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| Juliana Hatfield |
Alt-rocker Juliana Hatfield announced a few months ago her next album would be a full-on tribute to her favorite singer, pop icon Olivia Newton-John.
Today, Hatfield drops the music video for her take on ONJ's "Physical" which debuted in 1981 and camped out at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 10 weeks.
“I have never not loved Olivia Newton-John,” Hatfield shared in the announcement for the project. “Her music has brought me so much pure joy throughout my whole entire life. I loved her when I was a child and I love her still.”
Hatfield prefaced the new music video with this statement:
Olivia Newton-John’s lusty “Physical” is a groovy, bouncy song, but my take on it is darker, more aggro, because I don’t think of lust as fun or funny; I think it’s dangerous and disruptive and mostly unwelcome. So that is my interpretation of “Physical”: the human condition is a bummer, and desire a frustrating impediment to serenity.
My visual take on the song is not as conceptual as Olivia’s 1981 colorful workout video. Mine is more of an impressionistic exploration of my own awkward and self-conscious physicality (especially self-conscious in front of the camera/other people).
I completely appreciate that Hatfield brings her own vibrant intensity to this fresh look at the 80s pop confection.
"Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia Newton-John" debuts April 13th on American Laundromat Records. Pre-order available now: https://www.alr-music.com/
Watch Hatfield's take on the 80s classic below, plus Olivia's iconic music video which won a Grammy Award for "Video of the Year."
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