Song Of The Day: King Woman – I Wanna Be Adored

The real challenge in doing a cover song is making it your own. In their cover of The Stone Roses’ “I Wanna Be Adored,” San Francisco doom metallers King Woman have done just that.

By slowing it down to a heavy dirge, the band has definitely changed the vibe of the song, transforming the original’s Madchester sound into some melancholic, mournful doom with a side of shoegaze and adding a certain yearning to it.

If the Stone Roses version were a piece of clothing, clearly it would be a bucket hat, whereas King Woman’s version is more like a jet black bucket hat that comes with a built in funeral veil. Check it out:

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