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Rikki La Rouge covers Thunder by Imagine Dragons

As a driving cha cha rumba

By Rikki La RougePublished 6 months ago 3 min read

my version of thunder by Imagine Dragons is throwback to Latin music of the 1950s. It’s cha-cha mambo. I love how intense my version of thunder by . It’s Latin music with English language lyrics. It’s tropical music Ingles. It’s got drive and intensity. I wanted to be as if not a little bit more intense than the original version of thunder by the Imagine Dragons. once again when I was recording this, I was songs that were relevant around that time and this was one of the songs that I really paid attention to I thought it would’ve been cool to do a classic Latin version of thunder and so I went for it and I’m glad that I did.

And once again after I had recorded it like I do with everything else doubts, and I wasn’t so sure about it after I had given it second thought about I recorded. Now that time is passed I listened to this song again just now as I was writing this article and I realize that actually did come out really that it came out great but it did come out really really good.

on writing this and listening back to my version of thunder by the I realize that it’s a cha-cha Roomba type song. Very reminiscent of Cuban music like that of Celia Cruz Latin banshee had called Sonora, Monte and Sarah in Cuba. When I recorded this song, I was thinking of traditional Cuban music the way it had been on the island before Castro. I succeeded in bringing that about. It I think it was done really well even though I’m the one that recorded it after leaving it alone for a little back to listen to it the way I’ve been a lot of the songs I recorded it actually sounds really good Now that I’ve given it all the second chance and stuff.

The brass the base and percussion I had to give it drive behind it behind the melody and just a really intense intensity about it. I had to do that and it came out really well like I say and I guess in the end everything did work out for that song as it was. Maybe I had the wrong people listening to it that you know just didn’t know what the vision was or couldn’t hear it but now that with so many of my other songs I recorded They all actually sounded really good in the end not great not fantastic but they did come out and sound really good in the end of it all.

In retrospect, everything came out, sounding really decent and listenable and things like that. As I was recording everything, I realized also that it needed to be danceable, and I can as I was recording all this these tracks at least many of the tracks are actually danceable and something I would listen to over and over again because it makes sense to me and others because it does sound even though they’re demos what I’m going for is always achieved.

This is the first I’ve ever actually posted the cover songs that I did anywhere. I just thought it’d be an interesting thing to post and then take notes as in you leaving something behind us to document what my processes as far as the music Was concerned because it does deserve an encore or at least a first time seeing it rather, but it does deserve attention because there is a lot of good stuff that come up with over the years and I’m glad that there’s a place like vocal media where I can put it all out there.

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Rikki La Rouge

Rikki La Rouge▲ Latin Crossover Artist ℗ Interscope Digital Distribution.Spinnup/Universal Music Group (UMG)(BMI)

cd San Antonio en 57th GRAMMY Award 1st round nomination ballot album (NARAS) management: indie flow/soundbirth/roadie music

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