{"id":1069,"date":"2008-07-30T22:11:42","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T02:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2008-07-30T22:11:42","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T02:11:42","slug":"midweek-makeover-peeling-back-the-layers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/07\/30\/midweek-makeover-peeling-back-the-layers\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek Makeover: Peeling Back the Layers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite things is coming across a cover that compels you to look for the original.\u00c2\u00a0 In tonight&#8217;s example, we have the Black Eyed Peas&#8217; remake of Sergio Mendes&#8217; &#8220;Mas Que Nada.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Whether you can stand the obnoxiousness of the Black Eyed Peas or not, their music has become omnipresent, and it was hard to escape this in the year after it came out:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ucD0gTr66ho[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When I first heard it, it set off a faint echo of the original.\u00c2\u00a0 I must have heard a few times before, but I never really nailed down the artist so I could pick it up.\u00c2\u00a0 And so it faded from memory.\u00c2\u00a0 And then the cover came out.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 To the BEP&#8217;s credit, they plainly labeled the original artist (Sergio Mendes) and a quick search yields the original.\u00c2\u00a0 Which has to be one of the most stylin&#8217; bits of music I&#8217;ve ever heard:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5fX0zx9dF6A[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite things is coming across a cover that compels you to look for the original.\u00c2\u00a0 In tonight&#8217;s example, we have the Black Eyed Peas&#8217; remake of Sergio Mendes&#8217; &#8220;Mas Que Nada.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Whether you can stand the obnoxiousness of the Black Eyed Peas or not, their music has become omnipresent, and it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}