Music Review - 5 Covers: Songs Originally Sung By Men Covered By Women

I like collecting cover versions. I've said before: Remakes = good, copies = bad. To me this applies to films, television and music; all adaptations. They should be the same but different. There's a cover going around at the moment of Paramore covering the Kings of Leon song Use Somebody, embedded below, which The Guardian described as a 'romantic down-to-earth studio performance'. I suppose that's what I look for in a cover. A distinction. A different angle. Something new that maybe even the o...

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