Rosie Carney Covers Radiohead’s The Bends, Shares Video for “High & Dry”: Watch

23-year-old Irish singer/songwriter Rosie Carney has shared her quarantine project, a full-length cover of Radiohead’s 1995 album The Bends, via Color Study. It follows the release of her EP i dreamed i was the night earlier this year as well as her 2019 debut album, Bare.

In conjunction with the album release, Carney has also revealed the video for “High & Dry.” Carney says of the song:

It’s such an anthem. I wanted to try and maintain the power that the original holds whilst remaining true to myself in the process. I don’t think I’d ever paid too much attention to the lyrics of this song before covering it, and in ways reading the lyrics was kind of like a reality check for me. At the start of lockdown I’d become so obsessed with what people were thinking of me. I felt vulnerable and in ways exposed, so I tried to hide that by muting and changing myself. I felt like nothing I did was good or cool enough which was shit. Thankfully hindsight is an amazing thing, and after being able to hit somewhat of a reset button, I think I was able to appreciate the message this song holds, which, to me, is don’t waste your life pretending. I remember thinking, “damn, I can’t believe I nearly became like the person they’re singing about.”