Juliana Hatfield Covers an Underappreciated Classic From The Police: Premiere | billboard

The second track to be released from Juliana's upcoming album of The Police songs is Next to You.

It premiered today at billboard, where Gary Graff has asked Juliana about the project:

"Next to You," the first track from the Police's 1978 debut album Outlandos d'Amour, presented a challenge for Hatfield, however. "It really was an intuitive reworking of that," says Hatfield, who abandoned "an awful '80s metal ballad" version of the song before settling on this version. "Their recording of it is so perfect in its imperfection. It's unpolished and raw; That whole album sounds like three guys bashing out a song in a room together. So I didn't even want to attempt to do a rocking version of it like that. I don't want it to be compared to the original. There's no way I could come close. So I just went in a completely different direction and slowed down to half time."