My Acolyte Journey: 2014.10

Bang Bang
Cher, covered by Nancy Sinatra as produced by Sonny Bono (what happened there!?)

I don't think this song gets enough credit. The original Cher song isn't actually the heart of the song. I think Nancy really finds the exact way I want to hear the lyrics; it's just slow enough and utterly melancholy. I mean, the wawawa guitar is awful, admittedly. But I really like My Baby Shot Me Down for the mood it puts me in. Finally: this photograph, though.

I would buy this song if they remastered Nancy without the wawawa, because in the same way that neunundneunzigluftballons really benefitted from removing the overdriven 80s guitar and, like, all the hair, so would this song benefit from an update. Sadly, Nancy is dead, shot down by her brother when she was 5.