The Beatles - Come Together Compared With Michael Jackson's Cover Version of Come Together

In "The Beatles - Come Together" the listener is made to feel relaxed and open minded through the use of lyrical choices and musical style, the tempo of the song is relitively slow with the background baseline instrumentals providing an almost atmospheric feel, this sound reflects upon the context of the early 60's to 70's and possibly influences from the late 50's as during this time many cultural changes were happening which meant that people felt uneasy in the things they said and did hence the slow relaxing tempo of the song which would intend to relax and calm people down allowing people to be happy, however this sound could be seen to be dark and brooding with the beat of the drum's punchy sound which would've been similar to the opinions of that era, the words of "come together" are controversial in itself as it isn't specific in why or who should come together, the word "together" implies that no matter the differences between people of that time that they should be as one group of equal people.

In Michael Jackson's version of "come together" the song is sped up and more rock oriented effects are added to the sound of the guitar and baseline and when accompanied by his unique vocal style the song is drawn more towards making the listener feel good with a celebratory style sound aesthetic demonstrating the difference in freedoms of happiness in the 90's compared to the 60's.

In my opinion although neither of the songs are of my musical preference there is a distinct difference and similarity between the cultures of the decades they came from and this is shown in the music. The Beatles' version had a much more sincere origin and more risky ideas that may not have been accepted easily, and the Michael Jackson version feels less like music but more as a way of entertainment for a large group of people.