{"id":1722,"date":"2009-05-19T18:00:32","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T18:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1722"},"modified":"2009-05-19T18:00:32","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T18:00:32","slug":"might_as_well_jump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/19\/might_as_well_jump\/","title":{"rendered":"Might As Well Jump"},"content":{"rendered":"

I encountered the following over at Scalzi’s Whatever<\/a> and thought it was pretty cool. FYI, there’s no actual video here, only music played over a still image:<\/p>\n

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I normally don’t care for cover versions of songs I consider personal landmarks — which “Jump” definitely is for me; it’s an instant time portal back to one particular summer — for much the same reason that I resist movie remakes: I like what I like and, with few exceptions, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with still listening to or watching favorite older media. “Old” doesn’t equal “bad,” in my opinion. That said, a cover that’s well-done and drastically different from the original can sometimes make something that’s become intimately familiar seem exciting and fresh again. If nothing else in this case, I can finally understand all the lyrics that I’ve never managed to decipher in 25 years of listening to David Lee Roth’s slurry delivery.<\/p>\n

Incidentally and for whatever it’s worth (not much, probably), I was really annoyed with the commenters over at the Whatever. One guy said “I didn\u2019t think it was possible to make that song listenable,” and there were several other remarks along the lines of “lame 80s song,” “cheesy 80s song,” etc. I know I’m in the terminally unhip minority for continuing to enjoy the stuff I liked as a kid, but I just don’t understand where this kind of attitude comes from. Why does music that was once immensely popular have to be declared lame after a few years? Is it a backlash thing? Or snobby hipsters who can’t handle the idea of something appealing to a mass audience? Or is just the Damn Kids showing zero tolerance for anything that came out before they had breakfast yesterday?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I encountered the following over at Scalzi’s Whatever and thought it was pretty cool. FYI, there’s no actual video here, only music played over a still image: I normally don’t care for cover versions of songs I consider personal landmarks — which “Jump” definitely is for me; it’s an instant time portal back to one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-and-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}