Miley Cyrus and her band do The Smiths

I think vocally she sounds like she doesn’t care.
 
I think vocally she sounds like she doesn’t care.

Also her body language shows she's not into it. Wandering around, picking up things off the stage, putting on bracelets, etc. Not focused on the song at all.

Still cool though that she is singing a Smiths song to a new generation of fans, some (many?) of whom will download it just because they heard her sing it.
 
I still think Moz should cover "Wrecking Ball" live when he decides to hop back up on stage.

I'd die. I'd die.
 
It's not that bad, is it?

Kind of Awesome: Miley Cyrus covers The Smiths in Philly on Saturday night -The Key / WXPN

Excerpt:

In the final third of the set, during a cluster of covers that also included Coldplay’s “The Scientist,” Cyrus dropped her rendition of this 80s anthem of isolation and introversion. Which on the one hand might seem counter to the singer’s ostentatiousness, and I’m sure many a music snob might turn their nose up at her perceived misappropriation of a cherished classic or whatever. She even acknowledges, in her cheeky introduction, that the song was probably not one her audience was familiar with – “I know they’re your all time favorite band, and you know every word.”





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Interesting that she chooses to introduce it via an insult to her fans that they "don't know who the f* the Smiths are."
 
What a bizarrely emotionless performance. It's like someone singing along with the radio while they clean their bathroom.

Is that what her voice always sounds like? I don't know enough about her to have an opinion one way or another, but it's not what I was expecting.
 
Funny this popped up, just read this on the NME site-

Some songs are far too precious to ever be tampered with: their DNA is so pristine and perfect that to twist them in new directions is tantamount to gross indecency. I still remember how queasy I felt when Mark Ronson turned The Smiths' 'Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before' into a horn-parping bellow-along anthem, all the subtlety and wit and humour removed to make way for some blaring, trumpeting reinterpretation. The horror, the horror.

I feel the same way about There Is A Light, or most Smiths and Moz songs for that matter. Although Arcade Fire's cover of London when I saw them live the other month was pretty good.
 
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Funny this popped up, just read this on the NME site-

Some songs are far too precious to ever be tampered with: their DNA is so pristine and perfect that to twist them in new directions is tantamount to gross indecency. I still remember how queasy I felt when Mark Ronson turned The Smiths' 'Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before' into a horn-parping bellow-along anthem, all the subtlety and wit and humour removed to make way for some blaring, trumpeting reinterpretation. The horror, the horror.

I feel the same way about There Is A Light, or most Smiths and Moz songs for that matter. Although Arcade Fire's cover of London when I saw them live the other month was pretty good.

Some of the covers can be pretty good, especially in a live environment, for example...

 
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This song is too scared for some twat in her underwear to be "singing" it on stage. I can't even listen to the original recording unless I'm in the right state of mind. It's not the type of song I can just happily drive along to. A lot of Smiths and Moz songs are like that for me.
 
This song is too scared for some twat in her underwear to be "singing" it on stage. I can't even listen to the original recording unless I'm in the right state of mind. It's not the type of song I can just happily drive along to. A lot of Smiths and Moz songs are like that for me.

You mean sacred? I will watch the video I just have to prepare myself, ya know, mentally for the horror that will be induced by hearing this ill-fitting cover first-hand
 
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Hmm. The problem is that she's probably never felt like that. She doesn't understand what the song's about.
 

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