Mutya Keisha Siobhan - "Lay Down in Swimming Pools"
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Mutya Keisha Siobhan
"Lay Down in Swimming Pools"
self-released
By Laura Snapes; March 14, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAG1_tvxtyQ
"Just finished recording new music with Mutya, Keisha and Siobhan and the girls felt like having a bit of fun at the end of the last session - enjoy!!" That's Blood Orange's Dev Hynes, who has apparently been in the studio with the three original members of UK pop group Sugababes recording material for their forthcoming album. It's only their second together following 2000's One Touch-- each member left the band one by one over the ensuing decade.
Hynes' presence isn't obvious on this quasi-cover of Kendrick Lamar's "Swimming Pools (Drank)" and it's probably not going to appear on MKS' new album, but everything here clicks into place. The band's voices sound glorious together, and they've even given Kendrick's lyrics a personal touch-up, singing about pleasing themselves in life and music ("I have found where I wanna be/And all around where I tread/Are the sounds I found for the love of me")-- perhaps a delicate "? you" to the machinations that drove the Sugababes in their various forms into the ground. They also flip the original's gender pronouns to sing about how "the boys wanna play Baywatch" around their ? pool, reminding us just how good prime-era Sugababes were at showing how intimidating and dominant a group of women can be in a club.
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/15125-mutya-keisha-siobhan-lay-down-in-swimming-pools/
"Lay Down in Swimming Pools"
self-released
By Laura Snapes; March 14, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAG1_tvxtyQ"Just finished recording new music with Mutya, Keisha and Siobhan and the girls felt like having a bit of fun at the end of the last session - enjoy!!" That's Blood Orange's Dev Hynes, who has apparently been in the studio with the three original members of UK pop group Sugababes recording material for their forthcoming album. It's only their second together following 2000's One Touch-- each member left the band one by one over the ensuing decade.
Hynes' presence isn't obvious on this quasi-cover of Kendrick Lamar's "Swimming Pools (Drank)" and it's probably not going to appear on MKS' new album, but everything here clicks into place. The band's voices sound glorious together, and they've even given Kendrick's lyrics a personal touch-up, singing about pleasing themselves in life and music ("I have found where I wanna be/And all around where I tread/Are the sounds I found for the love of me")-- perhaps a delicate "? you" to the machinations that drove the Sugababes in their various forms into the ground. They also flip the original's gender pronouns to sing about how "the boys wanna play Baywatch" around their ? pool, reminding us just how good prime-era Sugababes were at showing how intimidating and dominant a group of women can be in a club.
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/15125-mutya-keisha-siobhan-lay-down-in-swimming-pools/