Guest Post: Movie Remakes vs. Movie Covers by Melissa F. Olson
I don’t know very much about music, but one thing I’m sure of: there’s no point in doing a cover of a song that’s exactly the same as the original. The best covers I’ve heard take a great piece of music and try something different with it. The songwriter comes at the same melody from a different angle (or in this case, key, I guess?) creating a new work that shares DNA with the original, but succeeds on its own. Last year Ryan Adams famously covered an entire Taylor Swift pop album with his own unique style, but I also like Damhnait Doyle’s haunted-music-box take on “I Want You to Want Me” or Yael Naïm’s surprisingly unsettling rendition of Britney Spears’ “Toxic.” Covers are not actually about being better or worse than the original. Good covers become their own unique thing. And movies are often the same.
#50. Ghostbusters (2016) — A Shoot the WISB Subcast
http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/ShootTheWISB50Ghostbusters2016/ShootTheWisb50–Ghostbusters2016.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSDancing Hemsworths, ghostly manbabies, and science-y ladies, oh my! It’s finally here! Our Ghostbusters special! We discuss the film’s major themes, the new characters, WOMEN, ghosts, just who this Rowan North character is, and so much more! (As mentioned in the episode, we re-recorded our review due to a software failure. That also explains the reason it took so long to get to you!) We hope you enjoy the episode! Note: If you have iTunes and like this show, please give us a review on our iTunes page, or feel free to email us with your thoughts about the show! Here’s the episode (show notes are below):
