Incidentally, please please don’t worry about your comment about this song being overused - I was not thinking of you at *all*! And I don’t really mind those comments, it’s actually quite flattering, it’s just also nice when people do like the song you’ve picked!
Oh, I love the song! (I imprinted on the John Cale version way back when, but this particular cover is perfect for what you're doing here.)
But it's got such a huge over-familiarity problem, like it's been coated with layers of varnish. It's like the "To be or not to be" problem -- any actor playing Hamlet has to try to figure out a way to walk out on stage and do that speech and make the audience actually hear the words, as if they'd never heard them before, rather than going "Oh, here's the 'To be or not to be' speech".
Which is what makes it so jaw-droppingly impressive that you managed to do that.
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Re: SCREAMING WITH TIME-STAMPS
Date: 2019-07-28 07:31 am (UTC)Oh, I love the song! (I imprinted on the John Cale version way back when, but this particular cover is perfect for what you're doing here.)
But it's got such a huge over-familiarity problem, like it's been coated with layers of varnish. It's like the "To be or not to be" problem -- any actor playing Hamlet has to try to figure out a way to walk out on stage and do that speech and make the audience actually hear the words, as if they'd never heard them before, rather than going "Oh, here's the 'To be or not to be' speech".
Which is what makes it so jaw-droppingly impressive that you managed to do that.