Hop On Pop
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2/15/2016 8:28:01 AM
Don't be imitative. But don't try to force the "reinvention"of the song, either.
Take the song, and play the hell out of it. Just do it the way that you would do it; how you hear it in your head. If it's a radical reinvention, so be it. If not, so be it.
Just be true to the song, at its core, the way that you hear it, and be true to your own vision of it. It's gotta ring true.
Good luck with it! I'm looking forward to hearing it.
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2/15/2016 8:36:33 AM
It is certainly challenging, to advise, on a question such as this,
when I have no idea what the song is...
that said...
there are things which I consider, when doing a cover,
not that I release any anymore, because I don't, I won't, that part
of my life is as over as some other parts of it are.
Basically, I do whatever I want with it.
Sometimes the original is so good, you go 'what's the point of doing it again',
and sometimes, the answer simply is 'f*** it, because it's fun!'
Sometimes, the original ain't all that big a deal,
and is ripe for a radical reinterpretation...
a hit from I think around the late 1950s....
"Do You Wanna Dance" ... I forget the original artist name,
well it was a hit, John Lennon even covered it on his Rock N Roll album...
and John pretty much did change it some, didn't make
it any better far as I was concerned... reggaed it up a bit maybe,
I can't remember... however Bette Midler in 1973, couple years
before John did the Rock N Roll album, totally nailed that song.
In my opinion, Bette defined that song, slowed it down a lot,
turned it into a right pot-boiler... that would come on WABC
or whatever I was listening to then, and I'd come to, kissing the radio,
tongue kissing it, got electrocuted, rushed to the hospital...
now that's a good job of remaking a song.
Let me put it this way, you can just about kill yourself with the damned thing,
if that's what you want. And it can still sit there and go Jack Nowhere.
If you ask me, just enjoy yourself doing it,
that's more important than anything else, even what it sounds like
in the end, even what anybody says about it.
Enjoy yourself doing it. That's it.
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