darin - en apa som liknar dig

this song was recently debuted on the swedish tv-show "så mycket bättre", which is a version of dutch tv format "the best singers" where a number of artists are joined up to cover each other songs and whatnot. it's on the third season and includes sylvia vrethammar, miss li, maja ivarsson, magnus uggla, pugh rogerfeldt, olle ljungström & darin zanyar.

zanyar & ljungström are the ones involved in this song where former teen idol zanyar covered ljungström's 2000 single "en apa som liknar dig", off his fifth solo album. fact is this tv-show takes control of the charts from october to january much like how the circus that is the eurovision tryouts takes over from march to june. a number of songs are going to get massively big depending on what crowd and who sang it and what forces are behind it.

darin took a fairly traditional route of remaking the song for the current charts or the dancefloor and fact is that works. i can't even deny that i don't like this but it also has to do with the fact that it's borrowing heavily from another song. zanyar copied the benny benassi & chris brown collaboration "beautiful people" and performed "en apa som liknar dig" onto it.

the reason i like the song is because of that and i'm actually grateful that zanyar ripped that song because i also like that song but i can't listen to it consciously. that would be supporting chris brown after his abuse of rihanna and it's morally wrong in my book. now you can easily say: "well what about miles davis, james brown, etta james, woody allen, michael jackson, ike turner or a fuckloads other people who are rotten human beings".

my answer is that you let certain things slide if their contributions to the arts are substantial, but you do think twice about supporting newer works after convictions or recent reports and whatnot. chris brown has never been anyone that you think: "wow, that's a forwardthinking genius" so i will not let that slide at all.

but i am ok when people copy or re-do something that they make a living out of, especially if they do it better. like when lady leshurr outdid him on her version of "look at me now" or when darin zanyar makes a killer version of "beautiful people". it is playing tricks on your moral code but it works in this case.

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