May, 20th is the date for Scarlett Johansson’s Tom Waits covers album release. It is titled Anywhere I Lay My Head. It sounds very promising unlike an average celebrity make over. Take this - its Waits’ ‘Falling Down’ — from 1988’s ‘Big Time’.
It was hard work for Scarlett, I imagine, considering how Tom Waits’ voice is very distinctive, as described by one critic as sounding “like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months and then taken outside and run over with a car”
There will also be guest spots from David Bowie and David Sitek. Here’s what Scarlett has to say about her ‘Falling Down’:
When I had the idea to do an album of Tom Waits songs, before I had even met Dave [Sitek], someone suggested I sing ‘Falling Down’. But I decided it was too corny for me to do just because it has the lyric about ‘Scarlett and me.’ But Dave hadn’t even noticed it. When I mentioned it, he thought the synchronicity was crazy and I never even thought twice about it after that. I was like, ‘Yeah, let’s do it.’”
Some say she’s better in acting than singing, I totally agree.
Check out the ‘Falling Down’ music video by clicking below.
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