Taste Test: She Drew the Gun updates Frank Zappa’s classic ‘Trouble Every Day’
The indie-rock musician reworks a classic song for today’s times.
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Blood has filled the streets of humanity since the dawn of time. From Cain & Abel to this week’s freshest gruesome headlines, we can’t escape it. It all is buried in the most macabre of human tendencies, particularly from those in political office. Psych-pop singer and songwriter She Drew the Gun (real name Louisa Roach) reconfigures Frank Zappa’s 1986 classic “Trouble Everyday” (from his Does Humor Belong in Music? album) into a grimier manifestation of these troubling times, updating select lyrics to underscore current atrocities. She dusts the words with a blood-boiling outrage, laced with apt nuance, of course, and as it squirms under your fingernails, you’ll assuredly second-guess what is happening right before your eyes. “There’s no way to delay / That trouble coming every day,” she purses her lips. It’s a knockout performance, sliced with a Shovels & Rope slink ⏤ one for the ages, truly.
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