2010′s cornerstone artist on Madison Avenue’s nondenominational holiday mixtape, Vampire Weekend recently filed a BBC Radio 1 session. They came armed with horns, a maneuver with precedent (see: Flying Lotus’s own recent BBC performance, and/or Vampire Weekend’s KCRW stop-in). They also knocked out a curveball modern British pop-charts cover while referencing a fundamental ’90s R&B jam, a reference that should go appreciated by anyone who’s into the whole How To Dress Well/Wise Blood R&B reappropriation/revival:
“One day we were in the car driving to the airport and we heard a song that reminded is of KC & Jojo “All My Life” which is a very important song for people our age. We were like “This song is awesome.” Then we saw her on tabloids. Who knew she was famous?”
Answer: Viewers of the UK reality show Popstars The Rivals, fans of Girls Aloud, and after today, people who dig on curverball covers made into home run MP3s by the band Vampire Weekend. Grab it, if only to get “Holiday” out of your head.
(H/T Abeano)
The source:
Fair enough Vampire Weekend, it does sound like there’s some KC & JoJo in the mix:
Still a jam. Also a jam: Vampire Weekend’s Contra, one of our favorite albums of the year. Though, if I see that Hilfiger ad again on my TV I will probably need a new TV, because of how I will have just smashed my present TV. ENOUGH, TOMMY HILFIGER.
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She’s going to be huge in the US too when Simon Cowell ditches American Idol and launches his X-Factor brand next year. Just watch.
More interestingly Cole’s more recent single 3 Words (produced by and featuring the omnipotent Will.i.am) is, according to his contribution to Uncut magazine’s round-up, Robert Wyatt’s favourite song of the year.
Flat vocals…
I have an enormous crush on Cheryl Cole. Her type of pop is so comfortingly classic 90′s, where Britney, Christina, Aaliyah et. al. just had dance breaks in their videos for no reason AND IT WAS JUST FINE.
She’s our nation’s sweetheart. I’m not sure how this happened because she was a chavvy little Geordie in a girl band who punched a toilet attendant in the face and called her a “jiggaboo”, then disappeared into the charts with said band for what seemed like eternity. Then all of a sudden she’s back, a judge on the X-Factor (the biggest show on our tiny isle), a solo star and everybody loves her.
I can do translations for those of you with weak dispositions.
Vampire Weekend covers are always a letdown. The songs they write are so amazing that it often makes their attempts at covers look mediocre at best.
Totally agree. Contra became one of my favorites of the year. This Cole cover, on the other hand, was a bad bad choice.
I was excited when I heard that they covered cheryl Cole’s song, cause you know it always entertaining when indie musician try to cover mainstream actress . But this cover was flat, no energy, and where the amazing voice of Ezra , I expect more
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vocals are definitely off. why would they release that?