Scarlett Johansson covers the Cure

Roll over, Tom Waits, and tell Robert Smith the news. Apparently not content with reinterpreting the Waits catalog on her recent album, Anywhere I Lay My Head, Scarlett Johansson has released a live EP available now through iTunes, which contains not only her Waits covers but a version of the Cure's classic "Boys Don't Cry."

 

The original recording, from the Cure's very first album, was a frothy, bittersweet piece of power pop, probably one of the perkiest-sounding things the band ever committed to tape. But as with her Waits wanderings, Johansson has reinvented "Boys Don't Cry" as a narcotized, pass-the-cough-syrup blend of neo-shoegaze and semi-psychedelic haze. If nothing else, maybe it well help to raise the goth granddaddies' profile as they inch closer to the release of their new album later this year. 

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6 Responses

July 16, 2008 at 5:20 p.m.

Can she please do something of her own now?

July 16, 2008 at 6:29 p.m.

miss piggy sucks. she should go back to writing emails to obama.

July 16, 2008 at 11:43 p.m.

trust me, you don't want to hear her own songs

July 17, 2008 at 1:41 a.m.

@jimallen: Probably true.

July 17, 2008 at 1:55 a.m.

That picture is the cure for something. Ay-o!

July 17, 2008 at 2:12 a.m.

CHEESE.

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