Hi we are two-thirds of Camp Cope
and we covered ‘Seventeen Going Under’
by Sam Fender for Like A Version.
When I first heard this song
it really resonated with me
growing up in and living still in Western Sydney
because this is a song
that's about growing up poor and then
wanting to experience life as a child
but then that being your home life.
So kind of wanting to go out
and experience the world
but then the world
being a very hard place
to navigate as well.
And then when I brought it to the band
it kind of
I knew that they could relate to it
in a lot of ways too
because it touches on themes
about like toxic masculinity
and like boys’ clubs
which we've done before with our own music.
Part of the reason why we chose this song
is because it went viral on TikTok
because a lot of women
were using the line
‘I was far too scared to hit him’
‘But I would hit them in a heartbeat now’
to voice their experience of gendered violence.
The fact that it resonated with
so many women
was just incredible
and also completely devastating.
♪ I was far too scared to hit him
♪ But I would hit him in a heartbeat now
We changed the lyrics to instead of
being about a guy
who grew up in the UK
to be more about a woman growing up in Australia.
It's kind of scary to change things
because you don't know how the artist
who wrote the song
if they hear it like what
they're going to think about it.
And we did change the whole
We changed the song.
The meaning of the song is now different.
I feel.
So I hope that's okay.
Sorry Sam.
At first when we did the song
we did try and match it to the original
but it just didn't sound like us.
Stripped the song back in the intro and the outro
which is more aligned with
our new album sonically
is a bit more like that too.
And then having the bass as the lead.
And the drums just be completely different.
The drums going a bit harder.
The first time we did Like A Version
we covered ‘Maps’ by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
because that is one of the greatest songs ever written.
Sometimes that Like A Version comes on
on someone’s Spotify or over the radio
and I don't realise it's us.
I'm like, why do I know this?
What is this?
It’s our Like A Version.
We were so young.
We had only been a band for less than a year.
Yeah.
Little babies.
My fly was down.
And her fly was down.
Intentionally.
It was not intentional.
I listen back to old Camp Cope records
and I’m like ugh.
I hate this.
It’s like knives.
Someone jamming a knife in my ear.
Whereas now I like it.
We were so like
we are a rock band
and we are guitar, bass and drums
and that's what we are.
And then I feel like
then we got really bored of it
and then we were like
no, we want piano
and we want a more dynamic sound
and we have the ability to do that, too.
I feel like we really used to doubt our ability.
Yeah.
And now we've gotten more confident.
I think right now it's really cool
to have something like this
because we can't play live shows.
So it's nice to be able to make art
and have an audience.
I think we're all starved of live music at the moment.
Yeah.
And this is not like
being front of an audience
but it's kind of the closest you can be.
Yes, we had so much fun.
I love the grand piano.
Oh, love it. Obsessed
I love good classic female rage.
I think that there's something
really quite beautiful and important.
And I feel like when a woman expresses
anything that's not
you know, polite
in public or in art
then she kind of gets torn down.
I just think it's so incredible
and so important when women get away from
the narrative of how we’re raised to be
and showing that we do have anger
and we do have rage.
And that's not like a
it's not a bad thing.
I love it. I love it.
We love ‘Dumb Things’
Paul Kelly, A.B. Original.
Incredible.
‘Blood’ by Gang of Youths.
That song was my childhood
and to hear them cover it
and they made it completely different
to what the original was.