Beyonce Cover Music

The act of an artist doing a “cover” of another artist’s song is nothing unfamiliar to us. It has been occurring for quite some time. As new generations arise and new genres are being developed many artists turn back to the past for inspiration. There are hundreds of cover songs and some have been hits while others should have never been remade. People like songs that have been covered because they are familiar; it is a tune that they know, lyrics they can recite. The question being is why do artists let other artists remake their work? There is a chance that the cover version may become more famous that the original. That the cover version was so bad it turns people off from the original song. On the other hand why do artists want to cover
When Reba sings this song the message is different. She sings it as a grown woman. Looking back at her own failed relationship, and the mistakes she made and that she is telling a story to younger women not to stay and wait for men who treat you this way. The different genres really show a difference in the women singing them. How the situations are similar but how they handle it are very
The music videos help us expand on how the genres change the song. Beyonce’s video portrays an emotional black and white short story with word dialogue. The word dialogue adds intimacy and drama into Beyonce’s performance. Beyonce takes on a rather masculine role in her video as a police officer. In her video she plays the man’s part in a tense relationship. Although she plays a masculine role she is still a woman. She acts in ways that men act in relationships, she inflicts pain on her husband in the video as men do to woman. The Husband in her video portrays a woman’s role in a relationship. He has woman’s characteristics of being thoughtful, caring, and loving. having the man in the video being the one who was hurt and betrayed was how Beyonce tried to prove her point of how men treat women. Beyonce’s video made the “man” vulnerable and hurt by her actions. At one point in the video the husband has attractive coworkers flirting with him and he rejects their progression, while Beyonce flirts back with her male police partner. In Reba’s music video she acts as no one but herself. The change in genre is apparent in Reba’s video compared to Beyonce’s. Reba wears an elegant green gown that shows her strength and beauty. The focus of Reba’s video remains on her with only a couple of short appearances of a man. Reba is very confident in who she is. This reflects the change in the message of the song. Reba acts as an