The legacy of White Town/Your Woman

really shocks me a little how truculent so many people (that i know,that i've read) have been about taking this song on its own terms; is it so hard to understand in 2010 that a sample does not automatically mean a linear cover version? what is it really that people are instinctively drawing the battle lines against here?

i take the point that the more popular shy fx hiphouse mix maybe steamrollers the whole thing a little, but still the value is plain to hear.

i think it's just freighting the original with may more importance than it deserves. i'm trying to think of an example of a song i really, really loved being sampled and jarring in its new context but i can't right now.

Most interesting thing about Jyoti's original is not the narrative perspective, but rather the cultural response to iti it got macho rugby boys singing "I could never be your woman" to each other.

― exploding angel vagina (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 9 January 2010 15:57 (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is one of the most staggeringly banal and useless received wisdoms of all time btw.

ikr? rugby boys a) sing anything b) the camper the better

xp oh yeah sure no doubt i've been at the wrong end of a cheap grabby sample hundreds of times (and i've been wrong about being at the wrong end too) but this particular example with the wiley cut so evidently, basically has its own different things going on that i'm just a bit gobsmacked. it seems like no one's even listened to the thing once, let alone expended an iota of the deep thought they claim have done on the white town original.

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2014/02/white-town-your-woman/

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2017/12/12/white-town-release-woman-1917/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QVIjNquTJU

The original is perfect as it is - it was great to see someone flying the synthpop flag in the '90s and not being embarrassed about it.

Is it "Your Woman" being used in the advert for The Eternals? Sort of hoping it is (so Jyoti gets a big cheque) but suspect it's just the same sample??

It's in a Dua Lipa song, right?

To answer the question just above: yes. Meantime, Todd in the Shadows does a One Hit Wonderland on it and mentions Tom Ewing along the way, thus tying back to the protohistory of this site, etc. etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRYO6-gNGzQ