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Tame Impala “really happy” with how Rihanna’s cover turned out
By Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 1 February 2016
But what do Tame Impala make of Rihanna’s reinterpretation of their song ‘New Person, Same Old Mistakes’, which appeared on the impromptu freebie album she unleashed on an only half suspecting world last week?
As previously noted in your also free and routinely suspected CMU Daily, in her cover of the track from Tame Impala’s album of last July, ‘Currents’, Rihanna makes the song’s title all her own – by renaming it ‘Same Ol Mistakes’ – though the record itself is pretty much the same as the original. Except it’s Rihanna singing the words. Rather than Tame Impala frontman Kevin Parker. He not being Rihanna, see?
“The Roc Nation team got in touch with us here at Spinning Top letting us know that Rihanna loved the Tame Impala track ‘New Person, Same Old Mistakes'”, says his management team, while referencing her management team, in a note sent to NME. “They asked if she could cover the song for her new record. Kevin was more than happy to send it her way. We’re all really happy with how the song turned out, love it!”
If I was a cynic, I’d now put something about them mainly loving the royalty cheques that will be coming in from the Rihanna version of their song. But who has time for cynicism in this brave new world of freebie Rihanna albums? Though I bet they’re mainly loving the royalty cheques that will be coming in from the Rihanna version of their song, am I right?
