Submitted by sleekgreek t3_10ml6ih in Music
Ok, I'm older, GenX. mostly a punk rock and old rap guy. Recently heard Miley cover Nothing Else Matters and also Fergie blow out Paradise City and was pretty surprised. Any other surprising covers like these?
Pop and rock are both wide genres so this is a bit broad but:
Lissie and Phoebe Bridgers have also covered Nothing Else Matters Lissie: https://youtu.be/0Ia9N9MdSa0
Phoebe: https://youtu.be/I1qRuz9D7OQ
Phoebe Bridgers has also covered Wheatus' Teenage Dirtbag: https://youtu.be/t3BmrWXYif0
Lana Del Rey covered Sublime's Doin Time https://youtu.be/b6UazdAlqhs
Holly Humberstone covered Radiohead's Fake Plastic Trees https://youtu.be/uEDERBIdNxw
Halsey covered Death Cab for Cutie's I Will Follow You into the Dark https://youtu.be/ZAYBCJGk07s
Lorde covered Phil Collin's In the Air Tonight https://youtu.be/_bhvufnPkxc
Florence + The Machine covered Fleetwood Mac's The Chain https://youtu.be/kF-hMABAr74
lil tarantula is a youtube channel that does pop/metal mashups a lot, i think their videos might be your style.
they've done metal renditions of pop singers such as nicole scherzinger, addison rae, sabrina carpenter, fifth harmony, selena gomez, and ellie goulding.
Sheezer
There is a number of albums called Punk goes Pop that is the inverse of these. I was not aware Pop also went Punk. Neat.
Punk goes everything lol. I was just surprised to hear it the other way around. Fergie can really belt.
Miley Cyrus - Head Like a Hole (Nine Inch Nails)
Is the Paradise City cover the one with Fergie and Cypress Hill?
Yes
That’s a great cover, have in rotation.
Bad Guy - The Interrupters.
Love the interrupters, but I'm looking for pop chicks doing metal or similar
Rina Sawayama's version of Enter Sandman is seriously good.
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It almost always goes better the other way around. Every pop song ever outside a few exceptions sounds better as a rock/metal song.
brotatototoe t1_j63mi2i wrote
Not sure if it fits the bill but Katy Perry does "Electric Feel"