Reply #72: So why is it okay [View All]

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for Jimi Hendrix to do his own interpretation; and not okay for other performers, such as Whitney Houston, to do their interpretations?

It's just a song. Granted, it has a lot of symbolic and emotional baggage. But it's still just a song. Just as the flag is just a piece of fabric. To deny artists the right or privilege to do their own interpretations is just as silly as not allowing images of the flag to be used in uses that are, let us say, non-traditional.