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Update: Oops, I’ll Post It Again

March 13, 2011 | Comment

Once again, a cover song I’ve covered previously in my Got You Covered series has surfaced in video format on YouTube.1 This one’s a high quality, professionally shot piece of film, too (as opposed to a cell-phone-in-the-audience product,2 like most concert videos on YouTube). Here’s Richard Thompson channeling his inner Britney Spears — or not:


Those craving more can download the MP3 (and check out plenty more of his stuff) at the Richard Thompson store on Amazon, or at eMusic. His home page is called BeesWeb and is located at www.richardthompson-music.com. Like any responsible recording artist today, he also has fan pages on Facebook and MySpace.3


Got You Covered: “Oops! …I Did It Again”

March 20, 2010 | Permalink

I know. I thought it too: “Really? That song?” I’m sure there are plenty of you out there who have thought you’d be perfectly content to never hear it again. On the other hand, there may be some who either can’t recall or somehow escaped hearing Britney Spears’ original rendition. So if you’re curious, here’s a taste.

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Photo: Flickr/Bryan Ledgard

But check it out — this synthetic, plasticized swan is improbably re-shaped into an ugly-in-a-good-way duckling by the British folk-rock journeyman Richard Thompson. His vocal approach — aggressive, and more than a little bitter — turns kittenish teen-pop into a sardonic challenge. To cap it off, Thompson bends the song to his will with his virtuosic guitar interludes, at one point even shifting it temporarily into 6/8 time. All in all, it’s been enough to banish the Britney Spears version from my mind’s ear… but I don’t purport to predict its effect on others. Judge for yourselves: Read the rest of this entry »