Scarlett Johansson - “Falling Down” Music Video

First! Does not sound like her?

Not sure if I like it….

Dont like it at all.

crap voice & crap song she should stick to her day job ie. acting

I quite like it actually :)!

i’m not sure…

Sorry…can’t take her seriously as a singer. She has good phrasing, but as for the singing,meh……

WHAT THE HECK?!@? HORRIBLE!

Why the hell are people throwing out records like they are throwing out their dignity these days?

I don’t like her voice ….

wow very nice I am impressed!!She has a wonderful voice!!!!The video is kinda random tho.I can’t wait to see buy her album!!!!

Her singing is BAD bad bad.
shes got like a monotone voice. well in falling down it is.

I think the song sounds terrible :/

hehe don’t we all almost agree on this one. one should know if he/she can sing. man!

Love Scarlet, but both song and video are crap.

Its like marmite, you either love it or you don’t xD

i like it a lot. It’s so different than most things we listen today, sounds good, relaxed. It’s for sure not something to people who love Britney Spears and that kind of music

Parabêns lindooooooo….. XD

Somebody make her stop!

omg her voice is so disgusting…ejjwwwwww
sound like she is singing in church for dead people…

awful voice dont like her at all..when she is talking she got this annoying voice that you dont her to speak…ejjjjjww who the hell give her a contact….

i like it… i think its one of those songs you have here a couple times and/or have to be in the mood to listen to

sounds like really bad karaoke

The song is good but hre voice sucks.

Haha! Love all the people that expect some pop arrangement. Go back to your bubblegum tundras, children! Leave the real music to those that know a thing or two about the world. Children should not be allowed to think if they are blinded to things that are different!

I love Tom Waits but she ruins his song with this, awful…just awful.

very bizarre…i need to hear it again and again

I wasn’t expecting to like it, figured it would sound just like all the other pop crap out there, but it’s actually pretty interesting. I like this song. Better than the robotic, melodramatic stuff coming from 90% of the top selling artists. I’d take this over Britney, Christina, Rihanna (ella ella ella.. seriously?), Mariah, Jordin Sparks, and just about all the other plastic toys.

This is just painful to watch/listen to and an insult to Tom Waits.

CRAP!!

Oh my, this is lovely. I did not expect her to have a storyteller, deeper voice. I guess the fact that it is a Tom Waits cover should have foreshadowed it, but wow, nice surprise.

Someone mentioned Sinead O’Connor, which is funny because I think Scarlett sounds like an American Karen Finley - the tone in her voice.

There is a reason David Bowie appears. It’s good.

Hate it.

This is a nagging , no pitch voice. She cannot sing. All this song is good for is make the dogs howl.

Oh my God! Scarlett sounds so bad. The woman cannot sing her way out of a wet paper bag. What is annoying is that they try to shove these bad actresses down our throats, with their bad acting and bad singing gee even Paris sounds better and she sucks, and what an awful video.

WOOWWW
THAT IS BAD
SHE SHOULD
STICK TO ACTING

She DOES NOT sound good

Wow, this is serious SUCKAGE. The sonic elements & production suck, her voice is flat and nothing special (very unexpressive), and the song itself is just kinda boring.

Congrats, Scarlett - you just veered away from a successful acting career to become a lame wannabe singer, which will dilute your image and public credibility in either career.

Fail.

I wanted to like it but it was just annoying and boring.. and very 90’s/done before. After hearing her sing in Lost in Translation I was a little surprised she’s put out a record, but I guess she’s going to. At least she sounds slightly better then she did in the movie and she is a good actress so who cares about the music.

wow….everything about it is just horrible….

I think I like it. At first i was like… oh… Now it’s kidna grown on me.

Plus I love Tom Waits.

in the way that paris hilton is a “genius” at making herself a celebrity, scarlett is a (lesser) genius at marketing herself to the public as cultivated, intellectual, artistic, precocious, and talented. she’s going for alternative street cred: last year she sang with Jesus & Mary Chain at Coachella, now she’s doing a cover album of a master & iconoclast whose style gives her room to sing badly without ruining the song. it’s a genius move really. waits’ material is critic-proof, plus people will buy it out of curiosity. even if her voice is this bad on the other tracks, the album will still do well.

