That doesn't mean she didn't out-Hetfield James Hetfield on his own song. She brings the popular Metallica song to new heights.
Metallica thought enough of her performance to perform it with her again in 2021. You hear them side by side. You tell me that Miley didn't out-Hetfield James Hetfield!
I feel Sam Smith said it best when he announced his Donna Summer cover on an Instagram post.
As a queer person ‘I feel love’ has followed me to every dance floor in every queer space from the minute I started clubbing. This song to me is an anthem of our community and it was an honour and most importantly so much fun to have a go at it. Highest song I've ever fucking sang. But a joy.
A hit in clubs, it remains my favorite Sam Smith song.
Sadly, it is usually the passing of an artist that gets me off my ass to write on this blog.
Gordon Lightfoot's passing was enough to do that. I know I have twice featured covers of arguably his best known song, but there are so many other great tributes.
I want to open this with a personal note: the original version of this song absolutely blows me away with emotion. I find it very hard to listen to, but at the same time, it is a fabulous song.
The late Glen Campbell, a fellow storyteller himself, paid great tribute to Lightfoot's worldwide #1 - arguably the greatest breakup song every written.
I almost left this abomination off, but I didn't.
House music collective Stars on 54 did an electronic cover of this song that was a hit in 1998.
You can skip this one. Or don't It's nothing if not interesting.
A more surprisinging rich version was done in 2019 by former Go-Go Belinda Carlisle. It's rich and beautiful - her raspy voice bringing serious gravitas to the already deep song.
She also paid great tribute to Lightfoot on Twitter. I'll let her say it best.
— Belinda Carlisle 💙 (@belindacarlisle) May 2, 2023
There are so many great covers of this song, I could not include them all without being here all day writing. I wanted to include one more.
The greatest tribute I can think of with which to end this post is one Canadian legend covering another Canadian legend, and with that, I bring you Neil Young.
