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  • I love you Scarlett!

  • i love her voice, so pure and real! love this style! mind im not so keen on her voice too low! xx

  • i love her voice, so pure and real! love this style!

  • She made Tom Waits music boring, what an achievement! Stick to acting please!

  • She has a nice voice, it's a good choice of song, but overall it's pretty bad. I mean, her voice is shaky and it sounds like she's struggling on some of the lower notes.

  • Can't get this song out of my head! I think it sounds great! Megan Fox who...who cares. Someone who looks great is ok I guess but Talented and can act is the complete package!

  • her voice is good only in some certain song..take an example in her album with pete yorn. Pete did the songs to be perfect for her voice.

  • I thought this was a live video of scarlett johansson falling down :(

  • she sux

  • I just threw up in my mouth. This is awful.

  • Okay, so, this is not something awful to listen to. Who cares if she never took lessons or something like that. She has a really nice voice I think. And I don't think that all the people who wrote bad comments about her know anything about singing tecniques. Just enjoy it.

  • Love love love it! She is, without a doubt, the best!

  • I honestly cant believe you people. Shes doing exactly what shes needs to be doing, not what every other female artist is doing, and being a little different. I for one think its awesome, for several reasons. Grow up people, and learn to appreciate real music.

  • She cannot sing.

  • @litaawhaat

    You are deaf.

  • @CloudX100 I wish I was so I didn't have to hear her. Shit was terrible.

  • @litaawhaat

    lol

  •  Hardly any good taste involved. Tom Waits is like the Beat poets, anyone can utter the name and instantly be hip.

  • yeah she's kindda like norah jones style :) loving it

  • Nekem tetszik a hangja sztem tök aranyos:)

  • pretty good singing :) i like :) scarlet you are soooo hot !

  • love Scarlett in movies and half naked in mags, but these lyrics and vocals are a joke.

  • @hearUme89 i bet if you knew the lyrics are originally by tom waits you would actually respect them

  • @hearUme89 lyrics are awesome. Vocals are abit shit tho yes

  • Shitty quality, shitty averts

  • My ears, my poor ears.

  • she is amazing! ans she is not even a singer... much better then kety perry and co

  • all though's who said anything bad about Scarlett Johansson all i say is , suck it !! and get the hell out of this page!!.Shes a great singer , an amazing actor , extremely beautiful and a 100% awesome person .

  • Why she is a bad singer? Because she likes to sing indie songs and nt pop songs like everyone else?, please dude Cand u be more basic? She es a good singer, Anywhere I Lay my head is a good album...

  • i love her voice.

  • oh man, this is terrible.

  • if your gonna cover an artist you like make sure its a GOOD cover.

    god this is painful.

  • stick to acting Scarlett.

  • ok so theres a beautiful girl who can act and loves tom waits enough to do a cover of one of his songs , and people are bitching about it? what more do you want from her?

  • @prestonhyysteria uhh, if she's going to make an album, shes going to get judged on her musical talent, not on her reputation as an actress. She might make a great wife, but she's just not a singer. If it wasn't for her fame, this wouldn't even have gotten released.

  • shockingly disgusting such a deep voice

  • @hinafarooq

    lol harsh...

    

  • @Rockspider2 loooooool sorry but its true :D

  • karaoke by the rich and famous. I'll stick to the Tom Waits original.

  • Shes gorgeous, a gd actress and now shes a singer, im sure its not knew to everyone else but it is to me. Shes really amazing.

  • she is so fuckin hot

  • The best woman to cover Tom Waits is Rickie Lee Jones, his former girlfriend. And this what I think she does: She takes the song. It's equally as emotional as Waits' singing. She takes the lyrics, gives her own rendition of the meaning and brings in her own style of singing. And now and then, some unknown artist on YouTube does something similar, maybe not quite as emotive as Rickie Lee Jones. This rendition... ah... well, Johanssen is on key.

  • Scarlett this is shit, please do not do this again. Tom Waits must be disgusted...she probably slapped her tits in his mouth and he was persuaded to let her make a mockery of his music.

  • God awful, not only is her voice mediocre at best, she has no soul. Tom Waits screams every drop of his soul into every note he sings, this is just scarlett johanson just trying to play musician

  • Let's see u do it better fuckface !

    Great job ! I loved it !

  • this is boring, she pretends like she has her own style but I find this too simple. why can't they let music for musicians?

  • she sounds bored, dont like it. what is it with actors trying to become singers and singers trying to become actors??

  • I'd like to lay in bed naked with Scarlet Johanson,listening to Tom Waits. She could humm me fallin down.

  • Great taste, Scarlett! Tom Waits is my favorite :)

    Beauty and brain and taste and popular. I don't know how she can do it all. Must be hard to juggle all this and be a descent person that she is.

