Cuenta conmigo

La de hoy va con bis y propina, para que no os quejéis. Se trata de el gran tema de Ben E. King "Stand by me". Esta canción adaptada de un tema gospel de 1955 interpretado por The Staples Singers, fue incluida en la banda sonora de la película Cuenta conmigo, basada en una novela del maestro del suspense y el terror Stephen King, a su vez basada en algunas aventurillas que tuvo el autor durante su infancia.

El tema "plagiador" es en este caso de un tal Sean Kingston y se llama "Beautiful girls". Como propina os dejo un par de versiones del tema original por el "Beatle pacifista" y por nuestros viejos conocidos los Fugees. La de Lennon fue una versión que hizo para el álbum "Rock 'n' Roll", publicado en 1975, apenas unas semanas antes de declarar su alejamiento del mundo de la música para dedicar en exclusiva su tiempo al recién nacido Sean Lennon. ¡A disfrutarlos!

Ben E. King - Stand by me

When the night has come, and the land is dark
And the moon is the only light we will see
No, I won't be afraid, oh, I won't be afraid
Just as long as you stand, stand by me
So darlin', darlin' stand by me
Oh stand by me
Oh stand, stand by me, stand by me

If the sky that we look upon should tumble and fall
Or the mountain should crumble to the sea
I won't cry, I won't cry, no, I won't shed a tear
Just as long as you stand, stand by me
And darlin', darlin' stand by me
Oh stand by me
Whoa stand now, stand by me, stand by me

And darlin', darlin' stand by me
Oh stand by me
Oh stand now, stand by me, stand by me

If the sky that we look upon should tumble and fall
Or the mountain should crumble to the sea
I won't cry, I won't cry, no, I won't shed a tear
Just as long as you stand, stand by me
And darlin', darlin' stand by me
Oh stand by me
Whoa stand now, stand by me, stand by me
So darlin', darlin' stand by me
Oh stand by me
Oh stand now, stand by me, stand by me
Whenever you're in trouble won't you stand by me
Oh stand by me
Whoa stand now, oh stand, stand by me...

El vídeo del gran clásico...

Sean Kingston - Beautiful girls

Your way too beautiful girl
That's why it'll never work
You had me suicidal, suicidal
When you say it's over
Damn all these beautiful girls
They only wanna do your dirt
They'll have you suicidal, suicidal
When they say it's over

JR! Sean Kingston!

[Estribillo]

See it started at the park
Used to chill after dark
Oh, when you took my heart
That's when we fell apart
Cause we both thought
That love lasts forever (lasts forever)
They say we're too young
To get ourselves sprung
Oh we didn't care
We made it very clear
And they also said
That we couldn't last together (last together)

See it's very divine girl
You're a one of a kind
But you mash up my mind
You walked get declined
Oh Lord...
My baby is driving me crazy

[Estribillo]

It was back in '99
Watchin' movies all the time
Oh when I went away
For doin' my first crime
And I never thought
That we was gonna see each other (see each other)
And then I came out
Mami moved me down South
Oh I'm with my girl
Who I thought was my world
It came out to be
That she wasn't the girl for me (girl for me)

See it's very divine girl
You're a one of a kind
But you mash up my mind
You walked get declined
Oh Lord...
My baby is driving me crazy

[Estribillo]

Now we're fussin'
And now we're fightin'
Please tell me why
I'm feelin' slighting
And I don't know
How to make it better (make it better)
You're datin' other guys
You're tellin' me lies
Oh I can't believe
What I'm seein' with my eyes
I'm losin' my mind
And I don't think it's clever (think it's clever)

You're way too beautiful girl
That's why it'll never work
You'll have me suicidal, suicidal...

El vídeo que por alguna razón no dejan ponerlo aquí como los demás, lo podéis ver en este lugar.

Por aquí os dejo el vídeo de John Lennon...


... y aquí teneis el de los Fugees.

Esto me suena...

