There's nothing wrong with good, well-done, thoughtfully-created covers. Some covers are actually better than the original (see Tainted Love, Respect, Nothing Compares to U, etc). I'm Your Fan, the Leonard Cohen tribute album, is full of amazing covers of Cohen's work. The problem with most skating covers is that they're almost always cheap knockoffs instead of artful reinterpretations.
Do not conjure the spirits of dead artistic ideas!
If it is used next year, I'm blaming you
Paint it Black (any version), Beth Hart, Requiem for a Dream, and everything listed here and probably more that we've forgotten.
And TeamTodd&Jenni's CD collection. Both of those camps gave us "Two Men In Love" free skates for one of their pairs teams - ShiNagy and LiuBed. Inexcusable.
Also, songs with the word "Help!"
No La Traviata, no La Bohème, no Manon or Manon Lescaut? That's going overboard.
tastic that Fear and Gibson should be on it already.
Or Breakfast at Tiffany's, Sweet Charity, Gigi, Never on a Sunday, Irma la Douce and a whole whack of pop, jazz and rock songs.
Possibly Musetta is not quite so innocent
Mimi becomes a kept woman to a certain viscount between Acts III and IV but leaves him to die in Rodolfo's arms.
Is Gigi about sex trafficking? Gigi's aunts thought it would be a good idea for her to be Gaston's mistress, Gigi refused, then acquiesced, but then Gaston married her instead. Approximately the same ending as Pretty Woman. These women were in control of their own fortunes. They were of-age and used sex as economic tools. Not the same as being kidnapped for sex.
Probably best to avoid it anyway, given the score includes a song called "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" which is sung by an adult man.
It's not about trafficking but one of the previous posts also mentioned songs about sex work. Which is almost impossible to avoid considering that in the literary and musical canon, women are usually only mothers, saints or sex workers.