  • @MrUncertain agree with all of this... but how do you know she is a decent person?

  • its what you would expect from a big boobed actress surrounded by yes people...

  • @holepigeon what does naturally large breasts have to do with anything?

    It's not like she needs any more money or fame, and I respect her for doing something original that she evidently wanted to do. She didn't do it to becoema pop star, she did it for herself.

  • @holepigeon I'm pretty sure I'd expect a pop album in that kind of a situation. If this was a huge soulless attempt at going into a new market or gaining publicity or making more money, the people surrounding her would definitely force her away from an album like this.

  • i love scarlett, but she sings terrible this song, come on! lets be honest...

  • This IS great!

    I'm quite fed up with people trying to "cover" everything, trying to sound like the original. Tom Waits is the only singer whom I like now as much as I liked him in the beginning. It is not possible to cover him - yet, Scarlett does not cover but INTERPRETS (nobody seems to notice that little aspect, according to all those sometimes really dumb comments), and that's fascinating, she really brought her own personality into it, most admirously. And, Scarlett, I love your voice!

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  • Anyone thinking about becoming a critic? No experience necessary!!! Is Tom Waits technically a good singer? ..Louis Armstrong? .. When I was a kid, Tom Waits didn't have the youthful fans that he does today! But I LOVED him! ~ Now, everyone I know acts like they've been breast-fed by him! - Who here, wants to hear a woman sound like Tom Waits? Hell, I've never heard any woman sing this!..and as a Tom Waits fan I'll say... Her voice is pretty on this one! ~ Bravo,Bravo!!!

  • thanks for trying but no...just bc I love Tom I'd never try to sing his songs. it woulnd't do him justice. she thinks she can pull it of? she's wrong.

  • "She doesn't have future as a singer"?

    I believe she does... and also as my wife :P

  • 71 persons can't understand beauty.

  • this is nice and terrible.

  • this is nice and terrible.

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  • she is not that bad and i like the song

  • sorry Scarlet but this is crap, get back to acting dear.

  • Jesus Christ! The horror!! Somebody put that cat out of it's misery!!! Animal abuse!!!

  • She doesn't have future as a singer

  • fantastic. i love both versions, scarlett is just about perfect

  • this is bad, and sad, and Tom Waits shouldn't be disrespected this way

  • amazing

  • sorry scarlett, stick to acting....good luck

  • i'm surprised. No strippers, no HIpHOP lady gag, just great Americana. Surprised!!

  • Oh my, stick to the day job is the right advice indeed. And yes, covers are hard, you're always inclined to say that the original was better, but 1) she sucks (sorry), but 2) tom waits is awesome and covering him is a task for much, much more talented people to try their luck at. I hadn't seen this before and wondered why this got so little publicity, but now it's explained.

  • Her voice is flat and boring...

  • she has a good voice! she sings and acts better than megan fox, anyway. (100% my thoughts and opinions, though.)

  • @funkyprettydust tottally agree with you on the megan fox thing,God she sucks!

  • @AngellaKeushgerian i'm glad someone agrees haha :D

  • @funkyprettydust Yeah! We can't even compare.

  • @funkyprettydust megan fox sings?

  • I prefer her when act..even if she doesn't a bad voice

  • this one sounds better than the album one.

  • i'll reiterate this.

    nobody can get pissed at scarlett for being a shitty singer while covering tom goddamn waits. cause guess what! tom waits was an awful singer too!

  • You have to say that you'd rather do SJ than TW......just a thought.

  • Man, Scarlett -- you just don't fuck with a good thing. Especially when you can't come anywhere close to said good thing. Stick to the day job, please.

  • i love this album, is very underrated, a great compilation of covers

  • OMFG... I love you Scar but singing is not for you... guess that's why she only have 1 album... XD You're the best actress for me... love you

  • i like that scarlett likes tom waits and she is hot but NO ONE can cover a tom waits song and do it justice it's just a losing game

  • i prefer the tom waits version more .. but that's prolly kuz its the original lol...she does ok covering it tho...cept she seems to be trying to sing in a deeper voice...maybe to mimic tom's? i dunno...not bad tho

  • She's got a great voice, but Tom Waits probably isn't the best person for her to cover. And her band sucks.

  • this song really sucks man........

  • I love her, can't help it...

  • I couldn't give a shit who she is - good voice - she's got heart.

  • quit while yer behind.

