This Cover Of Rihanna’s ‘Desperado’ May Be Sexier Than The Original
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When season two of True Detective aired on HBO last year, it featured recurring scenes of Colin Farrell smoking and drinking and brooding in a dingy bar while some female indie singer performed just as broodingly onstage. Her voice was beautiful but haunting, an appropriate soundtrack for the dangerous (but HELLA DRAGGING) mystery unfolding around her. That’s kind of what The Kills’s new cover of Rihanna’s “Desperado” sounds like: a sinister, Western-tinged ballad that practically sweats sexiness.
Hot on the heels of releasing their fifth album Ash & Ice, the indie rock duo performed their cover of RiRi’s ANTI cut during a SiriusXMU live session. Singer Alison Mosshart’s bluesy huskiness makes the song sound equal parts sinister and sultry, while Jamie Hince slows down the tempo with his sparse acoustic guitar.
I like this cover... Rihanna's "Desperado is more renegade, rogue; whereas The Kills is more haunting, ghostly...it puts the song in a different perspective, but I wouldn't say it's better than Rih's.
It sounds like she's reading the lines as she goes. It's missing the actually desperation Rihanna put into it, which is fairly ironic considering the title.