Clothes Off - Gym Class Heroes Single Review
Gym Class Heroes
Single Review
When it gets to bands making cover versions of other peoples tracks it often drums up mixed reviews. The appearance of a familiar tune in an alternative context often feels uncomfortable and can rarely be classed as a success.
Gym Class Heroes track Clothes Off is a spin on the 1986 Jermaine Stewart track We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off. Running with the same melodic bass line and acoustic set up, band members Travis McCoy, Disashi Lumumba-Kasongo, Eric Roberts and Matt McGinley lay their own hip-hop/ electro-pop stance on things with positive results.
As covers go Clothes Off is a rare example of how fresh lyrics and fragrant verbiage can work translating from the tracks original pop/funk vibe to that of the modern day hip-hop feel that has been adorned upon it, loosing none of the tracks feel good factor. With an unmentioned credit to Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump who seems to be flavour of the month, the group's inclusion of live instruments to their tracks is nothing but positive and Clothes Off reaffirms that fact.
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