When an artist has the opportunity to cover a song -- especially one far outside their musical comfort zones -- the end results are always interesting.
Whenever a band or musician arrives with a fully realized, completely assured sound and aesthetic on their debut album, heaps of praise and accolades follow. Which makes sense, it is REALLY HARD to sound original and like you know what the fuck you're doing on your first album...
A little over a month ago, A$AP Ferg joined HAIM for the official remix to the Cali band's already-odd "My Song 5," and now they've teamed up for the video, which is as random as the pairing in the first place.
The premise is that it's on the fictional Dallas Murphy talk show, with SNL's Vanessa Bayer (who previously interviewed the band as her Janessa Slater alter ego) in the lead role.
Well, we never would've guessed A$AP Ferg was set to become a pop crossover star, but here we are, living in a world where the trap lord features on Ariana Grande's sophomore album and shows up on HAIM's "My Song 5" remix. We'll take it!
The confidently warped, clanging Days Are Gone outlier gets an added level of bizarre swag thanks to Ferg's backing ad-libs, then he drops in for a mani