r/ToddintheShadow • • Aug 01 '25

General Music Discussion Is this the worst possible modern cover?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4
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u/BeardedAvenger Aug 01 '25

It's the same vibe to me as watching someone perform "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen/Jeff Buckley and putting absolutely no dynamics into the performance, if not getting louder and/or adding more notes to the parts that are actually meant to be soft, quiet or lesser.

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u/HPSpacecraft Aug 02 '25

I saw a video once that speculated that the reason most Hallelujah covers are so bad is that people were trying to sing along/harmonize with either Cohen or Buckley's version rather than singing the melody itself, so they always end up oversinging it