Alice Skye’s Like A Version Is One Of The Best Of The Year
Simply stunning.
We’ve had a some Like A Version bangers lately — from Dallas Woods and Kee’ahn’s ‘What’s Luv’, to Allday’s TikTok-inspired hot mess, to, of course, whatever the fuck that Wiggles fever dream was.
But today’s might just pip them all at the post. Naarm/Melbourne artist Alice Skye dropped by the triple j studios this week for her run at the famous segment, choosing to cover Cub Sport’s pop heartbreaker ‘Come On Mess Me Up’. She doesn’t mess with the original arrangement too much, and her vocals are more than capable of holding Tim Nelson’s sweeping melody. It’s completely goosebump-inducing.
“These lyrics are so devastating and beautiful,” Skye said in the accompanying interview. “I feel like it just tells a story. ‘Fell in love with avoiding problems, that was the problem’, I feel like so many people can relate to that. I can for sure.”
She also performed her new single ‘Party Tricks’, taken from her upcoming second album, I Feel Better But I Don’t Feel Good, which will be landing July 24. She’ll also be zipping round the country on tour throughout June and July with Elizabeth.
Watch both performances below.
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