Artist also gives a surprising and perfect answer to whom she’d like to hear cover one of her songs<\/p>\n
\n\tThere\u2019s only one damn song that makes St. Vincent<\/a> break down and cry, and she covered it Wednesday night on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. The artist, a.k.a. Annie Clark<\/a>, explained that she chose David Bowie\u2019s 1975 hit \u201cYoung Americans\u201d because she\u2019d previously covered it at a Love Rocks event<\/a> where she\u2019d met up with Colbert.<\/p>\n \n\tSt. Vincent\u2019s rendition of the song was a little more guitar- and rock-forward than Bowie\u2019s proto-disco funk number, and she made it her own with intense vocal stylings and some lyric changes. Where Bowie commented on the disappointment of American politics with the lyric, \u201cDo you remember President Nixon?\u201d (a year after Tricky Dick resigned), she invoked President Biden.<\/p>\n \n\tThroughout, Clark leaned into the mic, pantomiming the lyrics in her arm-length black gloves and cadet cap. Her a cappella \u201cbreak down and cry\u201d sounded operatic, and she even squeezed in another nod to Bowie (and by proxy another one of her favorite artists<\/a>, Trent Reznor) by proclaiming, \u201cI\u2019m afraid of Americans\u201d<\/a> at the end of the song.<\/p>\n \n\tIn a pre-performance interview, Clark said she wished Erykah Badu would cover one of her songs. \u201cBecause we\u2019re both from Dallas, I have on many occasions tried to befriend Erykah Badu, and it has not gone well,\u201d Clark said. \u201cShe has not been unkind; I just don\u2019t get a response.\u201d The others are Doechii (\u201cI\u2019m very into Doechii,\u201d Clark said) and the Slits.<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\tClark said the Slits, a pioneering post-punk trio\u2019s avant-garde interpretation of Marvin Gaye\u2019s \u201cI Heard It Through the Grapevine\u201d<\/a> is her all-time favorite cover recording. Unfortunately for Clark, a Slits cover of one of her songs is unlikely, since the post-punk trio broke up after the 2010 death of frontwoman Ari Up. But just like how Colbert called out Badu in the Late Show clip, Rolling Stone would formally like to ask former Slits member (and one of our guitar heroes<\/a>) Viv Albertine to consider a rendition of \u201cBroken Man.\u201d<\/p>\n