Slipknot’s Corey Taylor has teased a cover of Kendrick Lamar’s ‘TV Off’ on stage in Florida – watch the video below.
The frontman played an acoustic set at the Spookala horror and pop culture convention in Tampa, Florida earlier this month (April 5) and opted to open the set with a sly tease at one of the most memed songs of recent months.
“I put something together very special,” he said. “I tried to change this up because I don’t really do this a lot anymore so I wanted to do something special and get something that was kind of like a singalong. I’d like to know, would you guys like to help me sing a song? Alright, this first one is not by me but if you know it, help me sing along.”
With that, he launched into the opening lines of ‘TV Off’: “All I ever wanted was a black Grand National / Fuck being rational”, before quickly segueing into a version of Violent Femmes’ 1983 classic ‘Add It Up’. “No, wait, no. That’s not it,” he quipped as he transitioned between the songs. “But that’s a dope fucking track.”
Watch the clip below, as well as Taylor’s full performance:
Lamar and the Femmes weren’t the only covers to make Taylor’s set – he also performed a section of Chappell Roan’s ‘Pink Pony Club’, as well as Nine Inch Nails’ ‘Something I Can Never Have’, Incubus’ ‘I Miss You’ and Foo Fighters’ ‘Everlong’. See further clips of the covers here.
As for Slipknot, the metal band will be heading to Europe for a continent-wide tour in June, which kicks off at the Sweden Rock Festival in Sölvesborg, Sweden on June 4. They will then make stops in Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, and Denmark. The band’s two final shows of the run will be comprised of their slots at Barcelona’s Rock Fest and Viveiro Ressurectionfest. Find any remaining tickets here.
They played a raucous show in London in December as part of their huge 25th anniversary tour. Taylor told the crowd: “The first thing I want to say to you is how grateful, how much we appreciate and how much we love every fucking one of you here in this building. 25 years ago, we released our very first Slipknot album and a lot of people around the world really gravitated towards us, but no one took us in like this fucking city and this fucking country. That’s why London, England will always be Slipknot’s home away from home.”
Kendrick, meanwhile, recently kicked off his joint Grand National tour with SZA, with the two artists playing a whopping 52 songs from across both of their careers.
