Late Night Music
Jimmy Fallon
It was about 24 hours ago that I came across a certain “band” on Jimmy Falon. This “band”, which will remain nameless, is made up of four back-up dancers and a lead dancer. They all carried hand-held microphones, but any of the singing was obviously pre-recorded.
So we have this unnamed band, which I will now refer to as the “Feline Puppets”, and they’re doing their music dancing. And they’re doing what was described as “a remix” of a song from Slumdog Millionaire. So they’re on nationally televised TV, “performing their song”, which is actually a song that was originally done by Indian guy called A.R.Rahaman. So the guy is now getting international exposure for this music he’s made. And this “Feline Puppets” band remixes it and starts performing it everywhere.
I’m not down on technology, or remixing songs. I’m not down on electronic music, or being able to record stuff that other people have done. Play on. But something tells me that the “remix” will do much better than the original version, just like Pat Boone’s version of Tutti Frutti made the top ten while Little Richards fell far short.
Still, Little Richard wrote “Long Tall Sally” as a result, because he wanted to write something that was too fast for Pat Boone to sing, so maybe something good will come of this.
Oh, and tonight on Fallon? The Virgins. Much better.