{"id":5248,"date":"2013-09-04T21:17:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T01:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=5248"},"modified":"2023-08-04T11:11:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T15:11:33","slug":"midweek-makeover-your-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2013\/09\/04\/midweek-makeover-your-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek Makeover: Your Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So recently I revealed a not-so-secret-secret to a friend. &nbsp;I actually enjoyed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dtEgAx80NC4\">Moulin Rouge!<\/a>. I know, I know. &nbsp;Shut up. Anyway, one of the (many) great tracks from it was a cover of Elton John&#8217;s Your Song. Which has to be, on its own, one of the best love songs of all time. I know you&#8217;ve heard it, but seriously, press play:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Elton John - Your Song (Top Of The Pops 1971)\" width=\"629\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GlPlfCy1urI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d normally put something that good on a shelf labeled &#8220;Do Not Cover.&#8221; &nbsp;But then Ewan McGregor (!) did this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D9soYPNDlq4\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tnoG0ONh4b8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Knocked it out of the park. &nbsp;(<a href=\"http:\/\/nicolekidmanofficial.com\/related-project\/moulin-rouge-working-with-ewan-mcgregor\/\">According to Nicole Kidman, too.<\/a>) So really, you&#8217;d think that it was done. I mean, loads of covers out there, but no one&#8217;s going to top the original, and McGregor&#8217;s take staked out something so different that anything else would necessarily fall short. But then:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ellie Goulding - Your Song (Official Video)\" width=\"629\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D9AFMVMl9qE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Not sure what it is about this one that works so well. &nbsp;Obviously Goulding&#8217;s voice is something special. But it&#8217;s more than that. The arrangement, the voice, the pauses. It&#8217;s a worthy addition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So recently I revealed a not-so-secret-secret to a friend. &nbsp;I actually enjoyed Moulin Rouge!. I know, I know. &nbsp;Shut up. Anyway, one of the (many) great tracks from it was a cover of Elton John&#8217;s Your Song. Which has to be, on its own, one of the best love songs of all time. I know [&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-5248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248","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=5248"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5381,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248\/revisions\/5381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}