Song Analysis: I Will Always Love You

How listeners take and understand a song is completely up to our past experiences. Whether they were good or bad or filled with love or hate. One word to someone could mean a different thing to someone else, therefore, many artists make covers. A cover is when one artist takes lyrics from an original song and combines them with a separate singer, arrangement, and music genre. Not all covers have to be a worlds difference from the original nor do they have to be similar to the original. The intent of them is to appeal to a larger audience. Many can absolutely see the difference in similarities or the song “I will always love you” originally sung by Dolly Parton and rearranged and covered by Whitney Houston.

When Dolly originally wrote this country song, she was trying to tell he business partner she was working with at the time that their professional partnership was over and now it was time to move on to new and better things. Dolly wrote this song to finally say goodbye to Porter Wagoner`s. (Dolly Parton) Whitney had sung her R&B cover version of the song in a romantic movie. Whitney and the movie producers decided to change the genre to atone for the mood of the movie and trying to be flexible with Whitney's singing interest. the intent of her version was to tell the man she loved
The biggest difference was the music arrangement and artists. Even though the songs have the same lyrics it does not mean that they have the same meaning behind them. The lyric verse “Good bye, please don’t cry” (10-11) are sung in both versions of the song but Parton is telling her audience, her former business partner that she needs to move ahead in her career and leave him. Houston is addressing her lover and is trying to end their romantic relationship. There are many other cases throughout the song where Parton means one thing by what she says and Houston means another but it is only because of their