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[esyla]

This is your moment of "the fuck?" for today:
A 15-year-old popsinger/Nickelodeon mouthpiece named Emma Roberts covered Jill Sobule's "Mexican Wrestler" on her new album. First of all, that's a random Jill Sobule song to pick. Second of all, the lyrical changes are RETARDED.

Jill: Sometimes I wish that I were a beauty

Comments

[poseph]

Because it's a cover (licensed by the original artist and no doubt getting said artist a substantial amount of money) sang by a 15 year old girl who doesn't want to reference a. being over 21 and b. going home to fuck someone to make her boyfriend jealous.

Why is this an issue?

[mechatoom]

Be that as it may, the change from "as well as your buddy's" to "and your friends would love me" is, I think, incontrovertible balls (ooh, band name). There's nothing overtly sexual or otherwise unsafe-for-teh-kiddies about the original line, far as I can tell, and the replacement scans pretty clumsily in comparison.

Tch. Young people.

[esyla]

It's a song that I consider close to my heart, and it bugs me when I hear a really crap cover of it. Even if Jill Sobule ok'd it and is making money off it, that doesn't change that I consider the song partly mine, as people often do with great works of art, and so I'm bothered when I see it, in my eyes, being disrespected.