Womanizer (Britney Spears cover)

It's Not Me, It's You (Special Edition, 2009)

Superstar
Where you from, how's it going?
I know you
Gotta clue, what you're doing?
You can play brand new to all the other chicks out here
But I know what you are, what you are, baby

 

Look at you
Gettin' more than just a re-up
Baby, you
Got all the puppets with their strings up
Fakin' like a good one, but I call 'em like I see 'em
I know what you are, what you are, baby

 

Womanizer, Woman, Womanizer, you're a Womanizer
Oh, Womanizer, oh you're a Womanizer, baby

You, you, you are? You, you, you are
Womanizer, Womanizer, Womanizer

 

Boy, don't try to front
I know just, just what you are, ah, ah
Boy, don't try to front
I know just, just what you are, ah, ah
You got me goin?
You're oh so charmin?
But I can't do it? You Womanizer
Boy, don't try to front
I know just, just what you are, ah, ah
Boy, don't try to front
I know just, just what you are, ah, ah
You say I'm crazy
I got you're crazy
You're nothin? but a Womanizer

 

You got the swagger of a champion
Too bad for you
You just can't find the right companion
I guess when you have one too many, makes it hard
It could be easy, who you are
That's just who you are, baby

 

Must mistake me, you're the sucker
To think that I
Would be a victim, not another
Say it, play it how you wanna
But no way I'm ever gonna fall for you,
Never you, baby

 

Womanizer, Woman, Womanizer, you're a Womanizer
Oh, Womanizer, oh you're a Womanizer, baby
You, you, you are? You, you, you are
Womanizer, Womanizer, Womanizer

 

You're oh so charmin?
But I can't do it You Womanizer

 

Boy, don't try to front

 

보통 원곡을 뛰어 넘는 커버는 없다고 생각한다.

커버가 아무리 잘 살려도 원곡이 있기에 가능한 것이니

original이라는 그 사실은 뛰어넘을 수 없지 않을까.

 

그럼에도, 지극히 주관적 취향으로

이 노래만큼은 Britney의 원곡보다 Lily의 커버가

더 뛰어난 것 같다.

 

누가 뭐래도 POP이라 외치는 원곡과 다르게

조용히 불러내 무섭게 경고하는 듯한 커버.

 

특히나 영국억양..

힘 다 빼고 이야기하듯이 노래하는 것이

이렇게 무서운 매력으로 다가온는구나 하고

넋 놓고 듣게 되는 오늘의 노래.