Seguimos con otro tema bastante reciente de la bien querida y bien odiada cantante Christina Aguilera. Su título es "Oh mother" y trata, como podréis leer más adelante, de la escabrosa relación entre la madre de Christina y su marido. Este single contiene elementos de la canción "Vois Sur Ton Chemin" compuesta por Bruno Coulais, que formó parte de la banda sonora de la película "Los chicos del coro" estrenada en 2004. A mi la peli me gustó...

Les Choristes - Vois sur ton chemin

Vois sur ton chemin
Gamins oubliés égarés
Donne leur la main
Pour les mener
Vers d'autres lendemains

Sens au coeur de la nuit
L'onde d'espoir
Ardeur de la vie
Sentier de gloire

Bonheurs enfantins
Trop vite oubliés effacés
Une lumière dorée brille sans fin
Tout au bout du chemin

Sens au coeur de la nuit
L'onde d'espoir
Ardeur de la vie
Sentier de la gloire

El vídeo con escenas de la película...

Christina Aguilera - Oh Mother

She was so young with such innocent eyes
She always dreamt of a fairytale life
And all the things that your money can't buy
She thought that he was a wonderful guy
Then suddenly, things seemed to change
It was the moment she took on his name
He took his anger out on her face
She kept all of her pain locked away

Oh mother, be stronger
From all of the tears you have shed
Oh mother, don't look back
Cause he'll never hurt us again

So mother, I thank you
For all that you've done and still do
You got me, I got you
Together we always pull through
We always pull through
We always pull through
Oh mother, oh mother, oh mother

It was the day that he turned on the kids
That she knew she just had to leave him
So many voices inside of her head
Saying over and over and over,
"You deserve much more than this."

She was so sick of believing the lies and trying to hide
Covering the cuts and bruises
So tired of defending her life, she could have died
Fighting for the lives of her children

Oh mother, be stronger
From all of the tears you have shed
Oh mother, don't look back
Cause he'll never hurt us again

So mother, I thank you
For all that you've done and still do
You got me, I got you,
Together we always pull through.
Oh mother, oh mother, oh mother

All of your life you have spent
burying hurt and regret
But mama, he'll never touch us again

For everytime he tried to bring you down
Just remember who stood around
It's over, and we're stronger
And we'll never have to go back again

Oh mother, be stronger
From all of the tears you have shed
Oh mother, don't look back
Cause he'll never hurt us again

So mother, I thank you (and I thank you for all that you've done)
For all that you've done and still do (together we always move on)
You got me, I got you, (you got me, I got you)
Together we always pull through (always pull through)
We always pull through
We always pull through

I love you mom

El tema es este...

Wachi mery mery mery...

El "Aserejé" fue el tema que lanzó a la fama al "conocidísimo" grupo musical pop español Las Ketchup. Se convirtió en una de las canciones del verano el año de su lanzamiento pero además tuvo también bastante proyección internacional. ¿Por qué? os preguntaréis sin salir de vuestro asombro, ¿por qué una canción en la línea de todas las demás que salen al mercado allá cuando llega el calorcito iba a tener más éxito mundial?

Es sencillo. El estribillo es la primera estrofa del "Rapper's Delight" grabado por Sugarhill Gang en 1979, "traducido" fonéticamente al español (es decir, en plan wachimiri), así que a la gente le hizo gracia lo de que el single de las chicas estas les sonara a una canción, esta sí, muy conocida, pionera en el género del hip-hop rap.

En 1998 también los Blues Brothers quisieron hacer su pequeño guiño al tema original en su versión "New Orleans", cambiando un poco la letra.

Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight

I said a hip hop a hippie to the hippie
To the hip hip hop, you don't stop
A rockin' to the bang bang boogy say upchuck the boogy,
To the rhythm of the boogity beat.

Now what you hear is not a test - I'm rappin to the beat
And me, the groove, and my friends are gonna try to move your feet
See I am wonder mike and I like to say hello
To the black, to the white, the red, and the brown, the purple and yellow
But first I gotta bang bang the boogie to the boogie
Say up jump the boogie to the bang bang boogie
Let's rock, you don't stop
Rock the riddle that will make your body rock
Well so far youve heard my voice but I brought two friends along
And next on the mike is my man hank
Come on, hank, sing that song

[...]

