Taylor Swift’s cover of Earth, Wind & Fire’s ‘September’ is getting some pretty harsh criticism
Taylor Swift sent the Internet into a tizzy on Friday when she released a breathy, folksy cover of Earth, Wind & Fire’s 1978 love jam “September” on Spotify. Her version stripped away away the original’s funk-laden sensibility and presented the tune as a slow-burning countrypolitan song. Covering a beloved song is tricky, and covering a beloved song in a new style is sure to irk some die-hard fans. So criticism was as swift as it was inevitable.
Monique Judge, a columnist for the black culture magazine the Root, took particularly issue with the cover. In a column titled “Taylor Swift Just Disrespected Earth, Wind & Fire With Her Cover of ‘September,’” Judge hoped that the song was “some type of messed up Friday the 13th prank.”
“There are certain songs you don’t mess with, especially if you don’t have the range, and we all know Taylor Swift has all the range of a dial tone,” Judge wrote.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | April 14, 2018 1:20 AM
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That is some Hee Haw meets Summer's Eve commercial fuckery, right there.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | April 13, 2018 7:21 PM
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Rip her ovaries out so she cannot breed. Desecration of a classic by a fourth rate would be singer.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | April 13, 2018 7:26 PM
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[quote]“There are certain songs you don’t mess with, especially if you don’t have the range, and we all know Taylor Swift has all the range of a dial tone,” Judge wrote.
GIRRRRL!
SHADE!
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | April 13, 2018 7:30 PM
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That's because it's god awful.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | April 13, 2018 7:31 PM
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Hate her breathy voice. Pop music has been mostly shit the last 20 years.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | April 13, 2018 8:15 PM
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R8 Yes, and the look on her face when she sings is just as bad. Poor thing wants to be sexy in the worst way!
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | April 13, 2018 8:19 PM
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This is what we're left with? I need me some Purple Rain to clean my pop palate. Damn.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | April 13, 2018 8:21 PM
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Sounds like a fibromyalgia drug commercial.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | April 13, 2018 10:39 PM
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LOL just listened to it, the Summer's Eve commercial comment was right on the money! W & W
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | April 14, 2018 1:13 AM
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She cannot sing. At all. I am mystified as to how someone so completely talentless became such a big star.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | April 14, 2018 1:20 AM
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