Always a show-stopper, Antony Hegarty’s cover of Beyoncé’s Hot 100 jam “Crazy In Love” is a masterclass on how to cover a song: with its rearrangement and reinterpretation, this version projects the mirror-imaged flip side to the sentiment B and Jay-Z bottled in their buoyant club hit. Antony’s take casts the tune’s desperation in an entirely new light — from a confident celebration of irrational infatuation to one of hand-wringing loss of self-control — and the video does so literally: Beyoncé’s hyper-colored, crisply lit dance routines give way to Antony lurking in shadows, filtered through a diaphanous and murky haze. We’re unable to see him clearly, but really we’re just being put in his shoes. [Source]
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