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There we were, minding our own business, when it was brought to our attention that Justin Bieber had freestyled over Biggie Smalls' seminal Who Shot Ya on a radio show. Naturally, we were horrified, as you will be when you hear it ...
There we were, minding our own business, when it was brought to our attention that Justin Bieber had freestyled over Biggie Smalls’ seminal Who Shot Ya on a radio show. Naturally, we were horrified, as you will be when you hear it below. If you’ve recovered, go and have a butchers at five other hideous covers…
Rock isn’t all about releasing dazzling albums of pristine brilliance just like the Rolling Stones did – it’s also about whelping out lazy, ill-thought out, clunking records, just like the Rolling Stones did. Crafting a heinous cover version requires as delicate a touch as when writing a great song. Just as conscious thought was conspicuous by its absence when Keef created the Stones’ greatest moment - he dreamt the riff to Jumping Jack Flash - so clear and intelligent thought was taking a cigarette break when Duran Duran decided that the best way to plough a new career furrow was to cover Public Enemy’s 911 is a Joke.
After hearing the horrifying results, it’s clear that the group’s collective common sense didn’t just nip out to the corner shop for 20 Bensons – they swam to Virginia to pick the tobacco by hand, and took a mini-break in Cuba for rolling lessons on the way back.
But there’s often a lop-sided beauty to be found in the activities of the truly stupid, and awful cover songs almost always fulfil this criteria: versions of songs that are so dreadful that repeat listens are – horrifyingly – almost obligatory. And the aforementioned Duran Duran seems like a good place to start…
There we were, minding our own business, when it was brought to our attention that Justin Bieber had freestyled over Biggie Smalls’ seminal Who Shot Ya on a radio show. Naturally, we were horrified, as you will be when you hear it below. If you’ve recovered, go and have a butchers at five other hideous covers…
Rock isn’t all about releasing dazzling albums of pristine brilliance just like the Rolling Stones did – it’s also about whelping out lazy, ill-thought out, clunking records, just like the Rolling Stones did. Crafting a heinous cover version requires as delicate a touch as when writing a great song. Just as conscious thought was conspicuous by its absence when Keef created the Stones’ greatest moment - he dreamt the riff to Jumping Jack Flash - so clear and intelligent thought was taking a cigarette break when Duran Duran decided that the best way to plough a new career furrow was to cover Public Enemy’s 911 is a Joke.
After hearing the horrifying results, it’s clear that the group’s collective common sense didn’t just nip out to the corner shop for 20 Bensons – they swam to Virginia to pick the tobacco by hand, and took a mini-break in Cuba for rolling lessons on the way back.
But there’s often a lop-sided beauty to be found in the activities of the truly stupid, and awful cover songs almost always fulfil this criteria: versions of songs that are so dreadful that repeat listens are – horrifyingly – almost obligatory. And the aforementioned Duran Duran seems like a good place to start…
