Song des Tages #2: Karen O – „Bullet With Butterfly Wings“

Nicht erst seit ihren Beiträgen zu Spike Jonzes Kinderbuchverfilmung „Wo die wilden Kerle wohnen“ (im Original: „Where The Wild Things Are„) weiß man: Karen O kann Soundtracks.

Nun hat sich die umtriebige Yeah Yeah Yeahs-Frontfrau, die erst vor wenigen Tagen ein gemeinsames Album mit Danger Mouse veröffentlicht hat, den Smashing Pumpkins-Smasher „Bullet With Butterfly Wings“ vorgenommen. Aus dem ebenso wuchtigen wie mitreißenden Alternative-Rock-Song, seinerzeit (meint: anno 1995) auf dem Pumpkins-Meilenstein „Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness“ erschienen, macht Karen O eine düstere Industrial-Version, welche Teil des Soundtracks der im März gestarteten Amazon-Prime-Serie „Hanna“ ist (und bereits im dazugehörigen Trailer zu hören war).

Und siehe da: selbst die sonst so kritischen Smashing Pumpkins um Chef-Kürbis Billy Corgan nannten Os Version unlängst „ein wunderschönes Cover“…

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„The world is a vampire, sent to drain
Secret destroyers, hold you up to the flames
And what do I get, for my pain
Betrayed desires, and a piece of the game

Even though I know, I suppose I’ll show
All my cool and cold, like old job

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Someone will say, ‚What is lost can never be saved‘
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage

Now I’m naked, nothing but an animal
But can you fake it, for just one more show
And what do you want, I want to change
And what have you got when you feel the same

Even though I know, I suppose I’ll show
All my cool and cold, like old job

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Then someone will say, ‚What is lost can never be saved‘
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage

Tell me I’m the only one
Tell me there’s no other one
Jesus was an only son
Tell me I’m the chosen one
Jesus was an only son for you

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Then someone will say, ‚What is lost can never be saved‘
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage

Tell me I’m the only one
Tell me there’s no other one
Jesus was an only son for you

And I still believe that I cannot be saved…“

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Rock and Roll.