| re: Could FCOL be covered by a female? | |
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Bright_Eyes 05:29 am UTC 07/25/07 |
| In reply to: | Could FCOL be covered by a female? - Pudding 09:26 pm UTC 07/24/07 |
| My take on this thread, I think there are three parts of the lyric that are better suited to a male character. They are: Oh babe, don't go (really just the word babe, it's something that would be said to a woman) For giving me a child when my body is old (I suppose it could make sense, but I don't see a woman saying this) Can't you see my faded levi's bursting apart (If the poet envisioned this as a "boner line" then having a female character say this may be an issue) Even if the singer were male, or if substitutes were written for those three lines, I still don't think of FCOL as a prime candidate for a cover because: - to surpass the quality of the original recording would be extremely difficult, though I would never say impossible - the original was on a commercially successful album. Resurrection recordings I think are best when the song was released, but almost nobody ever heard it, as in Future and Safe Sex. > Just listening to FCOL live with the MSO and you can quite > clearly hear Patti singing along with Meat and it got me > thinking (Oh no!) could a female singer, not necessarily > Patti, successfully sing FCOL? or is it one of those songs > that can only really be done by a male? | |
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