i'd listen to this a million times over before i'd listen to any of the crap they play on the radio. i'm definitely not a fan of scarlett in films, but surprisingly, i love this- it's different. not sure why she'd do a tom waits album, but hell.. it's not nearly as bad as i thought it'd be.
It's your only option if you are the type of music listener who only listens to the shit that's fed to you through marketing studies and large corporate labels.
Do some research and discover that there's a whole world of music that utterly destroys ANYTHING you can find on radio or MTV... which probably only takes up about 5% of what's really out there.
So all in all, not bad. not Grammy worthy but certainly not horrendous. did no one else notice Salman Rushdie's cameo? or are there just no readers in the bunch?
Did Scarlett go to the Nico (from the Velvet Underground's first album) school of vocalization? If she's looking for some sort of "indie cred", maybe she should act in more cool flicks like "Lost in Translation".
finally...poor little rich girl! life must be SO hard having to cover up your tattoo for work. and by "work" i mean sitting there looking pretty, having OTHER people do your hair, make-up, and dress you. "work" as in sitting there while people film and take pictures of you, riding around in limos, accepting flowers from adoring fans. GOSH!
why is life so unfair?
if only people knew the real Scarlett, the pampered, spoiled, rich girl who has everything she ever wanted and then some.
life sucks...boo hoo...
go do some porn or something.
you're boring me with your emo coolness, little miss princess. go paint with water colors or write a poem you POOR ACHING SOUL!
::if this doesnt bring your lunch right back up, and make you want to fight her viciously for being a stuck up undercover hoe than i don't know whats wrong with you::
any chance somebody can offer a comparison link? Haven't heard much from Tom Waits, and am not likely to buy his songs so I can hear these two side-by-side.
...For free I'd maybe listen, but I wouldn't pay for his song AND listen to hers again. I don't think that's fair to ask of anyone.
She can sing, check out her rendition of Summertime, nothing special but this song really does nothing for her. I love Tom Waits but he's hard to cover, you need substance and credibility to even try. Starting your singing career with covers of Waits... she's not doing it right.
Okay, I'll admit there are clearly depths to Waits that I can't reach, but after to listening to his live version of the song (Thanks muchly, Vigilante!), I have to wonder if she thought this was a compliment to him, or if she even thought it at all.
Her version is like any one of dozens I've seen/heard kids do in karaoke-like booths at amusement parks. As if she doesn't know what she's singing about at all, but just picked the title out of the stack because her name was in it.
And then...his version. Like the voice of a battered and jaded Frankenstein, growling about loss and betrayal and other things I almost think I understand...after hearing Tom Waits sing "Falling Down," I feel sorry for Scarlett.
Damn the bitch is FUGLY without all that make up on lots of pimples and shit on her face ,and her singing hahahaha she sucks ass keep your day job bitch don't ever try to sing again you are horrible at it
OMG you people that like this are tone deaf! Listen to some of her other songs, her voice cracks...she is absolutely beautiful but sounds like a dog farting.
Here's the super bad part...you know that shit's been produced which means they helped her out. Can you imagine what she would sound like live?? YIKESSS!!!!!!!!
WTF? I didn't think it would ever say these words: she sings 10x worse than Ashlee Simpson.
And she is about 10X more produced. Her voice has gone through a synthysiser and more than a few filters to get that sound...seriously stick to being hot and flashing those huge melons scarlet
Just because it's not on the radio, doesn't make it good. I'm all for quirky voices like Bjork's or Beth Orton's but Scarjo's "singing" voice is flat and lifeless.
everyone who has something negative to say is either a shallow guy ("stick to showing your boobs"), or somebody with a penchant for hyperbole ("i found a new car alarm"). even if you don't like it, it's not loud or screechy or obnoxious.. it's just different. that makes your ears bleed? strange...
Someone said she has big lungs. Is that because she has big boobs?
That's like saying big feet = big penis.
WORSE THAN RETARDED.
Other than that, I love this. I think her voice is great. Just because she doesn't sound like everyone else doesn't mean she sounds bad, in fact it makes her stick out and I like it.
66 Comments:
Leave Your CommentWith those boobs, I can forgive pretty much anything.
By JAC, on April 29, 2008 11:42:26
Wow, I think I found a new car alarm!
