Check out Tori Amos’ cover of Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Swimming Pools (Drank)’
nme.comTori Amos has recorded a version of Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Swimming Pools (Drank)’, with Buggles’ Trevor Horn. Listen to the track below.
The new version is the opening track of Horn’s new album ‘Echoes: Ancient & Modern’, a record made up entirely of covers, with the famed producer teaming up with a host of other guest vocalists.
The album came out on Friday (December 1). Speaking about ‘Swimming Pools (Drank)’, Horn said: “I thought of it as a kind of literate, modern American standard, a rap song open to reinterpretation.
I wanted something distinctly 21st-century with original, eloquent lyrics, and my longtime engineer Tim Weidner suggested this.” “Tori Amos took the idea of adapting Kendrick Lamar’s psyched-up swagger in her stride and made it intensely cinematic,” he continued. “I listened to numerous other rap songs but nothing seemed as smart and funny.
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