{"id":29229,"date":"1984-02-01T11:00:00","date_gmt":"1984-02-01T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=29229"},"modified":"2026-03-14T16:17:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:17:28","slug":"cover-me-dessa-im-goin-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/1984\/02\/01\/cover-me-dessa-im-goin-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Dessa: I&#8217;m Goin&#8217; Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chances are that if I told you that a notable rapper\/hip-hop singer covered a Bruce Springsteen song, neither Dessa nor &#8220;I&#8217;m Goin&#8217; Down&#8221; would immediately spring to mind as likely candidates.<\/p>\n<p>And even if they did, you probably wouldn&#8217;t expect a moody, acoustic, and gorgeously atmospheric track like this.<\/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\/lCjfm4aKZ7Q?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>Dessa&#8217;s version of &#8220;I&#8217;m Goin&#8217; Down&#8221; hails from her 2013 album <em>Parts of Speech,<\/em> and it&#8217;s the only cover on an album otherwise full of original material written by the artist herself. (She&#8217;s done very few covers at all to date.)<\/p>\n<p>Her performance dials up the melancholy to eleven and completely removes the counterbalancing humor of Bruce&#8217;s original arrangement. It works amazingly well.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 August 13, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indie rapper\/singer Dessa dials up the melancholy to eleven in her moody acoustic cover of Bruce&#8217;s 1985 single.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29230,"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":[3611,4],"tags":[3265,412,3266],"class_list":["post-29229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitusa","category-cover-me","tag-dessa","tag-im-goin-down","tag-parts-of-speech"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dessa.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w3Lk-7Br","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27775,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/1984\/01\/31\/cover-me-frank-black-and-the-catholics-im-goin-down\/","url_meta":{"origin":29229,"position":0},"title":"Frank Black and The Catholics: I&#8217;m Goin&#8217; Down","author":"Ken","date":"January 31, 1984","format":false,"excerpt":"Crunchy, grungy, and loud: Frank Black and the Catholics give us the angry, cathartic version of \"I'm Goin' Down\" we didn't know we needed.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;BITUSA&quot;","block_context":{"text":"BITUSA","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/category\/bitusa\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/frank-black-the-catholics-band-photo.jpg?fit=1200%2C782&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/frank-black-the-catholics-band-photo.jpg?fit=1200%2C782&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/frank-black-the-catholics-band-photo.jpg?fit=1200%2C782&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/frank-black-the-catholics-band-photo.jpg?fit=1200%2C782&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/frank-black-the-catholics-band-photo.jpg?fit=1200%2C782&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":17352,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/12\/cover-me-free-redemption-im-goin-down\/","url_meta":{"origin":29229,"position":1},"title":"Cover Me, Free Redemption: I&#8217;m Goin&#8217; Down","author":"Ken","date":"April 12, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Free Redemption is a new band out of Italy, and to call them a tribute band would be a vast disservice. Their mission is to reinterpret Bruce's music, and they hit it out of the park with \"I'm Goin' Down.\"","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\/2020\/04\/freeredeem.png?fit=960%2C720&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/freeredeem.png?fit=960%2C720&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/freeredeem.png?fit=960%2C720&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/freeredeem.png?fit=960%2C720&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3567,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/01\/cover-me-vampire-weekend-im-goin-down\/","url_meta":{"origin":29229,"position":2},"title":"Cover Me, Vampire Weekend: I&#8217;m Goin&#8217; 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