I've lost my trumpet

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I can't work out whether this is a) the worst kind of smug anti-rockist sneering* b) actually quite amusing. The song definitely hasn't got any better though.

*What do I even MEAN here?

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[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Who was the sort of baggy band that did a terrible cover of this that LOADS of people suddenly did a bit SQUEEEE at and ran to the dancefloor at that Poptimism one time and me and the Lex nearly drowned in a vale of our own agonised tears? Well, this is exactly the same and the fact that it's being done for the SECOND time...! Not amusing, possibly smug in the "we dare to take on such an epic song but in a more light hearted manner" (?), sneering - nah he's just got a mingy face...

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

haha i am right just this SECOND "revisiting" an "80s soulboy classic" (fsvo)* with a very OOHOO TIME TO REASSESS hat on!

*ie i wd be a bit astonished if anyone here except MAYBE macarratala know it (there is even WELLER LINKAGE)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

this î tho is a VERY weird mix of clumsiness and care -- given i have no animus against 60s white kids "doing" soul qwuite badly (bcz what they can't do moves off into something the black originals DON'T do) (it became the psych "freakout" kinda, a music playing off dodgy assumption that "being black" is being wild and uncontrolled -- exactly misreading j.brown and j.hendrix and free jazz -- as necessary permission actually to BE WILD in a curiously unprecedented way), er given all that, i am interested in the species "doing [xx] badly" as permission to end up "doing y which is new" --> but i'm not sure this reaches y (whatever it would be)

[martinv.livejournal.com]

Awful pointless cover (still), obviously, but the video is funny.

[koganbot]

I had to go to YouTube to find who did the original, which I'd never heard.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

eesh, this is still as terrible as ever. it's so pale and lifeless. be thankful you haven't heard Ronson's take on 'Toxic' innit!

I wrote this comment last night, then LJ ate it and I got in a strop.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

To clarify, my quandary was referring to the video. Ronson can cover whatever he likes as far as I'm concerned.

The video however - "ooooh look at us, we're being all subversive and ironic!" but is Ronson actually doing this on purpose or is he just having a laugh? And why do I find this particular homage insufferable when I'm perfectly happy to have countless retreads of Thriller formation dancing or Robert Palmer's model band or Bob Dylan dropping bits of paper? Why is this pissing me off so much?