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As we noted yesterday, it shows real strength to unearth the passion of a certified classic by revitalizing it with a version well outside its initial genre. So we do have another cover today, but this one belongs much more to a contemporary catalogue. Which is frankly a great strategy for appealing to…shall we say…less adventurous listeners who fall in love with one streaming giant of a song, play it to death, and become curious to hear a different take on their favorite earworm.
That brings us to multi-instrumentalist-producer-singer-songwriter Lindsey Rose Black. Raised in Fort Worth and currently splitting time between LA and ATX, Black first caught our attention with her 2022 debut Subterra, an EP that showcased her Tex-ified art-pop-meets-indie-rock sound and delightfully down-to-earth attitude. Sure, Black’s discography’s been a bit lacking since then, yet rest assured, she’s got a ton of new original releases on the horizon throughout the rest of this year and extending into the next.
That said, Lindsey’s kicking off the streak with a sapphic spin on Troy Sivan’s smash hit “One Of Your Girls”. Just like how Aretha Franklin took Otis Redding’s “Respect” and flipped it into a endearing anthem of women’s empowerment, LRB’s version of “One Of Your Girls” is less a shallow lyrical gender swap and more a dream-pop powerhouse that’s perfect for Southern queers, especially the gay ladies. Preferences and orientation aside, anybody can appreciate the subversive positivity of this Texas-bred revisionist rendition, carried immensely by Lindsey’s calm-but-confident and thoroughly impressive pipes.
