Beatles Cover - Trailer Style

[Mark Morgon-Shaw]

We pitched this cover song  for a trailer trailer opportunity and although it made the short list, we didn't get gig so I'm able to share.    

 

CBB used for the whole thing with various Kontakt Libraries etc.

Edited September 22, 2021 by Mark MoreThan-Shaw

[Larry T.]

Been a Beatles fan since 1967....the music is excellent in creating the mood you wanted as are the vocals, really like the singer....the playing, percussion, riffs and production are all great....it's just, imho, the music is not in agreement with the lyrics...which is, i assume, exactly what you wanted. so, as a long time Beatles fan i would pass but this being the 21st century the zeitgeist is not what it was 54 years ago. 

[Jacques Boileau]

Love it! Love the original, but this is so different and interesting. Well done!

[Bapu]

That's the best way (IMO) to do a cover - reimagined.

[bjornpdx]

You don't hear songs so radically changed as your cover but it works very well. You could say it's a new song (except for the lyrics) influenced by the Beatles.  Wonder how many listeners are familiar with the original these days.

Reminds me of another cover.  Pink Martini did Que Sera Sera in a minor key which takes a little getting used to.

-Bjorn

[Old Joad]

There goes the sun? way cool?

[Mark Morgon-Shaw]

6 hours ago, Larry T. said:

....it's just, imho, the music is not in agreement with the lyrics...which is, i assume, exactly what you wanted.

Yes I agree...the intention was to subvert the meaning which is often the case when a song is " Trailerized "

Thanks for listening 

[Mark Morgon-Shaw]

44 minutes ago, bjornpdx said:

Wonder how many listeners are familiar with the original these days.

I think it's still pretty up there in popularity...It's top of their most popular songs on Spotify 704,290,575 streams !

[musekamp]

Great (re)arrangement! I enjoyed that.

[Lynn Wilson]

Great cover!  I like it when one takes a song and makes it their own.  A+

[bitflipper]

Wonderful! I could listen to - even pay for - a whole album of that kind of stuff.

Reminds me of the impact that the cover of the Beatles' "Because" had in the trailer for Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. Too bad the movie wasn't as good as the trailer.

 

[garybrun]

Very nice...
Well done-

[Guest]

Very clever and very well done - I am suitably impressed.

Andy

[freddy j]

Quite a re-work and clever interpretation of the original.  Very impressive and imaginative cover, indeed!

[steve@baselines.com]

Very cool.  I usually like the exact copy strategy, but this works very well.  Nice work, you got my attention!

[Mark Morgon-Shaw]

4 hours ago, bitflipper said:

Reminds me of the impact that the cover of the Beatles' "Because" had in the trailer for Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. Too bad the movie wasn't as good as the trailer.

Cool, I just listened to it - I must have missed it first time around.  That doesn't sound like a cover, it sounds too much like the original vocal stem to me. 

Sometimes it happens that a trailer composer has access to multi-track stems of original artists songs although I've not heard it done with a Beatles song before. 

Also you sometimes get what's called a ' custom overlay' where they take the original mix and layer new parts around it to give it a different feel for the trailer. But this doesn't sound like that as there's no guitar etc.    

Edited September 23, 2021 by Mark MoreThan-Shaw

[bitflipper]

You're right. I looked it up, and indeed the original was licensed by Sir Paul himself, who was a fan of Luc Besson. It's just been sliced and diced, looped and sweetened. It was the first time a Beatles song was ever licensed for an ad.

[DeeringAmps]

WOW! ?

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that is all I have to say.

[Eric Parsons]

This is so cool!