MCM - Cry Me A River
In Our Headphones
KEXP
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2023
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
MCM - Cry Me A River from the 2023 self-released Stolen Moments EP.
MCM (aka Mid Century Modern) is a brand new Seattle-based duo featuring long-running emcee, producer, and community organizer King Khazm and singer/songwriter Jesse Kogita. In February, they released their debut EP Stolen Moments. The three-song EP sees the duo reimagine classic jazz standards by building a collage of samples, boom bap, bebop, and hip hop.
On our Song of the Day, Ella Fitzgerald’s classic “Cry Me a River,” adding potent verses from Khazm of regrets and heartbreak, staying true to the sorrowful original but adding a downtempo boom bap beat, samples from old films, and Kogita taking on the role of singing Fitzgerald’s part. Ending with a sobbing woman, the song is both emotional and an incredibly original take on a song that’s been a part of our musical canon for nearly a century and covered countless times.
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, see I try to play the role, never got a painted soul, cuz my night is a bit cold, and I'm losing self control, I got the world up in my grabs |
| 0:19.0 | I surely didn't think you catch me all up in the hat, all the games in front of laughs, cat and mouse hitting satch, living on an edge too fast |
| 0:27.0 | Reminiscent now I'm wishing you'd just give another chance to some synthetic lands, see it's just a thing those circumstances |
| 0:33.0 | Let me tell you how it went, we're tiny, then we dance |
| 0:36.0 | You just saw what you wanted, now I can't get a chance, caught up in the web alive, now I can't keep a stretch |
| 0:42.0 | Now I'm realising that I'm buggy, I can trip in now I'm missing wishing for all of it, I'm struggling |
| 0:48.0 | Now you say you're lonely, you cry the whole night through |
| 0:59.0 | Well you can cry me remember, cry me remember, I cry remember |
| 1:11.0 | I had many nights of panic fear, thinking how the end was near, so I hardened up my shell, thinking you just cast that spell, jealousy lost in hell |
| 1:19.0 | No mistake, and I was taken shaking by the bitter smell, when ego catches people, it's just evil I can tell, I was caught up in that trap, onto ego man of rap |
| 1:28.0 | Now life got a mad strife broke and they hold joking, I'm just hoping for another glance |
| 1:33.0 | Please, this is me, when you get that chance |
| 1:36.0 | Now you say you're sorry, for being so untrue, well you can cry me remember, cry me remember, I cried remember |
| 2:00.0 | That way looks into the way it does, like he can't wait to get his arms around you |
| 2:04.0 | I can't help how he looks at me, but his arms and everything around me |
| 2:08.0 | Of course, here they are, the lovers of guilt, where we three united in a drama of daring and danger, danger, danger |
| 2:20.0 | I can't help how he looks, I can't help how he looks, I can't help him |
| 2:24.0 | Now you say you love me, well just to prove you do, come on and cry me remember, cry me remember, I cried remember |
| 2:46.0 | I cried remember, I cried remember, oh you remember, oh you remember |
| 3:05.0 | What is it between you and him? There's nothing between us |
| 3:16.0 | That way it looks into the way it does, like he can't wait to get his arms around you |
| 3:20.0 | I can't help how he looks at me, but his arms and everything around me |
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