I like way J Hacha De Zola puts together songs. Whether they are written by him or someone else. I wrote about his Syn Illusion EP last year and he continues to impress with every release.
This time he’s back with an upcoming EP – UnPOPular out December 6th, that will include covers by Lorde, Halsey and this first release – Bury A Friend – by Billie Eilish. This version definitely needs to be included in any Tim Burton film that might be in the works. It’s being billed as an Urban Junkyard version of the original and I can certainly get behind that description.
Here’s something he said about his cover of Ariana Grande’s Bad Decisions: “A few years ago, I covered an Ariana Grande tune, ‘Bad Decisions,’ as an experiment. It’s a dance-pop tune which I wanted to make sound like a J Hacha De Zola song. Ya know, make it sound ‘creepy and dark.’”
De Zola has that way about him. He can take something and put this dark spin on it without losing the integrity of the song. Believe me, it’s not the easiest thing to accomplish. Some artists take songs and change them just for the sake of changing them. What De Zola has done here is take a pop song with dark tendencies and make it a haunting version of itself. The visual I get is – do you remember when you were a kid and the pay channels would be all scrambled – like sort of green swirly lines? That’s what this is like. The image was fine underneath but the layer on top of it was sort of scrambled. Let’s call it, like an episode of Tales From The Darkside.
Now that you are creeped out, go give his version a listen!
-Tommy Marz
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