re: Fast Car performance at the Grammys- like it or not it’s really spectacular

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getting the flowers

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When did "the flowers" become a thing? I don't know why, but that expression just hits me as valley girl blonde ditz kinda dumb.

But on topic, I've heard that cover and it sounds like someone singing karaoke. Tracy Chapman was such a distinctive musician that I feel like you really have to take a different approach to bring anything to that song. Weird it became such a hit, but such is modern music. I guess at least they didn't slow it down to a funeral dirge with cheesy breathy emo-vocals like most covers I hear these days.