not logged in
| re: CoM has been pushed back another week... | |
Posted by:  |
Wilbury 12:27 pm UTC 03/23/07 |
| In reply to: | re: CoM has been pushed back another week... - rockfenris2005 04:16 am UTC 03/23/07 |
| I've never heard I'd Lie For You (and that's the truth) as an overt copy of I'd Do Anything For Love. Perhaps the title is Diane Warren's attempt at a similar kinda thing, but the lyrics don't emulate Anythign For Love any more past the title line. (Didn't Jim 'give' that title to Diane Warren? or was that just rumour?) The melody is in no way a copy of Jim, and the concept of a fractured cliche is not one jim has the monopoly on. Take it this way, if jim had written I'd Lie For Yiou, in it's exact state, it would be one of the most different and unique things that sticks out from his catalogue. The production is notably more organic, too. great song. I love WTTN. > > > > Jim is completely irrelevant in the success of I'd Lie For > > You. > > Then how come "I'd Lie For You" sounds like a second-rate > "I'd Do Anything For Love". The characters in the songs > are making similar statements. It's a duet. Warren creates > a second-rate version of all the imagery in "Anything For > Love". Critics at the time saw it as an attempt to cash-in > on "Anything For Love". I'll also say that critics at the > time saw "All Coming Back" as an escaped track from "Bat > II" because it sounded so "Anything For Love". > > The fact that song and WTTN did well was due to Meat > > becoming popular again after Bat2. > > And why did he become popular? Because he "reunited" with > Jim Steinman and did "Bat Out Of Hell II". > > He was back in the > > publics eye after pretty much flat-lining through the > > 80's. > > Only because he and Jim made the sequel to one of the > greatest selling albums of all time. If it had have been > "Dead Ringer II" it wouldn't have been the same. > > > > I'd Lie For You isn't that bad of a song and Meat was > > popular again, put the two together and you have an hit. > > Then how come it sounds like a rip-off of "Anything For > Love"? > > > You personally might not like the song, which is fair > > enough, but a lot of people did. I like the song and > > there's not a chance in hell I'm going to be confused as > > being a Loafer. > > > > Pud > > > I like the song too. I've gotten to like the album. But I > still what Warren's purpose was. It's present in such > other titles as "Not A Dry Eye In The House" and "If This > Is The Last Kiss (Let's Make It Last All Night)" (now > she's copying the bracket-thing.) > > | |
| reply | | |
| Previous: | re: CoM has been pushed back another week... - Vin 01:26 pm UTC 03/23/07 |
| Next: | re: CoM has been pushed back another week... - Jsteinfan 12:13 am UTC 03/23/07 |
| Thread: | |