New music: Bell – Are You That Somebody?

Check out this playful cover of Aaliyah's 1998 hitNew York singer Bell doesn't try to out-weird Aaliyah on her cover of the Timbaland-produced 1998 hit, Are You That Somebody? The original was, after all, a song that stuttered and jolted around a looped sample of a baby crying. Instead she replaces the beat with a more glacial soundbed of crystalline beats and warm synth rushes, filtering her voice through an effects pedal for the Timbaland rap. A staple of her recent live shows, it's a cover th...

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