Scarlett Johansson & Pete Yorn Should Never “Break Up”

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People criticized Scarlett Johansson’s album, Anywhere I Lay My Head because her vocals were hidden beneath layers of effects. However, this time, teaming up with Pete Yorn, Scarlett Johansson’s music career could flourish with the release of the duo’s album, Break Up. The idea came to Yorn when, after days of insomnia, he finally got some sleep. Yorn claims it came to him in a dream and as soon as he woke up, he was on the phone with Johansson.

Two years before Johansson released her Tom Waits cover album, Anywhere I Lay My Head, Yorn had already planned the entire album. He had hoped to recreate the magic found in the late 1960s recording of Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot’s “Bonnie & Clyde” and, despite not knowing what Scarlett Johansson’s voice sounded like, Yorn thought she would be perfect for the part. “For some reason the image I had in my head and the context of the project, Scarlett just seemed right for it. In fact, when I asked her if she would do it I didn’t even know she could sing. … I knew that she was very talented and it was like an afterthought. I was like, ‘Oh, I’m sure she can sing.’” (Alternative Press)

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M.I.A. Sits Down for an Interview with Pitchfork TV

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In these two video clips, performer M.I.A. takes time while at Diesel’s XXX party to sit down with Pitchfork‘s Michelle Suarez and discuss everything going on in her life, including the success of her hit single Paper Planes, her recent pregnancy and engagement, her being embraced by the hiphop community, and much, much more. She even mentions the upcoming release of a remake of Tom Waits’ Way Down in the Hole with DJ Blackstarr.

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