Bad Covers
I wonder if that really happened before, and I wonder how she did it. Haha.
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I don’t know why, but I just really hate it when bad bands cover great songs.
It just sounds gross and pathetic.
I just heard Avril Lavigne sing “Imagine” by John Lennon, and honestly, people should just leave the song alone because it just makes themselves sound ridiculous. The only worthy cover of “Imagine” was by A Perfect Circle, the rest just pollute and ruin the original completely.
I think there’s something terribly ironic about Avril singing a pro-peace song, when she’s always snotty and giving the finger to everyone. What’s with all the bands singing John Lennon songs anyway? Not that they care about anything else but themselves.
What really ticked me off was Panic at the Disco! singing “Karma Police” by Radiohead. Butchered. It wasn’t even funny at all, I wanted to cry. It was one of my favourite songs, shit. The only good that cover does is introducing sad and dramatic teenagers to Thom Yorke’s intellectually stimulating lyrics, but they’ll probably somehow twist the lyrics into their sick emo logic.
Come to think of it, every Radiohead cover I’ve heard sound the same – like poop. Damian Rice, Korn, Panic, John Mayer, etc. Some of them try to sound artsy-fartsy by singing acoustic to songs like Creep, they usually just sound pseudo-emo.
Sorry if I sound snotty, Panic!’s version just really ticked me off.
2 Responses to “Bad Covers”
Yeah. Haha, the toilet cubicle at IMM! Someone must’ve tried to do something like that. Omg.
PFFT, If Avril’s on it, I won’t like it. 
Cubicle, as in, toilet cubicle? Work cubicle? But anyway, LOL. You take one arh? In Singapore?
Anyway, I found out today that a bunch of singers are coming together to sing John Lennon songs. The album’s ‘Instant Karma’, and I think it’s some sort of campaign to stop the crisis in Darfur or something: http://www.instantkarma.org/index.html
Yah, Avril was on it. Teehee.