Sep 302021
 
best cover songs of september
Beyoncé – Moon River (Mancini/Mercer cover

Any month with a new cover by Beyoncé is a big month. Admittedly, her piano-crooning “Moon River” like so many others have piano-crooned “Moon River” – and for a Tiffany’s ad no less – is slightly underwhelming. But we’ll take what we can get, and, even if the approach is hardly novel, Beyoncé’s got the pipes to deliver. Continue reading »

Aug 302021
 
pentatonix bts

How can you make two of the biggest pop songs of the year even poppier? By covering them a cappella! After polling their Twitter following as to which BTS song they should cover, five-piece Pentatonix decided to mash-up two of the Korean giants’ biggest hits (and their two English-language chart-toppers) “Butter” and “Dynamite.”

It would have been very easy to just have the songs blend into each other in succession, but Pentatonix interweave beats and lyrics of both songs together to create a joyful and bouncy three minutes of K-pop fun. Check out the cover below. Continue reading »

Mar 312021
 
best cover songs march 2021
Brandi Carlile – I Remember Everything (John Prine cover)

Millions saw Brandi Carlile cover John Prine’s final song “I Remember Everything” at the recent Grammy Awards. Turns out, it was a preview of a new album, a sequel to 2010’s Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine, one of the best tribute albums ever. Not much more info out there yet – it’ll be out in the fall, apparently – but it has a high bar to live up to. Continue reading »