LYKKE LI & RYAN GOSLING - IT HURTS TO BE ALONE

IT HURTS TO BE ALONE

LYKKE LI & RYAN GOSLING

SONGWRITER: BOB MARLEY

COUNTRY: SWEDEN

ALBUM: SONG TO SONG

LABEL: blue mountain music

GENRE: INDIE POP

YEAR: 2017

 

        Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson(born 18 March 1986), known as Lykke Li (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈlʏ̂kːɛ ˈliː]), is a Swedish singer, songwriter and model. Her music often blends elements of indie pop, dream pop and electronic. Her debut studio album, Youth Novels, was released in 2008, and has been followed by Wounded Rhymes(2011), I Never Learn(2014), and So Sad So Sexy(2018).

     Terrence Malick’s latest film Song to Song is centered on Austin, Texas’ music scene and features a whole bunch of musicians, including Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, John Lydon, and others. In a new clip from the movie, Lykke Li and Ryan Gosling play ex-lovers and duet on Bob Marley and the Wailers’ “It Hurts to Be Alone.” Gosling plays the song on a Casio keyboard. Watch it go down below via Billboard. According to the credits, their version of the Bob Marley song was produced by Radiohead collaborator Nigel Godrich.

         Song to Song is about two couples (Rooney Mara, Ryan Gosling, Natalie Portman, Michael Fassbender) who “chase success through a rock‘n’roll landscape of seduction and betrayal,” according to the film's description. The movie premiered last week at SXSW and hits theaters in New York and Los Angeles on March 17. A previously released clip shows Patti Smith giving advice to Rooney Mara

After he breaks your heart

Then you'll be sad

And your teardrops start

Then you'll know how

It hurts to be alone

 

Just because you think that you're so smart

Going around breaking lover's hearts

Now you're defeated

By your own weapon

 

After he breaks your heart

Then you'll be sad

And your teardrops start

Then you'll know now

It hurts to be alone.