“That is a dope fucking monitor”
Slipknot’s Corey Taylor has teased a canopy of Kendrick Lamar’s ‘TV Off’ on stage in Florida – watch the video under.
The frontman performed an acoustic set on the Spookala horror and popular culture conference in Tampa, Florida earlier this month (April 5) and opted to open the set with a sly tease at one of the memed songs of current months.
“I put one thing collectively very particular,” he stated. “I attempted to vary this up as a result of I don’t actually do that loads anymore so I wished to do one thing particular and get one thing that was type of like a singalong. I’d wish to know, would you guys like to assist me sing a tune? Alright, this primary one will not be by me but when you already know it, assist me sing alongside.”
With that, he launched into the opening traces of ‘TV Off’: “All I ever wished was a black Grand Nationwide / Fuck being rational”, earlier than rapidly segueing right into a model of Violent Femmes’ 1983 basic ‘Add It Up’. “No, wait, no. That’s not it,” he quipped as he transitioned between the songs. “However that’s a dope fucking monitor.”
Watch the clip under, in addition to Taylor’s full efficiency:
Lamar and the Femmes weren’t the one covers to make Taylor’s set – he additionally carried out a bit of Chappell Roan’s ‘Pink Pony Membership’, in addition to 9 Inch Nails’ ‘One thing I Can By no means Have’, Incubus’ ‘I Miss You’ and Foo Fighters’ ‘Everlong’. See additional clips of the covers right here.
As for Slipknot, the metallic band can be heading to Europe for a continent-wide tour in June, which kicks off on the Sweden Rock Pageant in Sölvesborg, Sweden on June 4. They’ll then make stops in Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, and Denmark. The band’s two closing exhibits of the run can be comprised of their slots at Barcelona’s Rock Fest and Viveiro Ressurectionfest. Discover any remaining tickets here.
They performed a raucous present in London in December as a part of their large twenty fifth anniversary tour. Taylor informed the gang: “The very first thing I wish to say to you is how grateful, how a lot we respect and the way a lot we love each fucking certainly one of you right here on this constructing. 25 years in the past, we launched our very first Slipknot album and lots of people around the globe actually gravitated in direction of us, however nobody took us in like this fucking metropolis and this fucking nation. That’s why London, England will at all times be Slipknot’s house away from house.”
Kendrick, in the meantime, lately kicked off his joint Grand Nationwide tour with SZA, with the 2 artists taking part in a whopping 52 songs from throughout each of their careers.