{"id":19852,"date":"2018-05-21T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=19852"},"modified":"2018-05-21T09:09:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T14:09:06","slug":"transgenre-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/21\/transgenre-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Transgenre Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Baruth <a href=\"http:\/\/jackbaruth.com\/?p=9980\" target=\"_new\">led me<\/a> to my newest musical obsession: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLEEX8g2XtzsGv61U11HpoWt5JP18NHeve\" target=\"_new\">Leo Moracchioli&#8217;s metal covers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Baruth posted this cover of &#8220;Sultans of Swing&#8221; and talked about it at length on his blog, especially the payment scheme for using the material&#8211;or not:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x0RV0kgdqJU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m gonna tuck the rest of the post below the fold because it&#8217;s got a pile of embeds, and I don&#8217;t want to slow your browsing experience down if you&#8217;re just browsing.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m particularly taken with the cover of &#8220;Let It Go&#8221; from <em>Frozen<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/so49WpSj9bo\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It proves that everything sounds better in metal.<\/p>\n<p>Leo Moracchioli does metal versions of children&#8217;s songs, older rock songs, and contemporary pop hits.  Which are sometimes almost palatable in metal form.<\/p>\n<p>I bought a metric ton of his stuff on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/search\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_sr_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;keywords=leo moracchioli&#038;index=aps&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;linkId=205166404354d996d9765dd6b5e01580\">Amazon<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;l=ur2&#038;o=1&#038;camp=1789\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> and burned it to CD so we could listen to it in the car whilst traveling hither and yon.  And yon and hither because sometimes we run errands in a different order.  I thought my oldest son especially would like it, and he did, but on first listening he took some offense to songs he likes in their originial form, such as &#8220;Stressed Out&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jG01a41WHzk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s just making fun of the song,&#8221; my beautiful wife said to soothe my moody young pop aficianado&#8217;s feelings.<\/p>\n<p>But I disagree.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, I know Richard Cheese has been doing a schtick remaking songs into lounge\/swing things for decades, but he&#8217;s a character from a radio show that struck Internet amusement success with the gag back in the day:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fn40B9ugcrs\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But later bands that follow the path of rearranging hits into different genres, like Postmodern Jukebox converts songs to swing and Leo reimagining songs as metal, I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re making fun of either the music or the genre.  Instead, they&#8217;re having a little fun with it, which is something different than mocking either the music or the genre.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I&#8217;m just being defensive about my favorite musical genres, jazz and heavy metal.<\/p>\n<p>But the same songs seem to be very popular when transmuting pop into gold:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><center><b>Postmodern Jukebox<\/b><\/center><\/td>\n<td><center><b>Leo Morichiolli<\/b><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A318dxT7fl0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/td>\n<td align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jABgNScL1To\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><center>&#8220;Creep&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wAQ7autd61g\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/td>\n<td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LUtg-utg2XU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/td>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><center>&#8220;The Final Countdown&#8221;<\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VBmCJEehYtU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/td>\n<td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/shRLgMADMB0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/td>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><center>&#8220;Royals&#8221;<\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xiDKLltU118\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/td>\n<td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4e4bAsQ4r30\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/td>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><center>&#8220;Zombie&#8221;<\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iyTTX6Wlf1Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/td>\n<td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I4p4afTAH9Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/td>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><center>&#8220;All About That Bass&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>They&#8217;re having fun with the music here, but not really making a parody <em>per se<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Contrast this with Springfield&#8217;s own country singer\/songwriter Liz Moriondo singing &#8220;All About That Bass&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/reLu-eLlzco\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That is a parody.<\/p>\n<p>Also, compare to the Bad Wolves singing &#8220;Zombie&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9XaS93WMRQQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a serious metal song, and it&#8217;s getting a lot of earnest airplay here in Springfield.<\/p>\n<p>So what was my point?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah.  Taking a song and adapting it to a different musical style?  Not making fun of.<\/p>\n<p>And in the case of modern pop music, it often makes it better.  Especially when it&#8217;s made metal.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, son.<\/p>\n<p>(Note that Friar also posted about transgenre music <a href=\"https:\/\/friarsfires.blogspot.com\/2018\/05\/why-internet-exists.html\" target=\"_new\">yesterday<\/a>, which is when I wrote this post, too.  Great minds think alike, and so do ours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Baruth led me to my newest musical obsession: Leo Moracchioli&#8217;s metal covers. 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