastic. 'Thesp' has scrawled a tidy entry in my mental thesaurus.
Wait...wait..wait..BANJO!
And here, we have on our left, a banjo accompaniment. Was it co-written by a Pogue?
Bit of a magical mystery tour of sorrow. I really like it.