St. Vincent introduced her cowl of David Bowie’s ‘Younger People’ to The Late Present With Stephen Colbert this week – watch under.
The singer-songwriter – actual title Annie Clark – appeared on the discuss present on Wednesday night time (December 17) as a part of the programme’s ‘Underneath The Covers’ sequence, enjoying the 1975 basic with flamboyant rock’n’roll swagger.
Clark first performed the monitor throughout her set at Love Rocks at New York’s Beacon Theatre in March 2023, and this time round, she switched the long-lasting “Do you keep in mind President Nixon” line, invoking Joe Biden in Nixon’s place.
In an interview forward of the efficiency, Clark was requested for 3 artists that she want to hear overlaying her personal music, and she or he named Erykah Badu, Doechii and The Slits.
Watch the footage of her efficiency right here:
St. Vincent has usually cited Bowie as a serious affect on her work. In 2015, she spoke about how his aesthetic selections have impacted her, saying: “He had a myriad of aesthetics and was always altering – nevertheless it was all the time rooted in music. If David Bowie wasn’t an important songwriter, none of us could be right here in the present day, sitting and speaking about authenticity as a guise.”
The identical 12 months, she was gifted a guitar signed by Bowie by her then-girlfriend Cara Delevingne, which she described because the “greatest present ever in your complete world”, and she additionally included a Bowie track in a mixtape that she compiled for an 11-year-old fan.
In 2022, St. Vincent additionally created a remix of Bowie’s 1980 monitor ‘It’s No Sport (No. 1)’ for an unique set of mixes for Peloton to mark the addition of Bowie’s catalogue to their gear.
St. Vincent’s final album was 2024’s ‘All Born Screaming’, which gained three Grammys and spawned a Spanish language re-recording, titled ‘Todos Nacen Gritando’.
In a four-star evaluation, NME wrote: “On ‘The Energy’s Out’, backed by a laconic bassline and aching slide guitar, she shrugs: “No-one can save us.” It’s the sound of acceptance that there are few blissful endings, which is mirrored on the sprawling title monitor. Right here St. Vincent and fellow pop outsider Cate Le Bon dance by way of the album’s central conceit that we exit as we are available in – kicking and screaming – so that you would possibly as properly embrace the chaos. In ditching the artifice, Annie Clark has made her most beneficiant and open assertion but.”
