A couple of tracks from the Sony/BMG catalogue

[koganbot]

On June 25, 2002, regarding Shakira, I wrote "She's the only singer I can think of who could pull off convincing versions of both 'My Heart Will Go On' and 'Like A Rolling Stone.'"

Unbeknownst to TV-less me, American Idol had debuted exactly two weeks earlier, and would soon give us Kelly Clarkson.

Who, besides Shakira or Kelly, do you think could do it?

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[koganbot]

I think Boney M could pull off brilliantly listenable dance versions of both those songs, though whether they'd carry much of those song's original content or sensibility is open to question. I can imagine a heavily reverbed version of "Like A Rolling Stone" somewhere on their 10,000 Lightyears album.

I could imagine Donna Summer trying either but probably falling short on both.

I guess by "convincing" I don't just mean, "Make the song their own" but also "Carry the sensibility of the originals along with them." Which is to say I could imagine Kelly and Shakira delivering the strip-it-all-away-and-start-over desperation of "Like A Rolling Stone" and also giving a heartfelt reading of the full-blown platitudes of "My Heart Will Go On," Kelly even more than Shakira, I think.