Check out The Hives’ rowdy cover of Blue Swede’s ‘Hooked On A Feeling’
nme.comThe Hives have shared their rowdy new cover of Blue Swede’s ‘Hooked On A Feeling’.The Swedish five-piece rock band teamed up with Spotify for their Spotify Singles to release their rendition of Blue Swede’s 1974 hit track.
Released on March 29 of that year, ‘Hooked on a Feeling’ made history by becoming the first single by a Swedish artist to take the top spot on Billboard’s US list.The song has racked up over 660 million streams on Spotify to date, in part thanks to its feature in movies like Guardians of the Galaxy and Reservoir Dogs.
For their version of the song, The Hives swapped the song’s original slower tempo for something much louder and more boisterous.Speaking about the cover in a press release, The Hives’ frontman Pelle Almqvist said: “I think there’s a synergy effect of Swedish music having made it abroad, and you feel like it’s possible.
We can’t make it more perfect than the original is, so we went the other way instead: ruined it, but made it sound exciting.”The Hives’ most recent release was their sixth album ‘The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons‘.
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