"Are rerecorded albums EVER any good? (aside from N.E.R.D.)...." Thu Nov-18-21 11:23 AM by FLUIDJ
Seeing a lot of buzz over this recently with Ashanti, J/Lo, Taylor Swift, etc....
I think the first time I was even aware that this was a thing was when I coped a Midnight Star CD in the early aughts and it just didn't hit the same....I late discovered that the majority of it was rerecorded...never played it since...
I don't think I like this if its a new trend to get around ownership...I get it...but musically and sonically...I'm just doubtful it'll have the same feel as the original recordings.
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1. "Caught that part of the Ashanti interview...it wasn't so much about qual..." In response to Reply # 0 Thu Nov-18-21 11:47 AM by bentagain
She did say re-recording her albums in 2021 will add quality But the main motivation, IMO, is syncing this with her hollywood walk of fame star She wants to re-record her albums as a way of taking back ownership of her art She's going to get a bump in sales in April with her star Makes sense business wise, and I'm sure it will sound better
Basically what Taylor did to circumvent not owning her masters
It's more about business acumen and ownership...but I'm sure the quality won't suffer.
If you support said artist...why wouldn't you support this?
2. "Typically I think no, I've been surprised at the Taylor albums" In response to Reply # 0
I'm not even a Taylor fan, but she's doing it right. Mostly subtle modern flourishes and cleaner instrument stems but not really altering the songs in major ways until you get to the bonus stuff.
In her case it doesn't hurt that she's so far been re-doing singer songwriter material from a time when the singer half of her was still a work in progress though. Usually where these re-recordings run into trouble is when you're taking a record from the artist's prime artistically AND performatively and trying to prove you could've done it even better.
3. "like getting a rerecorded song and the singer can no longer" In response to Reply # 2
hit those high notes like they could during the original recording session...not the same...but i def understand the motive
>Usually where these >re-recordings run into trouble is when you're taking a record >from the artist's prime artistically AND performatively and >trying to prove you could've done it even better. > > >~~~~~~~~~ >"This is the streets, and I am the trap." � Jay Bilas >http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517 >Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz
James Taylor re-recorded Carolina on my Mind forever ago (for the same reasons that these folks are doing it now) and the re-recorded version is the one that became iconic
6. "I think re-recording these days is about owning the masters. " In response to Reply # 0
These artist may own their publishing but their label would own the original master recordings. If you re-record and people start buying and playing the re-recorded tracks instead of the original masters then the artist gets 100% of the bag.
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