La letra es tan sumamente larga que jamás nadie llegaría a leer el final de la entrada, así que para los que estéis interesados en profundizar en la interpretación del texto, os sugiero que entréis AQUÍ para verlo completo.

El vídeo original tiene un audio muy malo, así que aquí os dejo la canción que mejor se escucha para que podáis apreciar el "pequeño" matiz de las letras...

Las Ketchup - Aserejé

Mira lo que se avecina a la vuelta de la esquina
Viene Diego rumbeando
Con la luna en las pupilas
Y su traje agua marina
Va después de contrabando
Y donde más no cabe un alma
Allí se mete a darse caña
Poseído por el ritmo ragatanga
Y el Dj que lo conoce toca el himno de las 12
Para Diego la canción más deseada
Y la baila, y la goza, y la cantaaaaaaaa!!!

Aserejé ja deje
dejebe tu dejebe
dejevi unowa majabi
an de bugui an de güinidipi

No es cosa de brujería
Que lo encuentre to los días
Por donde voy caminando
Diego tiene chulería y ese punto de alegría
Rastafari-afrogitano
Y donde más no cabe un alma
Allí se mete a darse caña
Poseído por el ritmo ragatanga
Y el Dj que lo conoce toca el himno de las 12
Para Diego la canción más deseada
Y la baila, y la goza, y la cantaaaaaaaa!!!

Aserejé ja deje
dejebe tu dejebe
dejevi unowa majabi
an de bugui an de güinidipi

El vídeo (todo lo ortera que puede ser un vídeo veraniego) de las Ketchup...

Blues Brothers - New Orleans

I said a hey, hey, hey, hey, yeah
I said a hey, a hey, hey, yeah

A come on everybody take a trip with me
Down the Mississippi down to New Orleans
They got a honeysuckel growing on a honeysuckel vine
And a love is a blooming there all the time
Well every southern bell is a Mississippi queen
Down the Mississippi down to New Orleans

I said a hey, hey, hey, hey, yeah
I said a hey, hey, hey, yeah

A come on take a stroll down to basin street
Listin' to the music with that dixieland beat
Well the magnolia blossems fill the air
You ain't been to heaven 'till you been down there
They got ten vines hanging from a peacock tree
Get outta here Jimmy Vaughan take it

I said a hey, hey, hey, hey, yeah
I said a hey, hey, hey, yeah

Come on everybody take a trip with me
Down the Mississippi down to New Orleans
Well a honeysuckel hanging on a honeysuckel vine
Well love is a blooming there all the time
Every southern bell is a Mississippi queen
Down the Mississippi down to New Orleans

Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Come on take a stroll down to basin street
Listen to the music with the dixieland beat
The magnolia blossems fill the air
Ya ain't been to heaven 'till ya been down there
Honeysuckel hanging from a hollow tree
Down the Mississippi down to New Orleans

Hey, hey, hey, yeah
I said a look out John hey, yeah, yeah

El tema de los Blues Bros...

Fusión

En la línea de las entradas anteriores, podemos encontrar también grupos que optan por famosas piezas de música clásica para ambientar sus singles. Este es el caso de Sweetbox, que, en sus inicios aún con la cantante Tina Harris como vocalista (la verdad es que ha sido un grupo vocalísticamente inestable con cinco cantantes diferentes en su haber a lo largo de los tiempos), lanzó el exitoso "Everything's gonna be alright" allá por 1997.

Este tema tiene como fondo la pieza clásica del compositor alemán Johann Sebastian Bach "Air on a G string". Visto el éxito, el grupo ha utilizado esta receta en otras ocasiones usando temas clásicos compuestos por Beethoven, Ennio Morricone y otros.

Buscando los vídeos de los temas en cuestión, he encontrado una versión jazz de la pieza clásica bastante chula que os dejo como propina. ¡Pasadlo bien!

Johann Sebastian Bach - Air on a G string

Aquí va la pieza clásica, por si hay alguien que no la recuerda...

