Arlo Parks has covered Julia Jacklin‘s ‘Good Guy’ for Australian radio station triple j’s Like a Version segment.Parks’ take on Jacklin’s 2019 ‘Crushing’ cut – filmed while she was in the country for a tour that included Gang of Youths‘ A More Perfect Union festival – stays relatively faithful to the original, filling it out with warm synths.“I chose to cover ‘Good Guy’ because there’s this really distinct sense of melancholy mixed with a little touch of funniness,” the singer-songwriter said during a post-performance interview.“With this song in particular, it’s the kind of brokenness and the sense of defeat in her voice that I wanted to bring out.
Also, the recording is so incredible, I wanted it to be live instruments and I wanted it to be in a band scenario.”She continued: “I guess what I did to make it my own is channel my experiences of a similar scenario when I sing it.
I think a lot of what makes a delivery believable is someone putting themselves and their memories and their experiences and their traumas into the way that they sing it.”Watch Parks’ version of ‘Good Guy’ below:During the interview, Parks also elaborated on the longstanding affinity she’s had with Jacklin’s music since hearing ‘Body’ from ‘Crushing’ three years ago. “That was really the song that I think transported me into her world, and I became obsessed.
Then I discovered [debut album] ‘Don’t Let the Kids Win’ and I’ve been keeping up,” she said. “I’ve been a big fan for a while now.”In addition to ‘Good Guy’, Parks also performed her own song, ‘Hope’, lifted from 2021 debut ‘Collapsed in Sunbeams’.
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