Rosé and Bruno Mars‘ “APT.” took a Korean drinking game, Toni Basil’s “Mickey” and a hooky pre-chorus reminiscent of “Bad Romance” and turned it into the best-selling song of 2025. But what happens when Musora takes it on?
Musora is a Canadian music instruction company with a few different platforms. Their flagship platform has a fun gimmick where they bring in a band, usually a Canadian one, and get them to cover a song from a wildly different genre on the spot. We’ve written up:
We’ve written about a few covers from the online music education service and channel Musora already. They invite bands into their studio and throw a song at them to cover in their own style and record the process for YouTube. The hope is that the band is unfamiliar with the song. Recently, they asked Toronto disco band The Free Label to cover a grunge classic. Continue reading »
The five-piece Norwegian prog-metal group Leprous has been making a name for itself since their first album in 2009. Now, they’ve released a video of their live cover, which was created as a part of Musora’s YouTube channel challenge: Covers on the Spot! In this series, each band is tasked to ‘take on’ a surprise song of the director’s choice.
This Northern European–infused cover goes hard, but still manages to keep a bit of that lighthearted feeling that the original 1985 hit had. Not to mention, this video is live and fun. When musicians make music live and are figuring things out, there’s often swearing and laughter. You’ll find both in this 17-minute challenge-based video. Continue reading »
Musora is a music education channel based out of the Greater Vancouver Area in Canada with a number of YouTube channels. Some of their channels have featured musicians performing famous songs. Recently, the main channel has started a series where musicians have to cover a song in their own style and they don’t know what it is ahead of time. We here at Cover Me have written up one other Musora spontaneous cover.
The most recent episode features self-described emo/pop-punk/post-hardcore band Good Terms taking on Blondie’s “Call Me.” “Call Me” was actually written by Giorgio Moroder for American Gigolo, and lead singer Debbie Harry wrote lyrics to it once she was brought in. Blondie then performed the song and it became one of their biggest hits.
From the very opening, it is clear that Good Terms understand the purpose of the Musora challenge. Gone is any hint of Moroder’s electronic disco – from the very beginning it is post-hardcore guitars and drums. Lead singer Brian McShea follows the vocal melody but sings much more in an emo style to begin with.
For the chorus there’s a bit of a break and then a rhythm that is almost 3rd wave ska. There’s another little breakdown before the real show begins: during the second verse Good Terms go full screamo as bassist Geo Botelho briefly takes over the vocals. The chorus is the same as the first but then the bridge is completely transformed into a full post-hardcore/scream breakdown.
It works extremely well and it’s all the more impressive that they just did it on the spot. The full performance starts around 10:58 but it’s fun to watch them working it out too:
Musora is a music education company in British Columbia. I know them from their Drumeo brand’s YouTube channel where famous drummers teach drumming. What I like, though are the videos where these famous drummers try to play along to songs they’ve never heard before. Basically, they listen to a song without the drum track and have to make up their own drum part on the spot. It’s a fun way of showing off the musical talent of the drummer while also showing their human side.
Now Musora itself has a series of videos riffing off the Drumeo idea, with an artist coming in to their studio, listening to a song they don’t know (or don’t know well) and covering it on the spot. The latest video is pop duo Fionn (also from BC), made up of twin sisters, covering System of a Down‘s “Toxicity.” Obviously the song is outside their wheelhouse and only one member of the backing band is able to identify the song to start. Continue reading »