I honestly hate most covers of pop songs that are slowed down for max soulfulness and played on acoustic instruments.
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Ryan Adams' 1989 is bad. Lorde's Everybody Wants to Rule the World is bad
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I am so mad at every reviewer who says these covers "strip down" these songs to "find" the pathos at their heart
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why don't we "strip down" Hamlet's soliloquy so he just says "I'm sad and I want to kill myself but I'm too weak" and cries
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the whole power of a song is the interplay of form and content, lyrics ironically or unexpectedly interacting with melody
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everyone who "discovered" the regret and pain in Blank Space when Ryan Adams did it sad is fucking stupid
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everyone who didn't realize Everybody Wants to Rule the World is about nuclear war until Lorde made it a dirge is fucking stupid
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that's what the '80s were! Consciously drugging yourself with superficial pleasure because of how twisted & insane politics was
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and that's also the goddamn theme of the Hunger Games, for which the original song would've been a perfect fit!
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But Arthur, music is disposable! Why would you use old ones? It's not like we keep records of them!
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