Sometimes songs are just better when someone else is singing them. When you’re looking for songs to tune out to that you haven’t heard ad nauseam, a cover is everything. Whether you’re a fan of rap gone indie or classics with a pop punk twist, this playlist has old favorites reimagined. Everyone loves a good cover — I’m not talking the awful 80s cover band that always plays at frat parties, but the reworking of a song you already overplay, made even better by an artist infusing it with their own identity.
The transformative power of music is apparent when a band covers an artist that you’re shocked they even listen to. That’s why America’s so obsessed with The Voice (it’s not only because of the Adam Levine/Blake Shelton bromance) — it gives up and coming artists the chance to rework your best-loved songs. Covers often sound either painfully similar to the original or overworked and overdone, but these all provide something that the original was lacking. Plug in your headphones, listen away, and see for yourself that sometimes the original isn’t everything.
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