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Running Up That Hill covered by Placebo.
The original is bland eighties pop. The cover is deeply unsettling in all the ways Placebo are so fucking good at.
You can apply a lot of adjectives to Kate Bush, but I've never heard her described as bland before. That's quite a take.
I'm learning Running Up That Hill right now to perform, and "bland" has to be as close to "objectively" incorrect as anything musical can be. The sound is so novel and unique.
The amount of time and effort and research and diving into deep synth menus to recreate that sound is kinda insane.
Start with a cello sample. Set the pitch envelope to start with a lower pitch, then quickly slide up to the actual note. Cut off the amp envelope fairly quickly. Make both of those happen slower when lower keys are played. Then delay in some super specific way I still don't quite understand, and reverb too.
Not to mention the structure of the song is difficult as hell (for me at least) to memorize, it's not quite typical verse chorus back and forth
I can understand not liking it, but calling it bland is pretty wild to me
They said the original is bland, not your cover.
I was talking about the original. Unless you're somehow aware of some recording of me performing a song I have no memory of having ever covered, which would certainly be interesting
You're talking about recreating the song
I'm talking about how the original song was made and how complicated the sound was, through a frame of recreating it, in a post about cover songs.
When discussing how bland a song sounds, the process of creating it is completely irrelevant. All that matters is how the end product sounds. It doesn't matter if a lot of effort went into designing the sound. If it's bland, it's bland.