21 March 2025 - Great Big Sea - Run Runaway

Newfoundland and Labrador folk group Great Big Sea covered a Slade classic as their debut single, and it ended up being a pretty big hit.  

It was a Scottish-tinged rock anthem, and while Great Big Sea make it a little folkier, it still retains the Scottish feel.  

Now hear them do it live.   They make folk.... rock.   For what they essentially make into a sea shanty, this song really kicks ass. 

20 March 2025 - The Beaches - Maneater

The Beaches covering fellow Canadian icon Nelly Furtado, and not Hall and Oates, is straight fire.    The Beaches truly understand synth rock, and in fact embrace it.  

We really should post about them on Wicked Guilty Pleasures sometime. 

5 March 2025 - Sophie Powers – Heart Shaped Box

It takes a GIANT cast iron set to cover Nirvana.

It takes talent to add to the song artistically, which Canadian artist Sophie Powers absolutely does.  

And yes, I say that she, at a young age, understands Kurt Cobain's original delivery and matches it.  

And I don't think she's singing about Courtney Love's vagina. 

Some artists do covers in a studio and leave it at that. 

Some pour it out live. 

Get you a girl who can do both.

20 February 2025 - Céline Dion - Hello

Whoa.

If anyone could match Adele's range on this song, it's probably Céline. This cover was a surprise one to her audience, but wow, was it good. 

9 January 2025 - Kate Hudson - Voices Carry

Yes, Goldie Hawn's daughter.  

An actress, not known for her singing. 

Covering a classic Aimee Mann composition (for til Tuesday).   

On Howard Stern's show.

I wasn't looking for this today, but this is what I found, and it's brilliant.  

So, since I found this today, I decided to do some digging, to see if she had performed it at any other time.... and yeah, she released this as a single in August.  Here's the official music video.

And now, I think she SHOULD be known for her singing, because she really understands Aimee Mann's anguish from the original, and conveys it well.   

8 January 2025 - Agnetha Faltskog - Vart ska min kärlek föra

Maybe I'm trying to send a message that we're still working over here. 

Maybe I just love this song. 

Maybe I love the novelty of Agnetha from ABBA recording a Swedish version of the song.  

Don't judge me. 

8 January 2025 - 뮤지컬스타] 정선아 - I Don't Know How to Love Him (어떻게 사랑하나)

THREE posts on a dead blog?

I told you.  Totally Covered isn't dead.   

And Jeong Sun-ah is a Korean actress who is best known for her part in Wicked (she played Glinda) and Chicago (Velma Kelly), but she also played Mary Magdelene in the 2012 Korean production of Jesus Christ Superstar. 

And yeah, the song still gives me goosebumps in Korean.