I really like all the work this guy did. He worked from the 1880's to the 1930's. I don't feel like organizing these images, but there is sort of a chronology. He really liked cats and starting in his mid 20's would only make cat art. He started off with realistic stuff but then got notoriety for his anthropomorphised cats, who play sports, go on dates, have parties, etc. Then in the 1920's he started to shows signs of schizophrenia, and thats when his paintings got really weird and wild. People try to organize these ones in orders to try to show his schizophrenia getting worse, but the truth is that nobody knows exactly the chronology for these ones. After these weird ones though he went back to regular anthropomorphised ones for the last part of his life like he was doing earlier.
H. G. Wells said of him, "He has made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look and live like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves."
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To me, these are two completely different songs. Whitney Houston definately delivers this song a lot more powerfully. The way the backing music is used in the different versions changes things a lot, especially with the acapella intro in Whitney Houston's. Whitney's is presented like the type of thing you would want to slow dance to with somebody, which is deceiving because the content is not something you want to celebrate in. Its arranged to be very epic, big crescendos and things.
Dolly Parton's is a lot more subtle and does not rely on the big dramatic changes to give you the chills. The arrangement is a lot more straight forward and simplistic. This version feels a lot more honest, especially with the spoken word section in there. The lyrical content comes out a lot more in this version, which makes it a lot sadder. Definitely not a couples song.
For me, Dolly Parton's version wins by a landslide.
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