Day 54: TS LIVE - PART II

This is the second part to a post I started yesterday. If you haven't read it yet, go do it here.I'm not giving any context before diving in so you will be very confused if you don't read it first. You good? Alright, here we go.

Dancing in the Dark - Bruce Springsteen, Livin' on a Prayer - Bon Jovi

I mentioned this one in yesterday's post, and it's pretty good. This is one of the few songs that everyone actually knew well enough for them to all sing along to, so when Bon Jovi comes on you can actually hear the whole audience. 

How To Save a Life - The Fray

Bad video but Taylor's performance towards the end is among the best of these covers. Usually she's all smiles but she gets pretty into it here and you can see some pretty serious emotion. Nice.

Bette Davis Eyes - Jackie DeShannon & Donna Weiss

I hadn't heard of this song before I heard Taylor's cover, but that's actually part of what I think makes this cover so extraordinary. Most of the songs she covered were extremely popular. Bette Davis Eyes was certainly popular, mostly known for the 1981 cover by Kim Carnes. I would love to listen to this version but alas, the rules of this blog forbid it. It'll have to wait until February. 

Taylor covered each song for a reason, and I highly suspect that for this song the reason was as simple as that she really likes it. This is one of the only songs she gives any backstory on beyond "[INSERT CITY HERE] has created a lot of amazing bands, did you know that?", a line all of them got. I'm sure that she liked plenty of the other songs but this song is so Taylor Swift. It's about eyes for goodness sake! Talking about people's eyes is basically the Taylor Swift. I can't find any decent video of the performance but I would love to compare it to her others. This is also one of the few covers that Taylor recorded and released the audio for, so it sounds much better than the crappy phone videos I've been watching. Anyways, moving on.

Drops of Jupiter - Train

This is another one of the few songs that has official audio, but I decided to go with this video because it actually isn't that bad ignoring the weird angles. Overall just a good performance. It stands out because unlike most of the other covers she did the entire song, weird lyrics and all.

"She checks out Mozart while she does tae-bo
Reminds me that there's a-room to grow, hey, hey, yeah"

Tae-Bo?! Isn't that those workout videos I was forced to watch in middle school P.E. class? Wait a second, I'll be right back.

Holy shit it's real! This is a gold mine guys. These memes will never get old. 

I could do this all day, but I think that's enough for today. There are a lot more covers I didn't talk about that have footage, so go watch those. Also, since today and yesterday's posts have been especially bootlegged, go consume some 100% legitimate Taylor Swift media. Or don't, I guess.

See you tomorrow,

C