--- description: N.A.S.A. teams up with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O for a new take on a well-loved classic title: N.A.S.A x Karen O x Bob Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff": Video Premiere image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # N.A.S.A. and Karen O Cover "I Shot the Sheriff": Video Premiere by [Katherine St. Asaph](/author/katherine-st-asaph/) ## Katherine St. Asaph Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 24, 2014 4:00 PM CUT by [Katherine St. Asaph](/author/katherine-st-asaph/) ## Katherine St. Asaph Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 24, 2014 4:00 PM CUT If you watched the Grammys this year, you might have noticed a musical curiosity that took place outside the broadcast proper: Karen O and [N.A.S.A.](http://twitter.com/nasaofficial "undefined") (the hip-hop duo, not the space guys) covering Bob Marley’s “I Shot the Sheriff” as lounge-y disco. Appearing in a Sonos ad, the cover threw in a lot: a little of the spacey experiments of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ _Mosquito_, a little of the unabashed synthpop of the YYYs last album _It’s Blitz_, more than a little of the stylistic rapacity of N.A.S.A.’s _The Spirit of Apollo_ (which featured Karen O, as well as about a quarter of the musical class of 2009), and a lot of this year’s love for neo-disco, the slicker the better. “It’s always risky covering a classic, but the idea of completely re-contextualizing the song into a different genre sounded exciting to me,” [Sam Spiegel](http://twitter.com/samspiegelhq "undefined") of N.A.S.A. tells TIME. “One of my favorite collaborators and inspirations is Karen O, and she was the first person I reached out to.” Animator San Charoenchai, who Spiegel met while working on his side project Maximum Hedrum, illustrated and directed the lyric video for the clip, and it’s as high-concept as the track – a soylent western, the frontier according to ‘70s futurism: a world of neon wanted posters, and bandits getting down to disco balls. Watch the premiere above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/73715/nasa-karen-o-i-shot-the-sheriff-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/73715/nasa-karen-o-i-shot-the-sheriff-video/"},"headline":"N.A.S.A. and Karen O Cover \"I Shot the Sheriff\": Video Premiere","datePublished":"2014-04-24T16:00:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:27:20.086Z","description":"N.A.S.A. teams up with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O for a new take on a well-loved classic","url":"https://time.com/73715/nasa-karen-o-i-shot-the-sheriff-video/","keywords":["Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katherine St. Asaph","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katherine-st-asaph/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/73715/nasa-karen-o-i-shot-the-sheriff-video/","name":"N.A.S.A. and Karen O Cover \"I Shot the Sheriff\": Video Premiere"}}]}] ```