"For a long time I thought, why bother to record pieces that have been recorded so many times already?" he said.
It may be a necessary part of the process but in the end, having to explain why your album sounds the way it does or why you decided to record the whole thing under your sink in the nude, can really only succeed in killing some of the magic.
This explains both the lengthy recording (the drums took them three months) and also why they decided to record Native Speaker themselves.
"The record company asked why I wanted to record old songs, so I said, 'Well, I like 'em better than the new ones'," says Tony Bennett, midway through a show comprised of his beloved jazz standards.
Strait never explained why he chose to record "Baby Blue" — in the liner notes to his 1995 boxed set, he said only that it was a "pretty song," and that Aaron Barker, who wrote it, cut such a good demo that Strait was hard-pressed to improve on it.
I don't do this one, incidentally, which is why I wanted to record it.
Selena expressed why she wanted to record "El chico del apartamento 512":... ......I really wanted to record this song when I first heard it.
Which is why everyone scrambled to record him replaying the day's messages on his answering machine.
As R.O.O.T.S. was Flo Rida's second studio album, he wanted to show listeners musical growth by "broaden[ing] my horizons," which was why he decided to record the song.
In an interview for In Demand, Lewis explained why she chose to record the songs, saying that she thought female interpretations of them would provide a "powerful perspective", because of the how the originals were sung by male vocalists.
