The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #47962   Message #718388
Posted By: InOBU
27-May-02 - 06:56 PM
Thread Name: Rewriting someone else's song
Subject: RE: Rewriting someone else's song
POUTIN!!!! Och McGrath, some day, when it is cold and wet and you find yourself in Quebec... OH BROTHER! That's the ticket, stick to your ribs and stop your heart good!!!
As to the mater at hand... Hmmmm... McGrath has done great stuff to one of my songs, and as long as the intent of the piece is conveyed, I am all for it... however, in a thread titled "Rape", about one of my songs about the public gang rape of Hindu women in Bangladesh, some of the suggestions seemed to suggest taking the sting out of the subject, well, hell you put the songs out there and hope they are understood, and sometimes you just have to tighten your grip around your pint of Diet Coke... but I do wish my friends would consider as carefully as McGrath does, the intention behind the music.
BUT HEY! Have a poutin and some Frute de Mere! Knock back a Labat for me up dere in da frozen nord!
Ah toot aloor! (an ave a funny dey... as my pal Serge Luzon would say!)
Cheers Larry