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Renner joins a long line of thesps trying to make a move to the world of music
Modern Toss on actors deciding to become musicians
Jeremy Renner has realised what we always knew: everybody is in love with actors, constantly, but especially when they’re not acting in movies, doing that thing they do in their downtime where they grow their hair out and can’t seem to dress themselves. That’s why this month he’s ambled down the sadly furrowed path from screen to music, and released the first of a threatened many singles, Heaven Don’t Have a Name, a “rock reworking” of the dance number he featured on to zero acclaim last year, Heaven (Don’t Have a Name).
But how to sum up a song by a 48-year-old man known for playing Hawkeye in the Avengers universe? Well he sounds like he would have done really well in the auditions round of The X Factor 10 years ago, before missing out narrowly on making the live shows in the Overs category to Jamie Afro. That’s what he sounds like. Renner is not the first actor to decide he is charismatic and talented enough to do singing as well, nor will he be the last: in fact, it’s such a robust trend we can sort actor–singers into four distinct categories, thusly … Continue reading...