The List: Covers

I have been watching a crazy amount of random YouTube videos lately and one day I happened across a cover of Beyonce's Why Don't You Love Me by Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. That got me thinking about covers and a musician's ability to take a well known song and alter it to fit their style, while still keeping the song's essence. I love covers because it's always interesting to hear a different interpretation and sometimes I end up liking the newer version better than the original. So after some searching and thinking, here are some of my favourite covers:

• KINA GRANNIS - Disturbia (Rihanna Cover)


• MARIA ARAGON - Born This Way (Lady Gaga Cover) (This is by an 11 year-old girl from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Lady Gaga fell in love and flew her out to perform at her concert in Toronto)


• KURT HUMMEL/CHRIS COLFER (Glee) - Rose's Turn (Cover from the musical Gypsy)


• AMY WINEHOUSE - Me and Mr. Jones (Billy Paul Cover)


• THE MAINE - Roses (Outkast Cover)


• BOYCE AVENUE - Superman (Five for Fighting Cover)


• MERCEDES JONES/AMBER RILEY (Glee) - Bust Your Windows (Jasmine Sullivan Cover)


• RAY LAMONTAIGNE - Crazy (Gnarls Barkley Cover)

Comment question: Have any covers that you like?