{"id":1625,"date":"2022-10-20T17:56:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T21:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2022-10-20T17:58:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T21:58:44","slug":"the-heart-of-a-lion-and-the-wings-of-a-bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2022\/10\/20\/the-heart-of-a-lion-and-the-wings-of-a-bat\/","title":{"rendered":"The heart of a lion and the wings of a bat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Limozeen\u2019s so-called cover of \u201cWe Don\u2019t Really Even Care About You\u201d takes disaffected, lo-fi \u201890s indie rock and belts it out in the style of an \u201880s hair metal band\u2014as if Poison were to cover Pavement.<\/p><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/aestheticsforbirds.com\/2022\/10\/20\/when-can-a-band-cover-their-own-song\/\">at Aesthetics for Birds<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Back in the summer of 2014, I wrote an outline for a paper that would have been titled &#8220;The heart of a lion and the wings of a bat: How to philosophically reflect on cover songs.&#8221; The central philosophical example of that paper would have been a 2007 split single featuring Limozeen and sloshy. I didn&#8217;t actually write that paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My recent book on the philosophy of cover songs begins with a Twitter thread about They Might Be Giant&#8217;s cover of &#8220;Istanbul (Not Constantinople).&#8221; Through many drafts, that was paired with the example of R.E.M.&#8217;s &#8220;Superman&#8221;\u2014 another cover that many people do not know is a cover. In the end, I decided that one example was enough of a hook. &#8220;Superman&#8221; is not discussed in the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both of these omissions are corrected in <a href=\"https:\/\/aestheticsforbirds.com\/2022\/10\/20\/when-can-a-band-cover-their-own-song\/\">a post I wrote at Aesthetics for Birds<\/a>. It was nice to have the chance to think through both examples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Limozeen\u2019s so-called cover of \u201cWe Don\u2019t Really Even Care About You\u201d takes disaffected, lo-fi \u201890s indie rock and belts it out in the style of an \u201880s hair metal band\u2014as if Poison were to cover Pavement. at Aesthetics for Birds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33,9],"tags":[35,16],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-dump","category-philosophy","tag-covers","tag-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PjAo-qd","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1634,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions\/1634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}