Brie Larson - Black Sheep

            Today’s recommendation comes from Sacramento, California by the young actress who also moonlights as a pop rock singer / songwriter. Best known for her roles in the hit comedy series United States of Tara, she is Brie Larson.

            She got her start performing sketches on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno since then after being part of a string of cancelled or unaired shows she found some success in Disney Movies and finally landed on United Stated of Tara.

            Her music career began in 2003 when she started promoting her songs on her personal website and was about to release an album before she signed a deal with Universal Records. Since then she has released her debut album Finally Out Of P.E. back in 2005 to moderate success and started her own indie record label Big Brass Stacks.

            The song I’m recommending, Black Sheep has not been released in fact it’s not available for purchase anywhere, the song was featured in the movie Scott Pilgrim VS. The World where she covered Metric’s song Black Sheep. Even though they belong to entirely different genres it’s natural to compare the two versions, despite the fact that Metric is one of my favorite bands I still like Brie’s version better solely because she made the sound more pop compared to Emily who stuck to her trademark indie roots. The best thing about Brie’s version is that she kept the original riff intact but made the song more fluent through her vocals and got rid of the unnecessarily long intro which features in Emily’s version, but hey that’s just my opinion you decide for yourself I’ll throw in both the versions, here’s the song

If you’d like to know more about her, here’s the link to her Wikipedia page

Brie Larson 

Here’s Emily’s version

If you like this version you can get it from the link below

Here's part of the video of the song from the movie Scott Pilgrim VS. The World with some additional clips

Still wanna know more about her, here’s the link to her MySpace page

Brie Lason (MySpace)

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Enjoy!!!