Wishing On A Star.

[budwieser]

Didn`t know if this had been posted before. I think it`s pretty awesome myself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU4xeswnHyI&ob=av3n

[djfunkdup]

Please tell me you are not being serious ?


Classic song murdered..............



As it should be : http://youtu.be/GooJBO4KWlE

[Maggy J]

Think they are both pretty good..but then it's not a song I was overly fond of the first time around..

[devilincarnate]

Originally Posted by djfunkdup

Please tell me you are not being serious ?


Classic song murdered..............



As it should be : http://youtu.be/GooJBO4KWlE

Very true, As I was mortified when the newer version came out.

[djfunkdup]

Agreed man.....they 'stole the soul' lol....

gawd i am poet and i don't even know it

Anyway not really the kind of stuff i am into,but you need to give respect where it is due and the original had something going on man


That Xfactor nonsense is just pants...............

[devilincarnate]

Originally Posted by djfunkdup

That Xfactor nonsense is just pants...............

Yes "Killing in the name" Springs to mind

[djfunkdup]

Yip where are the romans when you need them

[Stuart]

The problem with a lot of these talent contest winners is that they then go on and release ballads.

That's not a real problem. The problem is that (in my experience), they take a song that is best performed with a lot of emotion and sing it in a technically accurate, but emotionless, way. See Leona Lewis's version of "Hurt" for an example of this. She sings it brilliantly, but doesn't sound like she really means what she is singing. Compare it with another cover, Johnny Cash's. When you listen to him sing it, you get the impression he has been really hurt, and is remembering that occasion while singing it.

They also sometimes use it to attempt to show off their voice. This often results in them singing bits at different pitches than they were written at, or almost shouting bits. Some songs work well with that style of singing (anything written by or for Christina Aguilera tends to work well with that style of singing as that's how she tends to sing), but some don't. Wishing on a star is one of the latter kind, yet they've tried to belt it out like it's one of the former.

[devilincarnate]

Originally Posted by Stuart

The problem with a lot of these talent contest winners is that they then go on and release ballads.

That's not a real problem. The problem is that (in my experience), they take a song that is best performed with a lot of emotion and sing it in a technically accurate, but emotionless, way. See Leona Lewis's version of "Hurt" for an example of this. She sings it brilliantly, but doesn't sound like she really means what she is singing. Compare it with another cover, Johnny Cash's. When you listen to him sing it, you get the impression he has been really hurt, and is remembering that occasion while singing it.

True.

Johnny Cash's cover of "Hurt" was released on his 2002 album, American IV: The Man Comes Around. The line "crown of ****" was changed to "crown of thorns", like Reznor's censored-for-radio version, not only removing profanity from the lyrics, but also more directly referencing Christ and Cash's devout Christianity. The cover was released on a single with the B-side "Personal Jesus", a cover of the Depeche Mode single.
[edit]Music video
The music video was directed by former NIN-collaborator Mark Romanek[2] who sought to capture the essence of Cash, both in his youth and in his older years. In a montage of shots of Cash's early years, twisted imagery of fruit and flowers in various states of decay, seem to capture both his past and the stark reality of the present.
Romanek had this to say about his decision to focus on the House of Cash museum in Nashville.
“ It had been closed for a long time; the place was in such a state of dereliction. That's when I got the idea that maybe we could be extremely candid about the state of Johnny's health, as candid as Johnny has always been in his songs. ”

71 years of age at the time of filming (in February 2003), Cash had serious health problems and his frailty is starkly evident in the video. He died seven months later (September 12);[3] his wife, June Carter Cash, who participated in the video, died three months after filming (May 15), closely preceding him in death. "Hurt" is considered by many to be Cash's epitaph.[4]
When Rick Rubin asked if Cash could cover his song, Reznor said he was "flattered" but worried that "the idea sounded a bit gimmicky." He became a fan of Cash's version, however, once he saw the music video.
“ I pop the video in, and wow... Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps... Wow. [I felt like] I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine anymore... It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form. I wrote some words and music in my bedroom as a way of staying sane, about a bleak and desperate place I was in, totally isolated and alone. [Somehow] that winds up reinterpreted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaning — different, but every bit as pure.[5] ”

In July 2011, the music video was named one of "The 30 All-TIME Best Music Videos" by Time.[6]
The house where Cash's music video for "Hurt" was shot, which was Cash's home for nearly 30 years, was destroyed in a fire on April 10, 2007.[7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurt_(Nine_Inch_Nails_song)