Role Model Covers Taylor Swift & Phoebe Bridgers’ ‘Nothing New’: Watch

Position Mannequin needed to sing a model of “Nothing New,” the melancholic Taylor Swift Crimson (Taylor’s Model) vault observe that options Phoebe Bridgers, that he may perform a little two-step to whereas screaming out the refrain — including a splash of drunken coziness to Swift’s ruminating after an evening of imbibing in a number of too many. And so “Nothing New (Tucker’s Model)” was born, with Position Mannequin debuting his reside cowl of Swift’s music on Australian radio station Triple J’s “Like a Model” sequence.

“Standout music for me,” says Position Mannequin, aka Tucker Harrington Pillsbury, in an accompanying interview clip with the station launched on Thursday (March 13) whereas he’s on the highway together with his band, enjoying sold-out exhibits in Brooklyn and Boston this weekend and returning as opener on Gracie Abrams‘ Secret of Us Tour this summer season.

He stumbled upon the Crimson-era music whereas engaged on his sophomore studio album, 2024’s Kansas Anymore.

As Position Mannequin remembers, “I used to be always including songs to my playlist, like a music inspo playlist, and this one I got here throughout. I had no concept Taylor Swift and Phoebe Bridgers had been on a music collectively. I’m scared to say it, however I believe Phoebe introduced me into the Taylor Swift world — which is nice.”

Watch Position Mannequin’s Reside Cowl of “Nothing New”

“She’s unimaginable,” he says of Swift. “She’s the most effective songwriters of our technology.”

“Nothing New,” a music that didn’t make the reduce on the unique Crimson album in 2012 however resurfaced amidst the 2021 re-recording of the set, has Swift considering her shelf life as a promising younger pop-country star; verses are traded with Bridgers, who additionally lends concord to the refrain and bridge. Swift and Bridgers introduced the music to the stage for the primary time on Might 5, 2023 in Nashville, the primary of a number of nights the Punisher singer-songwriter joined the lineup of the The Eras Tour.

“I really like the refrain and [how] it modifications barely each time,” says Position Mannequin of “Nothing New,” explaining why he went the place he did together with his interpretation of the tune. “It simply feels good, like, ‘I’ve had an excessive amount of to drink tonight’ — I wanna scream it and dance to it. In order that’s why we added drums and somewhat little bit of twang to it. I needed to bump up the tempo just a bit bit, add drums and convey it into the world of Kansas Anymore. Simply give it somewhat heat and a slight dance-y groove, and a few twang. We had the peddle metal are available. I simply needed to have the ability to do a gradual two-step to it.”

Although “Nothing New” is written from the angle of a woman within the highlight worrying it’s solely a matter a time earlier than a brisker face takes her place (“Individuals love an ingénue,” Swift remarks, a tragic line with dry supply, after Bridgers sings, “Are we solely biding time ’til I lose your consideration?”), Position Mannequin can empathize with the lyrics as an artist.

“I’ve stated this many occasions earlier than,” he shares. “Individuals’s consideration spans are very quick, and so they’re getting shorter. I attempt to not bathe within the consideration that I’m getting now on this place of my profession, which is, I assume, most likely, the most effective place I’ve been in my profession. I attempt to not bathe myself in that as a result of I do know individuals are gonna overlook sooner or later or transfer on, and there’s gonna be a pleasant, shinier little Tucker that comes alongside and outdoes me. I get it. I relate to Miss Taylor.”

Position Mannequin as soon as met Bridgers at Coachella, however humbly assumes she doesn’t keep in mind it. He hasn’t met Swift, although between this efficiency circulating and his tour with Abrams, he’s arguably now within the pop icon’s orbit, at the very least tangentially. An opener on Swift’s Eras Tour, Abrams ended up co-writing and recording the Grammy-nominated duet “us.” together with her, a spotlight on her The Secret of Us album.

Of his hope to fulfill Swift sometime, Position Mannequin, who in February launched a number of new songs (together with “Sally, When the Wine Runs Out,” seen beneath) by way of deluxe album Kansas Anymore (The Longest Goodbye), says, “I’d like to. I’d like to.”

For somebody who didn’t actually determine as a fan of Swift till “Nothing New,” he’s acquired an affordable grasp on the facility of Swifties. His well mannered plea to those that hear his cowl: “Simply don’t hate me. For those who don’t prefer it, I perceive. For those who appreciated it, thanks a lot — I’m honored. I’m petrified of each of you in one of the simplest ways, so go simple on me.”

“Ship hearts,” he says with optimism, making the signature coronary heart arms Swift’s fandom is aware of.