{"id":37817,"date":"2011-10-14T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T17:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/william-shatner-is-back-seeking-major-tom\/"},"modified":"2011-10-14T17:14:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T17:14:00","slug":"william-shatner-is-back-seeking-major-tom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/william-shatner-is-back-seeking-major-tom\/","title":{"rendered":"William Shatner is back, “Seeking Major Tom”"},"content":{"rendered":"

William Shatner is back, turning legendary songs into odd, campy, contemplative compositions with the album “Seeking Major Tom.”<\/p>\n

\"Seeking Major Tom<\/p>\n

If Shatner’s proudly quirky style is up your alley, you’ll find it hilarious listening as Shatner talks his was through songs such as Elton John’s “Rocket Man.”<\/p>\n

What’s particularly interesting about the album is how a simple twist of presentation (i.e. talking instead of singing) completely changes the tone of a song (if you can get past the humorous aspects of Shatner’s transformations). A small, carefully placed change can absolutely make all the difference.<\/p>\n

Check out his version of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”<\/a> and listen for yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

William Shatner is back, turning legendary songs into odd, campy, contemplative compositions with the album “Seeking Major Tom.” If Shatner’s proudly quirky style is up your alley, you’ll find it hilarious listening as Shatner talks his was through songs such as Elton John’s “Rocket Man.” What’s particularly interesting about the album is how a simple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1848,1539,1847,1846],"class_list":["post-37817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-elton-john","tag-emergent-digital-practices","tag-queen","tag-william-shatner"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9PX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}