| Cover Music Review |
| Welcome back to another exciting review of musical cover songs! This week, we take a look at a very popular song as sung by a very unknown artist. Regardless, this track is quite easy to find through most mp3 fileshare networks. Evil Adam - Genie In A Bottle In preparation for this week's review, I decided to download the original song by Christina Aguilera (with due reluctance and hesitation), and listened to about half of it before stopping it dead in its tracks and deleting the file from my hard drive. It's bad enough that the song is bland and boring, but does it really have to stretch on as long as it does? She sounds like she's singing in slow motion; in fact, the entire chorus sounds like the words are being pushed out amidst a prolonged yawn. Now, call me biased, call me one-sided, call me prejudiced, but I stick by my word - Evil Adam's rendition of Genie In A Bottle works in all the ways that the Aguilera original does not. The lyrics are kept identical, but the song is repackaged as a heavy metal effort that's decent, though standard heavy metal fare, but is a definite improvement over Aguilera's version. Now, there is probably a very clear bias taking place here, since I am a fan of heavy metal, and believe that teen queen sensations (along with boybands) should be dumped on an island somewhere in the middle of a volcano. And maybe a song that reeks of "I'm young and in love - please fuck me" might be more to your tastes, in which case you'd prefer the original, but as for myself, I much prefer the insincere sounds of a guy who's singing out of spite to the original rather than an emotional investment into a corporate-oriented teen love ballad. Evil Adam's "Genie In A Bottle" is a definite recommendation to wash out the ear rot that comes from exposure to the original. Cover Rating: ***1/2 Original Song Rating: * |