{"id":20018,"date":"2014-01-09T17:31:41","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T01:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=20018"},"modified":"2014-01-10T17:20:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T01:20:27","slug":"watch-chvrches-cover-janelle-monaes-tightrope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2014-01\/watch-chvrches-cover-janelle-monaes-tightrope\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Chvrches Cover Janelle Mon\u00e1e’s “Tightrope”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You know, we try. Hard. But sometimes we just completely miss the boat.\u00a0 Take, for example, Scottish synth-pop band Chvrches<\/strong> and their 2013 debut album,\u00a0The Bones of What You Believe<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 In the past month, we’ve seen their album regularly showing up (often at the top) on the Best Albums of 2013<\/strong> lists, and we’ve finally taken the time to listen in and watch, and now fully agree with this critical wave.\u00a0 And so we’ve been digging in and discovering all that we had been missing in the band.\u00a0 We’ll have more to report soon in case you are not fully familiar with this fine outfit.<\/p>\n

We’re finally acknowledging our Chvrches<\/strong> dereliction today because Billboard<\/strong> today released a video of Chvrches’<\/strong> live cover of Janelle Mon\u00e1e’s Tightrope <\/em><\/strong>at Billboard’s Women In Music<\/strong> luncheon held in December (I know Sufjan<\/strong>, the prepositions!<\/a>).\u00a0 At the luncheon, Mon\u00e1e<\/strong> and Pink<\/strong> were given awards (Mon\u00e1e <\/strong>was justly given the “Rising Star”<\/strong> award).\u00a0 And each artist had one of their song’s covered by other female artists.\u00a0 Tegan And Sara<\/strong> performed a Pink<\/strong> song (whatevs) and Chvrches<\/strong> covered\u00a0 Mon\u00e1e<\/strong>.\u00a0 Chvrches\u2019<\/strong> performance of Mon\u00e1e<\/strong>‘s song took us aback, and particularly after the heartfelt introduction by lead-singer Lauren Mayberry<\/strong> in which she fondly recalls speaking with\u00a0Mon\u00e1e<\/strong> the night before.\u00a0 You can hear Mayberry’s<\/strong> nerves a bit in the performance (who can blame her given the astoundingly-talented Mon\u00e1e’s <\/strong>presence?), but it’s a completely captivating cool-groove rendition.\u00a0 And you have to love Mon\u00e1e<\/strong>‘s gracious standing and dancing during the performance.\u00a0 Too cool.\u00a0 Check it out below.<\/p>\n

Oh, and while we’re at it, following the Chvrches<\/strong> cover, do yourselves a favor and watch Mon\u00e1e<\/strong>‘s incendiary performance of the song on the Letterman Show<\/strong> in 2010. \u00a0One of the best late night performances of all time and one of our Best Songs of 2010<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n