wonderouzmj
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I just wanna hear his original version of joy!
One More Chance by Randy Jackson... This is the best One More Chance, better than Michael's solo one and the one he did as a kid with the Jackson 5. A shame he didn't sing this one, as it's a really beautiful song.
Neil Diamond - Heartlight
Terence Trent D'Arby - Sign Your Name
Darren Hayes - Insatiable
Simple as that. Which songs do you think he would've done awesome covers of in his lifetime or wish he'd been able to do had he lived? The only notable covers that I can think of are "Come Together", "Smile", and "Butterflies" -- although I do know that "Hot Fun In The Summertime" and "Strawberry Fields Forever" exist but remain unreleased.
I honestly think that if Michael Jackson had lived long enough, he would've taken Gotye's 2011 song "Somebody That I Used To Know" and blown it out of the park. I'm talking "I Will Always Love You" and "Hound Dog" level of covering that would make someone forget that it's even a cover of someone else's original. Sometimes I can almost hear in my mind how MJ would have sung the chorus. He already had a resonance and almost an eerie sort of echo to his voice on songs like "Another Day" and "Chicago" that I think would've fit really well.
I'm telling you, guys, us Moonwalkers in this timeline were ROBBED of the awesomeness that would've been Michael Jackson's "Somebody That I Used To Know".
Anyway, what songs do you people wish he had covered?
The only notable covers that I can think of are "Come Together", "Smile", and "Butterflies"
These aren't really covers, they're an interpolation. A cover/remake is the exact same song, not changing the lyrics but using the same music/melody or using a few words from another song. In the same way, sometimes answer songs use similar music from the song they're replying to, so people can figure it out easier. Such as Superstar by Lydia Murdock. What Weird Al does is called parody."Shout", "A place/horse with no name"
The melody is not necessarily relevant for a cover, unless it is an instrumental remake. A sample is using a previous recording on a song like U Can't Touch This by MC Hammer. A remake/cover is considered to be the lyrics. There's covers that don't use the same arrangement or tempo. Like this:Yeah, I expect someone would say that. I don't really know the original for Shout but just listened to "A horse with no name". Melody is very similar. Michael changed mostly the lyrics.
And I assumed that when people think of Michael covering songs, they first thing "how would he use his voice on that melody" not "what would the lyrics exactly mean if he sang them".
So for me those ("A place with no name" and Weird Al parodies fall in the "cover" category, though I agree they are edge cases.
Though Weird Al's covers are cover but also parodies as they aim to be funny, while I wouldn't call "A place with no name" a parody...