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(Yo No Quiero Ir A) Chelsea: Elvis Costello's "This Year's Model" Is Reimagined as "Spanish Model"

July 16, 2021 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Elvis Costello Spanish Model

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Elvis Costello cheekily titled his 1978 sophomore album This Year's Model.  But while the artist may have borrowed Presley's name and Buddy Holly's glasses, he wasn't just that year's model...he was built to last.  Now, after a year in which he already reimagined several tracks from his 2020 studio album Hey Clockface into French for the EP La Face de Pendule à Coucou, the ever-adventurous, fiercely original artist has taken his international explorations one giant step forward. On September 10, Costello and UMe will release Spanish Model, a covers album unlike any other.

For Spanish Model, Costello and frequent collaborator Sebastian Krys (Look Now, Hey Clockface) assembled a cast of Latin rock and pop superstars to reinterpret the entirety of This Year's Model, but with a twist: all of the singers recorded over Costello and The Attractions' original tracks.  The original Model was Elvis' first album with The Attractions - Steve Nieve (keyboards), Pete Thomas (drums), and Bruce Thomas (bass) - and introduced a number of staples still in a typical Costello setlist today, including the pulsating "Pump It Up," defiant "(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea," and misunderstood "This Year's Girl."  The latter, a biting critique of the way men objectify women that was perceived as misogynistic, was recently adopted as the theme to the HBO drama The Deuce with additional vocals performed by Natalie Bergman.  That rendition led to the germ of the idea that became Spanish Model.

The album features new vocals by Cami, Draco Rosa, Fito Páez, Francisca Valenzuela and Luis Humberto Navejas (lead singer of Enjambre), Gian Marco and Nicole Zignago, Jesse and Joy, Jorge Drexler, Juanes, La Marisoul, Luis Fonsi, Morat, Nina Diaz, Pablo López, Raquel Sofía & Fuego, Sebastián Yatra, and Vega.  Juanes' electrifying take on "Pump It Up" - a pretty remarkable fusion of the old and the new - has been selected as the lead single and is now streaming.  Colombian artist Juanes is no stranger to Costello's music, and collaborated with both Pete Thomas and Sebastian Krys on his own Origen album.  In addition to the U.S. and Colombia, the artists hail from Argentina, Chile, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, and Uruguay.  Elsten Torres and Ximena Muñoz have collaborated with Costello and Krys to adapt the original lyrics into the Spanish language while preserving the original intentions of the songs.

The album boasts 16 tracks, encompassing all of the songs on both the U.K. and U.S. versions of This Year's Model - the U.S. edition on Columbia Records dropped "(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea" and "Night Rally" and added the incendiary "Radio Radio," previously released as a non-LP single in the U.K. - plus the associated tracks "Big Tears," "Crawling to the U.S.A.," and "Running Out of Angels."  In addition to supporting the new vocals, Krys' remix promises to bring out new details in the original recordings produced by Nick Lowe and engineered by Roger Bechirian.  Some of the tracks have longer fades, revealing more of Costello and Mick Jones' dueling guitars on "Pump It Up" and Pete Thomas's Keith Moon-worthy drum explosion on "No Action."  Listen closely, too, for some vocal cameos from Costello.

Elvis Costello This Years Model Remastered

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After last year's vinyl-only box set of Armed Forces, Spanish Model will be released in LP and CD formats (as well as digitally), while a special 2-LP, 180-gram black vinyl set exclusive to uDiscoverMusic.com and Sound of Vinyl brings together the album with the remastered original This Year's Model.  Additionally, the remastered This Year's Model will be released on CD and LP, adding "Radio Radio" and "Big Tears" to the original 12-song U.K. album sequence.  (Dig the custom Columbia-style label on the reissue!)  All titles and formats are due on September 10 from UMe and can be pre-ordered at the links below.  "Part of the fun of this project is its unexpected nature," Costello said of Spanish Model in a statement. "Although, I think people in my audience that have been paying attention are pretty much used to surprises by now." He isn't kidding.  Pump it up!

Elvis Costello, Spanish Model (UMe, 2021)

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

  1. No Action - Nina Diaz
  2. (Yo No Quiero Ir A) Chelsea ((I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea) - Raquel Sofía y Fuego
  3. Yo Te Vi (The Beat) - Draco Rosa
  4. Pump It Up - Juanes
  5. Detonantes (Little Triggers) - La Marisoul
  6. Tu Eres Para Mi (You Belong To Me) - Luis Fonsi
  7. Hand In Hand - Francisca Valenzuela y Luis Humberto Navejas
  8. La Chica de Hoy (This Year's Girl) - Cami
  9. Mentira (Lip Service) - Pablo López
  10. Viviendo en el Paraiso (Living In Paradise) - Jesse & Joy
  11. Lipstick Vogue - Morat
  12. La Turba (Night Rally) - Jorge Drexler
  13. Llorar (Big Tears) - Sebastián Yatra
  14. Radio Radio - Fito Páez
  15. Crawling To The U.S.A. - Gian Marco y Nicole Zignago
  16. Se Esta Perdiendo La Inocencia (Running Out Of Angels) - Vega

LP:  Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2LP with This Year's Model: uDiscoverMusic.com / Sound of Vinyl

Side A

  1. No Action - Nina Diaz
  2. (Yo No Quiero Ir A) Chelsea ((I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea) - Raquel Sofía y Fuego
  3. Yo Te Vi (The Beat) - Draco Rosa
  4. Pump It Up - Juanes
  5. Detonantes (Little Triggers) - La Marisoul
  6. Tu Eres Para Mi (You Belong To Me) - Luis Fonsi
  7. Hand In Hand - Francisca Valenzuela y Luis Humberto Navejas
  8. La Chica de Hoy (This Year's Girl) - Cami

Side B

  1. Mentira (Lip Service) - Pablo López
  2. Viviendo en el Paraiso (Living In Paradise) - Jesse & Joy
  3. Lipstick Vogue - Morat
  4. La Turba (Night Rally) - Jorge Drexler
  5. Llorar (Big Tears) - Sebastián Yatra
  6. Radio Radio - Fito Páez
  7. Crawling To The U.S.A. - Gian Marco y Nicole Zignago
  8. Se Esta Perdiendo La Inocencia (Running Out Of Angels) - Vega

Elvis Costello, This Year's Model (Radar (U.K.) RAD 3/Columbia (U.S.) JC 35331, 1978 - reissued UMe, 2021)

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
LP:  Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

  1. No Action
  2. This Year's Girl
  3. The Beat
  4. Pump It Up
  5. Little Triggers
  6. You Belong to Me
  7. Hand in Hand
  8. (I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea
  9. Lip Service
  10. Living in Paradise
  11. Lipstick Vogue
  12. Night Rally
  13. Radio Radio (Radar single ADA 24, 1978)
  14. Big Tears (Radar single ADA 10, 1978)

Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Elvis Costello, Juanes, Luis Fonsi

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JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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Comments

  1. Bruce Padgett says

    July 16, 2021 at 9:48 pm

    So, the CD and vinyl Spanish language versions have 16 songs, yet the remastered English ones contain only 14 tracks each? What kind of marketing is this? Ridiculous.

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  2. Pat says

    July 19, 2021 at 6:40 pm

    Any insight to whether the 3 bonus tracks that show up on the Amazon MP3 pre-order ("(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea (Dub Remix)," "Pump It Up (Duet Remix)" and "Pump It Up (Brutal Remix)") will be available anywhere in the physical media realm?

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