Tony Bennett and Kanye West's "The Good Life"
I saw two pop stars more than 50 years apart in age sing (or rap) about their idea of "The Good Life," this week.
I saw two pop stars more than 50 years apart in age sing (or rap) about "The Good Life," this week. On Wednesday, it was Kanye West, who played the Wells Fargo Center with Jay-Z. West's song of that name is built on a sample of Michael Jackson's "P.Y.T." in which he defined the good life as being "where we like the girls who ain't on TV / 'Cause they got more ass than the models / The good life, so keep it comin' with the bottles."
On Friday, it was Tony Bennett at the Academy of Music. For him, "The Good Life," written by Sacha Distel, Jean Brousoulle and Jack Reardon, and originally known as "Le Belle Vie" in French, is less about bottle poppin' and booty, is more concerned with melancholy and the difficult mysteries true romance. "The good life / To be free, and explore the unknown / Like the heartaches / When you learn you must face them alone."
Bennett and West's good lives are below.
My review of the Kanye / Jay-Z show is here. Look for a Tony Bennett review in the Monday Inquirer.
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