Jane Austen, Rock Star
A band called One Ring Zero has produced an album of reinvented klezmer music with lyrics by some of today’s best-known writers. The author of the review muses that Jane Austen would have been a pretty good addition to the august company.
This brings up an interesting point: can writers of novels and poems write decent pop lyrics? I imagine that anything William Faulkner or Hemingway might have produced would not even pass muster, while Charles Dickens or Jane Austen might have somehow become the Brill Buildings of their times.
We love that idea.
