King Princess Covers The Strokes’ ‘You Only Live Once’ with Julian Casablancas in NYC — Watch!

King Princess delivered out a fellow New York City native rock star for her show at Radio City Music Hall.

During the 23-12 months-antique “Let Us Die” singer-songwriter’s concert on Monday, held as a part of her ongoing Hold On Baby Tour, she changed into joined onstage with the aid of Julian Casablancas of The Strokes to perform a cover of the band’s 2005 alternative hit, “You Only Live Once.”

“We’re in New York, huh? We’re in my native land. So, perhaps it’s only becoming that we play a tune by The Strokes,” King Princess (whose actual name is Mikaela Straus) informed the crowd, receiving applause in go back. “I suggest, I do not know. I do not know who is gonna pop out right here, but…”

“Julian referred to as in ill,” joked the “Talia” musician, attempting to faux out the crowd earlier than gambling the First Impressions of Earth album cut’s starting guitar lick.

After singing the song’s first verse and chorus on her very own, King Princess was joined onstage by using Casablancas, forty four, who sang the subsequent verse.

The pair duetted on the track’s next chorus, at some stage in which Casablancas walked behind King Princess — strumming the track on electric powered guitar — and protected her eyes.

“You’re f—ing me up, bitch!” she playfully exclaimed.

After taking walks over to whisper some thing in Casablancas’ ear, the rock superstar quipped, “Who the f— was that?” “Julian Casablancas, bitch,” stated King Princess with amusing as he walked offstage. Following the Radio City show, the “Little Brother” performer’s Hold On Baby Tour is ready to make stops in North American towns consisting of Toronto, Seattle and Los Angeles earlier than wrapping with a sequence of Texas indicates through Nov. Five.

King Princess’ sophomore album, Hold On Baby, became launched in July and features a collaboration with the past due Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins on a music titled “Let Us Die,” which became recorded before his surprising death in March.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly about the tune on the time, she found out it become producer Mark Ronson who first advised the idea.

“Mark [Ronson] heard the demo and changed into like, ‘I without a doubt assume there needs to be a live drummer.’ I agreed,” she stated.

Though each knew they needed a drummer, while Ronson recommended Hawkins, she may want to slightly accept as true with it. “Oh, my God, do you believe you studied we will get Taylor?” she recalled asking Ronson. After one name with the “Uptown Funk” hitmaker, Hawkins agreed. “So we FaceTimed. He turned into recording in L.A., I became in New York, and it became loopy.

I became in my adolescence home — my dad’s recording studio — being attentive to Taylor make my record higher than I ever idea it may be,” the “1950” singer said to the opening.

Elsewhere within the interview with EW, King Princess said, “[Hawkins] added some thing to that music that goes so beyond simply laying down a drum song.

He clearly showed me a degree of musicianship and additionally recognize and kindness that I will by no means overlook.”

She also explained that speakme of the collaboration makes her emotional. “I failed to understand Taylor that nicely,” King Princess said.

“I just felt so supported via his musicianship, and I can not agree with I actually have the track.”