I do think there’s an upfront skill you can gain of… just accepting multiple versions of a song as existing, which I think generalizes once you really grok it. (It probably does involve grieving , and like, not a simple thing. But I think it’s pretty valuable for opening yourself up to new positive experiences)
My feeling listening to this one was ‘yup, seems like a fine alternate variation.’ I do find some elements good and some a bit meh (I’m not sure I can articulate the differences at the moment, but, once you get over the general ‘aah this is different’, I think it’s still legitimate to look at what a song is trying to do, and evaluate both how well it succeeds at that thing, and whether the thing it was trying to do was the right thing)
(Maybe to clarify: you say “totally unsingable for anybody who actually knows the original well”, and I want to say “this is definitely false. A true statement would be “for people who know the original well, and who index songs in their head as having one canonical version”, or something like that)
I do think there’s an upfront skill you can gain of… just accepting multiple versions of a song as existing, which I think generalizes once you really grok it. (It probably does involve grieving , and like, not a simple thing. But I think it’s pretty valuable for opening yourself up to new positive experiences)
My feeling listening to this one was ‘yup, seems like a fine alternate variation.’ I do find some elements good and some a bit meh (I’m not sure I can articulate the differences at the moment, but, once you get over the general ‘aah this is different’, I think it’s still legitimate to look at what a song is trying to do, and evaluate both how well it succeeds at that thing, and whether the thing it was trying to do was the right thing)
(Maybe to clarify: you say “totally unsingable for anybody who actually knows the original well”, and I want to say “this is definitely false. A true statement would be “for people who know the original well, and who index songs in their head as having one canonical version”, or something like that)