this is getting ridiculous

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I had to hear it so you have to.

KT Tunstall has only gone and covered 'Get Ur Freak On'. What a cunt. The 'rock-out' in the chorus is guaranteed to make you feel VERY nauseous.

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[thegreatesthits.livejournal.com]

!!!!!

I am actually something of a KT Tunstall fan but... what the hell?!?!?!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

the arrangement's pretty good, esp.the guitars at the start! is yr objection that she's projecting something onto the song that shouldn't be there or uncovering something in the song you wish wasn't there? (ie missy's inner blueseyness?)

the problem with the rock-out is mainly kt's own usual reigned-back professionalism -- she's miles off getting a freak on, but doesn't really have any perspective on pros and cons of same (i find it dull rather than sick-making: the only thing that annoys me abt her is the tenor of people's enthusiasm)

(haha the next track on my intunes random = crazy frog's reading of the dallas themetune which is MUCH better than this! cf ALWAYS gets his freak on!)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

i think my main problem was kt's complete inability to 'do' rhythm.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Why is Poptimists publicising all these 'indie covers of dance/rnb hits' anyway?!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

haha i wz gnna say WHY ISN'T THIS IN SüKRåT and then i decided i'd KEEP QUIET INSTEAD

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed it! Feels to me like an honest tribute (I like that she changed the lyrics to refer to Missy in the third person), and its tone isn't pitched at Ironic like so many of these Jo Whiley session covers are. The problem with trying to adapt hip hop tropes into rock tho is that there is no real rock equivalent of some of them. So there are a couple of laugh out loud moments in the transposition. Still, go KT!

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Eels' cover version is better. They change the lyrics from "Who's that bitch?" to "Who's that, Butch?". Because the drummer's name is Butch. DYS?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

oh my GOD.

[(Anonymous)]

Bands could do this fine, since the original's sitar part derived in the first place from "Smokestack Lightning"/"Susie Q" type riffage. But what this needs is a Hubert Sumlin or a James Burton or a Jimmy Nolen or a Brian Jones to make the riff slash and snap. But the guitar here just apes the notes. So KT's singing along in a bluesy vamp, and what's funny is that though she's really too demure to do an r&b vamp, and her being demure makes this very much not a classic, it does make this charming.

Susie Q. Spice