Portal 2: Jill Bearup sings Want You Gone

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Who doesn't love GLaDOS? Really, anyone?

I set myself up a Soundcloud account and my first port of call was, naturally, a cover of Portal 2's Want You Gone, a song from a video game released in 2011. Oh well.
Listen here!

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