Tarja Covers Alice Cooper

[ALowerDeep]

I adore Tarja but this is truly awful!
Tarja covers Poison by Alice Cooper

 

[BlackRoseMetalHeart]

It's just alright, IMO. I'd rather listen to the original. Maybe I'll feel differently once I can hear the whole track, but the thing I think I always like about this song was Cooper's rough vocals.

 

[PatrickHoyt]

yeah...definitely could be a lot better.

Can we hear Anette do that now? :Smug: Anette is awesome. *droooool*

 

[BlackRoseMetalHeart]

Can we hear Anette do that now? :Smug:

I hesitated saying it, but I was thinking the same thing.

 

[Cheiron]

Anette might just yodel through it all.

Tarja sings it fine. Its a cover that doesn't try to mimick the original, especially in singing style. So it comes down to if you like the song that way, and I think its fine.

 

[crazycamera]

Why did she cover that!! That song doesn't really fit her voice. Thus, it sounds bad!!

 

[yardleybates]

I thought it sounded kind of cool.

 

[shaq]

absolutely terrible cover of an awesome song

 

[Magius]

I rarely like covers. I'm used to the origional version, so covers always sound off to me.

 

[BlackRoseMetalHeart]

Anette might just yodel through it all.

Better than hooting like an owl through it all.

Why did she cover that!! That song doesn't really fit her voice. Thus, it sounds bad!!

I also though that the style they re-did it in doesn't fit the song, IMO. It sound like a mix of something pop you might hear at a dance club with an opera. I understand that operatic style is just Tarja's singing style, but the mix of the two still sound weird to me in this instance.

 

[PatrickHoyt]

I don't think any Alice Cooper song would sound good covered in Operatic style vocals, thats the only reason I mentioned Anette. Any girl singer (not just Anette) with a more pop genre vocal style could make an Alice Cooper song have an original twist, and it would sound way more appealing than what I just heard.

and for the record I do admire Tarja's vocal strengths, but its not something I enjoy hearing daily. Tarja's voice is one of those "I feel like hearing something like that today" voices, but its a great voice none the less.

 

[Paganistic]

Im not sure if I would call it awful but it was... different. Towards the end it started to grow on me. I am really curious of what the entire song sounds like. It was an odd choice for a song to cover though.

 

[Kenneth R.]

I wonder if imagining Anette doing it is worse than hearing Tarja ruin it. Somewhere Alice Cooper is giggling about this between radio commentary spots.

 

[Perditions Ghost]

It's just alright, IMO. I'd rather listen to the original. Maybe I'll feel differently once I can hear the whole track, but the thing I think I always like about this song was Cooper's rough vocals.

+1

 

[Diamond45]

Why? For the sake of God.. WHY?

Leave well enough alone!

The original wasn't all that great... this version doesn't help it any

 

[Metaldrumz]

Thanks for reminding me why I was never a Nightwish fan until now.

 

[OdinsCourt]

uke:

 

[DreamNeonBlack]

Horrid, terrible and retarded.

 

[TheWhisper]

Why? For the sake of God.. WHY?

Leave well enough alone!

The original wasn't all that great... this version doesn't help it any

was
Thatwas exactly my thoughts. Huge Coop fan, but never big fan of this song...that however was, um

 

[lady_space]

You have here IMO the thing that ruins a lot of this style music for me: the vocals have little to nothing to do with the music to my ears... they sound "laid on top" and distract from anything else going on. What that is in technical terms, you'd have to ask someone else, and I realize the answer may well be "that means Shaye can't hear for shit." :b

Not terrible, but merely... ehhh.

Shaye