Well, here's That Girl Lay Lay at Laygo....er, Legoland. And yeah, she does this one.
10 October 2024
10 October 2024 - Dillon Francis ft. T-Pain and That Girl Lay Lay - Catchy Song
Well, here's That Girl Lay Lay at Laygo....er, Legoland. And yeah, she does this one.
09 October 2024
9 October 2024 - Katy Perry - Woman's World
08 October 2024
8 October 2024 - Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso
01 October 2024
1 October 2024 - Charli XCX ft. Billie Eilish - Guess
14 August 2024
14 August 2024 - Daisy Chainsaw - Love Your Money
05 August 2024
5 August 2024 - Vengaboys - We like to Party!
Because in 2004, the song had a bit of a resurgence in the US, when Six Flags used it in a pretty popular set of commercials.
02 August 2024
2 August 2024 - Paris Hilton - Stars are Blind
So. we are bookending this week of covers and revisiting with another repost, from Month 3 of the blog.
The other major change we're making is why we're doing this repost. Well, that, and because it's a great song that we didn't get its full due in 2023, and we're going to correct that.
This next change, though, isn't coming yet - we don't know how to do it. We may end up with another blog. But we know that wicked guilty pleasures go way beyond music. With Paris Hilton, you have her music, plus her reality television show The Simple Life, that cinematic masterpiece The Hottie and The Nottie, and so much more. You've also got her YouTube documentary, which shows a completely different side of her (and GO WATCH THAT NOW)
We're going to start exploring that. We just don't know what it's going to look like yet.
But now, revisit this great and sweet song.
01 August 2024
1 August 2024 - Måneskin - Beggin'
31 July 2024
31 July 2024 - Rolling Quartz x AleXa - Pink Drop
This song is maybe the most compelling reason why we're starting to post covers here. You see, yesterday, I talked about my favorite album of 2023 - and my favorite song on that album.
My favorite SONG of 2023 was this one. And I wrote about it in December of 2023 on Totally Covered. It never felt like it belonged there, at all. Mashups are weird - the band took two songs and shoved them together and made something that was strangely better than the two were apart. I did such a good job writing that, and so few of you read it, that the rest of this post is quoting HEAVILY what I said in December.
30 July 2024
30 July 2024 - Patrick Hernandez - Born to Be Alive
30 July 2024 - Elisapie - Inuuniaravit (Born to Be Alive)
29 July 2024
29 July 2024 - Phantogram -- Mouthful Of Diamonds
26 July 2024
26 July 2024 - Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing
25 July 2024
25 July 2024 - Maná - Lluvia Al Corazón
01 July 2024
1 July 2024 - Charlotte Cardin - Passive Aggressive
18 June 2024
18 June 2024 - Mother Mother - Infinitesimal
11 June 2024
11 June 2024 - Carole Pope ft. Peaches - Lesbians in the Forest
07 June 2024
7 June 2024 - Cœur de Pirate - Golden Baby
06 June 2024
6 June 2024 - Wham! - I'm Your Man
05 June 2024
5 June 2024 - Culture Club - Church Of The Poison Mind
04 June 2024
4 June 2024 - Jazmin Bean - Puppy Pound
We are cool with that. Because they seem happy.
03 June 2024
3 June 2024 - Peaches - Fuck the Pain Away
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23 May 2024
23 May 2024 - Nelly Furtado - Turn Off The Light
16 May 2024
16 May 2024 - Emei - That Girl
14 May 2024
14 May 2024 (special edition) - Mélanie Renaud - J'm'en veux
Renaud passed away today at age 42, from overian cancer. Her legacy and her music remain.
14 May 2024 - Marie-Mai - Tu t'en fous
09 May 2024
9 May 2024 - Big Black - The Power of Independent Trucking
Had I not woken up to the news that Steve Albini had passed away on Tuesday, I would have made this a Special Edition.
