{"id":16042,"date":"2012-11-18T23:09:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T04:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=16042"},"modified":"2012-11-18T23:09:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T04:09:58","slug":"please-explain-mamy-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/please-explain-mamy-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Explain: &#8220;Mamy Blue&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago \u00a0I stumbled on a wealth of videos of artists performing some song called &#8220;Mamy Blue.&#8221; I don&#8217;t recall ever hearing this song before. The first performance I decided to watch featured a catalog of <a title=\"Rock's Unfulfilled Fashion Ideas\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/category\/rocks-unfulfilled-fashion\" target=\"_blank\">Rock&#8217;s Unfulfilled Fashion Ideas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wxzYlxXTZcA?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>I did not like the song one bit, but with all the covers I thought I&#8217;d try another.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-lgpC4NTr0Y?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>This version was even worse, but I dug the singer&#8217;s hair and some of the audience shots. At least these first 2 versions I tried featured some fashions I could tune into. Then I found this atrocity:<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BXlQC7TgV30?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>Terrible on all levels. Even Joe Cocker covered this turd. Please explain this song&#8217;s appeal, and has there ever been a worse song that&#8217;s been covered 5 or more times?<\/p>\n<nav class=\"page-links\"><strong>Pages:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/please-explain-mamy-blue\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">1<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/please-explain-mamy-blue\/2\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">2<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/please-explain-mamy-blue\/3\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">3<\/span><\/a><\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago \u00a0I stumbled on a wealth of videos of artists performing some song called &#8220;Mamy Blue.&#8221; I don&#8217;t recall ever hearing this song before. The first performance I decided to watch featured a catalog of Rock&#8217;s Unfulfilled Fashion Ideas. I did not like the song one bit, but with all the covers <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/please-explain-mamy-blue\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[271,127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}