It's a royalty thing, I think. With the changes that were made, Seger would no longer get sole writing credit.
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Would "You Can't Hurry Love" count as an example of this trope? The original version was sung by Diana Ross of The Supremes, but Phil Collins did a well-known cover version. However, he didn't need to change any of the words to flip the song from a female to a male perspective; they were already gender-agnostic.
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I think "You Can't Hurry Love" doesn't belong on this page because no gender changes in the lyrics are made, needed, or expected.
Does anybody know what song this is about?
- Zebrahead's cover of Avril Lavigne's make's no attempt to switch around the genders... in fact, EVERYONE is a guy in their video
Where would Cassandra Wilson's cover of "Shelter from the Storm" (Bob Dylan) fit in? Instead of doing a Perspective Flip (which would be her singing from the woman's point of view) or changing the gender of the singer ("'Come in', he said, 'I'll give you'...") she shifts the perspective from first-person to third-person: "He came in from the wilderness".
Fairly certain it fits This Trope in some way, but it's neither an aversion nor a male-to-female change.
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Oh nevermind. I didn't even realize there WAS an Aversions folder because the examples flipflopped so much.
BTW, I'm a chick.
Clarify whether or not the trope is about the cover CHANGING the words to the song or NOT CHANGING them. The aversions really can't seem to decide.
OK, this is starting to bug me - a gay male artist covering a female-written song and not changing the gender of the Love Interest is not "averting" this trope. The trope is essentially about changing lyrics to suit your sexual preference, is it not?
The page currently says: "Sally Anthony's cover of "Turn the Page" does this, along with a Perspective Flip. "The girl you knew the night before" becomes "the men I knew the night before." In fact, while Bob Seger approved of the cover, he refused to let her release it officially because she ended up changing too much of the song."
How does that constitute "approving of the cover" if Seger didn't let her officially release it?
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