David Byrne - I Wanna Dance With Somebody
Still up to my ears in glass beads and little bits of ribbon, so I thought I'd spend a few days showing you some of my all-time favourite cover versions.
There's an art to covering classic pop, I think, and it's rather an arcane one. Stray too far from the source material and you'll go unrecognised, but remain too faithful and frankly, what's the point? That said, a good cover version can take a song you thought you'd known and reveal whole new shades of meaning.
Alternatively, it can simply rock much, much harder than the original.
Here's the ever-wonderful David Byrne, performing Whitney Houston's I Wanna Dance With Somebody. Playful and tender as always, he manages to infuse a particularly soulless piece of 80's nonsense with genuine hope and longing.
Happy days.
There's an art to covering classic pop, I think, and it's rather an arcane one. Stray too far from the source material and you'll go unrecognised, but remain too faithful and frankly, what's the point? That said, a good cover version can take a song you thought you'd known and reveal whole new shades of meaning.
Alternatively, it can simply rock much, much harder than the original.
Here's the ever-wonderful David Byrne, performing Whitney Houston's I Wanna Dance With Somebody. Playful and tender as always, he manages to infuse a particularly soulless piece of 80's nonsense with genuine hope and longing.
Happy days.
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