{"id":354097,"date":"2025-12-18T21:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T21:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/354097\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T21:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T21:45:08","slug":"watch-st-vincent-rip-through-david-bowies-young-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/354097\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch St. Vincent Rip Through David Bowie\u2019s \u201cYoung Americans\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/5367-st-vincent\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Vincent<\/a> aka Annie Clark stopped by The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Wednesday, December 18 to participate in Under the Covers, a new segment where, as the name implies, artists cover songs they love. Clark\u2019s selection: David Bowie\u2019s groovy 1975 hit \u201cYoung Americans,\u201d which she first covered during the annual Love Rocks NYC benefit show in 2023. (Asked by Colbert who she would want to cover her songs, Clark replied with one hell of a trio: Erykah Badu, Doechii, or the Slits. ) Clark\u2019s version of \u201cAmericans\u201d is a mostly faithful take on the original, though she does sub Joe Biden in for Bowie\u2019s Richard Nixon line.<\/p>\n<p>St. Vincent spent most of her 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/st-vincent-adds-us-tour-dates-shares-new-song-doa-listen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on the road<\/a> to support her latest album, the <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/st-vincent-wins-best-alternative-music-performance-for-flea-at-2025-grammys\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grammy-winning<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/st-vincent-all-born-screaming\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">All Born Screaming<\/a>. You can check out her full Bowie cover below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Vincent aka Annie Clark stopped by The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Wednesday, December 18 to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,15817,75],"class_list":["post-354097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cover","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}