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Thread #137267   Message #3182640
Posted By: GUEST,mg
06-Jul-11 - 05:21 PM
Thread Name: A very uncomfortable question- perform other trads
Subject: RE: A very uncomfortable question- perform other trads
Oh I hope someone does not change the words to the Road to Dundee. That is a perfect song. It is about Dundee. Not about Minneapolis, or Warsaw or Capetown or Fairbanks. Dundee. People have the right to change the words to fit their locale but I would personally strongly rather they didn't and would probablhy not attend their concerts or buy their CDs, which is not a huge threat because I am not a great consumer. if they want to sing it in a Scottish accent, I would rather they sang it in their own accent, not translating the words, just doing an approximation as well as they could..but I wouldn't care that much one way or the other. But it would drive me up the wall to have to sit through several localized, folk-processed on purpose songs. Especially if they changed her to him and him to her and no one knows the standard words and oh yes there are standard words and I know them. mg