Am i the only one who is sick to death of all these half-hearted remakes of older songs? I mean, I have no problem with re-doing a song and giving it a new and interesting twist...Bauhaus was good with this...their Ziggy Stardust, Third Uncle, and Telegram Sam remakes were as good, if not better than, the original. Or even the Pixies redoing Head On by Jesus & Mary Chain, giving the original song a little more edge. There are countless other so-called "cover songs" that are worthy of being played next to the original...
But good Christ...i don't know what it is, but these days it's almost like mainstream pop music has sunk to new, unfathomable lows. It was a slow progression toward this cavernous depth, but it's seemed to snowball with ever-increasing rapidity over the past couple of years. First it was just crappy cover songs, but now it's twisted itself into something far more blasphemous. We have the music of a great song from ages past, being drowned out by lackluster lyrics and lazy lilts, which seems to fit the music almost entirely not at all.
Into exhibit A i submit that monstrously awful Usher song...i don't know what it's called (i can hold my head a little higher for that, i think), but it uses that Delibes Lakme piece that's heard in so many movies. But, like, that's the ambient background and then you just get that hopeless idiot Usher rambling on about something or other in the foreground, completely pissing on and destroying all the beauty of the original composition with his senseless babbling. It's just horrible. I wish i had a link of it to post here, but if you work in a mind-numbing office job and have some inane radio station playing in the background, i'm sure you'd recognize it.
Exhibit B we have this new piece of alligator dung that uses that old Stevie Wonder classic "Superstitious". I'm not a huge Stevie Wonder fan, but that song does kick ass. But now, some teeny bopping bimbo with, i can only assume, a nice body and an idiotic smile, has released her own "version" of this song which uses all of Wonder's backbeat for her to mumble incoherently over. It's like being in a club and having a great song come on but your drunken friend is babbling on in your ear about how drunk he is, and you can't even think straight because you just want to enjoy the song and you're so infuriated that he won't just shut the hell up. Again, i don't have a link for it, but take my word for it...Horrible.
I hear all kinds of them. These less than mediocre "artists" who couldn't get a job teaching 5 year olds guitar lessons, and yet because they have a pretty face, they're thrown a bunch of money to sit in a studio while a real artist's music plays in the background and they mumble on about love or something stupid. And people buy it!!! It drives me [email protected]#$ing nuts!!! What is wrong with people! Did we slip into a cultural garbage disposal unit while i wasn't looking. Good Christ almighty!
Anyway, that's all i wanted to say.
s.
But good Christ...i don't know what it is, but these days it's almost like mainstream pop music has sunk to new, unfathomable lows. It was a slow progression toward this cavernous depth, but it's seemed to snowball with ever-increasing rapidity over the past couple of years. First it was just crappy cover songs, but now it's twisted itself into something far more blasphemous. We have the music of a great song from ages past, being drowned out by lackluster lyrics and lazy lilts, which seems to fit the music almost entirely not at all.
Into exhibit A i submit that monstrously awful Usher song...i don't know what it's called (i can hold my head a little higher for that, i think), but it uses that Delibes Lakme piece that's heard in so many movies. But, like, that's the ambient background and then you just get that hopeless idiot Usher rambling on about something or other in the foreground, completely pissing on and destroying all the beauty of the original composition with his senseless babbling. It's just horrible. I wish i had a link of it to post here, but if you work in a mind-numbing office job and have some inane radio station playing in the background, i'm sure you'd recognize it.
Exhibit B we have this new piece of alligator dung that uses that old Stevie Wonder classic "Superstitious". I'm not a huge Stevie Wonder fan, but that song does kick ass. But now, some teeny bopping bimbo with, i can only assume, a nice body and an idiotic smile, has released her own "version" of this song which uses all of Wonder's backbeat for her to mumble incoherently over. It's like being in a club and having a great song come on but your drunken friend is babbling on in your ear about how drunk he is, and you can't even think straight because you just want to enjoy the song and you're so infuriated that he won't just shut the hell up. Again, i don't have a link for it, but take my word for it...Horrible.
I hear all kinds of them. These less than mediocre "artists" who couldn't get a job teaching 5 year olds guitar lessons, and yet because they have a pretty face, they're thrown a bunch of money to sit in a studio while a real artist's music plays in the background and they mumble on about love or something stupid. And people buy it!!! It drives me [email protected]#$ing nuts!!! What is wrong with people! Did we slip into a cultural garbage disposal unit while i wasn't looking. Good Christ almighty!
Anyway, that's all i wanted to say.
s.
