Jessie Ware – “Love, Thy Will Be Done” (Martika Cover)
Martika’s “Love, Thy Will Be Done” (co-penned by Prince) was notoriously known as the singer’s foray into lite FM stylings and the same goes for this new cover by Jessie Ware. Even as she was making her way toward becoming the UK’s pre-eminent pop songstress, Ware was garnering comparisons to Sade, who can teeter on the side of adult contemporary, but more for the overlapping sultry textures both women’s voices hold. Yet Ware’s ability to tug at the heartstrings and the bleeding of new wave nostalgia onto the track squanders any notion of this being Mom Music. Check it out below.
Devotion is out now via Interscope.