Today was the release date of the long awaited (by me) Audio recording effort by young femme fatale Scarlett Johansson,which is even more fetching as she is trying stuff by brilliant wiseguy Tom Waits. Like when her fellow too-compelling actress/enchantress/chanteuse Charlotte Gainsbourg tried "Five fifty five".. For me..I ache for it's blandness/
I so expected it's grandness.
Maybe it's because I've been listening to a lotta edgy Polly Jean Harvey &
Dresden Dolls lately but the lush & dreamy sound that Scarlett's producer was going for(Mr. Waits is truly a wistful romantic and lush is appropriate,but) was way short of what studio lush-legends Mr. Brian Wilson or Jon Brion might have succeeded at.
Maybe if producer/hero Todd Rundgren had been saddled w/the studio chores, and Scarlett chose from Mr. Rundgren's vast cache of gems to interpret, all mighta been AOK. Imagine her lushing w/ "It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference","Wailing Wall","Torch Song", or "The Night
The Carousel Burned Down" complete with all those gorgeously hishy glockenspiels & tubular bells & shit.
God, Todd could even keep Bowie for the cameo backups again,if he likes.
& mix it with a kiss & a part clenched fist
can you picture this?
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