I continue to be impressed by just how good Beyoncé’s surprise album is.
It’s easily the best thing she’s ever done, and has only gotten better with repeated listens.
It’s almost as if she was holding back, releasing inconsistent, bland albums as a set-up for the industry-rattling detonation of this thing.
Or maybe she’s just getting better at her day job.
Earlier today I was waiting to pick up one of my daughters from soccer practice, while her sister sat next to me in the car.
Elliott Smith’s ‘The Biggest Lie‘ came up on my stereo (I have my music library playing on random, making every trip I take basically Random Weekends on steroids).
That’s always been one of my favorite Smith tunes, but it hit me harder than usual this time.
‘Tell Me’ was the first song co-written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
At the time they were making an ok living recording covers of R&B songs, but their management knew the real money was in publishing. So the boys reluctantly kicked off what would become one of the most prolific and celebrated songwriting partnerships in music history.
Wrapping up my week of ‘Let it Go’ covers is a version performed on four violins and a piano, all by the same person (though obviously not recorded at the same time — that would be a hell of a trick).
Of the thousands of YouTube cover versions of ‘Let it Go,’ this one seems to have won the prize with more than 3 million views and counting.
Caleb Hyles is an Auburn senior who sings lead vocals for a heavy metal band when he isn’t channeling Idina Menzel on Oscar-nominated Disney songs. I bet he’s really good at that, too.
