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What Makes a Great Cover Song?

What separates an average cover song from a truly great one? Some covers become even more iconic than the originals, but what ...
Ryan is a lifestyle and culture journalist born and raised in the Philippines. He primarily covers film, television, music, and all things pop culture. Beyond writing, you can find him buried in ...
Back in March, during the kickoff to the latest leg of her Radical Optimism tour in Melbourne, Dua Lipa told the crowd she had a crazy idea. “To make my life a little bit harder, I thought, ‘Why don’t ...
Making a good cover song isn’t easy, and most bands are lucky if they can simply do justice to the original. However, there's a short list of bands and musicians that have outdone the original song ...
‘Pandering to the male gaze’: Sabrina Carpenter’s album cover for Man’s Best Friend That was down to the controversial cover art, on which the former Disney kid poses on all fours while a faceless man ...
Liz Giuffre does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
Erielle Sudario is a Collider News and Feature Author from Australia and has worked in the journalism industry since 2018. She has a passion for entertainment and pop culture news and has interviewed ...
Many people prefer certain song covers to the original, which is perfectly fine. On the other hand, there are songs that people are clueless about, even if they are song covers in the first place!
Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter is laced with samples and covers of iconic songs, but are you catching on to them? We definitely did on our own but TikTok creator and human Shazam, Jarred Jermaine, has ...
Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control” is officially one of the biggest songs in Billboard Hot 100 history. For Swims, though, it started not with originals, but his YouTube covers that initially brought him ...
Trivium's Matt Heafy has shown himself quite adept at covers through his social media channels over the last five or six years and now he and his band are seeking input from fans on which song they ...
Me listening to the Paradise soundtrack while writing this. Photo: Brian Roedel/Disney Using these covers is both a misguided choice and one of the things I appreciate most about Paradise. A drama ...