Jay Z's wonderwall

[eebs]

If it ain't broke don't fix it. If you start to break it then people aren't going to go. I'm sorry, but Jay-Z? No chance. Glastonbury has a tradition of guitar music and even when they throw the odd curve ball in on a Sunday night you go 'Kylie Minogue?' I don't know about it. But I'm not having hip-hop at Glastonbury. It's wrong

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL2GXQpsse8[/youtube]



glastonbury's about trying new things, new experiences, not guitar music you manc twat.

[Phyllis]

he used a backing track. then he yelled in the microphone. then fucked up the lyrics.

was he trying to ruin the song or what?

[mere1975]

Is that how he started his set? Great response to old Noel!

- Mere "Jay-Z's got a sense of humor" 1975

[eebs]

yeah, that was the start of the set.

[monet2u]

well, at least the sing-along brits saved the song. he should have just started the song like that and then kicked it up to some sort ot rap or something...now that would have been pretty cool.

[Phyllis]

well, at least the sing-along brits saved the song. he should have just started the song like that and then kicked it up to some sort ot rap or something...now that would have been pretty cool.

it would've been way cooler if he didn't suck at life.

[mere1975]

I don't think he was actually trying to really sing it well. . . he was just singing the big Oasis song since the Oasis singer said the festival shouldn't feature a rapper. . . tongue in cheek. . .

Right?

- Mere "Captain Obvious" 1975

[Jan]

well, at least the sing-along brits saved the song. he should have just started the song like that and then kicked it up to some sort ot rap or something...now that would have been pretty cool.

it would've been way cooler if he didn't suck at life.

I'd say that Jay Z is doing pretty well for himself, despite sucking at life.

[Phyllis]

sorry did i say suck at life
i meant that he is the most awesome human being ever

[Dalya]

How can you mess up the lyrics to wonderwall if you were alive in the 90s? It takes a real impressive learning disability and/or crack habit to achieve that. Well done.

p.s. I can't stand gallagher either though. survey says: they're both dumb.

p.p.s. I saw Jay-Z on Charlie Rose and it was hilarious. I love when Charlie is out of his comfort zone, talking about "drive-bys", etc. He's a major honkey.

[monet2u]

and just to level the playing field. Oasis aren't anything (in my mind) but snot nosed jerks....Liam loves a track suit and to sport some serious tude; noel looks like the sort to headbutt you at the pub if you look at him wrong. hmmmm hooligans sounds about right. Neither jay z nor oasis win points in my book tbh. again, if jay z had of kicked the song into a killer rap or something more interesting I think it would have been pretty good, i bet the bratty duo would have liked it too.

[Irock]

if jay z had of kicked the song into a killer rap or something more interesting I think it would have been pretty good, i bet the bratty duo would have liked it too.

I totally agree. It would have been awesome, and actually showed that he was talented if he'd reinterpreted the song. As it is, he just came off petulant. And it doesn't help his case that this was the first time sine '92 that the festival didn't sell out.

[Dalya]

I also feel like it would be really easy to make that song more rap-like instead of suffering through his singing voice. It has a really constant rhythm. In fact, I am rapping it right now. Jay-Z coulda done something cool with it. Like... crap what was the police song that someone covered when Biggie died? *blank*

Straight covers are good when its an homage to another artist/song. Like someone with a great or distinctive voice singing a song that is inside their comfort zone (Jeff Buckley singing Nina Simone). If you're covering a "bad" song, or a song way outside of your normal sound, you have to change it and make it your own - like Sonic Youth doing Superstar. Otherwise it just sounds... like the clip above. Bad and awkward.

Boo, jay-Z! you could have been a star!

[ifihadahifi]

I think it's awesome just as is.

Busting into rap would have predictable and boring. This, this was the perfect eff you.

[katie]

Like... crap what was the police song that someone covered when Biggie died? *blank*

'i'll be watching you" became "i'll be missing you."