Scarlett Johansson Imagines Db As Bette Midler

Strangers when we meet…

Scarlett Johansson has a five song session up on AOL at the moment. It’s accompanied by a new interview in which she says more nice stuff about DB, including what her original vision of his contribution could be.

Not sure if this is only available in the UK or not, sorry to those of you elsewhere if that is the case. Either way, here’s the Bowie bit…

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AOL: David Bowie sings backup on a few of the album’s tracks. How did you hook up with him?

SJ: It was a dream come true working with Bowie. When I had originally thought I would do that song, ‘Never Talk To Strangers,’ my dream would be to do a duet with Bowie singing the Bette Midler part and me singing the Tom Waits part, and we’d hold hands and walk off into the sunset!

And right before I had gone off to do the album, I was at this big event and he was there, and we happen to be seated at the same table. And he was like, “I hear you’re doing this Waits cover album, and I think it’s really cool that you’re working with Dave Sitek, who I love.” And I said something like, “If you’re ever in the neighborhood, come on down and record something with us.”

And then sure enough, several months later when Dave was mixing the album, he calls me and is like, “Guess who I’ve got in the studio?” I was over the moon! It’s just awesome to have Bowie’s support. He’s such a huge music enthusiast and he’s so cool in my book — it’s a honour to have him listening to the album and certainly to have him on the album.

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Go here to read the full thing.