{"id":23803,"date":"2020-12-26T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=23803"},"modified":"2024-01-02T14:12:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T22:12:11","slug":"cover-me-heathers-dancing-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/26\/cover-me-heathers-dancing-in-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Me, Heathers: Dancing in the Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twin sisters Ellie and Louise Macnamara are lifelong Bruce Springsteen fans, and it shows.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve been singing together in their native Ireland as Heathers (yes, that&#8217;s an homage to the film) since they were seventeen. They&#8217;re thirty now, and in interviews they almost always cite Bruce as one of their key musical influences while growing up.<\/p>\n<p>In concert, their sets often feature a terrific cover of Bruce&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/25\/roll-of-the-dice-dancing-in-the-dark\/\">Dancing in the Dark<\/a>,&#8221; and fortunately there are several great documents of it to chose from&#8211;so many, in fact, that I can&#8217;t choose just one.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s a pairing, first from their Windmill Sessions appearance in January 2016&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QrzVmXp8vh4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;and a more confident performance just a couple months later on JOE Sessions.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1laECHpv8BY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Four years later, they&#8217;d get to perform it for Bruce himself&#8230; sort of.<\/p>\n<p>Just prior to the release of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/10\/album-companion-letter-to-you\/\"><em>Letter to You<\/em><\/a>, Bruce gave a video interview to Ryan Tubridy on\u00a0<em>The Late Late Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rOlAxENYtpg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>The interview aired on Release Day a week later, and to mark the occasion the show invited Heathers to perform a live, socially distanced cover of &#8220;Dancing in the Dark&#8221; (which is probably the most apt way to perform that particular song, if you think about it).<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gZNecJR_Tpw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Did Bruce get a chance to see the Macnamara sisters perform his greatest hit? Who knows, but we can hope that Ellie and Louise found a way to make a long-distance connection with their musical hero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twin sisters Louise and Ellie Macnamara paid tribute to one of their great musical influences on the day his latest album was released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[187,3021],"class_list":["post-23803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover-me","tag-dancing-in-the-dark","tag-heathers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/heathers.jpg?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w3Lk-6bV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5727,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/14\/cover-me-taylor-swift-dancing-in-the-dark\/","url_meta":{"origin":23803,"position":0},"title":"Cover Me, Taylor Swift: Dancing in the Dark","author":"Ken","date":"November 14, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"At her 2011 concert in Newark, Taylor Swift paid homage to Bruce on-stage; a few months later, Bruce repaid the complement backstage in Raleigh. 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