taste is subjective. art is subjective. but skill is not. there are some standards for talent, otherwise we could all scat out a bunch of random notes and call ourselves musical geniuses. the hacks succeed when people drop those standards: enter scarlett. she has meager talent, no skill, and certainly no vision. just go buy waits’ albums

this scarlett thing reminds me of something . . . someone pointed out to me that IF (big if) someone like ashlee simpson had become popular as a legitimate musician–doing garage pop and such, working hard, playing her own instruments & writing music, but still had basically the exact same voice–people would never say she couldn’t sing. if she were a real musician, no one would ever say that. she’d obviously be a less of a poseur & more likable if that were true, but her flaws as a singer would be embraced for individual style were she a real musician.

it’s a similar thing with Scarlett. she’s kind of droning and talk/singing unremarkably, passively, piggybacking on existing unconventional artists while singing someone else’s amazing words. if she were a real singer-songwriter with a wealth of talented lyrics and melodies to contribute, her voice wouldn’t bother anyone because the imperfections–including her passive delivery–would be part of her artistic character. look at Joanna Newsome–her voice is weird as sh*t, and she can’t sing by many people’s standards, but she’s an unbelievably original talent & I can’t get enough of her.

but Scarlett is not a musician, not a songwriter, and only a singer by a huge stretch of the imagination. this is karaoke.

Ugh, she’s so overrated in everything!!!!!! I agree with iota in that Tom Waits’ songs are critic-proof and so of course she’ll probably sell millions of albums, probably more than he ever did because people are idiots, and we’ll all be stuck with having to listen to her a$$ sing forever!!!!

hahahahaha! absolutely not.

wow speechless sense i like you scarlet im not going to say anything rude but girlfriend please stick to acting

the video is cliche amateur film school, and her voice is forgettable, but i’m sure some pretentious suckers will buy into it instead of just getting the original

Scarlett is hoping that people will make this association: “tom waits is talented and deep. scarlett is doing a tom waits cover album. Therefore, scarlett too must be talented and deep! oooooh she’s so artsy and smart! all you haters go back to your britney pop crap, she’s a REAL artist!”

she’s marketing to sheep like #48 (unless the name “hypocrite” is a commentary on the respective post, in which case, well done). her audience is the kind who’ll buy whatever they hear is underground and think they’re music experts since they don’t listen to mainstream radio, but whose pretentious ambitions have kept them from any genuine understanding of what constitutes talent.

I have never laughed so much in my life, she sounds horrible…I threw up in my mouth. Girl needs to stick to her acting with the pedophile.

WTF!?!?! What the hell is this? Scarlett….stick to acting and flaunting your boobs because this song SUCKS.

um yeah i think more than a few of us are tom waits fans, and we’re laughing the hardest. he’s a god, she’s a HACK

i can’t wait til she tries to sing live!

Alanis Morissette “FLAVORS OF ENTANGLEMENT’ June 02, 2008!

Its great! Love it!

Damn… there are a lot of bitter people out there just dying for the chance to shoot someone down!

Tom Waits, like Dylan, Morrison, Cohen, Reed and a myriad of others do not have conventionally “good” singing voices and it always sounds weird when someone who does, covers their material.

In my opinion, any good cover requires two essential elements: 1. The original should be recognisable beneath the cover and 2: The cover should bring some element of artistic interpretation to and distinction from the original.

I LOVE Tom Waits and I have to say I thought this was a damned good cover that had both the essential elements.

Does Johannson have a conventionally “good” singing voice? I don’t know… and listening to this track I never will because it a conventionally “good” singing voice is NOT what was required for this job!

It seems to me that more singers need to learn their own limitations and work within them… and IF (big “if” because until we hear more we simply don’t know) Johannson does have a limited singing ability, then good on her for choosing material that accommodates those limitations… That alone puts her in soome illustrious company, like Dylan, Morrison, Cohen, Reed etc.

Somehow I don’t think we are getting Ave Maria released as a single by any of them in the foreseeable future!

All in all I liked it… certainly enough to check out the rest of the album and certainly enough to write here.

One last question people… Would it really hurt to find something constructive to say occasionally instead of groundless tear downs and shamless comparisons to the papparazzi’s victim d’jour? You talk about being above such shamelss and pointless celebrity for the sake of celebrity… but then you prove yourselvesto be every bit the victim simply by being so damned concious of it all!

Remember, it is not actually all that serious… It IS entertainment!

