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Nov. 23rd, 2005 11:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
graculusMeanwhile, what's the point of cover songs that sound exactly like the original? If I wanted a song that sounds like the original, I'd... well, I'd play the original, wouldn't I?
I always thought the idea of a cover was to take the original and make it your own, not force yourself into the exact same working of it as when it turned up the first time around.
Yes, Oingo Boingo, I am looking at you and your so-called cover of 'Turning Japanese' which is apparently about masturbation though I have no idea where people got that idea from since it's a theory I'd never heard until last week and it seems a bit far-fetched to me... not convinced.
I always thought the idea of a cover was to take the original and make it your own, not force yourself into the exact same working of it as when it turned up the first time around.
Yes, Oingo Boingo, I am looking at you and your so-called cover of 'Turning Japanese' which is apparently about masturbation though I have no idea where people got that idea from since it's a theory I'd never heard until last week and it seems a bit far-fetched to me... not convinced.
