Hey I'm Odette and I just covered AC/DC's 'Thunderstruck' for Like A Version.
I used to listen to it walking to and from school. It was the song I listened to to feel.
Like power walking. Like I'm going to study. Yeah it just made me feel kind of powerful and
strong and you know when you're a teen. I feel like especially young teen women,
they're always like, I have the power to control the winds. It was like one of those
songs for me so I thought I would just pay homage to one of my favourites.
I feel like when I listen to that song it's like you can picture it. You're there, you're
like in a car with your friend and you're like, we're here hitting the town, going crazy dude.
The idea came to me to transpose the guitar riff onto keys and then once I thought of that I was
like, oh and it just flourished into this like orchestral moment. But then I was experimenting
with orchestral stuff, I want to push it. I wanted to go into a genre that I don't usually do. So I
brought in kind of these electronic elements, like some synths and then a very strong beat underneath it
just to kind of give it some movement and some push. So we had to figure out what we wanted
the balance to be and what we wanted like the textures to be too. Because obviously you've got
cello which is this kind of husky smooth tone and then you've got this synth which is quite crass.
But everything centres around this similar texture of, I don't know how to explain it. Like a carpet,
you know. That kind of like rough but smooth feeling. So everything has an element of that,
even the drums, my voice, even the piano has kind of that element. But I guess you know,
it's piano and she's beautiful the way she is. She doesn't have to be anything.
The beat is quite like pulsing you know and it's quite constant. I wanted it to be
almost like a carriage that's like carrying the rest of the instruments. Like textures put into
a barrel, put into the carriage. Does that make sense? That doesn't make sense, does it? It's
all moving in the same way. My favourite lyric that I sang is like, 'I was shaking at the knees.
Could I come again please?' It's like is it promiscuous? Yes. Is it about
revisiting? I don't know. But who knows? I like singing it because it's kind of ambiguous.
Just two years ago we covered 'Magnolia' by Gang of Youths. It hit my heart and I don't really hear
a lot of songs that can really like shank the life out of me and make me feel so alive at the
same time. I had my backing singers. One of them was my singing teacher from when I was a teen
and the other two were actually some of my friends. I think before I had this kind of fear of
not staying beautiful and not staying pretty and now I don't care at all.
I don't care. I don't give flying two donkeys about it. Um, sorry.
My piano was a lot more simpler the first time around. I didn't want to take any risks with it.
This time I literally start playing a very, for me, a much more complicated sort of
arrangement, the riff. So I was nervous because there's a lot more pressure to get it right when
things are a bit more complicated and especially when I put a lot more work into this arrangement
myself. So it just felt, it felt amazing actually finishing this one because yeah, I felt proud of
myself and my band and happy. I am branching out into more of an electronic experimental
genre, sort of and I'm producing now. So I can only see more opportunities
to create different cool sounds and oh my god producing is so fun. I thought I wasn't
going to get it but it's like, you can just create all these sounds and these little, ah.
'Dare' by Hiatus Kaiyote changed my life. It's so good. I don't think I've ever heard a better cover
in my life. When she goes... It's like she can run with her eyes closed and not fall over,
you know. She's just one of those people who breathes music and I think she's incredible.
I felt so cool. That sounds really wanky. I felt like I could summon the thunder and the storms.
It's just something about that low piano and that kind of tone of that... It just makes me
feel like I'm electric, like I'm alive and it just ah. I just wish I could do that every day.