Sathnam Sanghera
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Like, Last Christmas has been covered hundreds of times.
I've listened to almost every cover in the middle of August for the book.
And almost every cover is crap.
Even Taylor Swift's version, even though she's famous at sad songs.
And it's because they all lack his vocal.
which is kind of so melancholic over a happy tune.
And actually an overtly positive sentiment.
He's actually saying something quite complicated.
He's saying, I found someone great, but actually I still got a thing for you.
And he conveys it all through his voice.
Yeah, he went from being obsessed with insects to being obsessed with music.
Creativity and the way he made music was so strange because he went around saying, I'm not a trained musician.
And I guess he wasn't, except he was.
He did the violin, I think, for six years.