It’s a pretty well-known trick for making a successful cover version – take an up-tempo song and slow it down.
Still, Coldplay makes the old trick work by taking the Beastie Boys’ first and arguably best-known hit, the party anthem “Fight For Your Right (To Party)” and slowing it down to a near funeral dirge in tribute to the recently deceased group member, Adam “MCA” Yauch.
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[…] another example of the “slow an up-tempo song down to make it new” music trick – this time, by Noel Gallagher on his current tour with his new band, The […]
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