Thanks to colleague Garnet Fraser for pointing the way. Making the audience blind to the craft – that could be as good a definition of “artist” as any. Like pretty much everything Green has released this year, this new single - destined for an expanded “platinum” edition of The Lady Killer - sounds so effortless, you’ll be tempted to think it poured out of him (and unlikely co-writer Rivers (Weezer) Cuomo, among others) in exactly the amount of time it takes to listen to it. In addition to “The Time,” “Dynamite,” “Just Dance” and “Sexy Back,” respectively, this four-minute mash-up incorporates The Ting Tings’ “That’s Not My Name,” the Cardigans’ “Lovefool,” and Ellie Goulding’s “Lights,” which is the only bit that isn’t perfect.
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKEĪnd that’s just for starters. A cover of a relatively obscure track by British band Cherry Ghost (you can hear the original here: /peoplecherry), it is just expansive enough to qualify as progress. This new one isn’t so much better as better chosen. Subsequent singles, along with a couple of covers on her debut album - James Taylor’s “Fire and Rain” and Fleet Foxes’ “White Winter Hymnal” - sounded similar enough to feel mannered. When 15-year-old Jasmine Van den Bogaerde unleashed her stark version of Bon Iver’s “Skinny Love” early this year, it felt like a revelation. Together, they swagger their way through a progressively gritty cover of the Stones’ Some Girls track, which was plenty damn gritty to begin with. The latter is the prolific Philly rocker, who pays homage to his most obvious influence, Bruce Springsteen, on a version of “Downbound Train” that can also be found at the parenthetical URL following this entry. The former act is essentially Jennifer Herrema’s Royal Trux under a new name.
Credit Jules, however, for recognizing that the sentiment behind a lyric such as “I want you to want me/ I need you to need me” has an unexpected poignancy when set to slow, melancholy accompaniment. Though the distance between the original and new versions is greater here than on “Mad World,” the impact is, perhaps inevitably, less profound. Best known as the vocalist on the stunning version of Tears For Fears’ “Mad World” from Donnie Darko, Jules attempts a similar alchemy with this jaunty Cheap Trick hit.
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