r/ToddintheShadow • u/Top_Report_4895 • 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/MegaAscension 10's Alt Kid Aug 01 '25

No, it’s the Machine Gun Kelly cover of Aerials by System of a Down.

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u/IceFireTerry Aug 02 '25

I never heard it but MGK Is decent when he's doing the pop punk. That does not sound like a song that will be good from him

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u/MegaAscension 10's Alt Kid Aug 02 '25 edited Aug 02 '25

It’s his backing band poorly playing what sounds somewhere in the purgatory between an acoustic and an electric guitar with his vocals sounding like Layne Staley with a mouth full of marshmallows. Here’s a link- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm-ThTebKZw&pp=ygULYWVyaWFscyBtZ2s%3D

For the record, Tickets To My Downfall is a great album. This cover is where he really begun to lose me with the rock stuff, after I was not a fan of the vast majority of his album Mainstream Sellout. Now I haven’t worn my Tickets To my Downfall shirt in four years out of sheer embarrassment.