Watching one artist recreate another’s work is almost always an auditory delight just to see what it might sound like. It can give a different feel and create different images in one’s mind if they listen to it in the style of someone else, which is interesting since it’s the same song. However when Billy Corgan from Smashing Pumpkins performs a cover of Miley Cyrus’s Wrecking Ball it definitely gives the song a new twist that wasn’t apparent the first time around. His vastly different voice gives the song a different quality, as does the sound of the guitar that he uses to accompany him. In some ways it almost sounds superior to Cyrus’s version, but in others it’s kind of muted but no less intense.
It’s amazing how much different each song can sound when sung in different tempos and pitches. Plus I kind of wonder what the original artists think of it when another singer takes their song and runs with it. I get the feeling that it couldn’t happen unless they had permission, and that most singers might actually be flattered that someone else would decide to do a cover of their song. After all it might be interesting to see what their music could sound like when being performed by someone else. Billy Corgan’s version is a definitely a little more intense than Cyrus’s simply because it doesn’t have the massive sound effects behind it, but also because his voice conveys a different sense of emotion and feeling than hers does.
Musicians are a strange bunch sometimes, and I’ll gladly explain that. Much like writers they tend to have a very different side to their being that comes out in different ways that materialize as music. What you see on the surface might be entirely different than what lies beneath, meaning that they could smile at you in one moment but be seething inside with something that’s just dying to get out. It’s something that a lot of people, not just those with an active imagination, might feel at least a few times in their lives, but that those with the intense and restless creativity born of musicians, writers, and even actors feel at most moments throughout the day. It’s something that is extremely hard to turn off, if it’s even possible to do so.
It’s effects take hold in many different ways, either through visual or auditory means that are hard to fathom until they’re finally out and able to be seen or heard by those that happen to be around. Whatever comes out is usually something that people don’t expect and wouldn’t be able to replicate one hundred percent no matter how hard they tried. The reason is simple, they don’t have the same experience as the artist. This is why Billy Corgan sounds so different from Miley Cyrus, their life experiences are different and it comes out through the music. It’s not something you can modulate in any discernible way, it’s just what happens.
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