Mr. Waits is one of my all-time favourites, and Ms. Johansson my pick as one of the most beautiful women on the planet.

This is going to be… interesting. I’m not sure good, or bad-interesting either. Wonder what Mr. Waits thinks… look out Ms. Brennan; you’ve got some competition.

as long as she stays with pre-Swordfishtrombones/Bone Machine material, she may have a shot…otherwise someone is going to be embarrassed

If she records “Pasties and a G-String,” I may be able to forgive any horrifying song choice she may make from that point on.

agreed. anything pre swordfishtrombones/ raindogs. She could have some trouble with some of the stuff on Blue Valentine. I just don’t know about this one. But who cares, the Orphans box set is due out next month.

maybe, i haven’t heard her sing yet

If she sings with no clothes on I’ll go see her.

I vote that Scarlett sings “All Stripped Down,” from Bone Machine.

I’ll only listen if she records “In The Coliseum”. I would pay good money to hear that. By “good money” I mean, of course, I would download it from some quasi-legal russian mp3 site.

Scarlett singing “Heart Attack and Vine”…This girl is the 3rd Coming…oh my GOD.

‘My money’s on ‘God’s Away On Business’ being the stand out track.

she shoud cover NWAs efil4zaggin in its entirety next.

Scarlett is a better singer than any of her contemporaries with recording contracts. Who’s her competition? Ashlee? Paris? Go to itunes and sample Scarlett’s rendition of Summertime. She’s got cred.

I LOVE Tom Waits, but she better start gargling with razor blades.

Any gorgeous woman (or even homely ones) who wants to take on Tom Waits are A-okay in my book. What I want to know is, where the hell are all the non-celebrity chicks who love Tom Waits? I’d like to hang with them (even if they don’t have the ridiculous body of Miss Johansen).

but I’ll buy her CD Scarlett Is HOT!

God, she’s a disaster singing karaoke in Lost in translation….:dies:

Tom, why are you doing this to us??

Tom,Scarlett and Billy Bob Thorton as The STD Trio. I’d like to see this music group have some hits and Billy Bob might get Scarlett pregnant! What a concept album…

tom waits is the man, i hope johansson can do him justice.

Here’s a question for the next RS blog top list: which other celebrities should (or shouldn’t) cover which songwriters? My first suggestion is “Andy Dick Sings Bruce Springsteen.”

The new Guns N’ Roses album, “Chinese Democracy” is set to hit stores before the end of the year…you can visit gunsnroses.com for all the latest news, performances, and all of your ticket purchasing needs…..

I second God’s Away on Business as the standout track, but keep an ear out for Filipino Box Spring Hog as the follow-up single. Part of me cant wait to hear this train wreck of an album.

I made a cool illustration of Tom Waits for a DayTrotter.com review of his last show in Chicago. Here it is. http://www.daytrotter.com/revi ews/230/tom-waits-the-frazzled -musicmaker-takes-the-form-of- a-body

Well, I haven’t heard her sing yet…so I can’t really gauge that, but Waits’ songs are so well written that pretty much anybody can cover them and interpret them differently…some doing them well (Norah Jones, Springsteen) some…not so well (Rod Stewart comes to mind…)
I’m interested in finding out what songs she picks. My bet is that she picks a lot of the jazzier numbers from the first few albums, and I bet she picks “Hold On.”

Waits once said in an interview, when asked about making it as a musician, that “Everybody loves music. But that’s not enough. Music has to love you back.”

I don’t doubt that she loves music and she loves Tom’s music, but I guess we’ll see whether the music loves her back.

A nice torchy version of “The Piano Has Been Drinking” might really hit the spot!

Ms. Johansson is an inspiration to curvy, intelligent, grown up women everywhere. She seems very mature for her age. And her voice is rather nice. Another actress’ voice and personality I like is Zoe Deschanel. They’re both classic beauties who will never go out of style much like their contemporaries (i.e. lohan, hilton, etc.)

I’m in agreement with Scott P. If she does “Pasties and a G-String”, I wouldn’t really care what else she sang. It would be well worth it just to hear a beautiful young thing like Scarlett J. singing “smellin’ like a brewery, looking like a tramp”!

For God’s sake, this is ridiculous, the woman is ugly (she has coarse features, and a disastrous figure), vulgar and she doesn’t have a shred of talent! I hate her! The whole idea is perfectly grotesque, I hope Tom Waits won’t let her perpetrate this pitiful massacre!

I suppose that you, Loneshewolf, are full of talent, beauty, etc., that has gone, strangely, unappreciated.

I’d say Johanssen is at least as pretty as Waits is ugly.

You should pity yourself, Pitythefool. Scarlett Johansson isn’t pretty and Tom Waits isn’t ugly. And you’re ALWAYS wrong. How do you do it?

Has everyone gone totally insane? I am not trying to idealize tom waits as this god who is too bright for us mortals, but damn, something just doesn’t sit well about this whole thing. To take something as unique and true as tom and his music, and then bastardize it by having a young starlette cover his music for her debut album is nothing more than pop/commercial/spinned bull! i know, now i am the crazy one

I bought her Summertime as suggested by Cliff, I’m listening to it now and I am totally surprised. She is quite good! Who would have guessed?

If an actress from Hollywood procalimed herself a Waits fan, I wouldn’t care if she was Hulk Hogans siamese twin. Hope she sings “The Piano has been Drinking”. That’d be interesting. Or “Hoist That Rag”

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oh my.. well as much as I adore miss johansson, i doubt that she could do any justice to mr waits and she’s insane or pretentious for trying…

Instead of buying her album when it comes out, spend your money of a real waits album, you’ll be a much better person for it.

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i’d like to hang with any chick who likes waits enough to learn his material…much less go to the length to record an album of his…she wouldn’t even need to look as hot as Miss Scarlett…on the other foot, it would be hard to hang with any girl as hot as Miss Scarlett (or not) who didn’t know or, when she did, didn’t like Mr. Tom…

What if someone decided to do a whole album of Hoagy Carmichael, or Jerome Kern? What is the difference in the rules? I would think that one of the problems people have with this is that when TOm does a song…it has so such style , force, and character, that it is instantly the classic version of it. Even the ballads on Orphans come across that way…some of them are unbeleivably good…I hope you folks out there put that second CD of Orphans on and just go for a drive. Orphans, of course,should have won best album and easily should have won best song for some of the great choices it had. 15 of those songs were better than anything out there that the grammy folks were considering. Listen to Widow’s Grove lyrics.
Profound.

If any of this hoopla puts Tom Waits in front of people who have no clue and opens their eyes and ears, and they start listening to original Waits, then it’s all good. The album alone won’t do that as much as the media attention it will get. really, there are a lot of people who have no clue as to who the master is.

Maybe Scarlett should look at the One From The Heart Songs, but I understand she has locked in her choices. Crystal Gayle is so fine on that album with Tom, that I think they should do more material together on occassion. By the way, the re-release of the One From The Heart Soundtrack has two more songs at the end, and one of them is an Empty Pockets suite that is so gorgeous and amazing that it blows anything else released in 2006, and it was kicked off the first release!