Straight to Hell.

I've been addicted to Lily Allen's cover of "Straight to Hell" for the past week. I was hearing it everywhere. It came up a lot on Pandora, my ballet teacher would play it for our plie warm up, I downloaded it and kept playing it because I was addicted... It took me a really long time to realize that this song is actually a Clash cover (my ballet teacher also plays the original for our jump warm up... it's an unorthodox ballet class). Then I found out that Lily Allen is actually Joe Strummer's goddaughter. Ka-RAY-zay. Then I realized that M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes" samples the beginning guitar and drum build up of the original song. I then looked up the meaning of the song, and damn, it's loaded. Good song. I learned so much this week.

Lily Allen - Straight to Hell (The Clash cover)
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The Clash - Straight to Hell
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