miércoles, 6 de enero de 2010

Round round round round....


Sorry but I am going to get back to my criticism of not-so-good music. When these things come to me I can't deny to write about them. Yesterday, my Canadian friend Jason pointed out to me that one of the songs of Flo Rida (the singer of Low) is "covering" a very famous song from the eighties called You Spin me Round (Like a Record), played by the british new wave band Dead or Alive. However, he is not the only one who has covered the song: Dope (an American Nu Metal band), Thalia (a Mexican Latin-pop singer), Jessica Simpson (an American singer) and Indochine ( a French band) have done it too. Well, Right Round (that's how Flo Rida's cover is called) isn't really a cover, because the lyrics aren't them same. Flo Rida is just using the chorus of the original and his reasons seem to me a good discussion.
On the one hand, it could be that Flo Rida is an admirer of You Spin me Round and he wanted to make a version of the original with his own style.
On the other hand, -and I believe that this is the true reason- they used the catchy and already (this word is very important, already) famous chorus because if in its time the song was popular, probably the verse would have the same effect now because we, the youth of nowadays, haven't changed that much on being great music followers compared to the youth of the eighties. And at the same time some people may recognise the old song. What's more, if foreign artists covered the song, it means that the song became famous abroad. So it looks like good song to take advantage of, isn't it?
Well, what I just said is not new, because when an artists covers a song is due to the former reason, but also to the latter. They take advantage of the fact that the song is already known and if they do a good cover the hit is ensured. But in this case it seems to me that they wanted to make money more than covering an old hit. In case you don't know or you forgot, I repeat you that Flo Rida's music style is the one that I described as "music made to make money and made for the youth to dance in clubs", along with the sexist message that this song (of course!) doesn't lack. Because, once again, he is talking about a girl as if she was a prostitute. Well, maybe she is, but that doesn't allow him to speak like that to her. It's funny how the lyrics' theme is similar to the Low's one.
Flo Rida talks again about girls, clubs, being the man, dough, that girl "Shawty" and some verses have again "hidden" sex messages. The most funny and unoriginal is that some verses say almost the same in both Low and Right Round...

Right Round => 
"Shawty must know i'm the man"
"I got rubber bands"
"She got me throwin my money a[round]"
"That body belong on a poster"

Low =>  
"I'm the man, I'll bend the rubber bands"
"this crazy all night spendin my dough"
"Like a pornography poster"

It looks like he was running out of ideas... the only difference I see is that in Low, the girl was going low, and in Righ Round the girl is going... down!
"Shawty got low low low low low low low low"
"It’s goin down down"

Oh, I can forget to point out the super great poethic rymes that Flo Rida sings in Righ Round that prove the originality and musical quality of his stupendous songs ( i hope you got that i'm being sarcastic!). On the first place we have a verse with the following rhyme: 
[...] going
[...] clothes
[...] role
[...] whoa

Don't you think "whoa" is very fine figure of speech to complete your verse when you don't know how to rhyme?
Then we have another good rhyme:
[...] [down]
[...] a[round]

[...] to be [found]
[...] down down.
[...] go [down]
[...] money [around]
[...] to be [found]


And I think you had enough and got the idea. You can check the lyrics at the link below if you wish to continue.



You Spin me Round

YouTube: http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/theweddingsingervol2/youspinmearoundlikearecord.htm

Right Round:
Lyrics: http://www.lyricsreg.com/lyrics/flo+rida/RIGHT+ROUND/

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