I’m not the biggest Katy Perry fan on the planet…I appreciate her place in the world of today’s current crop of pop princesses and I recognize that she is capable of writing catchy little tunes. So while I am not a fan I also don’t have a distaste for her or anything, I just don’t like much of what she puts out. So with that in mind it kinda shocked me that I found myself enjoying her rendition of MGMT’s “Electric Feel”. I think what I dig about it is the rawness of the vocal…Perry performed it as part of BBC’s Radio 1 Live Lounge show (the conceit of which is that performers come on the show to perform their own songs plus covers of other artists songs). Perry slows the song down a bit and tries valiantly to hit every note which she does not succeed at but it is that added flaws in her voice that makes the whole thing really work for me.
Katy Perry – Electric Feel