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Cooltoplady
Any body have that pic were she wets her paints on stage? Class act...
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Ruediger
Wearing a push up bra and showing lots of ass is not substitute for the extremely awful way she "sings".
Some people should be forbidden to cover famous songs...
Ruediger
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MileHigh
Farkin bloody arful mate.
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Doxa
I'll agree with the folks here, that's simply awful...
It is true that many Stones rockers are pretty hard to cover, but I think "Start Me Up" particularly is almost a mission possible to do by sounding convincing. I mean, with things like "Jumpin' Jack Flash" or "Satisfaction" or "Brown Sugar" surely it is hard to swing like the Stones, but usually, since the songs elementarily are just so damn good, even the versions still sound rather good, if one manages to hit a bit to the right direction.
But "Start Me Up" is altogether such an odd and terrible case that trying to 'rock' in a Stonesian way, as Fergie and his band does there, without sounding like a parody, like windmelody mentioned. The song as a song is such a raw Stonesian deal, so plain simple and trusting probably more than any other song ever on the idiosyncratic sound of the band (and of their different members). I mean, not just Jagger's shouting vocals/lyrics, but the way the whole band fools around around the signature keithrichardsian Open G riff. I think the Stones themselves treated the song initially as a some kind of joke or a self-parody, them just fooling around with their trademark things, with no much 'thought' (just look at the video of it to get it...). But as is sometimes with this band, the stars just happened to be in a right order and the result was simply irrestible and instant classic (though it took some years to relaese it..).
But I also think that even for them, "Start Me Up" was a kind 'once in a life time' deal, and if they even try to copy its basic receipt they will not success easily again. I think they have since then tried to re-create a song based solely on their their trademark sound (probably even too many times), but not with such inspired and despite being so shamessly pastishe-like in many ways, still authentic and original-sounding results. My two-cent theory is that they succeeded with "Start Me Up" back then, because still at the time trying to sound like the Stones wasn't any creative priority for them, but more like a thing to avoid (the song sounds like born very spontaniusly). For that reason, I partly also think that they left it out of SOME GIRLS, because with that album they wanted to sound more contemporary and and re-invented.
I would go far as to claim that "Start Me Up" is more than any song of theirs today a 'signature song' - or, if one likes, a text book example - of the Rolling Stones sound. And the text book should also add a warning: 'don't even think to try this at home...'
But still, probably one could do a bit better than what Fergie and her band does here... She probably tries to trick her way through, but c'mon, every damn singer would be in a damn trouble in getting something sensible out of that 'melody' and lyrics... Only one gets away with it...
- Doxa