{"id":2409,"date":"2007-01-27T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-28T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2409"},"modified":"2007-01-27T22:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-28T06:05:00","slug":"2409","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2409","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m all for making a song your own when you do a cover version, but I’m less enthusiastic when I hear an actual change<\/i> in the lyrics. For instance, I’ve been hearing a line from R.E.M.’s “The One I Love” sung as “A simple
thought<\/i> to occupy my time.” Which, from where I’m sitting, sort of screws over the original intent and meaning of the song (wherein it’s “a simple prop<\/i>.)<\/p>\n

Also, the fact that some tracks are only available in iTunes when you purchase an entire album…? Rather lame — and that sort of defeats the whole purpose of a service like iTunes, which allows me to pay for only the songs I want. Maybe I don’t<\/i> want the entire soundtrack to a particular movie. Maybe I already own<\/i> some of the other songs on it and would prefer not to pay for them again. Maybe there’s no good reason why the record company or studio can’t make each individual track available.<\/p>\n

I’m just saying.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m all for making a song your own when you do a cover version, but I’m less enthusiastic when I hear an actual change in the lyrics. For instance, I’ve been hearing a line from R.E.M.’s “The One I Love” sung as “A simple thought to occupy my time.” Which, from where I’m sitting, sort … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}