I’m really not a huge fan of remixes, but I happen to love this Lily Allen song and actually Doctor Rosen Rosen does a pretty decent job at remixing this song without drums but with piano, strings, harp, synths, glockenspiel…
This is the second remix of a Lily Allen song by this LA based producer/artist, having first remixed Lily Allen’s song F**k You.
Listen below, and allow the sounds to deliver some aural pleasures to you….
Lily Allen – The Fear (Doctor Rosen Rosen Remix)
July 14th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
The trouble with that track is that The Fear’s such an intensely personal song I think Lily needs to be front & centre for it to work.
The original makes a good strong connection with Lily in the beginning… and then the whole thing gets too noisy and busy and the entire feel changes – which is maybe a deliberate nod at the nature of the fame machine.
This version… I like the overall feel and its more barren nature promised a lot. But she’s never high enough in the mix to make that connection that the original does.
Overall, interesting and pleasant but not a replacement for the original. Thanks for the post though.