Mid Morning Music #325 - ‘Shake It Out’ by Florence Welch [The Weeknd Remix]
I hate ‘Shake It Out’. Absolutely abhor it. On the flipside, I love pretty much everything The Weeknd has done this year, and this is no different. Basically, rip out the Epworth production (whilst we’re on the topic, rip out all of Epworth’s production, ever, actually, because I can’t remember when I heard him produce a song that really grabbed me in terms of production. It’s possible that the answer is never) and replace it all with enormous sexy drums, slinky synths, tender acoustic guitar and some whistling. Happy days indeed. Then take all the shit that Florence does with her voice in the chorus of the original out, with the whole ‘oooh, look at me, I have a powerful voice’ bollocks, and make it approximately 81.2% better in an instant. A thing of utter beauty, is this.