{"id":24150,"date":"2021-02-13T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=24150"},"modified":"2021-02-12T21:14:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T05:14:42","slug":"cover-me-lake-malawi-girls-in-their-summer-clothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/13\/cover-me-lake-malawi-girls-in-their-summer-clothes\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Me, Lake Malawi: Girls in Their Summer Clothes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure what to say about this cover of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/17\/roll-of-the-dice-girls-in-their-summer-clothes\/\">Girls in Their Summer Clothes<\/a>&#8221; by Czech indie-pop band (and Eurovision 2019 finalists) Lake Malawi, other than they certainly follow this blog&#8217;s cardinal cover rule: Do it better, or do it different.<\/p>\n<p>Which way did they go? Take a listen and decide for yourself:<\/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\/FyOqCYgyacY?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>After watching it a few times, I still can&#8217;t decide if I like it.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, I <em>do<\/em> like it, but I can&#8217;t decide if it&#8217;s the band&#8217;s performance I dig or the <em>Muppet Show\u00a0<\/em>flashbacks I get from the arrangement.<\/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\/fgQq0gqVrOc?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>Either way, this made me happy enough to check out their original music, which turns out to be pretty catchy.<\/p>\n<p>Check out more from Lake Malawi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lakemalawimusic.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might think &#8220;Girls in Their Summer Clothes&#8221; wouldn&#8217;t work in a dance club, but Eurovision 2019 finalists Lake Malawi are out to prove you wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25159,"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":[1477,3087],"class_list":["post-24150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover-me","tag-girls-in-their-summer-clothes","tag-lake-malawi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/lakemalawi.jpg?fit=640%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w3Lk-6hw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7884,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/12\/cover-me-doc-walker-girls-in-their-summer-clothes\/","url_meta":{"origin":24150,"position":0},"title":"Cover Me, Doc Walker: Girls in Their Summer Clothes","author":"Ken","date":"March 12, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Canadian band Doc Walker finds a tender country song lurking inside Bruce's underappreciated pop single, \"Girls in Their Summer Clothes.\"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cover Me&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Cover Me","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/category\/cover-me\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/docwalker.jpg?fit=600%2C600&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/docwalker.jpg?fit=600%2C600&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/docwalker.jpg?fit=600%2C600&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":7412,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/17\/roll-of-the-dice-girls-in-their-summer-clothes\/","url_meta":{"origin":24150,"position":1},"title":"Roll of the Dice: Girls in Their Summer Clothes","author":"Ken","date":"February 17, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"It won Bruce a Grammy he didn't even know he was nominated for. 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