Go Home Productions / X-Press 2 : Lazy (ft. David Byrne)

Here's another of my early favorite mashes.  This one is similar to Skee-Lo's "I Wish" in that I had never heard the original before hearing the mash, so to me, the mash is 'the original'.  And frankly, it's much better than the original.

Popular-culture-wise, there's all sorts of things going on.  First, there's David Byrne singing vocals on a track by some band called X-Press 2. Then, Go Home Productions takes as their base for the song, Kelly Osbourne's version of Madonna's "Papa Don't Preach".  That's like six different collaborators thrown into a giant vat and out pours this amalgam of rock that might be the best thing David Byrne has done since Talking Heads broke up.

I'm not quite sure how he did it, but the rock of the original fits perfectly under David's vocals.  Every little bit matches so perfectly, it's hard to believe they were two completely different songs.

You can't buy "Lazy" anywhere, but X-Press 2's original can be found on their 2002 release Muzikizum, and Kelly Osbourne's cover is on the 2002 single release, Papa Don't Preach.

[You can listen to Go Home Productions' mash of X-Press 2's "Lazy (ft. David Byrne)" by navigating to the post "Song082" and clicking or right-clicking on the title or the link.]

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