Posted on 11/12/2023 9:44:22 AM PST by Round Earther
On Wednesday, Luke Combs' cover of the song "Fast Car" won song of the year at the Country Music Association awards – but singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman, who first released the song in 1988, took home the award. With the win – a whopping 35 years after the song was released – Chapman became the first Black songwriter to win the song of the year prize at the CMAs.
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Great song.
I never knew that Luke Combs worked as a checkout girl.
Good cover but he didn’t adjust the genders and it sounds ridiculous
CMA gone woke. Can you imagine the conversation in the CMA nominating session....I like that Luke Combs song fast car, I’m going to nominate it.
Yea, me too.
(liberal woman) Whaaaa,.. you cant do that.
Do what?
That song was originally sung by a black, female, non binary, trans immigrant, and we can’t give an award for that song to a white oppressor!
WHAT!
Are you effin serious?
That’s violence against me and people of non, trans, multi immigracial peoples.
OK, whatever karen.
Bob, just give it to her so she’ll shut up and quit making my head hurt.
Yup. It also just sounded like Chapman’s version in a different key. He added nothing to the song. Think about what Johnny Cash did to “Hurt” or Whitney did to “I will always love you,” and Luke’s miss is glaring.
He did it better than she did. And yes, “You still ain’t got a job. So I work in a market as a checkout girl” is ridiculous.
As does the actual song from 35 years ago. Monochromatic in tone, beat and nearly mumbled lyrics. Musical criticism that would apply to any “color” singer songwriter. Was said about John Fogerty and Creedence.
Always amusing that a welfare student given an education at hitlery’s alma mater Wellesley College— could market themselves to the guilty wealthy. Fast car indeed.
Also her rendition of Gimme One Reason to Stay Here.
^^^^^^^^^^^
A much, much better song.
I guess next year they can re do, “My name is Lucas”—that is if we are remaking shitty songs from my youth.
Don’t diss Suzanne Vega.
The duet she did with The Smithereens, “In A Lonely Place” is fantastic.
Kind of sad that Country music is now about finding a rock song to do a cover of. Maybe they will do a DIO song next.
In any case the original of this song was much better. Now it is just another whiny country voice. The only good thing is that Tracy is getting some recognition for a great song.
Tom Petty said it best, “Bad Rock With A Fiddle”.
“The only good thing is that Tracy is getting some recognition for a great song.”
And Tracy is getting the money.
Very good. You gave two excellent examples of taking a cover way past the original. I’ll add two, Jimi’s “All Along The Watchtower” and Manford Manns
“Blinded by the Light”.
“Good cover but he didn’t adjust the genders and it sounds ridiculous.”
That may have been Chapman’s call.
Use my song, but use it word for word, and by the way, make sure you spell my name correctly on the checks.
I can’t listen to the new version....Tracy did it perfectly and there was no improving on it.....
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