Quarantine is giving us all sorts of goods, including Miley Cyrus singing Pink Floyd’s ‘Wish you Were Here’ on Saturday Night Live.
We’ve been treated to some stunning performances while awaiting the green light for concerts to rev back up. The Killers debuted their new song ‘Blowback’ as well as covered Tom Petty’s ‘The Waiting’ for CBS This Morning, Fatboy Slim’s daughter played DJ as Fat Girl Slim, and now Miley Cyrus has graced us with her beautiful rendition of ‘Wish You Were Here’ by Pink Floyd.
Surprising viewers, Miley Cyrus was not even announced ahead of the show, nor featured in the opening credits of April 25th’s episode of Saturday Night Live. However, for the show’s second at-home episode since COVID-19 began, Cyrus began belted out a cover of the 1975 Pink Floyd hit alongside producer Andrew Watt on guitar.
The sensational pop artist tapped far back into her country background and included plenty of southern twang as she moved through the fitting lyrics of “How I wish, how I wish you were here/ We’re just two lost souls/ Swimming in a fish bowl/ Year after year.” She performed a stripped-back version of the title track from Pink Floyd’s acclaimed Wish You Were Here album, as she sang on in the red glow of a fire pit.
Keeping things simple, Watt played guitar not wanting to steal away from Cyrus’ voice, all the while staying apart from Cyrus in order to maintain social distancing regulations, as he knows the pain of COVID-19. The 29-year-old tested positive for the virus back in March, and took to social media to urge fans to take the virus seriously, noting that the virus “is not a joke.”
This isn’t the first time Cyrus has taken to covering a Pink Floyd song. In September of 2019, she covered the outfits iconic ‘Comfortably Numb’ during the iHeartRadio Music Festival.
Check out Miley Cyrus singing Pink Floyd’s ‘Wish You Were Here’:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7tjd4m
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