Hard Rock is allowed to cover your song, but not the other way around

An ABBA cover by a pair of young Irish girls that sounds pretty good.
Would be disco to rock, or disco to funk.

Another one I usually follow is Postmodern Jukebox which does vintage style covers of modern pop songs. Loved their Andrews Sisters style version of ‘Wannabe’😍 and a Chicago-style inspired version of ‘Single Ladies’.

Yeah, I am past the expiration date. My sister took me to the Backstreet Boys and they were great live. Boy bands are positive music. I’ve always been into that retro and vintage and classic type style, so I do like that music. In fact, one of my favorite bands was Big Bad Voodoo Daddy because of all the swing dancers. I actually was a bit resentful that I didn’t grow up knowing Swing, 2-step and salsa. That is the kind of thing that Hollywood kind of got right is, every now and then, they just had so much style and class and that appealed to me and I perceive that as real culture.

Draiman is the man.

Regarding Separate Ways by Journey, I did like that Daughtry version. A former guitarist for Journey took the lick and riff and made a gospel song of it. He left the rock scene because he said that the secular worship energy of the rock crowd corrupted and destroyed to many of his fellow musicians. Anyway, I actually think this song would fall into the category of No, but I’ll post it anyway. Rock to gospel, which is interesting because a lot of rock actually came from gospel.

I’m always impressed by the artists who can play and sing. Losing the feeling though. Always wondered if there would be another Joni Mitchell. Nope.
Another Simon and Garfunkel song. Cray how influential Paul Simon was. So many good songs. I didn’t really grow up with his music and I like retro and past stuff so much that I never related to my peers. My classmates had no idea who the bands I liked were. Scratching my head and Paul Simon though. An under the radar hit maker.

Legendary.
This version really…touched me.

@Vknid

Very astute observation. Was thinking along those lines, too. People talking without speaking, to me, was telepathy or neuralink. I read about the meaning of the song and they blew it off for the emotionally lonely people who cannot connect with anyone and that makes a ton of sense, but like all good art, it can be interpreted in many ways and that is the trick of using ambiguous and vague language is that the listener fills in the gaps with their own ideas.

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made

This line was considered blasphemous.

Seeing how many things have changed, you are really onto something in terms of Cancel Culture and Big Tech censorship, it’s like, you can talk all you want, but freedom of speech is not freedom of reach. Also, I could see it as a song about communism because I heard is some countries, 2 people could talk, but 3 or more was forbidden by authorities, and after the lockdown, you can see how people are conditioned.

Same great song just seen thru a different set of glasses.