Another example of the white man appropriating a Black person's work. His obvious intention is to denigrate Whitney and make money off of her talent. I denounce him, and demand that he immediately pay Bobby Brown reparations.
I would be more inclined to enjoy Sam Smith's rendition if it wasn't purged in the most PC-Stalinist way of any reference to gender in terms of nouns & pronouns. I feel like I'm not hearing a pop song, I'm getting played the LGBTQ Internationale.
Jeezus, we straights survived the Village People & Sylvester. We can survive the original version of "How Will I know" sung by a guy.
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That was surprisingly good.
Better than the original anyway.
Is there a version sung by David Mamet?
Another example of the white man appropriating a Black person's work. His obvious intention is to denigrate Whitney and make money off of her talent. I denounce him, and demand that he immediately pay Bobby Brown reparations.
That said, a beautiful if quirky rendition.
I would be more inclined to enjoy Sam Smith's rendition if it wasn't purged in the most PC-Stalinist way of any reference to gender in terms of nouns & pronouns. I feel like I'm not hearing a pop song, I'm getting played the LGBTQ Internationale.
Jeezus, we straights survived the Village People & Sylvester. We can survive the original version of "How Will I know" sung by a guy.
I prefer Diamanda Galas' sad, goth version of "My World Is Empty Without You Babe"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrDwpp7BeR8
Would have sounded better in Puddles and done it...
Isn't this pretty much like putting a trans person in Oleanna? Not legally, but morally/artistically?
And you can take that as positive or negative, I suppose.
Isn't this pretty much like putting a trans person in Oleanna?
No...the equivilent would be a quirky performance by a female actor in the play.
For the old farts: Take a 45 of Melissa Manchester's "Don't Cry Out Loud", and play it at 33. Suddenly, it's a gay torch song.
If you want your gender-bending without technological assistance, listen to Joan Jett do " Crimson and Clover".
Then there's this well-known classic rendition to a lesser known one: Shirley Bassey's Goldfinger theme VS
Anthony Newley's creep-tastic version.
Bassey:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy_PJODH3p0
Newley: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foypp2Kh6cY
The Wikipedia entry for the goings-on surrounding the recording of "Goldfinger(song)" is a hoot, too.
I was watching the NBC show "The Blacklist" in closed captioning (which sometimes runs a little ahead of the action) when I saw it say "Jolene plays".
I told the people watching the show with me, "I hope they play Dolly Parton's version", but it was this sad, beautiful, male voice.
Come to find out later that it WAS Dolly's version!
Now called Slow Ass Jolene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzHbe0AapaE
I'm not a big fan of hers generally...but I like KD Lang's version of Crying as much as I like Orbison's.
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