I'm reminded of the song "As Tears Go By" from Marianne Faithful. From when she first recorded it, until her last performance of it, there were very notable dif

I'm reminded of the song "As Tears Go By" from Marianne Faithful. From when she first recorded it, until her last performance of it, there were very notable differences in her singing, and the overall sound of the song. It went from sad and thoughtful to utterly depressed and desperate, depending on which versions you heard. But there was change, nonetheless. A lot of it. The most obvious is the pitch and speed - she started singing it in a fairly clean high register at a particular beat, but by the end of her career her voice was very deep and raspy, and the song was performed a lot slower. Despite significant change in her singing, nobody ever said she and the song got better, or worse. They just kept some sort of honest likable quality, and it got more dramatic as the years went by. Pretty much as forecast by the song itself. The lack of acceptance for change existed back then, but she lucked out and was surrounded by grace. It's just more "in your face" as the Internet tends to be nowadays. Change isn't allowed so much because we constantly click on the next big thing. Any amount of change like that in a musician today would be considered unacceptable and buried under loads of competition and "us and them" mentalities.