I've rarely read a post where I so strongly disagree with almost everyone! The trend here seems to be a "prettier" version of songs, which completely lack the genuine quality of the original performer. The outlier is All Along The Watchtower, where Jimi Hendrix really did create an equally valid version; I agree that's hard to argue with. Another which comes to mind is Respect by Aretha Franklin. Even Otis Redding had to agree that her version was much better!
what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original?
The first ones to come to mind are Whitney’s version of I Will Always Love You and Allen Stone’s Georgia On My Mind but I would love to hear other contributions as well! I feel like there are a lot of songs where a covered version gets more popular than the original and people end up not realizing that it is a cover (ex. i had a friend that genuinely believed the Jonas Brothers wrote Year 3000). so, what‘a a song that was written by one artist but (figuratively) owned by another?
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