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tallest man on earth covers

“When We Were Young,” Adele’s second single off 25, peaked at #14 on the pop charts. Amazing by most artists’ standards, but middling by hers (particularly following “Hello” topping every chart in existence). But as with so many of her songs before it, it’s lived on well past its chart run through endless covers. The latest, and maybe greatest, comes from Sweden’s The Tallest Man on Earth.

He performed it on the Swedish game show På Spåre, backed by local pop group Augustifamiljen. It’s a bigger and more lavish production than most of Kristian Matsson’s covers, which tend more towards fingerpicked folk tunes. But he sells it perfectly, finding a middle ground between his singer-songwriter sensibilities and Adele’s bigger soul belting.

Watch it below, along with a couple other covers he’s performed in recent months, of Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now,” Nick Drake’s “Bird Flew By,” and The Police’s “Roxanne” (performed in front of Sting no less).

Check out other Tallest Man on Earth covers – and there are so many more – in our archives.

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