“Heartbeats”
So last night I wrote a little something on “Heartbeats” on Tuneage and in my blurb I call José González’s cover of the song “insipid”, which is a hedge because his version is actually very very bad as he flattens out all of the emotional nuance and richness of Karin’s performance for a sappy, anhedonic acoustic rendition. I mean, you don’t even get the sense that he’s conflicted about having the best night ever!
But I digress, and I know that a lot of people really like that version, which is why I made such a disarmed hedge—acoustic covers are insipid by definition, right?—but as fate would have it, my run of the mill Tuesday-morning post turned out to coincide with a mention on Tumblr Tuesday (btw, yay!), which makes today basically the biggest day ever for the generally NPOV site, a day in which one might like to avoid hedged criticisms so one does not scare off more sensitive readers! I shudder to think of the :( I don’t like this site comments I might have inspired.
I don’t know. I tend to get nervous when I think about how incredibly large the Tuneage readership is.
