Alex Lahey Tackles Cass Elliot's 'Make Your Own Kind Of Music' On 'Like A Version'

Alex Lahey has returned to the triple j studios for Like A Version, performing a wholesome take on Cass Elliot’s classic, Make Your Own Kind Of Music.

Elliot, known for her tenure in the Mamas & The Papas and solo music, found a Top 40 hit in Make Your Own Kind Of Music in the US and Canadian singles charts and has since been covered by the likes of Paloma Faith and Barbra Streisand.

On Lahey’s version, seven people are in the studio, including a three-piece brass section that provides the serotonin boost we all need after a big week.

Before the song’s famed key change, Lahey pauses the song, looks directly into the camera, stepping closer as she says, “This song goes out to anyone who feels like they can't dress how they want to dress, or love who they want to love, or just feel like they can't be themselves.

“You gotta make your own kind of music and sing your own special song because you're special. And you're special because you're you.”

You can watch Lahey’s Like A Version below.

Make Your Own Kind Of Music is actually currently popular after appearing in the Barbie movie trailer, and now, Lahey has given the song a fresh spin. While in the triple j studio, she also performed They Wouldn’t Let Me In, a highlight from her new album, The Answer Is Always Yes.

They Wouldn’t Let Me In is led by a propulsive post-punk bass line and a music video filmed in a Faulkner furniture store that resembles a Melbourne icon, Franco Cozzo. The song is about not seeing yourself as a queer person in media or in school and the discombobulated feelings accompanying those formative experiences.

“I was saying this to my managers today – we put out the song They Wouldn't Let Me In, which explicitly talks about that, and in the description that I wrote for the track, I said, ‘This is what it's about. It's about growing up queer and those things that I've mentioned,’” Lahey explained in a The Music interview earlier this year.

“And the label puts it on social media and boosted some post with the text in there, which is fine. That's what happens. But it's fucking crazy to see how much vitriol is in the comments from people who aren't in the bubble.”

Alex Lahey just wrapped up her The Answer Is Always Yes Australian tour.