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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Love the song, and very happy for her to get more recognition among a new audience.

I can appreciate Combs introducing the song to a new generation, but I also feel he really didn't add anything. It still feels like HER story, just sung in his voice. I think he could have really made it his own with some tweaks to the lyrics so it doesn't feel like such a distinctly female experience ... but then we'd probably all be complaining that he changed it and it's just not "Fast Car" anymore. Such is always the dilemma with covers, I guess. [/quote]
+1. If it had been a song about going to the club it wouldn’t have seemed discordant to have a cover done. But the lyrics were so specific to the artist that it was hard for me to hear him sing them and believe he had the same experience. Also, the arrangement sounded very similar to my ears.

I think sting once said his kids didn’t believe he wrote “every breath you take” because they KNEW it was a puff daddy song. [/quote]

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