I recall a TV special in which James Taylor duetted with a much much younger woman (Katherine McPhee??) It was absolutely creepy. Taylor had a very predatory look, and the young woman stumbled over the lyric, and seemed to be looking for help.
Dean Martin.
Please remind me what you’re quoting?
You don’t remember this movie? Do you have a hangover?
In case you haven’t actually seen the movie, Eridosain’s response isn’t another quote, but a sly way of telling you.
But I’ll let you figure it out and not spoil the fun
Hell, even I got the reference and I didn’t see the movie.
Cerys Matthews and Tom Jones, ably accompanied by by noted ivory-tickler Jools Holland and his band.
Maybe not the perfect version, but it is at least very Welsh.
Miss Piggy and Rudolph Nureyev. Thread over.
There have been a few good gender reversal versions, but I’ve always wondered if Miss Piggy and Rudolph Nureyev were the first. Even if they weren’t the first, they certainly set the standard.
Another good gender reversal version (also from a Muppets presentation):
Joseph Gordon Levitt and Lady Gaga
It’s pretty good (seems a little under-rehearsed, but it’s fun and charming).
Yeah – that’s the version I was trying to remember before, where both singers are very flirty. I think it’s my favorite straightforward rendition of the song.
I mean, these have been linked to before, and folks have generally said it’s not objectionable except in some cases. So you tell us: do the traits that make it sometimes objectionable apply to genderswitch cases?
So, you’re just going to throw Chuck Jones under the bus, eh?
As for your gendered interpretation, Ms Germanotta and Mr Gordon-Levitt say you’re wrong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgK5odZtNkM
…I really ought to have read the thread this time. e_e
Gaga and JGL’s version is one of two I always think of. The other I’m either not finding online or seriously misremembering.
McPhee tends to look lost a lot.
The part where I get really uncomfortable is the verse where it comes out that they’re married to other people, and are cousins.
I’ve witnesses that song performed by a man and a woman, two men, and two women. it’s only the man/woman version that people find creepy. That says more about them than the song.
Zooey Deschanel and Leon Redbone sing it on the Elf soundtrack. She sings her part pretty much the same as she does in the shower scene. It’s pretty different from the She & Him version. So unless it’s Will Ferrell’s melodious voice you really like (or aren’t a fan of Leon Redbone) you might like it.
I don’t find the song objectionable any more than I find Singin’ In The Rain objectionable because Alex sang it in A Clockwork Orange.
No, if you watched the original clip from “Neptune’s Daughter”, the second half of the clip is Betty Garrett as the aggressor to Red Skelton.
There’s the same-gender version from Glee:
