Word: reworking
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Legacy does not offer a definitive answer. Rather, the result is a schizophrenic hybrid of attempts. No artist convincingly emulates Nicks; no artist successfully reworks her material. While this is fodder for lite-radio DJs (You can hear them breathlessly plug the tribute: "Can you believe it's been 25 years since Rumours came out? Let's hear the Goo Goo Dolls rework one of our favourites!"), the ultimate effect of Legacy is to leave us wondering what to do when it hovers closer to desecration than celebration...
...modern czars of pop, try to capture Stevie Nicks' exuberance, but almost completely ignore her contemplation. As a result, Legacy sounds artificially happy and at times, difficult to listen to. The band Tonic sounds cheerful in singing "I'm just second-hand news." As the Irish band, The Corrs, rework the track "Dreams," they too, seem to ignore the tortured meaning of the lyrics and delightedly croon, "Thunder only happens when it's raining/Players only love you when they're playing." The Corrs, however, do incorporate the hall-mark of 1990's music. They sing with a dance beat...
When The Cranberries rework "Go Your Own Way," they present a different problem. Dolores O'Riordan fails to sound sincere. She belts out "If I could, I'd give you my world," in bitter strains that sound as though she is still singing about bombs...
...order to rework the design for the first issue of the new executive board, the newly-elected executives browsed other newspapers, looking for features that they thought might work for The Crimson, Ramos says...
...disquieting realization that he'd completely forgotten what the original Whitewater crime was supposed to have been. Then Starr decided not to quit after all. My only consolation was the thought that with so many investigations of Bill Clinton going on, someday I'll probably be able to rework the theory and apply it to someone else...