Steve Albini wasn't best known for his music with Big Black, Rapeman and Shellac, although all three bands were great, and what will likely be the last Shellac album is coming out next week. He was best known as a great record producer - producing such albums as Surfer Rosa by the Pixies, Pod by the Breeders, In Utero by Nirvana, Rid of Me by PJ Harvey, and so, so many others. He was notoriously not easy to work with, but also, down to earth, even personally answering the phone in his recording studio.
Big Black's second and final album, Songs About Fucking, probably the most honestly titled album ever, was a masterpiece, and it opened with this minute and a half long ode to, well, independent trucking... and absolutely about fucking. Released in 1987, it was probably a little ahead of its time. Albini layers distorted power chords with atonal squeals, creating a relentless feeling of claustrophobia that perfectly captures the cramped confines of a diesel cab.
His voice, his guitar, and his production will be missed.
08 May 2024
8 May 2024 - Tara Slone - My Little Secret
07 May 2024
7 May 2024 - Teya & Salena - Who The Hell Is Edgar?
06 May 2024
6 May 2024 - The Darling Buds - If I Said
03 May 2024
3 May 2024 - Manel - Per la bona gent
02 May 2024
2 May 2024 - Daoko × Kenshi Yonezu - 打上花火 (Fireworks)
OK, so now I'm done.
01 May 2024
1 May 2024 - Jennifer Rostock - K.B.A.G.
30 April 2024
30 April 2024 - Danna - ATARI
It's also really easy to dance to.
29 April 2024
29 April 2024 - Louane - Donne-moi ton cœur
26 April 2024
26 April 2024 - Soul Coughing - Super Bon Bon
25 April 2024
25 April 2024 - Paula Abdul - Straight Up
It was, however, her first top 40 hit, the first of four from Forever Your Girl, at the time the most ever from a debut album. Written and produced by Elliot Wolff, it would eventually hit #1 around the world - in the US in February 1989. To get into the technical, the song is at a tempo of 96 beats per minute, which is known as a "shuffling" tempo.
24 April 2024
24 April 2024 - Mala Rodríguez - Tengo un Trato
23 April 2024
23 April 2024 - Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
22 April 2024
22 April 2024 - Fine, It's Pink - Did It All for You
Watching Fine, It's Pink mature as musicians - watching their original songs get more adult and more beautiful - is one of the best things I have ever experienced in writing this little blog. Their new single, out last week, is perhaps their most mature and beautiful work to date. The song was written by Fine, It's Pink, with Ioana Lefter writing the lyrics she is singing herself.
19 April 2024
19 April 2024 - Coi Leray - Players
No, I'm not talking about my personal struggles. I'm talking about the Grandmaster Flash sample that the outstanding Coi Leray employs prominently through this song.
18 April 2024
18 April 2024 - Sigur Rós - Hoppípolla
17 April 2024
17 April 2024 - Beyoncé - Texas Hold 'Em
16 April 2024
16 April 2024 - DRAMAS - Coma Call
15 April 2024
15 April 2024 - Labi Siffre - I Got The...
15 April 2024 - Eminem - My Name Is
He expressly did NOT approve this version, which contains some homophobic slurs - calling it "lazy writing". But we'll talk more about that another day.
12 April 2024
12 April 2024 - Elvis Presley - A Little Less Conversation
11 April 2024
11 April 2024 - Chappell Roan - Naked in Manhattan
10 April 2024
10 April 2024 - Sylvester - You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
09 April 2024
9 April 2024 - Olivia Rodrigo - obsessed
08 April 2024
8 April 2024 - Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart (Turn Around)
05 April 2024
5 April 2024 - Flower Face - Cat's Cradle
04 April 2024
4 April 2024 - Gayle - butterflies
03 April 2024
3 April 2024 - Felix Cartal & Lights - Feel Less
02 April 2024
2 April 2024 - Shanin Blake - Senses
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01 April 2024
1 April 2024 - Bodo Wartke ft. Marti Fischer - Barbaras Rhabarberbar
We're 30 SECONDS into the song at this point.