Originally Posted by Renton
The best music video of 2013 (a must see): A point by point critique.
1. The percussion during the short breaks between verses is plainly off-beat and do not much resemble the original Red Hot Chili Peppers song.
2. There is a lot of chord-simplifying that comes standard with acoustic covers of non-acoustic songs. This is fine. However, slightly androgynous hot woman (hereafter SAHW) has simplified them to too much of a degree, often playing only major or minor chords in place of 7th and minor 7th chords. This greatly changes the timbre of the song. What made the melody of John Frusciante's riffs so pretty was the subtle inversions on basic chords. Alas, most of this nuance is lost in SAHW's cover.
3. More on guitar, there's a lot of frantic strumming bridging one riff to the next riff. This is a common technique for novice or novice-intermediate guitar players, to smooth out inevitable mistakes that occur in novice to novice-intermediate quality playing.
4. SAHW chose to sing in a higher register than Anthony Keidis did in the original. As she is female that is to be expected. However she chose to go an octave lower during Keidis's falsetto part in the coda. Seems a dubious choice considering that's the climax of the song.
5. And speaking of the "under the bridge" coda, she just chops that part off. This is like if someone remade The Empire Strikes Back and cut to black just before Luke's confrontation with Vader.
Reading this you'd almost think that the song wasn't total dogshit to begin with.
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