Taylor Swift covers Phil Collins’ “Can’t Cease Loving You” on BBC Radio’s Dwell Lounge: Stream
Taylor Swift’s new file, Lover, is a licensed smash, debuting with the best week-one numbers of any launch since her final album, 2017’s Status. So whereas she clearly doesn’t want the promo, the pop star stopped by BBC Radio 1 not too long ago to kick off Dwell Lounge Month with a deal with of a efficiency. Not solely did she play 4 Lover tracks and a deep Purple minimize (“Holy Floor”), Swift turned in a canopy of Phil Collins’ 2002 tune “Can’t Cease Loving You”.
Talking to BBC Radio 1 host Clara Amfo about why she settled on the Testify single for her cowl, Swift associated the tune again to the romance themes on her latest LP. “The kind of love that this tune sings about is unconditional love,” she defined. “I feel true, unconditional love is like, do you like somebody a lot that you’d even love them in the event that they didn’t love you anymore? That’s what this tune sings about. It’s actually essentially the most unhappy, lovely tune ever.”
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Swift’s model of the tune provides a contemporary echo and replaces the percussion with a drum machine. Whereas this provides the monitor a much more synth-poppy vibe than its preliminary composition, it stays an affecting replace of Collins’ authentic.
Elsewhere throughout her look, Swift carried out “London Boy”, “Lover”, “The Archer”, and “You Must Calm Down”, along with “Holy Floor” and the Collins cowl. She additionally talked about her plans to re-record her early catalog in response to Scott Borchetta’s Large Machine Label Group buying the masters.
You may pay attention in to the entire thing over on the BBC’s web site. Swift’s phase begins across the 1:43:30 mark, along with her cowl of “Can’t Cease Loving You” beginning at 2:11:50.
For extra T-Swift, tune into Saturday Night time Dwell on October fifth, when she’ll function musical visitor alongside host Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
