If you have children, you know this cover. Because your children have the movie 'Cars', and they play it over and over and over. And over. Then again, before playing it once more on top of repeating it after they've played it endlessly.
'Life is a Highway' was released by Tom Cochrane in 1991 on the album 'Mad, Mad World'. The song was his only Top 40 hit in the USA, as well as a staple on Canadian radio.
In 2006, Rascal Flatts recorded the song for the Disney/Pixar movie 'Cars', and it was awarded the 'Favorite Song From a Movie' award at the People's Choice Awards. Which isn't much to be proud of. It's the People's Choice Awards we're talking about here.
The thing that gets me about this video is it's almost typical of movie soundtrack singles. Very little effort other than having the band 'play along', with a dash of move clips thrown in, just in case you didn't know what movie it was from, or had never heard of the movie and needed the studios to market to you some more.
It's just that terrible.
I was never a big Tom Cochrane fan, but at least I could respect him for being a real musician and not dishing out studio-mandated crap, or playing along to something other people wrote for you and called 'your sound'.
But having heard this, I feel for Tom. Did he need the money, or did a studio/record label lackey with the power to sell Tom's music make this decision for him?
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