By anonymous, on April 29, 2008 11:55:25
LOL 11:55:25!
WTF? I didn't think it would ever say these words: she sings 10x worse than Ashlee Simpson.
By T, on April 29, 2008 11:59:37
I don't know, but I like it. Maybe because it's actually different. She's not trying to be like anyone else.
By anonymous, on April 29, 2008 12:11:34
i'd listen to this a million times over before i'd listen to any of the crap they play on the radio. i'm definitely not a fan of scarlett in films, but surprisingly, i love this- it's different. not sure why she'd do a tom waits album, but hell.. it's not nearly as bad as i thought it'd be.
By anonymous, on April 29, 2008 12:33:29
Meh. Not so bad really. Voice not much "worse" than a lot of the other "indy/alt" singers out there. Kinda reminds me of Siouxsie Sioux.
And she has really big boobs.
By Fred, on April 29, 2008 12:45:36
@ 12:11
"Maybe because it's actually different. She's not trying to be like anyone else."
Yeah, that cover album thingee sure is different.
By anonymous, on April 29, 2008 12:48:00
BOO!
By anonymous, on April 29, 2008 12:56:17
it just sounds like she's talking melodically. nothing too surprising, or great- i doubt i'd get a one of them off of itunes.
By anonymous, on April 29, 2008 12:59:30
suck!
By anonymous, on April 29, 2008 13:00:26
knockers
By jonny, on April 29, 2008 13:04:35
it's actually quite good. i'm pleasantly surprised.
if you like the shit on the radio, of course you're not going to like it. it's a tom waits' cover for christ's sake, but she does it well.
the music is beautiful and her voice seems relatively untouched. quite emotive.
what? do you want her to sound like mariah carey or some over-baked, processed pop crap?
don't we have enough of that bullshit?
By anonymous, on April 29, 2008 13:11:38
Worse than Britney Spears.
By anonymous, on April 29, 2008 13:20:16
I can't stand Tom Waits and this impression of him isn't any better.
By anonymous, on April 29, 2008 13:22:17
Actually she fuckin SUCKS, Royally. So this is our only option, over processed timbaland/timbergayke or Scarlet Johannson and her yelping?
By anonymous, on April 29, 2008 13:26:50
I never thought she was that great looking when I saw her in Lost in translation, more like half way between normal and pretty.
By anonymous, on April 29, 2008 13:32:22
She's the next William Shatner.
By anonymous, on April 29, 2008 13:38:58
Hey, 13:26:50:
It's your only option if you are the type of music listener who only listens to the shit that's fed to you through marketing studies and large corporate labels.
Do some research and discover that there's a whole world of music that utterly destroys ANYTHING you can find on radio or MTV... which probably only takes up about 5% of what's really out there.
People freaking baffle me...
By Matt, on April 29, 2008 13:50:23
This song makes me want to stick knitting needles in my ear and cut off my penis for ever wanting to bang Scarlet Johannson.
<NO! Penis can't help it if it likes big tits!>
Down boy!
By etrigan, on April 29, 2008 13:53:12
So all in all, not bad. not Grammy worthy but certainly not horrendous.
did no one else notice Salman Rushdie's cameo? or are there just no readers in the bunch?
By anon, on April 29, 2008 14:06:47
I'm sure I would have noticed Rushdie, anon darling, if I could've gotten through more than twenty seconds of that video.
I like odd. I like offbeat. I like off label. I like different.
I don't like that cover.
By Vigilante, on April 29, 2008 14:25:40
Did Scarlett go to the Nico (from the Velvet Underground's first album) school of vocalization? If she's looking for some sort of "indie cred", maybe she should act in more cool flicks like "Lost in Translation".
By anonymous, on April 29, 2008 14:40:15
there is just too much to be said...
first of all, that song was horrible!
second, the video...sucked too!
finally...poor little rich girl! life must be SO hard having to cover up your tattoo for work. and by "work" i mean sitting there looking pretty, having OTHER people do your hair, make-up, and dress you. "work" as in sitting there while people film and take pictures of you, riding around in limos, accepting flowers from adoring fans. GOSH!
why is life so unfair?
if only people knew the real Scarlett, the pampered, spoiled, rich girl who has everything she ever wanted and then some.
life sucks...boo hoo...
go do some porn or something.
you're boring me with your emo coolness, little miss princess. go paint with water colors or write a poem you POOR ACHING SOUL!
