A treat today — Ben Sommer’s cover of Pumped up Kicks. Enjoy — I’m very sure you will.
Ben describes his recording of the song —
If you haven’t heard “Pumped up Kicks” yet then you don’t listen to radio. That makes two of us.
Yes the song is catchy but insufferable. I spent a few hours going through various Billboard lists before I landed on this one. All the other tunes in the top 20 – Katy Perry, LMFAO, Evanescense – gave me un-suppressible d-chills, so I chose this one. It also seems to still have legs popularity-wise, having crept up the charts for a long time.
I’m planning on the next album to be a compilation of Other People’s Music. I’m taking a queue here from web-famous indie pop band Pomplamoose who coldly calculated their way to fame by picking similarly wretched hit songs with the highest view count on YouTube, and posting their own re-arranged cover versions.
The video documents most of the recording sessions.
Its a pretty economical way to produce video.