The Verdict on Scarlett Johansson’s Jeff Buckley Cover
Ben Barna
January 27, 2009
Anything I write on this site about Scarlett Johansson is an excuse for me to Google her, click on the image tab, and choose from a seemingly endless gallery of pixelated ScarJo wonderfulness. So when I read via Stereogum that she was following up her debut album with a Jeff Buckley cover song, I was all, nice!
So which lucky Buckley song gets Scarlett’s smoky treatment? It’s “Last Goodbye,” one of his best-loved tracks. The song is for the soundtrack to her new movie He’s Just Not That Into You (which coincidentally, BlackBook’s Editor-in-Chief was just not that into). When her album of Tom Waits covers Anywhere I Lay My Head was released last year, she escaped all-out critical assault by hiding behind the gauzy production of TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek. This time Scarlett braves it with nothing but a solo piano, letting her voice do the heavy lifting, and the results are good. Very good. The next time meanie bloggers attack her singing, Scarlett Johansson can and should tell them to shut up.
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Posted by sound verite' on Thu Jan 29, 2009 at 07.31 pm
yo’ I’m not mad at her.
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Posted by on Wed Jan 28, 2009 at 12.55 am
Scarlett Johansson “actress"actually is a clone from original person,who has nothing with acting career.Clones was made from stolen biomat.Original Scarlett Galabekian last name is nice, CHRISTIAN young lady.Clones(not only 1)made in GERMANY-world leader humans clones manufacturer,it’s in Ludwigshafen am Rhein,Mr.Helmut Kohl home town.Warning,H.Kohl staff strictly controlling their clones spreading around the world,NAZI type disciplined and mind bounded.Original family didn’t authorize any activity with stolen biomaterials,no matter what form it was created in,it’s all need to be back to original family control in Cedars-Sinai MedicalCenter in LA.Controlling clones is US military operation.Original Scarlett never was engaged,by the way