per_mson said on March 22, 2005 10:55:

Hi there!

Sure! You can mail the song to me and I will put it online for you! Please mail to this address: [email protected] thanks!

Is the song also released on an album that one can buy?

Roxryder-V2002 said on March 22, 2005 12:14:

OOOHHH Great song, really interested in, cani have it?

[email protected]

Thanx in advance

belgianroxboy said on March 22, 2005 13:40:

thanx for doing it online!!

@ all others: please tell me your opinion for the song...

thanx

patrick

ATLTK said on March 22, 2005 15:38:

great song

ljus said on March 24, 2005 08:32:

hmmm... the lyrics sound really cheesy to me... like Disney meets Claudia Jung... i don’t know about marie’s Swedish lyrics. Maybe they are as cheesy, but since I like Swedish much and don’t understand it fully, it just sounds nicer...

i never thought of Marie singing ’Schlager’, when i listen to Schmetterling it has ’Schlager’ written all over it. :(

but thanks for sharing and I know its horrible to get negative feedback. so, sorry for that, but you wanted to get feedback, I guess...

Lennon said on March 25, 2005 14:03:

The lyrics are okay, but the original text is more deeper in it’s meaning. You tried to keep phrases from the original and bring it into a more German context. That is a good idea.
But in the end it’s very hard to translate a song: you are another “writer” and you use another “language” than the original composer.
By the way, I write songs, too, in German and English language (just type in “Melancholodic” in google, if you’re interested). But so far I NEVER succeeded to translate not even one of MY OWN Lyrics from German into English or the other way round. There get’s to much lost, and the languages are so different.

I think you should dare to bring more of your own into this song. The original and very serious theme (being young and having all you life in front of you, but with limited time) is much better transported with the swedish lyrics than with this “butterfly”-metapher.

The Arrangement is almost identical to the original version. Why not making a new, an own song, out of it. Imagine that you wrote it yourself, and that you only had the lyrics, the melody and the chords. Now sit down and find an own arrangement for it. Give it an own structure, own intrumental-melodies and so on.

I’m not a fan of coverversions, because they often have no “own” message. but a very few I like. For example the “Strange little Girls”-Album by Tori Amos contains only cover-versions, but never the less, they became Tori-Songs. Or listen to Gessles “Sheena is a punkrocker”. Then you know what I mean!

Your problem with this arrangement is, that you always will be compared to Marie’s original, when you try to copy it.

But if I should review it just as a song without knowing the original (which should be the case for listeners in Belgium) it’s a good recording. Could sound a little bit more up to date, but the vocal-takes, the recording and mix are okay. It’s what we call “Schlager” here in Germany, but not in a negative way!
But please remove the “vinyl-jitters” :-) Sounds not nostalgic to me, but like a failed Nero-Rip in those “digital” days.

Have a nice day,
Mario.

nessaja said on March 27, 2005 20:03:

Can anybody write down the lyrics please? :)

ljus said on March 29, 2005 07:12:

lennon!!! well said!

tori amos’ cover versions on strange little girls are great... she once said that she feels there is no point in doing a cover version if you don’t have a point... make the song one of your own, rather than just copy it!!!

i fully agree about the arrangement comment... i mean this is a totally late 80-ies early 90-ies song, so even if we like the arrangement, it just seems a bit dusty in 2005, soundwise...

and also the lyrical aspect... i agree, you tried to stay with the original text, but often something like that doesn’t fully work... maybe you needed to free yourself from that cage... maybe you could capture the original spirit and keep true to the original without staying so close to the text?!? bla bla... sorry, i know it’s easy to sit here in the comfy chair and criticise... i appreciate it very much that you shared your efforts with us

and the production sounds professional. i for my taste just think that this is a different genre we’re talking about. Marie is pop. your singer sounds Schlager (what is that in English?!? easy listening?!?)

take care

eduard33 said on May 29, 2005 14:58:

nice cover, just miss power, energy, stress, dynamics in vocal. the song’s sleeping!

AURYTE said on June 10, 2005 06:38:

I like this cover version. It’s really great:)

Arlanda said on June 10, 2005 10:05:

@Bibi I so agree nothing to add!

TheChange said on June 10, 2005 23:39:

I like this version very much!
well done!