{"id":2355,"date":"2009-01-21T20:54:50","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T01:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2355"},"modified":"2009-01-21T20:54:50","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T01:54:50","slug":"midweek-makeover-talent-isnt-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/01\/21\/midweek-makeover-talent-isnt-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek Makeover: Talent Isn&#8217;t Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Today&#8217;s subject examines the case of cover where the covering artist is superior &#8211; in every way &#8211; to the original artist.\u00c2\u00a0 And yet somehow, against all objectively measured odds, it just doesn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The original track comes from George Michael&#8217;s <em>Faith<\/em> (which, on a personal note, was the soundtrack to my 1987):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PF5Aq5kF2ek[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>And then we have Joan Baez &#8211; yes, Joan Baez, with all of her empathy and history and vocal talents &#8211; making a hash of it on German television.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W-TH_MqYfog[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really know why she failed, here.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a theme she can put herself into, with the force of her entire career.\u00c2\u00a0 George Michael, as much as I enjoy him, can&#8217;t hold a candle to her talents.\u00c2\u00a0 And yet we&#8217;re left wishing that she hadn&#8217;t bothered.\u00c2\u00a0 Mystifying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s subject examines the case of cover where the covering artist is superior &#8211; in every way &#8211; to the original artist.\u00c2\u00a0 And yet somehow, against all objectively measured odds, it just doesn&#8217;t work. The original track comes from George Michael&#8217;s Faith (which, on a personal note, was the soundtrack to my 1987): [youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PF5Aq5kF2ek[\/youtube] And [&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":[30,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355","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=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2356,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions\/2356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}