That's absurd.

Totally absurd. What she's singing is not "our" music. It's a cheap and mascaraed imitation. Same goes for when Streisand tries to sing it, when Rufus tries to sing it, when even Kathryn Jenkins tries to sing it.

It's classical music. It's meant to be sung by classically trained singers. It isn't going to die if Jewel doesn't sing it or if pop stars don't sing it. All this talk about the death of a 400 year old art form that has survived countless evolutions, the Beatles, Elvis, Madonna, Michael Jackson and Jewel is absurd. No one is going to go to the opera because they heard Jewel sing the song. If they do, they're going to be disappointed and will probably never come back.

You keep the art form alive by performing it and performing it well. Not by beating it up and putting it in a different genre.

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