Toxic

Seen the new MacBook Air adverts? ‘Course you have. You’ll learn one thing from watching the advert - the backing music is better than the actual product being advertised. If you watched the advert like me and thought, “Wow, this is kinda good”, you’re after Yael Naim’s single, called New Soul.

I bought it off iTunes.

Sure, I buy music.

Yael Naim, a former Israeli Air Force Orchestra member, has a very distinctive sound about her. Yeah, it’s weird. So weird, in fact, that I kind of like the way it creeps me out. She’s done a cover of Britney Spears’ Toxic. The problem is, it’s not like Nickel Creek’s version, which is supposed to be a sort of tongue in cheek pisstake that actually sounds really good. Instead, Naim, not one to shift out of creepmode, did this.

You know what, Britney is bollocks, but this cover by Naim has got to be worse. Yes, I said it. Britney is better.

Perhaps I’m too harsh, perhaps not. I’m sure you’ll let me know what you think about that.

Watch Nickel Creek’s cover of Toxic here.