SOAK Covers Her Song of the Year: The 1975’s “Love It If We Made It”

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Apr 232019
 
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Last year, Pitchfork caused a small stir on music Twitter by naming the 1975’s sprawling pop hit “Love It If We Made It” their song of the year. One musician who agreed is Irish singer SOAK, who recently covered the song for the BBC.

“I think it’s the best song of this year,” she said on air. “They’re such an incredible band anyways, but this song stood out to me so much. It’s like one huge breath, the whole song, where they just voice their frustrations at the state of the modern world. It doesn’t give up.” Continue reading »

Cover Me Q&A: What’s a cover song you like by an artist you dislike?

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Oct 072015
 

Welcome to Cover Me Q&A, where we take your questions about cover songs and answer them to the best of our ability.

Here at Cover Me Q&A, we’ll be taking questions about cover songs and giving as many different answers as we can. This will give us a chance to hold forth on covers we might not otherwise get to talk about, to give Cover Me readers a chance to learn more about individual staffers’ tastes and writing styles, and to provide an opportunity for some back-and-forth, as we’ll be taking requests (learn how to do so at feature’s end).

Today’s question, from Cover Me staffer Raphael Camara: What’s a cover song you like by an artist you dislike?
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The Best Cover Songs of 2013

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Dec 192013
 

I’m not sure there were more great cover songs this year than any other. But there were more good ones.

What I mean by that is, the average quality of the covers we come across in the time we’ve been around has risen, rather dramatically. Whether they’re iTunes homepage singles or some guy emailing us his Bandcamp, more cover songs in 2013 avoid the old pitfalls than ever before. They don’t sound like they were recorded in a cereal box, substitute ear-bleeding volume for actual creativity, or – the worst cover sin of all – try to carbon-copying the original. With the ease of production and distribution available now, artists seemed to record covers only when they felt they had something to add, and do a halfway decent job committing those ideas to 1s and 0s. Continue reading »

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