Macy Gray covers Metallica... again

by Jeremy Mersereau

August 26, 2016

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Nothing else matters to Macy Gray more than "Nothing Else Matters".

Ever since winning music’s equivalent of a participation trophy, the Grammy, back in 2001 for “I Try,” Macy Gray been intermittently vibrating in and out of the spotlight. In the midst of her string of post-2001 releases, Blues’ Clues voice work, and Fuller House cameos, Gray released a covers album, Covered, in 2012, which included her take on Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters.” On September 9th, Gray will release a new collection of other people’s songs, Stripped,  and it’s obvious “Nothing Else Matters” holds quite the significance for Gray, as she’s covering it once again.

Stripped re-imagines a suite of songs in the style of a 1930’s jazz club singer, the ‘Tallica track included. All the songs were recorded live off the floor at an abandoned Brooklyn church, and lack the usual studio-added sheen of a by-the-numbers, Mariah Carey-esque covers affair.

“When it first came out, I wasn’t a big heavy-metal fan — I always liked Metallica, but that wasn’t my favourite song by them,” Gray told Vulture. “I’d never really listened to the words — and lyrics are the most important part of a song — until someone was performing it at this nightclub. It was a non-heavy-metal version, so you could really hear the words he was saying. I just really fell in love with what that song means to me”.

Well, clearly it means a lot; it’s not every metal song that gets covered on two separate Macy Gray albums… sadly.

Hopefully Stripped will include a few more metal anthems in the mix, I think the world needs to know if Gray can out-rasp Phil Anselmo on “Walk”.

 

Tags: Music, News, WTF, macy gray, Metallica

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