This article will take a cross-section of these Summertime cover versions from where you may be better placed to decide the ones you approve of and those you may not. Gershwin wrote the song as part of his groundbreaking Opera titled Porgy and Bess.Įven though the opera contains many other famous songs it has been Summertime that has attracted a huge amount of attention by artists from all genres.

Since then, she’s released singles like “ Mariners Apartment Complex,” “ Venice Bitch,” and “ hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have-but I have it.” Hear her cover of “Doin’ Time” below.Summertime, composed by the American pianist and composer, George Gershwin, is perhaps the most recognised and celebrated song he ever composed. Lana Del Rey’s latest album Lust for Life was released in 2017.

“Summertime and the livin’s easy / Bradley’s on the microphone with Ras MG,” she sings in her usual breathy way.

The cover itself stays surprisingly true to the original, with plucked harp tones, big-beat breaks, but sadly very little record scratching. Lana Del Rey has taken a break from her collaborations with Jack Antonoff to release a cover of Sublime‘s “Doin’ Time.” A short clip of the cover found its way onto Instagram earlier this month, where the vocalist announced that a full version of the cover would be “coming soon.” Now it’s finally here.įew bands are more quintessentially American than Sublime, so maybe it makes sense coming from an artist with sonic reference points like “ Sylvia Plath” and Norman Fucking Rockwell.

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