Caroline Polachek sings Radiohead in front of a Monet
Caroline Polachek covered Radiohead’s “True Love Waits” in front of Claude Monet’s famous painting “Water Lilies.” The artist performed at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris as part of Art Basel Paris. Radiohead first performed “True Love Waits” in 1995, featuring singer Thom Yorke on acoustic guitar. Yorke performed it solo on guitar or piano several times over the next few years, and it became one of the band’s best-known unreleased songs until he decided to release it as the closing track on “A Moon Shaped Pool” in 2016. rearranged as a minimalist ballad.
“Many thanks to Klaus Biesenbach and Olivier Berggruen for inviting me to perform a short program of songs at the Museum Berggruen and Neue Nationalgalerie exhibition of the Heinz Berggruen collection at the Musée de L’Orangerie for Art Basel Paris 2024,” he Polachek wrote on Instagram after the performance. “I had chills singing in that room as I saw those paintings in real life for the first time. ‘True Love Waits,’ like Monet’s painting, spanned decades, time, loss and perseverance,” continued Polachek, whose latest acclaimed album is “Desire, I Want to Turn Into You,” released in 2023.