I had heard, once, long ago, that Nami Tamaki had performed a CORE OF SOUL song for her initial audition. I Googled this and found nothing, so I let it drop for a while.<\/p>\n
This was, of course, before YouTube got as big as it is now.<\/p>\n
Mesdames et messieurs, je vous pr\u00e9sente:
\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tRnn1zqAFCQ<\/p>\n
Sarah, tell me that it’s okay for me to keep wincing during this thing. Tell me I’m not doing it just because I’m a horribly loyal COS fan (still). Tell me it’s not just because I don’t like Nami Tamaki very much! (Okay, so I know I can’t do better, but still<\/em>…)<\/p>\n As you might be able to tell, I think the original is much, much better. I think part of it is the piano–some songs just aren’t piano-driven, and sound awful when transposed there. I think the unplugged version of “FULL MOON PRAYER” on One Day, One Love, One Life!<\/cite> is still guitar-driven. I think it’s guitar, anyway. Actually, now that I think about it, the thing I’m most reminded of is Hikaru Utada’s cover of “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”, another piano-accompanied cover. ACTUALLY, I think the opening chords are the same.<\/p>\n (Sarah, I’m starting to see your point about pop songs all having the same chords.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I had heard, once, long ago, that Nami Tamaki had performed a CORE OF SOUL song for her initial audition. I Googled this and found nothing, so I let it drop for a while. This was, of course, before YouTube got as big as it is now. Mesdames et messieurs, je vous pr\u00e9sente: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tRnn1zqAFCQ Sarah, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[46,22],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-core-of-soul","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":948,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}It could be banjo, for all I know. Except I bought the CD, and have the liner notes.<\/del> Okay, no, it is guitar. There’s a hint of piano in the background but it is a guitar song.<\/p>\n