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I Try by Macy Gray

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Fr bro I seen the other live performances and it doesn’t sound like the original song this one is really accurate

Somewhere in KZbin, exists a live version of 505 from the 2006-2007, where Alex sings his soul off. Probably was taken down. I remember seeing it like 3 years ago, but I haven't been able to find it recently

. Like or hate Swift, she read all the stuff about her (most made up) and thought "Hey... that woman's super interesting, let's write about her". If the lyrics were not taken seriously unless a husky-voiced man sung them it's because after all, people think Swift is not exactly walking on the wild side. A guy sings it in Velvet Underground feels and suddenly "cause we're young and we're reckless we'll take it way too far. Will it leave you breathless or with a nasty scar?" sounds punk and powerful... So the lyrics must have been good to begin with. If they were unbelievable at first it's because after all, people don't believe that of Swift. But it's fun that someone so... unpunk wrote lyrics that go with the Velvet Underground. If it's any consolation, it's probably unconscious bias. Marianne Faithful said she wrote the lyrics to Sister morphine, but companies did not want her to sing it. Probably because she looked angelic. So it was given to Jagger and Richards. It might well be that unconsciously, blonde and blue eyed white women do not sound punk because we don't think them capable of walking on the wild side. Tell that to Faithfull... So, nice that you have noticed. Congratulations to you, not everybody does. I guess we can't avoid unconscious biases, but being aware of them makes us... well, more aware, I guess.

@@isabelguzmanmiranda5025 yea I definitely have some unconscious biases around what “deep” music sounds like and around Swift’s music specifically. But if I had to self diagnose, I think it has less to do with gender and more to do with instrumentation and delivery. I mean, Nico sang with the Velvet Underground on their first album and it was great. I’ve been trying to unlearn it, but naturally, If I hear some jangly guitars, a trashy drum kit, and some talky vocals, my brain goes “oh yea they’re spittin’ some facts.” And I have thought about how most of the artists I listen to tend to be men (a fact that does make me feel a little odd) and why that is and really it’s impossible to say for sure, but I tend to think that it is more that men tend to be more common in genres I prefer rather than I prefer genres because they are sung by men. But also I don’t know how much that matters since it ends up with the same outcome. Interesting fact about Faithful. I had no idea. “As tears go by” is a banger

@@vraisairs9201 I get the disliking more the poppy instrumentation and delivery than the gender stuff. Tay's songs in a Janis Joplin style would rock SO hard.