You all know Kate Bush’s version of her song “Babooshka.” Too screamy. Too dramatic. You want to know how it should be sung? Cool. That’s how. Restrained. Sophisticated. Done in the style of a chanteuse in an expensive French bistro that specializes in JAZZ.
Right? Jazz and easy listening fans would think so.
As Billy Joel once pointed out, we all have a “pointless point of view,” and it extends to music. We think what we like is right. Some old white European will tell you Beethoven’s music is REAL MUSIC. Some young black African is proud of banging on a drum and clapping the discs in her mouth together for some added clack. According to Rolling Stone, the most popular music now is RAP. That means it's art, too.
Some brag that the REAL DEAL is the soul music they like (whites need not even TRY to sing it), or hardcore Hank Williams country music, or Miles blowin’ a riff on his horn. Genre music fans are often insistent that their outsider music is in. Meanwhile Adele and Taylor Swift fans tell you to go with the mob and stop calling that stuff crap.
You remember when the Hollyridge Strings, Sinatra and Aretha all gave you the RIGHT way to listen to Beatles songs?
Most would say the artist has the definitive take, and most cover versions are way off. Then there's the easy listening bunch who say "tone it down," and the jazz crowd who say "that's not cool if you don't croon it."
Jazz singers sure wanna SMOOTH that rock! Right, Cat-Ballou?
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