Will Allen on Nostr: A lot of people get focused on “the way things are supposed to be.” Read any ...
A lot of people get focused on “the way things are supposed to be.” Read any interview with a Big Single Band. Half the audience gets pissy if they play a different version of their Big Single in concert twenty years after they released it. But the truth is, most songs you know aren’t the songs they began as. Sure, some people compose as they record, but much more commonly, a song is written, passed around, rearranged, gender swapped, and sold before it’s produced into the thing that sounds like “what it’s supposed to be.”
Especially in the 70s, songwriters sold songs to singers. It wasn’t particularly strange for superstars to have never performed “their own songs.” (Think Olivia Newton John or Anne Murray.) It was a normal thing for the original to change to fit the style and even genre of the singer. (Is “Islands in the Stream” a country song or a disco ballad?)
I might be talking about gender identity.
#pride #progressive #lgbtq
Especially in the 70s, songwriters sold songs to singers. It wasn’t particularly strange for superstars to have never performed “their own songs.” (Think Olivia Newton John or Anne Murray.) It was a normal thing for the original to change to fit the style and even genre of the singer. (Is “Islands in the Stream” a country song or a disco ballad?)
I might be talking about gender identity.
#pride #progressive #lgbtq