![]() ![]() Is this another build up to say that commercially successful songs are better/worse, or that there is a definite one way that music can be expressed with regards to song structure. ![]() I am curious what the “definition” of shit music is, as what is shit to you may be gold to another listener. Then there was always the late night dulcet tones of Zamfir or Kenny G as they flogged off their latest instrumental set of LPs, but were they any shittier than the played out super groups of the 70s, or the New Wave inspired sounds of the 80s, or the ever present generic pop sound since the 90s? Her well-produced, professionally-made video has half as many. IN 1973, Dolly Parton released the song Jolene. It almost reminds me of the conundrum involving Caitlin Rose’s video for her song Own Side Now. Dolly Parton - Jolene (33 rpm rejiggle) Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions - The Peasant Nick Drake - Poor Boy Bread - Look What Youve Done The Delfonics - Didnt I Blow Your Mind This Time Brenda Lee - Im Sorry LaBelle - When the Sun Comes Shining Through (the Ladder) Reply. Many songs sung by females and set in a mid-tempo work with this trick. Demento who is considered to be a purveyor of some of the finest shit music around. There’s actually an older version of slowed-down Jolene that was uploaded over 2 years ago too. The Forum is a free service, and much like the 'free' content on Public Radio, we hope you will support WoodenBoat by subscribing to this fabulous magazine. I grew up on much delta blues inspired rock, but at the same time when i was a pre-teen I was absolutely enamored with Dr. Jolene at 33 rpm The WoodenBoat Forum is sponsored by WoodenBoat Publications, publisher of WoodenBoat magazine. This gets into some seriously subjective taste, especially re: what exactly is shit. One example that made me stop and take note of might even be an interesting exercise to refer to:ĭolly Parton’s “Jolene” slowed down from a 45 to 33rpm (from her 1973 album of the same name)Īnd here why, if you are not already Reply giving a chance to a second listen to a song I would have otherwise passed on, or not listened to in the first place. I listen more and more to CBC’s under the covers. Claim: In late September 2021, rapper Lil Nas X performed Dolly Partonu2019s country hit u201cJoleneu201d in a live recording of Radio 1u2019s Live Lounge for BBC. ![]() A song that you might like/ love might say nothing to me. shit songs by whose criteria, bad lyrics? wrong voice, commercialized, in a style the listener does not like. it comes across as so fake to me, that i often don’t bother giving the lyrics a chance.īut your question also makes wonder. Hearing a vocal treated by autotune also drives me to change the channel too. She’s like an ambassador from a world where hard times make you stronger, but they’re still to be avoided where you escape your past not by running away but by planting a ladder where you stand and climbing up.Very few songs make me want to immediately change a station if I come across it. As she tells it, Dolly the multimillionaire and international star is a direct product of Dolly the little girl, who decided to model herself after the local hooker in the backwoods-Tennessee town where she grew up. “It costs a lot to look this cheap,” she likes to say. She’s never tried to hide or apologize for her tackiness or her self-sculpting. Even “I Will Always Love You” (lest we forget, a Parton composition long before Whitney), is both a love song and a breakup song.Īnd then there’s Parton herself, with breasts like launching missiles and the wardrobe of a seven-year-old with resources. Many of her songs float lightly on dark currents-if you scan her compositions from the past fifty years, you’ll find plenty of dying children, abandoned women, and paralyzing poverty dished up in catchy tunes and warbling tones. That’s how Dolly Parton works, both as a musician and a celebrity. Of course, that can be found in the original version, but the brisk clip of the performance and the chime of Dolly’s voice bounce over the concreteness of the despair. ![]()
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