  • you know what it is? It's boring. That's what this is, just boring. It's got no soul

  • I have no problem with her voice, only with the arrangement. The music for all these Tom Waits covers just sounds terrible. They really sucked the magic out of the songs

  • Crap

  • The "imperfect" qualities in her voice is what makes alternative music ...well, alternative music. I can't stand her at all but I do like her voice, and it got better with time

  • tom wait's singing is unique and special and really touching. i love singers with a special voice, just as wanda jackson or poly styrenem but seriously, i dont know what she tries to do here.

  • Of course I like Tom Waits singing it better but that aside I just don't think she can sing.

  • Why do so many people hate on her singing? Seriously I lOVE it. Its so unique. She's a cool chick if you as me. Beautiful but also real down to earth.

  • think her songs with pete yorn is more compatible for her voice. here she's just talking into the mic.

  • I love this...

  • Here is the reason why many marriages fail because the man finds his wife boring.

  • OMG she is so fkin HOT, dont be hating on her cause you arent bueatifull, can sing, and can act.

  • aweful voice

  • fiona apple.

  • music is dead to me now

  • She doesn't seem significantly tortured enough to sing Wait's songs. Too beautiful and pure. She evidently is not doing it for the money. You think she would have covered Waits if she wanted to reach a mainstream audience? Not a chance.

    Kudos for giving Waits a lash though.

  • I'm confused. She can't sing?

  • honestly up till now, after listening to all her other songs, I think this one is the only one that makes her voice come out better. She was just singing waaaaaaay too low in the other songs. But even if this one's better, I still think her singing is average. She's still better at acting :) but if she likes singing, let her be :D

  • i like her singing... even more so when with pete yorn... i passed on this album at 1st, then i got her duet cd with pete yorn... after that, i went back and got this cd, i really enjoy it :D...

  • I agree.

  • If we're being honest, the lovely Scarlett can't sing for shit.

  • her voice lacks the melody Tom's voice has .I can't listen to it coz i'm so used to Tom Waits' voice. And it's even harder seeing it live coz she's so young and pure, gaahh. I wish i could enjoy this. She's cool.

  • you're all such hypocrits, you could even lick her bottom ! Just admitt you like it because its scarlett johannson, she doesnt even have a beautiful voice, anyone on earth can sing like this !

  • i kindA like her voice

  • she doesn't have a "man singing voice". you know every voice isn't in the highest edited octave like all that pop shit. you're obviously just closed minded and can't appreciate a beautiful, different voice.

  • she has a man voice singing, but you gotta love her!

  • he's not good at singing imo, but she sure looks good in a low cut dress

  • @Shokeybutsi Tom Waits not good at singing? You have no ears. Nobody can sing like him. He sings just about better than anybody. He may not be a great actor on film but his voice deserves oscars.

  • (continued from below) Like SJ needs the money. This is probably something she has wanted to do for a long time and saw this as an opportunity to try something new. Ever heard of that? Try something new? No, it's so much easier to just say she's not as good as Tom Waits and claim that she lacks passion. Besides, she's Scarlett Johanson. She's twenty five and already an amazing actress, what does she have to prove to you people?

  • @NillaWafer88 indeed.

  • Soo truth ;))

  • @NillaWafer88 I do believe doing covers is the exact opposite of doing something new

  • @d983394 What I meant was try something new for herself. Get the context?

  • @NillaWafer88 It's still god awful, but yeah if we all had her fame and money we'd probably all do something like put out an album of covers by our favorite artists and everyone would tell us how horrible it was.

  • I think she has a very unique voice and this is a great cover. Her voice fits right into this genre. People have always got something to bitch about, don't they? And Tom Waits is an amazing talented artist, but I have to agree that his voice wasn't that great anyway. And allot of artists don't have a great voice, but they have something special that makes people want to listen to them. And I think it's funny how people assume that SJ is singing for the money.

  • I enjoy her voice too and she is covering Tom Waits. So she "lacks passion" she is just straight faced. Leave her alone. We all know she isn't exactly "awesome" but she's better than a lot of shit now.

  • I actually like her voice.

  • At least she is singing music I like, I expected someting bad. But I have to say she has an exotic voice, i like it, it's not perfect but it's natural. Enough fot me.

    Her new album, with Pete Yorn, i don't llike it. (And i'm not saying that it's bad).

  • this lacks passion...that's really what it boils down to.

  • She's not trying to make her voice sound pretty, which is pretty commendable on her part, I think.  It could have been much worse.

  • i can almost guarantee most people on here don't even listen to tom waits, they just wanted to trash scarlett johansson.

    you can't really hate on someone covering tom waits cause of their voice. cause tom waits isn't exactly a great singer, but he's a great artist.

    if anything, hate her for trying to cover tom waits.

  • @TheStephenKent See, the only reason why she can aspire to be a singer is because she's already famous, but she obviously has no talent, she doesn't even write her own songs. It's not about her voice, it's just that it seems like hollywood stars need to do everything... when they are not even good at it.

