Watch Caroline Polachek cover Radiohead’s ‘True Love Waits’ in front of Claude Monet’s Water Lilies

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Caroline Polachek covered Radiohead‘s ‘True Love Waits’ in front of Claude Monet’s famous painting Water Lilies – check it out below.Polachek was performing at Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris on October 18 as part of Art Basel Paris and included in her set the final track from Radiohead’s album ‘In Rainbows’.“Deepest thank you to [Klaus Biesenbach] and [Olivier Berggruen] for inviting me to come perform a short program of songs on the occasion of the Museum Berggruen and Neue Nationalgalerie exhibition of the Heinz Berggruen collection at the Musée de L’Orangerie for Art Basel Paris 2024,” Polachek wrote on Instagram after. “I had chills all over to sing in that room, while seeing those paintings IRL for the first time.“‘True Love Waits’, like the Water Lilies, went through decades of versions and distillations,” she continued, “through time and loss and perseverance.”Check it out below:A post shared by Caroline Polachek (@carolineplz)In other news, Polachek has appeared on Charli XCX’s reimagined version of the cultural phenomenon of the summer, the ‘Brat’ album.

She appears on the remixed version of the song ‘Everything is romantic’.NME’s five-star review of the remix album noted that “The new version of ‘B2B’ featuring Tinashe now includes a layer of meta-commentary, with Charli reflecting on being constantly booked and feeling “fucking tired” all the time, a woe she shares with Caroline Polachek in their version of ‘Everything is Romantic’: “Did I lose my perspective? / Everything’s still romantic, right?”It continued: “In some ways, ‘Brat And It’s Completely Different But Also Still Brat’ is a home run for its creator, letting her finish the game on her own terms.