{"id":5925,"date":"2002-05-27T03:33:00","date_gmt":"2002-05-27T03:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/?p=5925"},"modified":"2015-01-18T00:28:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T00:28:17","slug":"5925","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/2002\/05\/27\/5925\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finally figured out what bothers me so much about covers. Originality. When an musician takes another musician&#8217;s song and essentially re-records it with a different voice, it becomes a serious pet peeve. However, when the musican is able to transform into something original and new, I don&#8217;t have a problem. (Unless this is Britney Spears covering &#8220;Eleanor Rigby&#8221;. Then it&#8217;s time to bring out the machine guns.) I discovered this listening to snippets of the &#8220;I Am Sam&#8221; soundtrack in Barnes &#038; Noble last night &#8212; the songs annoyed me, because they were exactly identical to the versions recorded by the Beatles, except sung by a different voice. Bah.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, got &#8220;Driving Rain&#8221;. Yay! ::hugs Paul::<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finally figured out what bothers me so much about covers. Originality. When an musician takes another musician&#8217;s song and essentially re-records it with a different voice, it becomes a serious pet peeve. However, when the musican is able to transform into something original and new, I don&#8217;t have a problem. (Unless this is Britney &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/2002\/05\/27\/5925\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theninemuses.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}