The list of songs where the original recording was so good that you just shouldn't cover it, at all, is pretty short in my view "September" by Earth, Wind and Fire is a slam-dunk entry though
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Cyndi Lauper, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun I don't think anyone can bring Lauper's personality to the modern era. It is so 80s, it bleeds New Coke.
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Replying to @Royce_A_Miller @arthur_affect
You're going to hate me but that doesn't count because Lauper *is* the cover, here's the originalhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aLNwOxPsjg …
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Replying to @Royce_A_Miller @arthur_affect
Yeah, this is a case of the cover being so good the world just forgot about the original
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Replying to @HenryWHall @Royce_A_Miller
Robert Hazard was kind of bitter about this too, apparently he threatened Cyndi Lauper with a C&D because she'd started calling herself the "co-writer" of the song in interviews and he was insistent she didn't alter the song nearly enough to be able to legally make that claim
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(I mean, obviously it is pretty much the exact same lyrics except for the gender flip and a few rephrased lines That said, it's also obviously an infinitely better song from the POV of one of the titular "girls", as well as Lauper being an infinitely better performer)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Royce_A_Miller
ahahahaha oh shit, I had no idea she did that, that's hilarious, and also she's one of the few musicians that I think can get away with it
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Yeah I mean she sang it as a feminist anthem and the original song from a dude's POV is almost the exact opposite of that, it's some guy bragging about how he doesn't give a shit about any of the girls he fucks
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Royce_A_Miller
whoops, I meant the stealing credit part, I was too vague there
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