::if this doesnt bring your lunch right back up, and make you want to fight her viciously for being a stuck up undercover hoe than i don't know whats wrong with you::
By SBimsickofthischickalready, on April 29, 2008 14:51:02
Sounds like one of those free iTunes downloads. You know...the ones that SUCK.
By anonymous, on April 29, 2008 14:53:31
It's a Tom Waits tune. No surprise that most people don't care for it.
It's a pretty brutal subject for a first album. Tom Waits' music is polarizing at the best of times.
Her voice is not bad at all, but this is not a fair metric.
-- A long time Tom Waits fan
By anonymous, on April 29, 2008 15:24:33
i like it.
By anonymous, on April 29, 2008 15:27:10
HOLY shiet tat sucked monkey balls! I thought maybe she would sound like gwenyth paltrow but this is beyond help.
By anonymous, on April 29, 2008 15:36:35
Show your tits. Damn.
By anonymous, on April 29, 2008 15:54:02
Hm, I guess some people didn't like it.
By anonymous, on April 29, 2008 15:54:30
Just bad.
By anonymous, on April 29, 2008 15:58:10
I guess just because you have big lungs it doesn't mean you can sing.
By anonymous, on April 29, 2008 16:21:37
My puppy ran away yelping when I turned on the video. I'm gonna sue her for my dog's intense suffering and loss of hearing!!!!
By anonymous, on April 29, 2008 16:33:32
any chance somebody can offer a comparison link? Haven't heard much from Tom Waits, and am not likely to buy his songs so I can hear these two side-by-side.
...For free I'd maybe listen, but I wouldn't pay for his song AND listen to hers again. I don't think that's fair to ask of anyone.
By anonymous, on April 29, 2008 16:59:18
I want to play her tatties.
By anonymous, on April 29, 2008 17:00:52
13:50:23,
I was responding to 13:11:38. How the FUCK would you know what kind of music I listen to. Mind your own and STFU.
Some people are fucking morons.
By anonymous, on April 29, 2008 17:26:30
16:59, here's your comparison link. It's a live version but you'll get the idea.
15:24, I agree it's not a fair metric. But as a long time Waits fan myself I can honestly say I don't like her version. It's too...pretentious.
Like a little girl playing at being deep.
And it's too clean. Give me Waits' gravelly grumble any day over this crap.
By Vigilante, on April 29, 2008 17:29:16
She can sing, check out her rendition of Summertime, nothing special but this song really does nothing for her. I love Tom Waits but he's hard to cover, you need substance and credibility to even try. Starting your singing career with covers of Waits... she's not doing it right.
By anonymous, on April 29, 2008 17:30:05
Doesn't sound like anyone else? To me, "nothing compares...nothing compares....to youuuuu".
Tom Waits is a total enigma to me. Sort of like Shavlik Randolph making it as a professional basketball player.
By anonymous, on April 29, 2008 17:50:58
I just played it backwards. I heard demon voices telling me to KILL KILL KILL ...
By MsWinoPowdersHerNose, on April 29, 2008 19:00:07
Okay, I'll admit there are clearly depths to Waits that I can't reach, but after to listening to his live version of the song (Thanks muchly, Vigilante!), I have to wonder if she thought this was a compliment to him, or if she even thought it at all.
Her version is like any one of dozens I've seen/heard kids do in karaoke-like booths at amusement parks. As if she doesn't know what she's singing about at all, but just picked the title out of the stack because her name was in it.
And then...his version. Like the voice of a battered and jaded Frankenstein, growling about loss and betrayal and other things I almost think I understand...after hearing Tom Waits sing "Falling Down," I feel sorry for Scarlett.
...maybe I will buy his song after all.
By anonymous, on April 29, 2008 20:14:03
F+++ MAKE IT STOP!!!!
By anonymous, on April 29, 2008 21:09:54
My ears are bleeding...who do I sue for this?
By anonymous, on April 29, 2008 21:11:42
My maid fell down the steps and died when I played that video...coincidence... I THINK NOT!
