Angélique Kidjo Brings Fresh Funk to Cover of Midnight Oil's 'Beds Are Burning'

Angelique Kidjo shared a funky new cover of Midnight Oil's 'Beds Are Burning' for the PlayAtHome series on 'The Late Show.'

Beninese singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo performed a cover of Midnight Oil’s 1987 song “Beds Are Burning” forFor their rendition, Kidjo and her socially distanced band offered up a decisively funky take on the synth-tinged Eighties rocker.

While the song is about returning land and making reparations to Aboriginal communities in Australia, it has a universal urgencythat feels particularly potent now, especially as Kidjo sang the chorus: “How can we dance when our earth is turning?/How do we sleep while our beds are burning?”, and earlier this year it won the Grammy for Best World Music Album.

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