Instrumentation: Two electric guitars, a bass guitar, drums, Bette Midler's voice. The guitars get solos towards the middle part of song, and gives credit to the talent of the players. This adds to the electric guitar excitement that was part of this Rock N Roll genre. Midler's voice is sung with power to elicit a harsh and more manly tone. Additionally she sings loudly and almost like she is yelling to add to this illusion. The songs range is limited, as it was originally sung by the Rolling Stones. Her femininity comes out when she screeches high notes to the lyrics, "Aint I hot enough, Rich enough."
Vocal Range: For the majority of the song, Midler sticks to the original notation by the Rolling Stones, thus resulting in the songs alto sound, and repetitive vocal patterns. She adds high notes in the song, but they are typically yelled out.
Originality: During the parts of the song, Midler adds novelty to the famous song. By coming in before and after the beat, and adding slides to the song she makes it her own.
Tempo: Compared to the original, Midler's version is much more upbeat, and fast. Most likely duple meter.
Texture: The song is homophonic, because the instruments move with Midler's voice, and do not add any straying musical sequences. The song, thus, has a thin texture. The only force that has any influence over the texture of the song, is Midler's voice, and he screaming and attempts at giving off a harsher voice, does not add much to the song.
Lyrics, and her performance: I liked when she stated to her audience, "NOW write this down." I felt like this was Midler's way of grabbing the audiences attention and specifically men's attention and recognition. As a woman singing this song about attraction, desire and sex, she adds a new sexiness with her voice and grunts. I thought the section about her sister being used by men was interesting because Midler herself is questioning why she is not good enough for a man.
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