SOUNDTRACK: NELLY FURTADO-“Time Stand Still” (2010).
I stumbled upon this cover of a Rush song when I learned about Score: A Hockey Musical (which I stumbled on when looking for information about Dave Bidini). I hadn’t heard of the movie, but i was sure intrigued by it (the parts I’ve seen have terrible songs but since it’s all jokey, it’s okay).
This cover song is presumably an end credits song.
I don’t really have an opinion of Nelly Furtado, but, man, I really don’t like this cover. I’m of course delighted that she covered Rush at all (and it makes sense in a Canadian hockey movie to have a Rush song) but she basically strips away all of the music and adds a very simple synth riff and drums. It’s painful for a Rush fan to hear all the music taken away from this song.
Furtado’s voice actually works pretty well (especially since Aimee Mann does the backing vocals on the original) and she sings it quite nicely. I think I might like it if I didn’t know it was a Rush song, originally (the music is good, eh?). It just hurts my sense of righteousness to hear this weird lite version of Rush.
[READ: February 24, 2014] For Those About to Write
After reading Pseudonymous Bosch’s writing guide for young people, I figured I’d compare it to Dave Bidini’s writing guide for young people.
It’s interesting to see how two writers can try to accomplish the same thing in such vastly different ways. Bidini doesn’t really write fiction (he has written some, but not much), so unlike Bosch, he doesn’t try to get the young writer involved with a made up story. Rather, he presents his own life as an example of one way to become a writer.
Bidini talks about how he loved books as a kid–stapling together stories, or loving the feel of cardboard binding books together (he fondly remember his first writing project for school and how it all felt so official). He was also fortunate to have parents who could appreciate his artistic needs–so if he needed to write or to play music, they were supportive. (more…)
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