Whether we love 'em or hate 'em, they're out there. Whether they completely ruin something great or make it even better, they've always been there and will keep on being made. That's right: cover songs.
Recently on YouTube I found this cover by 30 Seconds to Mars of Lady Gaga's song, Bad Romance. Personally I didn't like it at first, but as the song kept going, I started to like it and now I listen to it a lot. Everyone has their opinions on cover songs, but it varies from cover to cover. I also listened to a cover of the Transformers theme song by Black Lab (link once I find it again) and I didn't like it at all. It just sounded wrong. There are also tons of covers of songs on YouTube by random people; some of them are great and others make you wish you were deaf.
Usually people complain about cover songs because they are done in a different key or a different style, which can completely change the song. This is so in the above cover by 30 Seconds to Mars where they take Lady Gaga's pop, crazy, fast Bad Romance and change it into their own slow, acoustic-type song. To some people this ruins the song, but I think it's interesting that a song can sound so different yet the same just based on someone else's take on it.
There were so many remakes of "Kids of America" that I don't even remember whose song it was originally. The Jonas Brothers remade it and called it "Kids of the Future" but the rest of the lyrics are the same. I like the one that was in Clueless.
ReplyDeleteAnd I like the 13-year-old from Ellen's version of Paparazzi.
Hey Jessica! Your blog is awesome. All your posts are interesting. I've learned a lot through them. Regarding cover songs, I think that most of them are nowhere near as good as their original versions. An exception I can think of is a cover of the Heart song "Barracuda" by country singer Gretchen Wilson. She was accompanied by Alice in Chains. You should check it out.
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ReplyDeleteI usually like cover songs just to see how different yet similar people can make the songs. Even if I do like the cover though, I still typically like the original version better.