We're Not Trying to Beat You...We're Not Trying to Be You...We're Just Showing Our Love for You (1)

You know what I hate? I hate people that bitch about movie remakes and cover songs. What the hell are wrong with these people. They act like these redo(s) - evidently there isn't a plural form of redo - are those little fish that swim up their urethra and take all the fun out of having genitalia. I mean mention one word of somebody remaking somebody else's "art" and they go into all kinds of hissy fits complaining that these folks are raping their childhoods. As if the very existence of the new project will erase any worth - if any - the old material by had just being - well - what it is. It's fucking ridiculous, sorry.

Well - I'm here to honor the cover song and I'm doing it here. My first foray into this is a little gem I found the other day from one of my favorite groups called The Flaming Lips. They aren't alone in this raping of childhood, though. They have accomplices in the form of the band Stardeath and White Dwarfs - who are - in fact - one band despite the "and' up in there.

The song? Borderline by Madonna. And yes, it is the rare song that kicks the original's ass. If you don't like my opinion you can go read another post, blog, or go for a swim - I don't care.



Borderline

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