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rfmcdonaldTom Jones's choice of The Cardigans as duet partners for the Talking Heads' classic "Burning Down the House" still takes me a bit aback.
It must, I think, have had everything to do with the contrast between himself and The Cardigans' frontwoman Nina Persson, she a small, slim Nordic woman with a sedately stereotypically European cool and a deadly coo, and he a big bluff Celt with a great bellow of a voice. The video certainly plays that angle up. As for the version of the song, well, I'm not sure how well "Burning Down the House" works as a duet, but like the musical pairing isn't the song selection an interesting idea?
It must, I think, have had everything to do with the contrast between himself and The Cardigans' frontwoman Nina Persson, she a small, slim Nordic woman with a sedately stereotypically European cool and a deadly coo, and he a big bluff Celt with a great bellow of a voice. The video certainly plays that angle up. As for the version of the song, well, I'm not sure how well "Burning Down the House" works as a duet, but like the musical pairing isn't the song selection an interesting idea?
