Watch Neck Deep cover ‘Torn’ and perfectly parody Natalie Imbruglia’s video
The cover will benefit mental health and suicide prevention charities
Neck Deep have covered the song ‘Torn’ and have perfectly parodied Natalie Imbruglia’s emotionally wrought video.
The Welsh pop-punks have recorded a version of the track, originally released by Ednaswap but made famous by ex-Neighbours star Imbruglia two years later, for an upcoming ‘Songs That Saved My Life’ Hopeless Records compilation album.
Also featuring contributions from The Maine, As It Is, Against Me!, Taking Back Sunday and more, proceeds from the album will benefits mental health and suicide prevention charities including Crisis Text Line, Hope For The Day, The Trevor Project, and To Write Love On Her Arms.
Explaining why they recorded a cover of ‘Torn’ and mimicked Imbruglia’s video, Neck Deep’s Ben Barlow says: “This song is a classic for a lot people; it’s actually one of my girlfriend’s favourite songs ever, so we’ve listened to it a lot.
“It clicked that we could cover it one day when we were on tour, eating somewhere and it came on the radio. We started singing along and quickly realised this would make an awesome cover, once we’d ND’d it. We recorded the song with my brother Seb, and the video rolled round a little while later.
“Once again we teamed up with our buddies at OWIG and aimed to recreate the original video, but with an ND twist. We scrapped the love element and instead opted for more comedic value. Alongside that, we have a slight narrative where I’m constantly interrupted by the life that goes with being in a band, with me cutting a frustrated figure. It also features some cameos from some of our closest friends in the ND unit!
“It was a lot of fun being able to cover such a well-known song. Shooting the video was a breeze and as always the OWIG team nailed it.”
Directors Joshua Sowter-Halling and Daniel Broadley of Our World Is Grey add: “It’s not often you get a chance to pay homage to a massive 90’s music video, so when this landed in our inbox we were definitely stoked!
“We wanted to get the whole thing looking as close as possible to the original but with a few little updates, like changing the aspect ratio from square (4:3) to Widescreen (16:9) which gave the whole piece a more modern feel.
“We were blessed with an incredible art department who all worked tirelessly to mimic the original set… the rest of it was just about having as much fun on set as possible!”
Compare and contrast Neck Deep and Natalie Imbruglia’s videos here:
To find out more about the ‘Songs That Saved My Life’ compilation album and to pre-order it click here. The track-listing is as follows:
1) Neck Deep - Torn
2) Movements - Losing My Religion
3) Stand Atlantic - Your Graduation
4) Dance Gavin Dance - Semi Charmed Life
5) Against Me! - People Who Died
6) Taking Back Sunday - Bullet With Butterfly Wings
7) Dream State - Crawling
8) As It Is - Such Great Heights
9) Oceans Ate Alaska - Shape of my Heart
10) Too Close To Touch - Let It Be
11) Dan Campbell & Ace Enders - Broom People
12) The Maine - Transatlanticism