Now I don’t have sound here, but I heard this last night. Scarlett Johannson did an album of Tom Waits covers and this is the first video/single off of it: Falling Down. Now, before I heard it I refused to judge it. It could have been good, it could have been bad. There are very few people that can cover Waits well (The Eagles Ol’ 55 doesn’t work for me, the Ramones I Don’t Wanna Grow Up does, Springsteen’s rendition of Jersey Girl is stunning good and Tori Amos’ version of Time makes me angry, frankly) so I didn’t exactly have high hopes … but this?

This is painful. I could go into exactly why, from the vocal phrasing that just doesn’t fucking work to the vocal quality that doesn’t sell the song at all – but no. I am tempted to buy it just to deconstruct the fucking thing inch by inch but I don’t think I want to put myself through it, frankly.

Now, you may like it. If it works for you? Fantastic! It did not work for me. At all. So below is the video! Give it your own assessment!