You know, I can appreciate a good “cover” song. I also admit that sometimes I like the cover song more than the original. For instance my wedding song is “Your Song” which was originally done by Elton John, however our actual wedding song is “Your Song” as sung by Ewan McGregor in the movie Moulin Rouge. That’s a good cover in my opinion.
Other “covers” that I like? “Land of Confusion” as covered by Disturbed, “Careless Whispers” as covered by Seether, “Another Brick in the Wall Part 2″ as covered by Korn.
A “cover” is just that….it’s a cover. The band is playing the song in their style and usually in honor of the original song…and typically it has the same name as the original so it doesn’t try and “fool” you into thinking it’s their song.
What bothers me though….are these “so called” artists that “sample” parts of other songs and call them their own. As if we didn’t know that there was an original song not long ago.
Take for instance Flo-Rida’s latest “hit”….”Right Round”. He’s all excited since he’ s no longer a “1 hit wonder” and now has a second song that gained popularity. He’s proud of himself for this accomplishment….
Yea….great song…I liked it over 20 years ago when Dead or Alive did it originally.
See, Flo-Rida’s “Right Round” isn’t a cover. All he did was take the beat and the catchy part of Dead or Alive’s “Right Round” and add it to his “song”. He did it again with his next song too…song called “Sugar”. I heard a clip of this song….it’s funny….but last time I heard most of that it was called “Blue” by Eiffel 65.
Is that what we are breaking down to? Giving these hacks millions of dollars to just take a formerly popular song and chop out the “catchy” parts to add to the crap that they make? It’s sickening and sad that they are called “artists”.
They act like they struggle to make a number one hit song, all they are really doing is sampling a number one hit song from the past and adding it to their words and calling it their own. Since the song was popular back then of course it will be popular now….they’ve got all these teenagers brain washed into thinking that it’s all theirs, they did it….give them the money.
Now…I need to state something to make it clear….I’m NOT saying that these songs are all bad (some of them are though)….what I’m annoyed with is how they act like they are theirs. I’ll listen to the song, hell…I play them on Fired Up Radio but don’t think for one second that I appreciate their talent. Until they actually get an instrument and play THEIR OWN music….don’t refer to them as artists to me. Is it a song? Sure in most cases it is. Is it a good song? Sometimes sure…. But is it their “art”? Hell no…it’s someone elses…that’s it period.
Also, I’ve singled out Flo-Rida only because I recently listened to him on Howard Stern (btw…he sucks “singing” live)….but there are SEVERAL others out there that are guilty too….the difference is that they’ve had other number one hits that were actually THEIRS.
I’d go on but this is spinning my head right round right round….
~NFM
