Take Amy Winehouse on “Valerie” by The Zutons, released on Mark Ronson’s covers album Versions in 2007. On many occasions, the success of a cover song has transcended the original. Shawn Mendes’s new album has cosy values but not one original idea.Miley Cyrus’s rock album Plastic Hearts is a truckload of fun.Dolly Parton’s politics have always been hidden in plain sight.“I wasn’t going to strip that back completely, because the production is a huge part of why that song slaps incredibly hard.” “I f***ing love that song but she’s a very different artist to me,” explains Hackman. “It’s a very different experience, but it stopped me from doing nothing.” She chose songs by artists she admired, and was careful when it came to interpreting them, especially ones of completely different genres, such as the futuristic pop artist Grimes’s EDM scorcher “Realiti”. “I didn’t want to stress myself out and flog a dead horse,” she says.
And musicians themselves, too.įor English folk artist Marika Hackman, who released a full album of low-key covers last month, it was a way of avoiding writer’s block caused by pandemic anxiety.
But over the past few years in music, and particularly in 2020, where musicians have found themselves with a considerable amount of free time on their hands, the cover song has been given a new lease of life. To many people, these evidence the entertainment industry’s lack of originality. In Hollywood, remakes and reboots are the currency. Whether Frank Sinatra and the Great American Songbook, Jimi Hendrix’s “All Along the Watchtower” or Miley Cyrus’s take on “Zombie” by The Cranberries, countless musicians have offered their own interpretations of other people’s music, for money, to gain a following or as a means of appreciation. Black women are featured and adored in ALL of his videos.The cover has been a music industry staple forever. I never have to wonder what ethnicity the women in Musiq’s videos are. but my goodness, it would be nice to see the type of female ( CONSISTENTLY) featured in his videos, whos ethnicity we DON”T have to scratch our heads about… we don’t have to wonder what USHER’S ethnicity is do we? Now that we KNOW she is African we are happy IN THIS CASE. I was thinking the woman was Eritrean or maybe Ethiopian, but with Usher’s track record of using mulatto, Mexican whatever the hell kind of females as his leads, I HAD TO WONDER MYSELF. In the UNITED STATES, where Usher’s primary market is, MOST OF US ARE NOT FROM THE HORN OF AFRICA… therefore, we do not always recognize what Somali women look like, though Iman is more identifiable as a black woman. therefore we don’t want to watch video after video where the men we give birth to paint a world that eliminates us from the picture where love and beauty is concerned.Ģ. and black women are most under-represented in the media and represented in the WORST way in the White Supremacist (Racist) system. BECAUSE IN 90 % OF USHER’S VIDEOS, as well as those of other black male singers/ rappers of late E VERY DAMN FEMALE LEAD IS mulatto, a mexican, a white girl, some sort of unidentifiable cross breed, an Asian or someone who is OBVIOUSLY not black enough that we know what the hell she is.
And it’s really SSSS.the reason people ask isġ.
Sorry for my little rant but this just has been on my mind with every video, tv show, or movie i watch lately. Dark skinned or even brown skinned sistas get’s no love in the entertainment industry it seems and by our own black men to top it off. He’s not the only singer/rapper that does this.
Usher’s GF Chili and Ex Tameka are obviously african american women, but when have you seen him have a woman that looks anything like them in any of his videos or ad campaigns that havn’t been his dancers shaking their ass? I’m really trying to think of one but can’t, with the exception of actually having Chili in his vid.
You’ll see the husband and son be dark skinned, but the daughter and mother are always light skinned, mixed, or latino. Black women come in many shades and sizes these black entertainers need to step up and show the sista off to the world instead of putting them in a closet as if they aren’t beautiful or appreciated. If the media is to go by then there are no black women in the world or when there does seem to be one in a movie or video she always looks the same…VERY light skinned. I’m getting so sick of every music video, movie, tv show etc show a black man but don’t feel the need to have a black woman as his better half.