Good article on Beyonce's soulless cover of "Jolene" : redscarepod

If you care about either of those women then you're poor trash.

I'm trying to think of a cover song that changed the lyrics of the original, that I didn't hate.

I fricking hated Johnny Cash's cover of NIN's 'Hurt', which I think people only love because, while 'Hurt' is a decent song, Trent Reznor can't sing for shit, so anyone singing that song besides Trent Reznor was going to do a better job of it.

Elton John's rewrite of 'Candle in the Wind' for that royal bint who was so out of touch she didn't know how seatbelts worked, was an absolute abortion.

I heard someone changed lyrics in John Lennon's 'Imagine' from 'imagine no religion' to 'imagine one religion', but I never really liked that song to begin with.

Are there any good cover songs with altered lyrics?

I liked The White Stripes cover of Jolene

I read some absolutely nauseating shit about this in the Atlantic:

The power of Dolly Parton's “Jolene” is that Dolly Parton sounds powerless. The guitar riff prickles nervously; the melody pleads in the manner of a hungry pet; Parton sings, in a trembling tone, about the woman who could and very well might take her man. It's a love song to Jolene herself, expressing the sort of love a supplicant shows their god—desperate, fearful, needy for mercy.

But Beyoncé doesn't do powerless.

Beyoncé starts in on the familiar melody, but in a tone that's husky and heavy rather than fragile and light. Where Parton sang, “I'm beggin' of you, please don't take my man,” Beyoncé sings, “I'm warnin' you, don't come for my man.”

Why is this breathlessly reported as a good thing? Why does everything have to be all "slay kween"?

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