Yid Vid: Yael Naim Does Britney Spears
The new issue of Heeb Magazine has a nice interview with Mac-made musical sensation Yael Naim.
From it I learned that the Israeli-born singer, best-known for her brilliant “New Soul,” does a live cover of Britney Spears’s “Toxic.” “I wanted to take something far from what I enjoy and make it mine,” Naim tells Heeb. “Britney Spears was far enough.”
Here’s Naim’s version:
By way of comparison, here’s the original by Britney.
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