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Scarlett Johansson Sings Like “Tinkerbell on Cough Syrup”
8-May-2008
Written by: Nolan Maloney
Starlet’s ode to Tom Waits to have a distinctive sound.
Those worried that Tom Waits’s haunting cigarette-damaged melodies will be perverted into sickeningly-sweet girl pop, fear not; according to David Andrew Sitek, Scarlett Johansson’s debut album, Anywhere I Lay My Head, sounds like “Tinkerbell on cough syrup.”
The 23-year-old starlet, recently engaged to Ryan Reynolds, sings mostly Tom Waits songs. Sitek, founding member and guitarist of Brooklyn-based TV on the Radio, worked in tandem with Johansson on the production of the album. And, thankfully, David Bowie lends his efforts to two tracks. For some reason we are unsurprised.
Johansson’s rationale? “I hope people enjoy it,” says Johansson. “I’m not trying to prove anything on this album. I just love (Tom Waits’s) music.”
The album does feature one new track entitled “Song for Jo,” cowritten with Sitek.
“It was a memory of someone that’s very close to me,” Johansson elaborates. “A vague and blissful memory of my wanton youth or whatever. It’s a song about friendship, I think.”
Singing with Jesus & Mary Chain, making records with David Andrew Sitek, consorting with David Bowie? You’re making friends, all right.
Anywhere I Lay My Head is out May 20 on Rhino Records.
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