Hey, I'm Matt Corby, and I covered TLC's
‘No Scrubs’ for a Like A Version.
I actually really love this song and
that's my only reason, for real.
Yeah.
I think it's a ‘90s classic.
I would have been nine years old.
I do remember I would go into Sanity
if anyone remembers that era
and like you could go and play the songs
there would be like four CDs
and you could put headphones on and be like,
I'm going to pick this CD.
I'm pretty sure me and my sister bought it as a single.
You can imagine what a nine year old
in year four would be doing
Fuckin’ nothing
other than listening to ‘No Scrubs’.
It was one of the first songs where I rememberd the lyrics.
It was such an iconic song lyrically.
I think it was also kind of funny.
It's actually almost like an OG meme song
way pre-meme
pre-meme-meme
a Pre-meme-ium?
Ooh.
I wanted to find an interesting way
to move the chords around
because I think the OG's, like
What’s the OG?
Right, that's OG chords which
I couldn't sing it in that key
because it's too high.
This is a real deep cut.
But the very first song I wrote with Budjerah
I gave him these chords.
And I was like
‘No Scrubs’ would sit on that, no worries.
So I was
I just basically superimposed
‘No Scrubs’ on to the chords to ‘Missing You’ from Budjerah
which I was really proud of these chords when I wrote them.
Me and Budj we were like hanging in the studio and
it was like the universe being like give those chords to him
And I was like, “damn it, I wanted them for myself”
but lo and behold, I have somewhat
taken them for myself today.
I feel like there's not a lot of Like A Versions
that are stripped
and I remember I did my first one 11 years ago stripped
and I was like, let's let's bring it back
to the OG vibes.
I've done three, including this one.
And I sang backing vocals for Jarryd James
when he did ‘When The War Is Over’
It's funny, actually, I suggested
‘Chains’ first, right.
And then they were like
“What about ‘Lonely Boy’ by The Black Keys?”
And this was the night before, like no joke
I was at a party
and had my guitar in the car
and literally just walked back to my car
and grabbed my guitar out.
And I was like, “alright, how does this song go? Okay.”
And just figured it out.
And then I'm like,
“Yeah, I'll do that in the morning.”
and then just put my guitar back
and went back to the party
and then got woke up in the morning
and I needed actually
the lyric sheet with me because I didn't know
any of the words to the song.
I didn't feel super confident going into that one.
I don’t think it gets easier doing things like this
It's always pretty nerve wracking and
it's such an Australian institution Like A Version
you don't want to screw it up.
Man, the Teenage Dads one was insanely good
and it was pretty much note kind of like the OG.
The DMA's doing, was it Cher?
Man, that was psycho.
His voice is insanely good
like almost total perfection.
Maybe it is perfection?
So yeah it’s crazy, did they write a whole new song
and just use, a very small snippet?
That’s actually kind of amazing.
I like that chord change, it’s good.
I really like his voice hey
It sounds like he's smoked a thousand cigarettes
before he sang it, in the best way possible.
Dopius maximoid.
That’s heaps cool.
I never knew that that happened.
Is that bad?
What was I doing?
I like the little semi drop, not real drop drop.
That was a good drop.
No, that was beautiful.
Great voice too.
I feel very flattered
but I almost can't accept that it
I can't accept the feeling of feeling flattered
if that makes sense, is that weird to say?
So yeah
It's weird basically, that's my answer
in the best way possible.
Yeah, definitely. The first time it happened,
I was like, whoa, I can't believe they chose that over
potentially every other song in the world.
But yeah it’s cool that someone from the States
had a crack at ‘Monday’
That's kind of nice.