Kelly Clarkson Continues Hot Streak With Death Cab for Cutie ‘You Are a Tourist’ Cover
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The Kellyoke segment on The Kelly Clarkson Show hit its stride this week. Clarkson started the week with a stunning rendition of MUNA’s “Stayaway” and ran through records from Ingrid Andress, Smashing Pumpkins, and Spacehog. Closing her hot streak, the singer performed Death Cab for Cutie’s “You Are a Tourist” on Friday.
Joined, as always, by her backing instrumentalists My Band Y’all, Clarkson sang out the song’s affirmations, shutting down any mental doubt and emotional invalidation. “When there’s a burning in your heart/An endless yearning in your heart,” she started. “Build it bigger than the sun/Let it grow, let it grow.”
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The performance marks Clarkson’s first time covering Death Cab for Cutie on her show. The fourth season has also featured Kellyoke covers of songs from Florence + the Machine, Adele, Olivia Rodrigo, Third Eye Blind, Jimmy Eat World, Corinne Bailey Rae, and more.
“You Are a Tourist” appeared on Death Cab for Cutie’s 2011 album Codes and Keys as the project’s lead single. The band later released “Home Is a Fire,” “Stay Young, Go Dancing,” and “Underneath the Sycamore” as official singles from their seventh record.
Later this year, Death Cab will embark on a double-anniversary tour with the Postal Service, celebrating 20 years of their respective records Transatlanticism and Give Up. “I know for a fact I will never have a year again like 2003,” Ben Gibbard, who fronts both bands, said in a statement. “The Postal Service record came out, Transatlanticism came out. These two records will be on my tombstone, and I’m totally fine with that. I’ve never had a more creatively inspired year.”
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