Call Your Girlfriend

November 13, 2011 2:05 PM

Erato Covers Robyn -- Cottage Cheese Percussion Version (slyt)
posted by jtajta (19 comments total)

Like butter.
posted by triceryclops at 2:33 PM on November 13, 2011 [1 favorite]

That was very cool.
posted by sharpener at 3:01 PM on November 13, 2011

that was great. i feel the talent.
posted by facetious at 3:18 PM on November 13, 2011

That was really good. Anyone have any links to other songs by them?
I could only find the metal band with the same name.
posted by fruit sandwich at 3:41 PM on November 13, 2011

I checked out this video before looking up Robyn's original version on Youtube. Erato's acapella calls up the intimacy and sadness of the moment of breaking up. It is resigned and pensive in the style of Imogen Heap's "Hide and Seek". In the original, I can't hear it. It's like the lyrics were wedged into a dance track without any regard for the content.

...Not that a dance track can't call up intimacy and sadness, but this one sure doesn't.
posted by Grimp0teuthis at 4:50 PM on November 13, 2011 [1 favorite]

*Can't hear the emotion, I mean.
posted by Grimp0teuthis at 4:51 PM on November 13, 2011

I can't find any other stuff from them either but I did hit on an alternate recording and some.... interesting cup beat stuff.
posted by phearlez at 5:00 PM on November 13, 2011

Grimp0teuthis -- maybe I always misunderstood the song, but I always heard the song from the point of this cold, calculating new girl prodding the weak new guy to dump his girlfriend for her. The whole "say it's not her fault" and the script-like list of things to say doesn't really have anything to do with her! The new girl doesn't have any "regard for the content", she could care less about her! To me that is what made the song -- and the whole dance track feel of it all just makes it even more hilariously evil!
posted by This_Will_Be_Good at 5:03 PM on November 13, 2011 [1 favorite]

I've always felt like it would work really well if a guy covered "Call Your Girlfriend."
posted by en forme de poire at 5:20 PM on November 13, 2011 [4 favorites]

That said, this is great - and that cup game brought back amazing memories of summer nerd camps past.
posted by en forme de poire at 5:21 PM on November 13, 2011 [2 favorites]

I've always felt like it would work really well if a guy covered "Call Your Girlfriend."

That's a little bit brilliant.
posted by saturday_morning at 9:29 PM on November 13, 2011

They didn't do that auto tune vocal solo.
posted by nutate at 9:38 PM on November 13, 2011

I heart this. Thank you.
posted by Hadroed at 10:27 PM on November 13, 2011

I've always felt like it would work really well if a guy covered "Call Your Girlfriend."


Only if it was Stephin Merritt.
posted by bicyclefish at 11:37 PM on November 13, 2011 [1 favorite]

You mean like this? Apparently covering Call Your Girlfriend on plastic cups or boxes is a Youtube phenomenon.
posted by brokkr at 1:58 AM on November 14, 2011

I'm personally more a fan of using bottles as impromptu musical instruments.
posted by brokkr at 2:07 AM on November 14, 2011

You mean like this [yt]? Apparently covering Call Your Girlfriend on plastic cups or boxes is a Youtube phenomenon.

If that's a cover then my name is Stephin Merritt.
posted by en forme de poire at 6:28 AM on November 14, 2011

I'm personally more a fan of using bottles as impromptu musical instruments.

The guy in the middle with the neck is terrifying.
posted by halfbuckaroo at 10:10 AM on November 14, 2011

Previously...
posted by SharkParty at 1:11 PM on November 14, 2011