Watch Caroline Polachek Cover Radiohead’s ‘True Love Waits’ at Paris Museum

Daniel Kreps

Sat, October 19, 2024 at 2:45 PM UTC

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Caroline Polachek performed Radiohead’s “True Love Waits” at the Musee de l’Orangerie in Paris with Claude Monet’s Water Lilies as a backdrop.
Polachek described the experience as having chills all over while singing in the museum and seeing the paintings in person for the first time.
The song “True Love Waits” by Radiohead went through various versions over a decade before its final appearance on the band’s 2016 album, A Moon Shaped Pool, inspiring Polachek to perform it at the museum show.

Caroline Polachek covered Radiohead's "True Love Waits" Friday during the singer's performance at the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris.

With Claude Monet's painting Water Lilies serving as a backdrop, Polachek delivered a stripped-down rendition of the track as part of "a short program of songs on the occasion of the Museum Berggruen and Neue Nationalgalerie exhibition of the Heinz Berggruen collection," Polachek wrote on Instagram.

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"I had chills all over to sing in that room, while seeing those paintings IRL for the first time."

Radiohead performed the fan favorite ballad "True Love Waits" live for a decade — the song went through various permutations, from its early acoustic version to its OK Computer full-band test-run to its official live recording on the I Might Be Wrong EP — before its finished product appeared on the band's 2016 album A Moon Shaped Pool , a transformation that Polachek acknowledged was one of her reasons for performing the song at the museum show.

"'True Love Waits,' like the Water Lilies, went through decades of versions and distillations… through time and loss and perseverance," she wrote.

The museum gig marked the first time that Polachek – who recently appeared on Charli XCX's all-star Brat And It's Completely Different But Also Still Brat – has performed the song.

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