{"id":70098,"date":"2026-08-07T14:50:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T14:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/07\/meshell-ndegeocello-and-cat-power-cover-the-human-leagues-dont-you-want-me\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T14:50:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T14:50:49","slug":"meshell-ndegeocello-and-cat-power-cover-the-human-leagues-dont-you-want-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/07\/meshell-ndegeocello-and-cat-power-cover-the-human-leagues-dont-you-want-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Meshell Ndegeocello and Cat Power Cover the Human League\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t You Want Me\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/18889-meshell-ndegeocello\/\">Meshell Ndegeocello<\/a> has recruited <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/702-cat-power\/\">Cat Power<\/a> for a cover of <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/7221-the-human-league\/\">the Human League<\/a>\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t You Want Me.\u201d The second single from Ndegeocello\u2019s duets album <em>Synonym<\/em>\u2014improbably populated with guests ranging from Chaka Khan to Bill Callahan\u2014builds the synth-pop classic out from a dub reggae groove, with Ndegeocello and Chan Marshall trading verses, conversing in the pre-chorus, and eventually uniting. Listen below.<\/p>\n<p>Ndegeocello launched <em>Synonym<\/em> with another blast from the 1980s, duetting with Cynthia Erivio on a cover of Aretha Franklin and George Michael\u2019s \u201cI Knew You Were Waiting (For Me).\u201d Other guests on the LP include Anohni, Brandi Carlile, Khruangbin\u2019s Laura Lee, Lianne La Havas, Moses Sumney, Nick Hakim, Madison Cunningham, and Robert Glasper.<\/p>\n<p>Revisit Jayson Greene\u2019s Sunday Review of Cat Power\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/cat-power-moon-pix\/\"><em>Moon Pix<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure data-testid=\"IframeEmbed\" class=\"IframeEmbedWrapper-sc-fixZhC fJBrNq iframe-embed\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/story\/meshell-ndegeocello-and-cat-power-cover-the-human-leagues-dont-you-want-me\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meshell Ndegeocello has recruited Cat Power for a cover of the Human League\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t You Want Me.\u201d The second single from Ndegeocello\u2019s duets album&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-70098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin","tag-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\/70098","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}