{"id":54114,"date":"2025-12-18T17:45:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T17:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/18\/see-st-vincent-cover-david-bowies-young-americans\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T17:45:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T17:45:56","slug":"see-st-vincent-cover-david-bowies-young-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/18\/see-st-vincent-cover-david-bowies-young-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"See St. Vincent Cover David Bowie&#8217;s &#8216;Young Americans&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Artist also gives a surprising and perfect answer to whom she&#8217;d like to hear cover one of her songs<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThere\u2019s only one damn song that makes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/st-vincent\/\" id=\"auto-tag_st-vincent\" data-tag=\"st-vincent\">St. Vincent<\/a> break down and cry, and she covered it Wednesday night on <em>The Late Show With Stephen Colbert<\/em>. The artist, a.k.a. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/annie-clark\/\" id=\"auto-tag_annie-clark\" data-tag=\"annie-clark\">Annie Clark<\/a>, explained that she chose David Bowie\u2019s 1975 hit \u201cYoung Americans\u201d because she\u2019d previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/st-vincent-david-bowie-young-americans-love-rocks-nyc-benefit-1234694328\/\">covered it at a Love Rocks event<\/a> where she\u2019d met up with Colbert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tSt. Vincent\u2019s rendition of the song was a little more guitar- and rock-forward than Bowie\u2019s proto-disco funk number, and she made it her own with intense vocal stylings and some lyric changes. Where Bowie commented on the disappointment of American politics with the lyric, \u201cDo you remember President Nixon?\u201d (a year after Tricky Dick resigned), she invoked President Biden.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Young Americans&quot; - St. Vincent Takes David Bowie UNDER THE COVERS\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/glHbp7ukPZA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThroughout, Clark leaned into the mic, pantomiming the lyrics in her arm-length black gloves and cadet cap. Her a cappella \u201cbreak down and cry\u201d sounded operatic, and she even squeezed in another nod to Bowie (and by proxy another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i25uKE65iKk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">one of her favorite artists<\/a>, Trent Reznor) by proclaiming, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LT3cERVRoQo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u201cI\u2019m afraid of Americans\u201d<\/a> at the end of the song.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn a pre-performance interview, Clark said she wished Erykah Badu would cover one of her songs. \u201cBecause we\u2019re both from Dallas, I have on many occasions tried to befriend Erykah Badu, and it has not gone well,\u201d Clark said. \u201cShe has not been unkind; I just don\u2019t get a response.\u201d The others are Doechii (\u201cI\u2019m very into Doechii,\u201d Clark said) and the Slits.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tClark said the Slits, a pioneering post-punk trio\u2019s avant-garde interpretation of Marvin Gaye\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pSq3-lE377Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u201cI Heard It Through the Grapevine\u201d<\/a> is her all-time favorite cover recording. Unfortunately for Clark, a Slits cover of one of her songs is unlikely, since the post-punk trio broke up after the 2010 death of frontwoman Ari Up. But just like how Colbert called out Badu in the <em>Late Show <\/em>clip, <em>Rolling Stone <\/em>would formally like to ask former Slits member (and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/best-guitarists-1234814010\/viv-albertine-1234838406\/\">one of our guitar heroes<\/a>) Viv Albertine to consider a rendition of \u201cBroken Man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tEarlier this week, Clark performed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-live-reviews\/st-vincent-rolling-stone-holiday-party-recap-1235485828\/\">a thrilling six-song set<\/a> at <em>Rolling Stone\u2019s <\/em>holiday party. She performed only her own songs at the gig, including a rousing rendition of \u201c\u2026 At the Holiday Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/st-vincent-david-bowie-young-americans-cover-1235486701\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist also gives a surprising and perfect answer to whom she&#8217;d like to hear cover one of her songs There\u2019s only one damn song&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":54115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}