It can be hard getting back to that level when we play shows after not screaming for six months.' 'In my head, I feel like my voice is getting weaker,' says Paint It Black lead singer Dan Yemin, 'because the busier my life gets, the less we play and I have to get my voice back to where I want it to be.

It had some interesting elements but those were overshadowed by various hip hop and R&B elements that she changed in the song, and I also felt that she took too much away from the original melody of the vocals.Contributed by shogun, Posted by Kira Wisniewski No Idea Interviews 9 years ago I did not enjoy the version by Ciara since it felt like very very drastic change of both the genre and the style in which her cover of the song was made. It used less electronic instrumentations and sounded more melodically consistent with the original version. I cannot say that I prefer any of these two covers over the original, however, I enjoyed Valerie Broussard’s version the most after the original. I believe a cover is to a song may be better if it is played in the same or similar enough genre in terms of instruments, and this gives a more consistent comparison since similar equipment would be used. In my opinion neither cover is better than the original. The lyrics between all 3 versions of Paint it Black are unchanged, but both of the covers have different interpretations of how the melody is sung and how the rest of the instrumentations accompany the words. Perhaps Ciara is building tension of some sort. These techniques are used to emphasize or accent various part of the song. She has a completely digital variation of percussion and features several elements of the genre such as a beat or a bass drop, when momentarily the sound goes into low pitch and then comes back to normal and something like a digital echo copy effect. The change in instrumentations attempts to bring the song into a different genre in which Ciara is more comfortable. She changed some musical ideas about the melody of the words and many musical elements of the original are not kept. Her cover drops a drumming background in favor of an electric percussive clap and bass drum and unlike the original version it is absent in the beginning.Ĭiara as an artist is a singer that usually sings R&B pop and hip hop and her cover of Paint It Black is a considerably different version in comparison to the original. The usage of guitar in this song is very different than in the original, since there is no longer any guitar in verses and chorus unlike the original. The song is played at a slightly faster tempo than the original. The singing voice is no longer one voice and is sung in harmony, there are several voice tracks harmonizing the vocal melody in more places than the original song. The cover of the song can be best described as industrial techno. Valeri Broussard’s rendition of Paint It Black takes the original song keeps the melody of the vocals intact, however it changes the texture and the instrumentation.

Everything turning into darkness and no desire to return back to the light and colorful. The desire of the singer to pain everything black in a metaphoric sense because they see none of the color of the world because life isn’t that good anymore. The lyrics of the song talk about depression. Also considering psychedelic music was quite common in the time by many rock bands.

However, the song also features a sitar in it which is an unusual element in classic rock, but is something used more often in psychedelic rock genres, which this song may be categorized a part of due to the instrumentation and lyrical content. It features a standard rock band instrumentation of vocals, bass, guitar (electric and acoustic, drums, piano and even a Hammond organ which was a staple instrument of certain rock bands of the era. Paint It Black is a song originally released by the English rock band The Rolling Stones in 1966.

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