Heartbreaking: Siouxsie Sioux English singer and songwriter Just Passed Away At the Aged of 67..see..more…LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – JUNE 23: Siouxsie Sioux performs on stage at Meltdown Festival 2013 at the Royal Festival Hall on June 23, 2013 in London, England. (Photo by Burak Cingi/Redferns via Getty Images)
Siouxsie Sioux performing in 2013. BURAK CINGI/REDFERNS/GETTY IMAGES
ENIGMATIC GOTH ICON Siouxsie Sioux has released her first new recording in nearly a decade — a new cover of Iggy Pop’s “The Passenger,” recorded as a duet with Iggy, for an ice cream commercial.
Siouxsie is of course plenty familiar with “The Passenger,” covering the song in 1987 with Siouxsie and the Banshees. The new version is unlike either the band’s horn-fueled cover, or Iggy Pop’s thrumming punk original; instead, it’s a moody, downtempo ballad that erupts with cinematic and orchestral splendor as Siouxsie and Iggy deliver fittingly dramatic vocal performances.
If you want to hear this new version of “The Passenger” though, you won’t find it on any streaming services. For now, it’s only available on YouTube, in the elaborate ad for Magnum ice cream bars’ new “Pleasure Express” campaign. (Get it — express, like a train, passenger, things of that nature
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