{"id":9825,"date":"2014-10-29T07:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T14:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=9825"},"modified":"2014-10-27T15:02:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T22:02:55","slug":"new-music-revue-tony-bennett-and-lady-gaga-covers-album-disappoints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2014\/10\/29\/new-music-revue-tony-bennett-and-lady-gaga-covers-album-disappoints\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>New Music Revue<\/em>: Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga covers album disappoints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Tony_Bennett_and_Lady_Gaga_-_Cheek_to_Cheek.tiff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-9826\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Tony_Bennett_and_Lady_Gaga_-_Cheek_to_Cheek.tiff\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga<br \/>\n<i>Cheek to Cheek<br \/>\n<\/i>(Streamline\/Interscope\/Columbia)<br \/>\n2.5\/5<\/p>\n<p>This collaboration may come as a surprise, but as soon as you listen to the first song, it makes sense. Bennett and Gaga\u2019s voices sound very serendipitous together; in combination, their voices remind me of an old Judy Garland and Fred Astaire duo.<\/p>\n<p>But here comes the big \u201chowever\u201d: every song on the album is a cover. There\u2019s nothing I haven\u2019t heard before, so I would rather put on Garland and Astaire.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett and Gaga declared that this album is designed so that the younger generation could appreciate jazz, but there\u2019s nothing young or fresh about the sound of this album.<\/p>\n<p>The songs are recorded very well, and they are flawless in their execution. Both Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga are extremely talented, but I get the feeling that this album was just a money-grab ploy to combine two unlikely artists on one novelty disc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga Cheek to Cheek (Streamline\/Interscope\/Columbia) 2.5\/5 This collaboration may come as a surprise, but as soon as you listen to the first song, it makes sense. Bennett and Gaga\u2019s voices sound very serendipitous together; in combination, their voices remind me of an old Judy Garland and Fred Astaire duo. But here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-october-29-2014"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9827,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9825\/revisions\/9827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}