And that lack of emotional range, lack of emotional expression, is a constant theme of White culture: “discomfort with emotion and feelings” being a key facet of our organizations built in a White Supremacist culture.īirdy’s version of “Skinny Love” does to “Skinny Love” what White girls in vests, leggings, and Uggs did to pumpkin spice. It’s at this moment (“my my my”) in the song that he switches from falsetto to his deeper voice, and moments later, switching back to a scratching howl for “and I told you to be…”.īirdy’s version has none of these vocal dynamics. I think it has to do with Vernon’s “my my my” in “Skinny Love”. Why do some of these cover songs make me so angry? Scathingly unnecessary, a live-action Mulan of a cover song. That’s how bad the Birdy version of “Skinny Love” is. I by and large chose to focus on positive things to write about. I think there’s enough criticism in the world.

Vernon is already painfully soulful, he’s already stripped the song down to its bare essentials, and most importantly, he gives the song enough dynamism to make the minimal amount of instruments on the track a pitch perfect decision, not a lazy, no-better-ideas fall back.īirdy says, “fuck all that” and just plunks clumsy hands on basic keys. Everything else she brings to the song is completely unnecessary. Justin Vernon, on “Skinny Love” did everything that “Skinny Love” is supposed to do.īirdy, of all my Rules to a Good Cover, only happens to be a different gender than Vernon.

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