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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 21 Sep 2020

      The list of songs where the original recording was so good that you just shouldn't cover it, at all, is pretty short in my view "September" by Earth, Wind and Fire is a slam-dunk entry though

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    2. Yermin Mercedes Stan Account‏ @SowaTheArrogant 21 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      If Aretha Franklin covered your song, it was Aretha Franklin's song from that point forward. To wit, when you do a search for a song by Otis Redding:pic.twitter.com/OT1M0gO85r

      1 reply 0 retweets 25 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 21 Sep 2020
      Replying to @SowaTheArrogant

      I wouldn't call myself a "maximalist" when it comes to music generally but I usually respect covers that add more stuff onto the original much more than covers that "strip away", which includes Franklin's famous cover of Redding If only because it requires more work

      7 replies 1 retweet 23 likes
    4. dacid glee sloth‏ @ShrimpMeatMom 21 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @SowaTheArrogant

      I think this is a fair position, with a slight exception for big, grand pop songs that are actually very sad, where the stripped down version reveals some of the melancholy that’s buried in big pop production. That said I love big, grand pop songs that are actually very sad.

      3 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 21 Sep 2020
      Replying to @ShrimpMeatMom @SowaTheArrogant

      No this is the kind of "stripping down" I dislike the most Everyone raved over it the first time in recent memory it went viral -- Gary Jules' piano cover of "Mad World" from Donnie Darko, which in that context was pretty good In my opinion it long since jumped the shark

      3 replies 1 retweet 15 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 21 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @ShrimpMeatMom @SowaTheArrogant

      Ryan Adams covering all of Taylor Swift's 1989 was entirely based on this premise and it just made me angrier and angrier over time It's just a musical version of someone going through a standup routine and explaining all the jokes to you

      4:10 PM - 21 Sep 2020
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        2. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 21 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @ShrimpMeatMom @SowaTheArrogant

          Remember when that one guy covered Rebecca Black's Friday with this formula? I feel like that was the inevitable endpoint of that kind of cover. Arguably the existence of any version of "Hallelujah" was the start

          4 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
        3. Amy 👁️‏ @Kthranos 21 Sep 2020
          Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and

          Alanis Morissette did this with her cover of "My Humps"

          0 replies 1 retweet 1 like
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        2. Claire Willett‏ @clairewillett 21 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @ShrimpMeatMom @SowaTheArrogant

          arthur i literally still think about this at least once per week and it makes me furious all those thinkpieces where white dudebro writers suddenly discovered she was actually a good lyricist once a MAN sang her songs

          1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
        3. asexual potato‏ @KittenBalerion 21 Sep 2020
          Replying to @clairewillett @arthur_affect and

          See that could have been a great moment though! "Look how different this piece of art seems when done by a Serious White Dude! Maybe that should cause me to reconsider my dismissal of it and similar art!"

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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