Sweetbox - Everything's Gonna Be Alright

Everything's gonna be alright
Everything's gonna be alright

Whoever thought the sun would come crashing down
My life in flames, my tears concrete the pain
We feel the end, the darkest, deepest riverbed
My book of life ain't complete without you here
Alone I sit and reminisce, sometimes
I miss your touch, your kiss, your smile
And meanwhile you know I never cry
Cuz deep down inside
You know our love will never ever die

Everything's gonna be alright
Everything's gonna be okay
Everything's gonna be alright
Together we can take this one day at a time
Can you take my breath away?
Can you give him life today?
Is everything gonna be okay?
I'll be your strength
I'll be here when you wake up

Take your time, and I'll be here when you wake up

I never thought my heart would miss a single beat
Caress your hands, as I watch you while you sleep
So sweet, I weep as I search within
To find a cure, to bring you back again
And the sun will rise, open up your eyes
Surprise, just a blink of an eye
I try, I try to be positive
You're a fighter, so fight, wake up and live

Everything's gonna be alright
Everything's gonna be okay
Everything's gonna be alright
Together we can take this one day at a time
Can you take my breath away?
Can you give him life today?
Is everything gonna be okay?
I'll be your strength
I'll be here when you wake up

Everything's gonna be alright

I'd give my life to only see you breathe again
Hand in hand as we walk on the white sands
To hear your voice, rejoice as you rise and say
This is the day that I wake, and pray, okay?
Tears in silence, as time just moves on
You can't hear it though, but I'm playin' my favorite songs
I miss you much, I wish you'd come back to me
You see I'd wait a lifetime, cuz you're my destiny

Everything's gonna be alright
Everything's gonna be okay
Everything's gonna be alright
Together we can take this one day at a time
Can you take my breath away?
Can you give him life today?
Is everything gonna be okay?
I'll be your strength
I'll be here when you wake up

Por aquí tenéis el tema de Sweetbox...

Jacques Loussier - Air on a G string

Y aquí os dejo la propina...

Más que inspiración...

En la entrada de hoy, más que una canción con la misma base, se trata de un tema reversionado. El rapero californiano Coolio tomó el single del bueno de Stevie Wonder "Pastime Paradise" y lo adaptó creando el tema que le dio a conocer y que está incluído en la banda sonora de la peli Mentes Peligrosas. El título de esta última, como muchos sabréis, es "Gangsta Paradise". Resulta que los directivos de Tommy Boy Records pensaron que no vendería apenas y sin embargo alcanzó el número 1 en las listas de Estados Unidos y Reino Unido. De hecho, en Inglaterra fue el primer single de rap en vender un millón de copias.

Weird Al Yankovic, humorista y cantante californiano también, parodió la canción de Coolio con "Amish Paradise". Este se pilló un buen cabreo porque se le había ocultado el hecho de que Weird Al había sido autorizado a hacer la parodia, pero finalmente los dos artistas hicieron las paces. Os dejo por aquí los tres temillas... Para que luego digáis.

Stevie Wonder - Pastime Paradise

They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been wasting most their time
Glorifying days long gone behind
They've been wasting most their days
In remembrance of ignorance oldest praise

Tell me who of them will come to be
How many of them are you and me
Dissipation
Race relations
Consolation
Segregation
Dispensation
Isolation
Exploitation
Mutilation
Mutations
Miscreation
Confirmation... to the evils of the world

They've been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
They've been looking in their minds
For the day that sorrows gone from time
They keep telling of the day
When the savior of love will come to stay

Tell me who of them will come to be
How many of them are you and me
Proclamation
Of race relations
Consolation
Integretion
Verification
Of revelations
Acclamation
World salvation
Vibrations
Stimulation
Confirmation... to the peace of the world

They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
We've been spending too much of our lives
Living in a pastime paradise

Let's start living our lives
Living for the future paradise
Praise to our lives
Living for the future paradise
Shame to anyones lives
Living in the pastime paradise

La canción original de Stevie suena así...

Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise

As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I take a look at my life and realize there's nothing left
Cause I've been blastin and laughing so long that
Even my mama thinks that my mind is gone

But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it
May be treated like a punk, you know that's unheard of
You better watch how you talking, and where you walking
Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk

I really hate to trip, but I gotta lope
As they croak I see myself in the pistol smoke, fool
I'm the kinda G that little homies wanna be
Like on my knees in the night
Sayin' prayers in the street light

Been spending most our lives
Living in a Gangsta's Paradise (x2)
Keep spending most our lives
Living in a Gangsta's Paradise (x2)

Forgot the situation, they got me facin
I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the strip
So I gotta be down with the hood team
Too much television watching got me chasing dreams

I'm an educated fool, with money on my mind
Got my ten in my hand and a gleam in my eye
I'm a loped-out gangsta, set-trippin banger
And my homies is down, so don't arouse my anger, fool

Death ain't nothing but a heart beat away
I'm livin life do-or-die ah, what can I say?
I'm twenty-three now will I live to see twenty-four?
The way things are goin I don't know

Tell me why are we so blind to see
That the ones we hurt are you and me

Been spending most our lives
Living in a Gangsta's Paradise (x2)
Keep spending most our lives
Living in a Gangsta's Paradise (x2)

Power and the money, money and the power
Minute after minute, hour after hour
Everybody's running, but half of them ain't lookin
What's goin on in the kitchen, but I don't know what's cookin

They say I got to learn, but nobody's here to teach me
If they can't understand it, how can they reach me?
I guess they can't I guess they won't
I guess they front that's why I know my life is out of luck, fool

Been spending most our lives
Living in a Gangsta's Paradise (x2)
Keep spending most our lives
Living in a Gangsta's Paradise (x2)

Tell me why are we so blind to see
That the ones we hurt are you and me
Tell me why are we so blind to see
That the ones we hurt are you and me

Aquí el vídeo de la conocida versión...

Weird Al Yankovic - Amish Paradise

As I walk through the valley where I harvest my grain
I take a look at my wife and realize she's very plain
But that's just perfect for an amish like me
You know I shun fancy things like electricity
At 4:30 in the morning I'm milkin' cows
Jebediah feeds the chickens and jacob plows... fool
And I've been milkin' and plowin' so long that
Even Ezekiel thinks that my mind is gone
I'm a man of the land, I'm into discipline
Got a Bible in my hand and a beard on my chin
But if I finish all of my chores and you finish thine
Then tonight were gonna party like its 1699

We been spending most our lives
Living in an amish paradise
I've churned butter once or twice
Living in an amish paradise
It's hard work and sacrifice
Living in an amish paradise
We sell quilts at a discount price
Living in an amish paradise

A local boy kicked me in the butt last week
I just smiled at him and I turned the other cheek
I really dont care, in fact I wish him well
cause Ill be laughing my head off when hes burning in hell
But I ain't never punched a tourist even if he deserved it
An amish with a tude?
You know thats unheard of
I never wear buttons but I got a cool hat
And my homies agree
I really look good in black... fool
If you come to visit, youll be bored to tears
We haven't even paid the phone bill in 300 years
But we ain't really quaint, so please don't point and stare
We're just technologically impaired

There's no phone, no lights, no motorcar
Not a single luxury
Like Robinson Caruso
It's as primitive as can be

We been spending most our lives
Living in an amish paradise
We're just plain and simple guys
Living in an amish paradise
There's no time for sin and vice
Living in an amish paradise
We don't fight, we all play nice
Living in an amish paradise

Hitchin' up the buggy, churnin' lots of butter
Raised a barn on monday, soon I'll raise anutter
Think you're really righteous?
Think you're pure in heart?
Well, I know I'm a million time as humble as thou art
I'm the pious guy the little amlettes wanna be like
On my knees day and night scorin' points for the afterlife
So don't be vain and don't be whiny
Or else, my brother, I might have to get medieval on your heinie

We been spending most our lives
Living in an amish paradise
We're all crazy mennonites
Living in an amish paradise
There's no cops or traffic lights
Living in an amish paradise
But you'd probably think it bites
Living in an amish paradise

Si quieres verlo, AQUÍ tienes el videoclip de la parodia.