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08-20-2007, 01:15 AM
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This should rightfully suck, but it ends up being surprisingly cool. She turns this dance club hit into a melancholy rock ballad, and against all odds it works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMB6YOWzQMY
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08-20-2007, 02:01 AM
|  | I'm a tumbler, born under punches | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Northern California | | | Yeah I dug that.
As I've gotten older I've realized that a lot of the pop music that I would have dismissed out of hand in my youth is interesting to analyze from a compositional standpoint.
Not liking the artists who perform these songs is one thing, but appreciating the craft of the songwriters who put them together is another.
Reading "Standing in the Shadows of Motown" not only permanently affixed Jamerson as one of my biggest influences, but it made me realize that the way Motown operated was hardly different than how pop "stars" are built today.
But I digress. It was a cool remake and I like it better than the "original". |
08-20-2007, 02:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: the Netherlands, Amsterdam | | Better than the original one...
still hate the song though  |
08-20-2007, 02:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | | | i do like the original song (which is really weird for me) and i like that one quite a bit too.
think i might try and arrange it for solo lap steel. |
08-20-2007, 06:24 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Kohlman Bassworks | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Hampton Roads, Virginia | | | This was chatted up on another forum I frequent and you wouldn't believe the amount of juvenile and uneducated responses! I like Mandy Moore's version a lot! Rihanna did not 'write' the song nor does she 'own' the song just in case those opinions regarding 'stealing' a song come up! |
08-20-2007, 06:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Brooklyn, NYC | | | mandy moore's voice is just so...wow.. shes the only person i can say this about... me not having hardly any songs on my ipod from the 00's... can even say that she did a great job and i do like it better than the original version.. her voice is just so different then everyone else's on the radio and has that amazing tone to it... keep it up Mandy!
OP: thanks for this... it was a "soothing" start for my day lol
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08-20-2007, 09:17 AM
| | Wizard | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Pittsburgh, PA | | | Dang. Maybe I'm getting old or something, but that was really good. hahaha...
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08-20-2007, 09:44 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Metro St. Louis | | I'm not suprised that Mandy Moore's version sounds good. If you listen to Rhianna's "Umbrella" live or recorded, you can hear that it is structured like an eighties power ballad, not an r&b dance tune or slow jam. Although I really like Rhianna's version (and I like seeing Rhianna prance around  ), I admit that mandy Moore's version does let the listener concentrate more on the song's nice lyrics.
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08-20-2007, 09:53 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Niagara Falls, ON, Canada | | | I could have dug it if she could hadn't butchered the pronunciation.
Placing the syllabic break as umbr-ella forces the first syllable to be pronounced as though there was an extra vowel: umber-ella. Placing it properly allows the word to be pronounced phonetically: um-brella.
I grant that when singing you have to allow a bit of freedom, but adding a whole new vowel sound is too far, IMO. |
08-20-2007, 10:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Kansas City, MO | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeff Moote I could have dug it if she could hadn't butchered the pronunciation.
Placing the syllabic break as umbr-ella forces the first syllable to be pronounced as though there was an extra vowel: umber-ella. Placing it properly allows the word to be pronounced phonetically: um-brella.
I grant that when singing you have to allow a bit of freedom, but adding a whole new vowel sound is too far, IMO. | Guess you've never heard Rihanna's original version which does the same thing? What can I say, except that the times they are " a-changin'." 
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08-20-2007, 10:26 AM
| | born lefty | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Ashland, Oregon USA | | Yeah, as you get older you start appreciating like... old fogey music. Yeeech! Anyone for a little Frank Sinatra?
p.s. The bassist is playing a Hofner.
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08-20-2007, 10:30 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada | | | She must hate bassists though! Poor guy... he is waaaayyyy in the back behind the acoustic guitard-ist.
She does have a good voice though.
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08-20-2007, 03:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Indiana | | There was a girl on Youtube who did a cover just her and acoustic guitar and It is really good. The girl has had alot of press because of it and has now appreared on tv and such. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=589Mvlz6LWE This girl kinda started the flood of covers from what I know. |
08-20-2007, 03:25 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Glendale & La Jolla, CA | | | I like both versions (how unmetal?) but Mandy's is nicer to me.
Very good stuff. |
08-20-2007, 07:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Madison, WI/Indianapolis, IN | | | I like the unknown girls version its some where in between the two (being Mandy Moores, slow melodramatic and Rihannas uptempo R&B style) but I like it a little slower cuz I never had a chance to really get a feel for the lyrics in teh original and with the acoustic guitar and slower tempo they really get brought out.
Edit: man after listening to more of the Youtube videos this Marie Digby is really talented very interesting style too.
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08-20-2007, 07:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Montreal, Rive-Sud | | | It's certainly better than Rihanna's version (which I've come to despise), but I don't think it's anything special. |
08-20-2007, 07:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Dr. Cheese I'm not suprised that Mandy Moore's version sounds good. If you listen to Rhianna's "Umbrella" live or recorded, you can hear that it is structured like an eighties power ballad, not an r&b dance tune or slow jam. Although I really like Rhianna's version (and I like seeing Rhianna prance around ), I admit that mandy Moore's version does let the listener concentrate more on the song's nice lyrics. | +1 on all accounts. I love both versions of the song, and especially love the prancing! I happened to catch part of a Rihanna show last summer, and she really is very good live, which is a little surprising given my expectations of the R&B/pop people's live performance.
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08-20-2007, 08:02 PM
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08-20-2007, 08:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Rockville, MD | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeff Moote I could have dug it if she could hadn't butchered the pronunciation.
Placing the syllabic break as umbr-ella forces the first syllable to be pronounced as though there was an extra vowel: umber-ella. Placing it properly allows the word to be pronounced phonetically: um-brella.
I grant that when singing you have to allow a bit of freedom, but adding a whole new vowel sound is too far, IMO. | Well if you watch marie digby's version you'll see how weird it is without the "extra" vowel. I like the wrong pronounciation.
And not to attack Marie but I think she could could have done better with that song by alterering the chords a bit instead of entirely power chords.
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