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Worst covers thread
KingOfIreland:
Love Buzz by Nirvana does this. Originally it was sung by a woman.
On the other hand, Queen of my heart really does sound better in terms of playing cards.
Aziraphale:
--- Quote from: Gareth on 12 May 2015, 01:04 ---
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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? 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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People here in the theatre department do that all...the...fucking...time during auditions and it annoys the hell out of me.
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It makes me want to, should I ever get signed, make a whole album of covers in which I'm deliberately singing in a gender that isn't my own, as if to make the point 'THIS REALLY SHOULDN'T MATTER.'
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That's actually a fairly recent thing, I think. Used to be that people would cover the song as it was written even if it was for a gender other than their own. Still happens quite a bit; Caetano Veloso did a covers album a few years back that included the Gershwins' "The Man I Love," among others (on the other hand, Caetano's unashamedly bi, so there's that, too), plus Lyle Lovett's take on "Stand By Your Man," or Tori Amos's "Strange Little Girls" album.
Thrillho:
Someone has presumably also stolen my idea of doing acoustic versions of electronic songs too but dammit that won't stop me!
KingOfIreland:
I did an acoustic version of call me maybe with a girl once before I'd ever heard the real song.
Aziraphale:
--- Quote from: Gareth on 12 May 2015, 13:21 ---Someone has presumably also stolen my idea of doing acoustic versions of electronic songs too but dammit that won't stop me!
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//www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbaiUNVAzAc
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