And I’m not saying that the original is bad. You have to have a good song to have a good cover in my opinion. But sometimes the cover artist just understands the mission and takes what the original song did and expands on that a hundred times over.
What’re some of your guys’s favorites?
Heartbeats.
Original by The Knife,
cover by José González.
Same words, same melody, completely different universes.
I remember the impact it had when it came out. Beautiful