Taylor Swift’s cover of Earth, Wind & Fire’s ‘September’ is Getting DRAGGED 😒 by Some and Liked 😊 by Others!

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Taylor Swift’s cover of Earth, Wind & Fire’s ‘September’ is Getting DRAGGED by Some and Liked by Others!

This isn’t an April Fool! Taylor Swift sent the Internet into a tizzy on Friday when she released a breathy, folksy cover of Earth, Wind & Fire’s 1978 love jam “September” on Spotify. Her version stripped away the original’s funk-laden sensibility and presented the tune as a slow-burning countrypolitan song.

Covering a beloved song is tricky, and covering a beloved song in a new style is sure to irk some die-hard fans. So criticism was as swift as it was inevitable.

Monique Judge, a columnist for the black culture magazine the Root, took particularly issue with the cover. In a column titled “Taylor Swift Just Disrespected Earth, Wind & Fire With Her Cover of ‘September,’ ” Judge hoped the song was “some type of messed up Friday the 13th prank.”

“There are certain songs you don’t mess with, especially if you don’t have the range, and we all know Taylor Swift has all the range of a dial tone,” Judge wrote.

“Maurice White did not die for this,” she added, referring to one of the song’s writers, who died at the age of 74 because of complications from Parkinson’s disease.

Kelsie Gibson of Popsugar offered a defense of the tune, however lukewarm, in a piece titled “Taylor Swift Just Made a Classic Earth, Wind & Fire Song Country, and I Don’t Hate It.” In the piece, she argued that “While the stripped-down version is a complete 180 from the soul classic, it’s also strangely reminiscent of Swift’s older country material.”

“I have to say, I kinda love it,” Gibson added.

The conversation grew more complicated on Twitter, where the song was met with bewildered detractors and fierce defenders.

“It is with a heavy heart I must announce that I listened to the Taylor Swift cover of September,” Connor Finnegan of Inverse tweeted.

One particularly dramatic user said the cover “has killed my spirit!” Another made this bold claim: “Taylor Swift covering September has ruined my Friday.”

The cover’s defenders were just as passionate, however, calling it everything from “hella lit” to “absolutely beautiful” to “Taylor Swift’s greatest cover of all time.”

One user wrote that the song “hit me in the feels because my birthday is on 9/20, and it’s one of my mother’s favorites. (She came of age in the 70s.) I can’t wait to play it for her when I get home!”

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BREAKING: Earth, Wind & Fire Founder Maurice White Dead at 74!

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BREAKING NEWS: Earth, Wind & Fire Founder Maurice White Dead at 74!

Earth, Wind & Fire founder Maurice White, whose horn-driven band sold more than 90 million albums and made hits like "September," ''Shining Star" and "Boogie Wonderland," died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles, his brother Verdine said.

White, who was 74, suffered from Parkinson's Disease and had retreated from the public even as the band he founded kept performing.

"My brother, hero and best friend Maurice White passed away peacefully last night in his sleep," Verdine White, also a member of the band, told The Associated Press on Thursday. "While the world has lost another great musician and legend, our family asks that our privacy is respected as we start what will be a very difficult and life changing transition in our lives. Thank you for your prayers and well wishes."

Earth, Wind & Fire, a nine-piece band centered featuring the two White brothers, singer Philip Bailey and the distinctive horn section, were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. The band's most successful period started with the 1975 album "That's The Way of The World" and continued through the rest of the decade. Other hits included "Serpentine Fire," ''That's the Way of the World" and a cover of the Beatles' "Got to Get You Into My Life."

White publicly revealed he had Parkinson's at the time of the band's Hall of Fame induction, but he had shown symptoms of the neurological disease back in the 1980s. He stopped touring with the band in 1995 because of weariness from the road combined with his health problems.

White said in an interview with The Associated Press in 2000 that he wanted the band's music to inspire instead of just entertain.

"That was the whole objective, to try to inspire young people to believe in themselves and to follow through on their ideas," he said. "We've touched so many people with these songs."

A former session drummer, White founded the band Salty Peppers in the Chicago area in the late 1960s and had some modest success in the Midwest. After relocating to Los Angeles and ditching all of the band members except Verdine, he renamed the outfit Earth, Wind & Fire after the three elements in his astrological chart.

Bailey's bright falsetto defined many of Earth, Wind & Fire's hits. "We experienced pure magic together," Bailey said during the band's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, standing next to White.

The band's early sound was jazzy, but evolved into an exuberant, horn-driven mix of jazz, funk, gospel and Big Band music. Their appeal wasn't just on records but on stage, their concerts a whirl of dancing, fog machines, multi-colored lights and glittery costumes. Earth, Wind & Fire performed everywhere from the Super Bowl to the White House.

Maurice White also had a substantial side career producing other artists, including Barbra Streisand and Cher. In the 1970s, he co-wrote and co-produced the Emotions' No. 1 hit "Best of My Love."

White was born in Memphis in 1941, the son of a doctor and grandson of a New Orleans piano player. He showed musical gifts at an early age, studying at the Chicago Conservancy. During the 1960s, he backed Muddy Waters, the Impressions and others and worked as a session drummer in Chicago.

The band performed in the movie, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and had hits with the ballad "After the Love Has Gone," ''All 'n' All," ''Let's Groove" and "Fall in Love With Me." The band took a four-year hiatus in the 1980s and then returned, its primary success then on the road.

"We live in a negative society," White told Newsweek at the height of the band's success. "Most people can't see beauty and love. I see our music as medicine."

You see this is what "you people" do not understand. There are already groups that do that. "Stop the violence" is the biggest one. This is not the BLM movements goal. Just because you don't see other groups coming together to fight against balck on black crime and gang activity doesn't mean it doesn't happen. You need to find out for yourself and stop parroting talking head lines.

You just want the black people to do what you say cause you know better for them. Oh OK. They should be subservient to you.

They have gotten more attention in America now because we are talking about a white cop. You guys never made any noise when those 320 black people die by another black hand. Rodney king....white cops. I am sure black people have died inbetween that and now. It was not on your radar but now you are using it as an argument.

Lets go down Memory Lane...shall we!

Rest in Power Sir, And thanks for all the great music you've Blessed us with!