2 But with its romantically world-weary lyric, soothing melody, and mild variation of the conventional thirty-two-bar song structure, it was accepted as an olive branch across the generation gap.13 The song was quickly covered by every old-line orchestra leader and vocalist who dreamed of being more than a nostalgia act, a
I find this happening with many artists in modern time, releasing music that isn't their "normal brand" and it succeeding.