Bat for Lashes - The Boys of Summer
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Everyone knows the original. Such a great song, you gotta blast it several times per summer, right?
Here comes something that I actually think is the most perfect way to change this particular song, ever. This doesn't try to out-rock the original, it doesn't just stay in the original style but with a female vocal, this breaks it down to the barebones. It kept the melody and the chords, but also picked up on a few key features of the lyrics and ran with them. For me, this is a song of nostalgia as well as a love song. And by stripping it down to a piano and a bit of synth holding the chords, this is exactly what I'm feeling from the instrumental as sell. The Boys of Summer was always a killer rock song, but I never felt it captured the same vibe that the lyrics in isolation did. Boom. Here you go. Nothing's left out. No pace is lost. But there's just something extra special in the way this one is delivered that sticks it above and beyond for me.This might be better than the original, truth be told.
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