I got curious to see how Ortega's Cairo would sound singing compared to her Wednesday. I have both cloned, though Cairo might need some cleaning up (I only had an hour and a half to work with here, while I had six hours to work with Wednesday...getting clean audio from less is harder, but 'Cairo' sounded fine in the teaser I made, so....).
The accents are nearly identical since it's just paste over, but Cairo sounds sadder. Someone sounding sadder than Wednesday? Just bury me now and be over with it.
It does show the difference in acting, but I chose audio from her narration rather than the action acting (which would have needed cleaning/processing since a lot of it has setting reverb). With Wednesday, I took more from the action on screen.
(I'm likely using Wednesday's version for another Afterburn teaser.)
Ortega was aight. 🪲🌺🌸🌿✨
ETA: I don't have Wednesday's solo uploaded for comparison... it's just the duet atm.
If you could read my mind, love
What a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like an old time movie
'Bout a ghost from a wishing well
In a castle dark or a fortress strong
With chains upon my feet
You know that ghost is me
And I will never be set free
As long as I am a ghost, you can't see
RIP Gordon Lightfoot - ‘If You Could Read My Mind’
If I could read your mind, love what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind the drugstore sells. When you reach the part where the heartaches come The hero would be me
But heroes often fail. And you won't read that book again because the ending's just too hard to take
I'd walk away like a movie star who gets burned in a three way script. Enter number two, a movie queen to play the scene of bringing all the good things out in me
But for now, love, let's be real
I never thought I could act this way and I've got to say that I just don't get it. I don't know where we went wrong but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.
If you could read my mind, love, what a tale my thoughts could tell, and if you read between the lines you'll know that I'm just trying to understand the feelings that you lack
I'd walk away like a movie star
Who gets burned in a three-way script
Enter number two
A movie queen to play the scene
Of bringing all the good things out in me
But for now love, let's be real
I never thought I could act this way
And I've got to say that I just don't get it
I don't know where we went wrong
But the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back
GORDON LIGHTFOOT (1938-Died May 1st 2023,at 84).Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music. He is credited with helping to define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s.He has been referred to as Canada's greatest songwriter and was known internationally as a folk-rock legend. Lightfoot's biographer Nicholas Jennings said, "His name is synonymous with timeless songs about trains and shipwrecks, rivers and highways, lovers and loneliness."Lightfoot's songs, including "For Lovin' Me", "Early Morning Rain", "Steel Rail Blues", "Ribbon of Darkness"—a number one hit on the U.S. country chart,with Marty Robbins's cover in 1965—and "Black Day in July", about the 1967 Detroit riot, brought him wide recognition in the 1960s. Canadian chart success with his own recordings began in 1962 with the No. 3 hit "(Remember Me) I'm the One", followed by recognition and charting abroad in the 1970s. He topped the US Hot 100 or Adult Contemporary (AC) chart with the hits "If You Could Read My Mind" (1970), "Sundown" (1974); "Carefree Highway" (1974), "Rainy Day People" (1975), and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (1976), and had many other hits that appeared in the top 40. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Lightfoot
Still writing. Let Daddy write. It'll be good, I promise.
ETA: Also kudos to whoever made this .gif since it shows them both being moved by the same things (their presence/proximity, and the poetry reading itself).