  • You are quite confused, my good man, for Tom Waits is an awesome singer. Shame shame on you! :P

  • @TheStephenKent AMEN man. I loveTom Waits & I doubt they have ever heard of him for that matter.

  • help us god...

  • I actually kind of like this. Sure, it's different but I think it works. Anyway, she's singing Tom Waits music, and Tom Waits' voice is far from conventional.

  • think its alright got her album of his covers could be worse still better than most of the crap there trying to flog us

  • She's not a great singer. But it kind of works. I think it's funny how many people trash her for these covers. Have they heard Tom Waits' voice lol

  • Hey! Keep singing! Your voice is super originaaaal! like it! Like it!

  • you guys don't notice that harmony they have during the performance? i mean the power what she puts into her voice is exactly in the right place and all the instruments are so well syncronized. well there is sth different and real. and it is really unnecessary to hold your attention in meaningless places.

  • Its apparent from the comments here that the audience has not been very kind about her efforts. I wasnt aware and it surprises me because, on the contrary, I too think she sings lovely.

  • madò sembra 1 gatto ke se lamenta!!!

  • Painful, do you really enjoy the "bing,bing,bing" musical background? This is as close to blasphemy as you can get. Modern times, fake times, I can't imagine Tom Waits giving the OK for this cover, this is not real, wake me up, get me off Scarlett, I'll go back to the madhouse, she goes to the bank to cash in, despair, oblivion, numbness, happy to be done (read some other four letter word) by you, throw me in a common grave, relax, buy insurance, all is good, is scarlet t a colour?

  • I can't help but wonder how many people who comment on Scarlett's voice are actually trained singers.

  • @TheBohemianTenor - I would imagine the proportion is low.

  • Scarlett....singing's not for you, sweetie.

  • this isnt live at all audio straight from the record..

  • I actually like this song now, the first time I heard it i was like,"Oh my gosh, what an awful cover!" But now I change my mind.

    Its sort starts growing on you.

  • I think she did very good, she just has a lower voice tan most people are used to! Her voice is so natural and nice compared to what we hear on pop radio today! I love it!

  • her voice kind of reminds me of a mix between Tori Amos, Kimya Dawson and Alison Moyet. really unique and beautiful.

  • Now here is a person who knows good music....KUDOS!!!!

  • She sings so bad, but she have style and believe in her song...

    I like that,

    that sohould be rock,

    her group is really good

  • I'm not going to knock a chick that likes Tom Waits. They are hard to come by!!

  • this isnt bad really, it doesnt sound to be like, off or awkward, or through her nose, i dont see anything wrong with it.

  • it's really really baad, but that is somehow part of it's possibly insane charm~

  • I love how everyone trashed her for making an album like Anywhere I Lay My Head and then she's built up again by her collaboration with Pete Yorn.

  • Shes terrible live

  • No....just no! Haha

  • Prefer this to the studio version.

  • Great version of the Tom Waits song - very believable - love her voice - the band is killer

  • great smokey voice

  • good god, sounds like really drunk karaoke... suits the song.

  • i liker her voice in some way. the good thing too is she isn't singing pop. it wasn't that great of course. but it's unique. and what makes her voice good is because it sounds natural. it sounds raw. i like it.

  • still terrible i never thought there was someone who thought they could sing when they don't she is too bad plz someone tell her !! why doesn't she just accept her limitations ? this is really terrible and i wonder where the hell is simon cowell with his evil comments when he is needed?

  • Simply exquisite. musicians and so called authorities, catch the next rocket out I say

  • Look here on youtube: the duo "Lo Casual" will hear and see a singer

    as beautiful as Scarlett

  • She has a pout and a pert pair, but seriously why is she dredging up this crap? Can not A-list celebrities accept their talent limitations. This is doing her a great disservice.

  • I think it's good. In a way.

  • As a fellow musician, I find it very evident in the way Scarlett presents herself on stage and in front of a microphone, that it is not natural to her. She doesn't seem completely comfortable and looks some what awkward, so lets just say she is much better at acting but its cool that she's trying something different. Everyone could use more music in their lives

  • well, for being an actress she still sing better than some pop-stars... anyway here Scarlett is actually not that good, I think she's much better in the stuff she's done together with Pete Yorn

  • well at least she doesnt use autotune lol

  • Ummmmm. Yeah. Luv the acting. Not a fan of the singing. Sorry. Ew

  • I wish I'd never hear her singing...

    aough...

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  • Scarlett Johansson needs singing lessons from Alanis Morissette! LOL

    She might be a cute-blonde but she can´t sing.