Tracy Chapman Appreciation Thread

[Dynamite James]

This is what the song was up against when nominated in 1989

 

[Tribal Outkast]

This is the news to me. Black people are really out here doing country music in 2023

Hope to see this duo get awards next year

This is Tekeitha(of Wu Tang Clan fame) and her daughter(RZA is the father) and they put out a country album this year. Its good

 

[⠀X ⠀]

This is what the song was against when nominated in 1989

Don’t worry, be happy? So they went with the song that white folks were most comfortable with a Black person singing.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

I'm waiting for a country singer to turn "Wishing Well"into a country song and win awards for it

 

[Heavy_Handz]

You might be the first person I've ever seen think Tracey Chapman is a country singer or that "Fast Car" is a country song

Folk, blues, pop, rock, soul. Literally anything BUT Country

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Folk, blues, pop, rock, soul. Literally anything BUT Country

What makes this cover a country song? The music is borderline identical to the original

 

[Heavy_Handz]

What makes this cover a country song? The music is borderline identical to the original

Country singer did the cover. Tracy Chapman was never a country musician.



This ain’t country!

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Country singer did the cover. Tracy Chapman was never a country musician.



This ain’t country!

So the cover isn’t a country song either?

 

[Heavy_Handz]

So the cover isn’t a country song either?

It’s made by a country singer. I reckon they deem it’s a country song. The original Fast Car is/was not a country song.

 

[Sad Bunny]

…35 years after it was released due to a white musician’s cover version.

Tracy Chapman ‘honoured’ as ‘Fast Car’ named Song of the Year at CMAs – 35 years after release

Luke Combs’s cover of 1988 song reached No 2 on US chart this summer

news.yahoo.com

This is why she won now but go ahead with the fake outrage.

“It’s been an enduring hit in the 20th and 21st centuries, but was introduced to a new audience in 2023 after US country music singer Combs covered the song as the second single from his album Gettin’ Old. Giving Chapman’s song a second wind, the cover was a smash hit on the radio and reached No 2 on the Billboard Hot 100.”

 

[ItsPeople]

When Darryl and Beth got separated, never to see each other again. Couldn’t have picked a better song.

 

[⠀X ⠀]

give it a rest y’all. Music is music. It doesn’t have to fit within a made up genre

 

[levitate]

This is why she won now but go ahead with the fake outrage.

“It’s been an enduring hit in the 20th and 21st centuries, but was introduced to a new audience in 2023 after US country music singer Combs covered the song as the second single from his album Gettin’ Old. Giving Chapman’s song a second wind, the cover was a smash hit on the radio and reached No 2 on the Billboard Hot 100.”

That’s…my entire point.

The song wasn’t respected by certain members in the country/folk music world until a white guy made it “cool”. They knew about the original.

fukk you even talking about? Anyway I thought that you were done here off swimming in Hispanic bussy on a private island somewhere. fukk outta here and go listen to trash ass Bad Bunny.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

OG version ole girl FLOWED like some Migos shyt

 

[levitate]

It’s made by a country singer. I reckon they deem it’s a country song.