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You Belong With Me... wow There's such a difference in a young up and coming begging for a guy to acknowledge they love the outcast, to Taylor Swift singing th
by anonymouse008 6y ago
You Belong With Me... wow
There's such a difference in a young up and coming begging for a guy to acknowledge they love the outcast, to Taylor Swift singing the same song.
They always tell you in vocal lessons that so much of a song has to do with feeling. For people like most of us on HN, that makes absolutely 0 sense, and for many decades I've never been able to understand that... until now. Same person, different life experiences tugging on the same song, and it hits like a ton of bricks.
- donpott 6y agoI've always found this apparent in Johnny Cash's covers, like "Hurt", "One", "Big Iron", or "If you could read my mind". He manages to add a different feeling to the song that changes the backstory it's suggesting. I recommend a listen and comparison against the originals if you're interested in the phenomenon.
- FalconSensei 6y agoJohnny Cash's Hurt is one of my fav. songs/versions ever. I listened to the original, and many other versions, but that one is just a few steps above
- nickysielicki 6y agoI gave both a listen after reading this comment. To my ear, the difference is just that her voice much more mature as a 31 year old than it was when the song released 12 years ago and she was 19, and that naturally makes it harder to believe the small-town highschool themed lyrics. Her voice is too deep to sound like a teenager anymore.