Summer of Covers

One band that I have been following a little this summer Our Last Night. I posted their cover of "Stay" earlier this month and have been listening to it shamelessly nonstop. They have been doing this Summer of Covers deal where they cover well-known pop songs and mix it with their own style. 

So, I have been pondering (yes pondering) about different covers that I have come through the past few years and they all have something in common, authenticity. To me, covers only sound admirable if the artist doing the cover sticks with their original style, otherwise it sounds fake. Many people try to sound like someone else, try to look like someone else, try to act like someone else yet there is only value in the authentic (the only point of Sarte's philosophy that made sense to me).

Without further adieu here are some of my favorite covers by some of my favorite artists

Our Last Night - Mirrors (Justin Timberlake)

Marina and the Diamonds - Boyfriend (Justin Bieber)

Birdy - Skinny Love (Bon Iver)

Yael Naim - Toxic (Britney Spears)

Ed Sheeran/Passenger - No Diggity/Thrift Shop (Blackstreet/Macklemore and Ryan Lewis)

I hope you enjoyed these nuggets. Personally I enjoy all of these covers much more than the originals. I  apologize for the plethora of links I have just been spending too much time thinking about covers in general, so this should ease my frontal lobe.

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"I like the way you work it, no diggity."