Macy Gray needs to shut the fuck up. Every goddamn time I see that Sony Walkman commercial where’s she’s doing her cover of Aerosmith’s “Walk This Way”, I become filled with rage and hatred. Seriously, was there a need for her Janis-Joplin-copying self to remake a song that’s already been more famously covered? Hell, there are quite a few songs that I’d like to hear covered that nobody’s ever touched. A punk rock cover of John Cougar Mellencamp’s “Authority Song” is high on my wish list of things that I believe would be absolutely cool.
Really, after a major artist such as Run-DMC covers a song and that version becomes amazingly famous, what the fuck is the point of anyone else ever covering that song? All that’s going to happen is that your version will inevitably be compared to both the original and the famous cover.
And in this case, the comparison has been made, and Ms. Gray has been found lacking. Seriously, Macy, go back and see if they’ll let you have a little guest cameo in the next Spider-Man movie. Your new version is about as necessary as the recent Sammy Hagar best-of cd. Nobody wants to hear it, yet we’re still subjected to it every day on tv by people who, for some reason, think we as viewers can’t live without it.