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Music Notes

A blog, generally about music, usually for projects hosted by Jeff

. I may also write about the 48-Hour Media Prompt Challenge if I don't feel like writing a story or poem inspired by the given song. Other bits of poetry or different topics of discussion might end up here as well.

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SAD Holiday Potato

Oct 15, 2024 at 12:09pm
In response to "500 Miles (I'm Gonna Be) (ID cover)"

That was an amazing performance. Dan certainly has a sense of showmanship..

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Merry QPdoll

Oct 12, 2024 at 8:00am
In response to "I Heard It Through the Grapevine (CCR)"

I've only known the Marvin Gaye version. I have to say that CCR did it justice. The drums and that bass. So cool.

Excellent choice!

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♥HOOves♥

Oct 12, 2024 at 7:45am
In response to "I Heard It Through the Grapevine (CCR)"

Great song choice! There is also a version with Gladys Knight and the Pips that may or may not have been the first one. It was the first one that I heard.

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Dave Ryan

Oct 11, 2024 at 8:19am
In response to "If I Had a Hammer"

Puff the Magic Dragon is a great song for traumatising the kids. There's nothing like a happy ending, and that one is definitely nothing like a happy ending.

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Merry QPdoll

Oct 10, 2024 at 7:57am
In response to "Fast Car (Jonas Blue cover)"

This is great! I love this song and have heard a couple of different versions, but I've never heard this one. Thank you for sharing.

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♥HOOves♥

Oct 9, 2024 at 9:07am
In response to "Fortunate Son"

Love Centerfield and Have You Ever Seen the Rain, also!

So many wonderful songs!

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♥HOOves♥

Oct 8, 2024 at 9:00am
In response to "I Won't Back Down"

Great song choice!

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Merry QPdoll

Oct 8, 2024 at 6:15am
In response to "I Won't Back Down"

I like Tom Petty, too. My favorite song is Mary Jane's Last Dance. However, I like the message of I Won't Back Down. It's a fine choice.

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tracker

Oct 7, 2024 at 12:23pm
In response to "Creeque Alley"

This is when I like AI. The song is a story about when the group was formed. It was released when I had first started college. Where? In California! Good choice of song.

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Merry QPdoll

Oct 6, 2024 at 7:58am
In response to "Three Little Birds"

It's been a long time since I've heard this song. I don't know if I've heard it from beginning to end. I think it's just been in pieces in different instances. Thank you for sharing. I don't have a playlist, but the song is fun.

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October 10, 2024 at 7:46am

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Fast Car (Jonas Blue cover)

My seventh track is a cover, Fast Car by Jonas Blue with Dakota singing. It's an EDM (Electronic Dance Music) cover, released in 2015 of the Tracy Chapman original from 1988.

I'm sure most people here remember Fast Car from the July 2024 Rhythms and Writing contest prompt. I happened to win first place with "Silent Witness"

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The contest was by no means my first exposure to the song, however. I've been quite familiar with it for years. The first I became aware of Fast Car was somewhere between 2015 and 2017, when I noticed a song going around with surprising frequency at the grocery stores, that seemed to ramble on endlessly. I was puzzled by it because I couldn't tell if the voice was male or female. So I looked up the only words I could hear clearly, "somebody's gotta take care of him," and found the original Fast Car.

I brushed it aside at first as not being anything I was interested in. Then a few years later I checked back on it and found it to be a rather interesting, socially aware story, of a woman finding herself and becoming brave enough to kick out the man repeating the cycle of what brought her to him in the first place.

I remember the day I discovered the Jonas Blue version. It came on at a clothing store I shop at frequently, and I was delighted to find it. I thought his melodic loop was the cat's pajamas. On Genius

I read his verified commentary, where he explained how Fast Car was his mom's favorite song and how as an EDM producer he'd always dreamed of creating his own version honoring it.

Seeing his backstory gave me a deeper appreciation for the original, as I listened to them both and studied Chapman's guitar line which he had carefully reinvented.

Possibly the most striking thing about the Jonas Blue version is that the final, more somber part of the story is missing. Instead of detailing how the relationship goes downhill and the woman tells him to "take your fast car and get out," it leaves off on the optimistic note of freedom in love and finding oneself in someone else.

This hopefulness is suitable for a dance type of song and gives a fresh perspective on the lyrics. Perhaps in a perfect world, one can escape their past for the safety of a new relationship and pursue their dreams without fear of loss and heartbreak.

Words: 437.

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