By anonymous, on April 29, 2008 21:12:18
Such a Hot Chick, and such a sucky singing voice. I could only bear a few seconds of this clip. Finger nails on a chalkboard come to mind.
By CAP, on April 29, 2008 21:20:55
WTF! THATS AWFUL AS HELL!
By anonymous, on April 29, 2008 21:45:15
I think it is supposed to read "singer", in quotations.
it's ok everyone makes mistakes.
By anonymous, on April 29, 2008 21:47:21
Damn the bitch is FUGLY without all that make up on lots of pimples and shit on her face ,and her singing hahahaha she sucks ass keep your day job bitch don't ever try to sing again you are horrible at it
By she can't sing for shit, on April 29, 2008 23:02:06
OMG AM I IN THE EIGHTIES?
By anonymous, on April 29, 2008 23:16:45
it sort of reminds me of cat power--that totally drugged out sounding voice that can still be very powerful at times.
honestly i don't think this is quite as bad as people are saying. at least it's not miley cyrus.
By anonymous, on April 30, 2008 00:28:50
I made it to 30 seconds in! Woohoo! Beat that
By anonymous, on April 30, 2008 02:16:07
OMG you people that like this are tone deaf! Listen to some of her other songs, her voice cracks...she is absolutely beautiful but sounds like a dog farting.
By cleonumb, on April 30, 2008 02:16:55
i'm surprised tom waits gave permission for this, he must be hard up for cash
By anonymous, on April 30, 2008 02:41:11
Here's the super bad part...you know that shit's been produced which means they helped her out. Can you imagine what she would sound like live?? YIKESSS!!!!!!!!
By anonymous, on April 30, 2008 04:34:19
Shhhh...
It's sponsored by Homeland Security.
They show the prisoner an enticing giant boobed woman.
But....
Then she sings with a horrendous voice. The
The conflict between enticement and revulsion is enough to break any man.
By JTG, on April 30, 2008 05:32:49
WTF? I didn't think it would ever say these words: she sings 10x worse than Ashlee Simpson.
And she is about 10X more produced. Her voice has gone through a synthysiser and more than a few filters to get that sound...seriously stick to being hot and flashing those huge melons scarlet
By PK, on April 30, 2008 06:38:58
Dear 17:26:30
No. You asked if those were your only options and I told you they weren't.
I don't care what kind of music you listen to.
Later.
By Matt, on April 30, 2008 07:33:08
Just because it's not on the radio, doesn't make it good. I'm all for quirky voices like Bjork's or Beth Orton's but Scarjo's "singing" voice is flat and lifeless.
I was more amused with Heidi Montag's 'Higher'.
By anonymous, on April 30, 2008 07:50:20
WOW I loved it. I am sure that most of the people putting it down are into Paris Hilton or Lindsay Lohan.
By anonymous, on April 30, 2008 09:01:37
Super Cool Song!!!!
By anonymous, on April 30, 2008 09:02:26
everyone who has something negative to say is either a shallow guy ("stick to showing your boobs"), or somebody with a penchant for hyperbole ("i found a new car alarm"). even if you don't like it, it's not loud or screechy or obnoxious.. it's just different. that makes your ears bleed? strange...
By anonymous, on April 30, 2008 10:30:48
I do not know! it reminded me of Sinead O'connor!!!!
By Bery, on April 30, 2008 13:45:50
...well...now my dog is on suicide watch. Thank you Scarlett.
-stop crying bosco, please stop crying...
By anonymous, on April 30, 2008 19:53:36
April 29, 2008 17:50:58
WOW. That was the very first thing I though of. And then when I came on the board I couldn't believe no one else thought that!
By anonymous, on April 30, 2008 20:26:19
Butterface...yay for tits!...I guess
By lala, on April 30, 2008 21:54:53
She should really stick with acting. And that video almost put me to sleep...BORRRRING.
By anonymous, on May 1, 2008 11:59:22
Someone said she has big lungs. Is that because she has big boobs?
That's like saying big feet = big penis.
WORSE THAN RETARDED.
Other than that, I love this. I think her voice is great. Just because she doesn't sound like everyone else doesn't mean she sounds bad, in fact it makes her stick out and I like it.
By ash, on May 16, 2008 18:13:47
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