Scarlett Johansson's Tom Waits Covers Leaked on Imeem

The title track from Scarlett Johansson’s upcoming collection of Tom Waits covers, Anywhere I Lay My Head, was leaked leaked onto the imeem social media site on Tuesday, along with two other tracks from the album. All three have been pulled down, but not before a few people snuck a listen. Pitchfork said it was […]
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The title track from Scarlett Johansson's upcoming collection of Tom Waits covers, Anywhere I Lay My Head, was leaked leaked onto the imeem social media site on Tuesday, along with two other tracks from the album. All three have been pulled down, but not before a few people snuck a listen.

Pitchfork said it was "not bad after one listen; sounds... like the work of someone who understands her limitations and is comfortable working within them." Gorilla vs. Bear, which first posted the link to "Anywhere I Lay My Head" didn't offer much of an opinion either way. The Playlist, which first posted the link to "I Don't Want To Grow Up," weighed in with a couple of negatives:

We prefer her higher-ranged soft vocals on "I Wish I Was In New Orleans," which sounds like a lullaby out of a David Lynch movie or a Guy Maddin winter storm... [but most of the album] is sung in her manly, lower register and frankly, isn't as ex[c]iting as we hoped, consider[ing] the bevy of talent she was working with - David Bowie, the Celebration, members of the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs and Dave Sitek of TV on The Radio who has a knack for producing every record he ever works on to sound exactly like a TVOTR record.

The Scarlett versions are offline for the moment:

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But we tracked down the Tom Waits originals for your listening pleasure:

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