I'm a pretty musical guy. I enjoy listening to bands that mess with time signatures. But for some reason, I can't wrap my mind around the odd timing of this song. If someone can explain it to me I'd love to be enlightened.
I don't blame BOOBOO STEWART for messing with my mind. The sixteen-year-old, singer/dancer/actor, ex-T-Squad member, Disney Channel star is only singing what the producer of DISNEYMANIA 7
tells him to sing. The real problem is whoever arranged this piece. I'm all for making a unique cover, but I don't understand this one at all. And if I can't understand it, I'm sure that the average preteen that buys this album won't understand it either.But maybe I'm missing something obvious.
3 comments:
yeah I don't really understand this cover either. I'm sure it was supposed to be cool but it just sounds like a mess.
Oh no! Another pop-rock cover that sounds so squeaky clean it hurts.
Reminds me of Miley Cirus' terrible take on the Ponyo on the Cliff theme.
This track is just dire, in my view... and it is not just you that detest this musical thing of a mess.
Time signature - for the most part, it's just 4/4. I think you're being thrown off because the original used a couple common Caribbean attributes that this does not:
1) swing
2) resting the first beat of every measure (e.g. "rest" you dream about going up there "rest" but that is a big mistake...)
This version is straight ahead, and overemphasizes downbeats. The phrases don't end well, so they have to switch to the Caribbean syncopation at the end of certain phrases to make up time. Sometimes they just add a quarter note in there too, but that doesn't follow much pattern. Hope that helps!
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