![]() ![]() “Hurt” went from a song by a frustrated young man radiating pain to a dying old man’s swan song to the end. The best covers, and I mean the best, are when the track reveals something new about the original song, when a performer makes it their own to such a degree that the source material is elevated, or altered, or warped, so as to reconsider what made it good or bad or interesting in the first place. ![]() When David Berman died in 2019, for instance, it was met with professionally recorded covers, a tribute album, and live performances of his various songs within days. I’m not sure how hot a take this is, but the 2010s were easily the best decade ever for covers live covers are all over YouTube the morning after they debut, the news cycle has become steadfast in covering them ad nauseum, and they’ve quickly become a way for us to show grief en masse. I have my own rules about what makes a good cover, of course-I can’t respect cover-only artists, which YouTube has made readily present, and if you’re doing basically the same thing as the original get outta here-but God, I love a good cover.
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