Cover songs

[louielouie2000]

Originally Posted by grace_face

Anyone hear Ms Lindsay Lohan's cover of Edge of Seventeen? *vomit* WHY!? WHY, LINDSAY, WHY!?!?!?!?!?

Edit - I am aware this isn't a FM song. lol. My mind was stuck on Stevie for a minute there (always).

I know I'll get a lot of flack for this, but I actually halfway like Lohan's version of Edge... to me the production is more in line with the subject matter of the song. Stevie's version seems to be made a harder edged rock song for the sake of the album having a harder edged rock song. I know Paul Fishkin and Jimmy Iovine wanted to throw Stevie's airy fairy image out the window and prove she was just as much of a rocker as a man for her debut album. To me, Edge was a casualty of this policy.

I actually don't mind Wilson Phillips Go Your Own Way either. It was a wholly new take on the song... and I respect that. The layered harmonies are very Fleetwood Mac. And I detest Wilson Phillips... so it takes a LOT for me to admit I like their version of GYOW .

I really like Matchbox Twenty's version of Never Going Back Again too, again, because it's such an entirely different take on the original. And it really works. I know Lindsey feels the song's subject matter is about coming out of the darkness, thus his prosaic approach to it on Rumours. But there's a definite dark undertone to the lyrics, which Matchbox Twenty totally cashed in upon. I like it!