by Stop Mike Lupica on April 2 at 3:03PM
Bill Simmons had his links of the month up last week, and included a link (sent in by a reader) to this great video clip of Canadian singer Bryan Adams trying to sing the famous opera song "O Sole Mio" with Pavarotti, and kinda embarrassing himself a tiny bit. Hey, I wouldn't be hard on the guy if not for two reasons - one, he's suppose to be singing an opera song with a true legend, yet he comes out dressed like he's doing a concert in Ontario or something. Throw on a tux, man, you heard? This is freaking Pavarotti, not another duet with Rod Stewart. And don't even ask me what the hell is up with that laidback singing style, like Bryan is crooning at one of his shows. It's "O Sole Mio", not "The Summer of '69".
Secondly, the real reason I can't ever like Bryan Adams (and really, there's nothing wrong with "All For Love"): Ill Will once told me, well over 15 years ago, about the legendary Bryan Adams. I even written about it several times. Basically, one day back in '95, I was chilling with Ill Will in his apartment (back in the PJs behind... Lincoln Center! That's right, shot out to the Amsterdam Houses, ya'll), and he busts out a mix tape of stuff he recorded off the radio.
Ill Will: "Yo, you got to hear this sh*t!"
He's got a big grin on his face, and can barely contain his laughter. I can tell right away he ain't throwing on some new hotness... nope, this is going to be some farcical sh*t.
Sure, enough, he throws on Bryan Adams' Spanish language version of "Everything I Do (I Do It For You)". It was one of the most horrific butchering of Spanish I've ever heard, and I've been to DR many times (oh snap!).
Okay, enough ado already... check it out for yourselves - I looked it up on You Tube, and found it:
I'll let you be the judge - should Canadians (with apologies to Skeets & Tas, DJM, and Jeff Wong) ever be allowed to sing in Spanish?
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Speaking of music artists in Spanish.. The Marathon Man dropped this e-mail on us:
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Brief note of interest: after waiting weeks for Deadspin's daily "Media Approval Ratings" to do tackle Mike Lupica, they finally got around to it today, when I've been swamped and catching up on things. Never the less, it's um, very revealing. Having done over 50 of these already, including some really loathsome media types, guess where Lupica came in? Yep, dead last, with less than 8.2% out of nearly 1,900 votes approving of Lupica. Talk about a guy who should have hung it up a long time ago... Mike, take a hint. The quicker you disappear, the faster everyone forgets about the bad, leaving only the good (like the 70's and 80's) behind.
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Secondly, the real reason I can't ever like Bryan Adams (and really, there's nothing wrong with "All For Love"): Ill Will once told me, well over 15 years ago, about the legendary Bryan Adams. I even written about it several times. Basically, one day back in '95, I was chilling with Ill Will in his apartment (back in the PJs behind... Lincoln Center! That's right, shot out to the Amsterdam Houses, ya'll), and he busts out a mix tape of stuff he recorded off the radio.
Ill Will: "Yo, you got to hear this sh*t!"
He's got a big grin on his face, and can barely contain his laughter. I can tell right away he ain't throwing on some new hotness... nope, this is going to be some farcical sh*t.
Sure, enough, he throws on Bryan Adams' Spanish language version of "Everything I Do (I Do It For You)". It was one of the most horrific butchering of Spanish I've ever heard, and I've been to DR many times (oh snap!).
Okay, enough ado already... check it out for yourselves - I looked it up on You Tube, and found it:
I'll let you be the judge - should Canadians (with apologies to Skeets & Tas, DJM, and Jeff Wong) ever be allowed to sing in Spanish?
*************
Speaking of music artists in Spanish.. The Marathon Man dropped this e-mail on us:
Wu-Tang Clan: Building cultural bridges since 1992.
For real, they’re like the United Nations for weed
carriers. They even have that one white guy who hangs out with Theodore
Unit.
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Brief note of interest: after waiting weeks for Deadspin's daily "Media Approval Ratings" to do tackle Mike Lupica, they finally got around to it today, when I've been swamped and catching up on things. Never the less, it's um, very revealing. Having done over 50 of these already, including some really loathsome media types, guess where Lupica came in? Yep, dead last, with less than 8.2% out of nearly 1,900 votes approving of Lupica. Talk about a guy who should have hung it up a long time ago... Mike, take a hint. The quicker you disappear, the faster everyone forgets about the bad, leaving only the good (like the 70's and 80's) behind.
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But if Lupica hangs it up, what will happen to StopMikeLupica.com? You'd be the Artist Formerly Known as SML:)