https://youtu.be/TeFiIjMIlRw?si=jpbl8uF_GDU8R6fp
This is an awesome medieval version of creep and where I got the lyrics from
https://www.fellandfair.com/our-story
This is where I got the very handsome gentleman’s photos from! They are a a company that does videos and photos, and also sells garb.
Well, if you haven’t checked out her “Dust in the Wind” collaboration with Algal the Bard (on his channel) that’s linked at the end of “House of the Rising Sun”, definitely do that. I wouldn’t consider myself an expert, but the “Bardcore” channel has quite a few playlists of period songs done in an instrumental ‘bardcore’ style, which seems like the popular approach. I have yet to run across anybody who does the ‘full monty’ (by which I mean, including vocals) as well as Hildegard does.
Her version of “Creep” is actually my least favorite, because I feel she really needed to do more with the lyrics. “Weirdo” makes no sense in an old-fashioned sense, as “weird” means “fate”, often “ultimate fate” as in “your death”, but also in the sense of “prophet” or “fortune teller”. I am creep, I am… fated to die? I am a reader of entrails? I am… what? I don’t get it. These don’t mesh at all with the song.
That’s not to say I don’t like her music. I do! I’m a huge fan! My favorite is actually “Pumped Up Kicks” for doing exactly what I said “Creep” doesn’t do and translating a school shooter into a Welsh archer defending against an English invasion force… “I doth gaze upon the fyrd and I maketh a plan” where “fyrd” is an Anglo-Saxon army. It’s brilliant.