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Worst covers thread
Thrillho:
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--- Quote from: Gareth on 30 Apr 2014, 00:52 ---Any time someone covers a song and changes the gender of who they're addressing. Annoying in general, because fuck it, can't you just be gay this one song?
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What about Joplin's version of "Me and Bobby McGee"? She gender-swapped it, but hers is practically the definitive version.
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Well obviously my main issue is from a gender enlightenment perspective, and I can't be too sniffy about someone 45-odd years ago swapping the genders when even I was far from enlightened as recently as two years ago, admittedly.
It's more that you end up just destroying the lyrical integrity of the song a lot of the time, as in my example with 'Big Yellow Taxi.' I'd love to cover 'Video Games' by Lana Del Rey, and I absolutely wouldn't change the genders in that song, apart from anything else it references sun dresses and shit, not that it matters if cis-men want to wear dresses or anything, but the song is the song. It shouldn't need to matter in this day and age, particularly when changing it due to your own prejudices can ruin the lyrics.
As for Rod, I like some of his songs, but he really is appalling and covering things. I can't think of a single thing he's covered where I prefer his version.
lepetitfromage:
--- Quote from: Gareth on 30 Apr 2014, 00:52 ---Any time someone covers a song and changes the gender of who they're addressing. Annoying in general, because fuck it, can't you just be gay this one song? But more annoying in examples where the lyrics have to get clunkily changed. Someone covered 'Big Yellow Taxi' and changed 'old man' to 'girlfriend' which doesn't even approach rhyming with the original fucking lyric.
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I fucking HATE when they do that. If it doesn't rhyme/fit/work, leave it out. I'm not even a musician and I can figure that shit out.
Welu:
I once heard a female group singing a cover of Cee Lo Green's Fuck Forget You and they did some gender switching but not for every part of the song which was really distracting.
A_S00:
Another category: covers that mess up the rhyme scheme for no fucking reason.
Worst offender: Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's cover of Somewhere over the Rainbow. Listen to the first fucking couplet, then rage-close the tab.
*edit* Correct link, courtesy of J.
There's also a cover of Peggy-O by an Irish folk band I like called Siucra, where they've changed one verse to:
In a carriage you will ride go pretty Peggy-O
In a carriage you will ride go pretty Peggy-O
In a carriage you will ride go with your true love by your side
As fair as any maiden in the are-o
It's a really nice cover other than that, but WHAT WAS WRONG WITH FUCKING "RIDE?" DID YOU HAVE A TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE INVOLVING RHYMING AT A YOUNG AGE OR SOMETHING? C'MON!
ev4n:
So ironic. An hour after reading this thread I come across Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs cover of Maggie Mae. I figured Sweet would sing. I was wrong.
No pronouns or names changed as far as I could tell.
And yes, it was better than RS's version.
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