Just because you can do a cover doesn't mean you should. 

Case in point, Exhibit A.  The original "Total Eclipse of the Heart" is a blown-out affair, with three hooks, and a call-and-response duet sprinkled throughout. It's big, it's bombastic, and it's not gonna get any bigger or more bombastic by giving it to a metal cover band. Nobody asked for this. 

There's also such a thing as completely missing the point of the original, as per Exhibit B. I'm trying to detect the irony here and not seeing it, probably because Rachel/Lea Michele are as earnest as theatre kids get. But it's too minimalistic to be camp, or fun. And fun is the entire POINT of the original. Strip that away and what's left is nonsense words and a vague sense of sexual aggression that, in the cover, is shared between a mother and her long-lost daughter. 

Similar point in Exhibit C, possibly the worst cover ever made. Robyn's original is about the contrast of DANCING while being SAD and maybe also a little GAY. Calum Scott has doubled down on SAD and GAY at the expense of DANCING and ended up with a dirge for drinking alone in a bathtub, and isn't that what we keep Adele around for?   

Anyways there's lots of great cover songs that expand upon the original in some way, and we all already know about them, so that frees me up to pick this one for day 15. 

Vienna Teng - Ain't No Sunshine/Lose Yourself


A downtempo acoustic cover that uses the residual aggression of Lose Yourself to tame the monotony of Ain't No Sunshine. Is much as I like Vienna Teng, I didn't expect this to be successful. Also, it was the first time I'd ever seen anyone use a loop pedal.