joe jackson sang a version of "is she really going out with him?" on their album in the pursuit of leisure.
joe jackson sang a version of "is she really going out with him?" on their album in the pursuit of leisure.
who sang a version of "is she really going out with him?" on their album in the pursuit of leisure?
joe jackson
american alternative rock band sugar ray recorded a cover of "is she really going out with him?" on their album "in the pursuit of leisure". this version reached number 19 on the us "billboard" adult top 40 tracks and was used as the theme for the short-lived sitcom "i'm with her". chuch taylor of "billboard" reviewed the song favourably, saying that mcgrath "infuses it with his consistently likeable brand of hand-waving posturing", though will levith of "ultimate classic rock" named the song one of the worst covers ever released and said "the song just misses the heart and soul of the original completely".
is she really going out with him?
"is she really going out with him?" has been a mainstay of jackson's live setlist since its release. like many of jackson's songs, "is she really going out with him?" has been rearranged in live concerts to align with jackson's shifting musical interests. these reworkings include an acoustic rendition and an a cappella doo-wop version, performances of which have both been released on "live 1980/86". an a cappella version of "is she really going out with him?" was released as a single in 1988 in some european countries. jackson attributes this tendency to rework his songs to jazz musician duke ellington, a musical idol of jackson's for whom jackson released a tribute album titled "the duke" in 2012; he explained in an interview, "i was ... inspired by ellington's own philosophy, which he thought the same way about his music – he constantly rearranged and reinvented his own compositions. sometimes in quite radical ways".
is she really going out with him?