Willie Nelson Singing 'Under Pressure' With Karen O Is the Duet We Didn't Know We Needed in 2020

[Pluvious]

Wow, this was very cool.

As "transgenerational' imho as Johnny Cash's "Everybody Hurts."

Willie and Karen O (of Yeah Yeah Yeah) doing their collaborative interpretive cover of
the classic Bowie/Mercury's "Under Pressure."

In a statement announcing the release of the recording, she [Karen O] notes that the performances by Bowie and Freddie Mercury are “so exhilarating you get swept away in the high of that duet,” which might lead a listener to miss the power of their words. This version is intended to be more intimate.
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... Together, the two sound like they’re making an inter-generational pact to the themes of the song. Willie is 45 years older, and the two come from wildly different backgrounds. She’s an immigrant raised in New Jersey in the eighties, while he lived his early years in rural Texas during the Depression; when, after alternating lines for most of the song, they converge on the outro to each sing that “love dares you to care for the people on the streets,” their vocals disjointed, it feels like a promise. The two voices come together out of time, out of harmony, to reach the same conclusion.
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... ”Under Pressure” was written in a single day by Bowie and Queen, which didn’t stop it from becoming one of the most famous songs of the twentieth century. In equally desperate times, there’s something thrilling in hearing that song in a new context.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/willie-nelson-karen-o-under-pressure

[paranoid floyd]

1. This is very good

Thanks for posting, I needed that.

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R

[Tanuki]

3. Amazing take on a classic! 👏