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Everyone’s Getting Involved review – tepid all-star Talking Heads tribute

Cult film company A24’s tie-in merch to the seminal documentary Stop Making Sense sounds either like karaoke or is wildly disconnected from the source material

Now, following its rerelease of Jonathan Demme’s seminal Talking Heads documentary Stop Making Sense, its tie-in merch includes a tribute album, featuring all 16 tracks from the film’s soundtrack covered by appropriately vogueish musicians. DJ Tunez turns the itchy paranoia of Life During Wartime into bizarrely laid-back jazz, Miley Cyrus’s lifeless version of Psycho Killer features an inexplicable lyric change (“Psycho killer / Gonna love you forever”) and Kevin Abstract somehow transforms Once In a Lifetime into a tuneless dirge. It feels telling that the LP is listed as a “collectible” on A24’s website: Stop Making Sense is one of the most miraculous works of art of the 1980s, but Everyone’s Getting Involved is just content.

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