Why aren't we talking about KELIS covering "Brass In Pocket"

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One of the best pop stars EVAH does one of the best pop songs of the 80s EVAH and I can't find a thread on it! And it's almost as good as you'd expect, or, a lot better if you expected it would be crap. It's from the "Just Like Heaven" soundtrack, or some such. I mean, it's Kelis FFS, she is great.

At any rate, it's a lot better than Alanis Morissette's attempts to do "Crazy" by Seal.

http://s22.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=26FE5E0L8LQF30GUVBYDKJKNO6

So talk about this, or link me to the thread where people have talked about this.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 02:02 (twenty years ago)

Well, it helps that it's Kelis instead of Alanis, and that it's "Brass in Pocket" rather than "Crazy."

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 02:05 (twenty years ago)

Actually, "Crazy" is a bloody fantastic song, and the production on the single edit of Alanis's version is brilliant, but her voice is completely ill-suited. Kelis, of course, is suited to absolutely everything because she actually can't do any wrong (except when she has other people on her records).

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 02:07 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I could certainly do with another album as good as "Tasty." . . .

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 02:47 (twenty years ago)

What a let down. It sounds exactly like the original. I was hoping for a fucked up electro version. I hope the rest of her new album isn't this normal.

― [email protected], Tuesday, 18 October 2005 03:45 (twenty years ago)

Kelis, of course, is suited to absolutely everything because she actually can't do any wrong

Except this. God, even Suede's version was better.

― login name (fandango), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 03:52 (twenty years ago)

karaoke

― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 03:56 (twenty years ago)

already shift-deleted

― ._.?! (fandango), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 04:00 (twenty years ago)

karaoke

yep.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 04:30 (twenty years ago)

screw dat, this is excellent. honey sweet.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 04:43 (twenty years ago)

god that Alanis cover is SO bad. I heard it in GAP, which was presumably my punishment for being in GAP (swift work there Mr Cosmos).

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 08:36 (twenty years ago)

where is this from? what will it be appearing on?

― okok, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)

It's from the "Just Like Heaven" soundtrack

― astor riviera (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

this is one for the dionne farris/macy gray fans.

― astor riviera (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

shit, scarlett johansson's version was better than this.

― astor riviera (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 11:41 (twenty years ago)

Wow, that really does sound like karaoke. She's not even very soulful on it.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 11:48 (twenty years ago)

Eh. I, too, was envisioning some sort of pared-down electro groove.

Never thought I'd say that, but Chryssie Hynde sounds so much sexier.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

She sounds like she would rather be somewhere else.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

I'm picturing scenes of people enjoying fabric softener.

― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

"lifetime movie network: your movie's on."

― astor riviera (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:09 (twenty years ago)

the song, she is flat!

― kevin says relax (daddy warbuxx), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

omigod that alanis cover is quite astoundingly terrible.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 24 October 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)

I wish this was better. I like Ultra Nate's cover from a few years back more, for one.

― brittle-lemon (brittle-lemon), Monday, 24 October 2005 10:14 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Actually i listened to the seal version and the alanis version back to back and i gotta hand it to alanis, she makes the song sound unreal. i love it

― OzBoi, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

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