Aweful….What the hell is this crap?! She should stick movies

Jesus christ!!!wtf ??? what an awful ugly voice wow did she even release that her voice sucks ? someone stop her plz ,and she looked so terrible whene they were putting on her the make up her skin looked terrible, scarlette johansson is getting so low , she is all about attention since she is sucking as an actress now she is trying to find somehting else for the attention to exist, what next singing in the toilette ? i think she should do it , she would do us all a favor .

Crap

*still

she cannot sing, but is hot as hell!

she’s pretty but her voice is horrible. ew! sounds like she’s drunk or something. haha!

i like her acting ok, but dang, the song is alright , however if i sang like that i sure wouldnt want anyone else to hear me. she should concentrate more on Ryan and less on her music.

I think it would take some getting used to… but this is the only song i’ve really heard her sing…. but as of right now i would pick scarlett as an actress over a singer… at this point anyway….

I think that this is a refreshing sound. I get tired of hearing the same beats and pop voices. It’s edgy and totally not what I expected. Can’t wait to hear more.

You know that video was as God awful as her vocals. I sing better than that! Come on, Nico? I don’t think that she comes close to Nico, in the Velvet Underground. She is beautiful and talented as an ACTRESS, just not as a singer. Yeah, yeah, I know that a lot of people do, but what the F—- do they know? They form their opinions around what other people say. There are much more talented people than her in terms of singing, they just won’t get the chance to show it, lack of publicity. She was droning and boringly monotone, the lyrics were nice..

Love SJ, hate the song!

Is this a joke? Why would anyone even produce such crap? She has horrible voice in the movies, but it’s even more horrendouse in her song. Yuck!

It’s cool. Her voice is interesting and I like the style. The people who don’t like it can go listen to the bland sing-by-numbers voice of their favorite American Idol contestant and get fucked.

she can’t sing at all;
my little brother sing better than her.
she should stick to acting
and how the HELL is she #1

what the hell was that?
she’s hot as hell. but this is terrible

It seems like most people here expect her to churm out some crappy pop songs because she is an attractive female celebrity. Learn to be open minded…it’s ok that this doesn’t sound the way you expected it to. I thought it was nice, regardless of who was singing.

This sucks. It sounds like she is just talking. She should stick to movies.

I like the fact that she likes Tom Waits.
He’s truly one o my greatest idols.
But in my opinion, it’s David Bowies featured vocal that makes the song become deep and beautiful.

Not to sure on the musicvideo either…. it seems so…. tacky, to a song like Falling down.
Kind of like if you played “All tomorrows parties” on a runwayshow.

Oh well.
Haven’t heard the rest of the album.
I hope it sounds better.

Its reminisce of the 60s when womens voices werent neccesarily pretty but she can hold a tune… I like it. But the segment in the video of the creepy lil girl in the pink dress freaks me out a bit

well, I have listened to it. And I am a musican who has played Tom W. songs. The problem is with the mixing, her voice is not flat , it”s just the watered down , sloppy mix!!! Bad drumming. And no concept of how to redo a song that was a perge to do anyway.Maybe she should have started with Spingfeild”s … Jessy”s Girl. Ha!! Ha!!!

I really enjoy and respect Scarlet’s acting skills however I did not enjoy this song at all. It has nothing to do with type, style or genre of music. I very much enjoy music from every category. She doesn’t have a voice to sing with. She has very little control of her monotone voice and it is very unpleasant to the ear. In my opinion she really needs to stay with what shes good at or at least stick with pop music where there are plent of tricks and voice enhancers to dull the pain.

The epitome of medocrity!

And DAVID BOWIE, WTF! From ziggy, glam queen, thin white duke to the man who fell from his career!

i don’t get it. it sounds so…flat and monotone. the music is good but it’s like she’s a starlet that wants to be a singer-songwriter type. and the video is even more confusing than the strange sounding song. it’s not as bad as i anticipated but truly, what is it?

As evidenced by THIS and her performance at Coachella with the Jesus and Mary Chain, Scarjo is simply a terrible singer.

What is this? Music? She can’t sing for Goodness sake.

HORRIBLE! I DONT LIKE IT

Scarlet! What’re u doin? It doesnt mean that if you’re something in movie business you’re gonna be singer too.. which is obviosuly shows us .. Scarlet just a big baloon. for me disappoinment .. don’t like her voice. She ruined this great song. try to listen the original version.