You sing yourself into this life.
You live this life you sing.With what lyrics do you sing?
With what lyrics should you re-sing?With what tune do you sing?
With what tune should you re-sing?
I think radically creative cover versions of songs are fantastic examples of how the same set of words (lyrics) can be heard, interpreted and sung differently by alternative artists. It’s a good reminder of how we sing our own tunes and tones into every word we read online and offline, as according to our predispositions. Surprisingly, even a song with originally strong tempos can be ‘heard’ extremely differently within cover artistes’ minds. That’s the power of perception, which can be a source of creativity (with the ability to improvise or distort).
A good example would be the New Order classic ‘Bizarre Love Triangle’ below, which was reinterpreted by Frente above. If you listen to Frente’s minimal acoustic version first, you would have never guessed how the original was like – super energetic synthesiser pop . Frente’s gentle and tempered version is so different that it is often mistaken as a wholly original song. Both are classics in their own right! New Order expressed the dilemma with conflicting perceptions when they sung this into the song:
I’m not sure what this could mean
I don’t think you’re what you seem
(There’s a funny short dialogue on rebirth at 2:42 min of New Order’s video. Well, just because you don’t believe in rebirth does not mean it will not happen to you as a law of nature, and rebirth doesn’t mean you have to come back as a bug or rabbit. There are 31 planes of existence!)
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