Everywhere we go today we have choices to make; regular or diet coke, "would you like fries with that?", pink or black chucks, hybrid or SUV etc etc. Lately when it comes to music it seems the choices are being made for us. The same stars sing the same songs. Only the corporate labels get to decide who sings what. But there are options out there! If anyone is a fan of Glee you see this show take songs from all over such as Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline" or Chris Brown and Jordin Sparks more recent duet "No Air" and completely rock them! Some might say, and by some I of course mean Kelsey and myself, that they even sing them BETTER than the original artists. That's not to say that some covers out there aren't complete and utter disasters. Who could forget the unfortunate covers by Jessica Simpson both "Take My Breath Away" and "these Boots Were Made For Walking" really would have been better left alone. Though Glee mostly stays "inside the box" with their covers they do a couple of entertaining mash-ups combining two totally different songs such Katrina and The Waves' "Walking On Sunshine" and Beyonce's "Halo". These slightly out there covers make for something out of the ordinary that works! I feel that the key to a successful cover song is to make it your own. Take the example of Limp Bizkits cover of George Michael's "Gotta Have Faith", they start out being fairly close to the original and then take it and totally heavy metal it out. Instead of trying to conform themselves to the original they conform the original to them! More example of this can be found in the Punk Goes Pop series of albums created by Fearless Records. Paramore also does a great cover the recent Kings of Leon hit "Use Somebody" but below I've chosen to use my friend TJ's cover purely because I'm biased due to our friendship.. haha.. compare to the original also posted below!!
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