The music industry is an enormous multi-billion dollar industry which permeates the globe. However, it’s not all the time that the talent are able to come up with their own original songs, sometimes resorting to covering other people’s\u2019 work in order to fill up spaces on their albums. Sometimes though, these covers actually get more popular than the original songs themselves. Here are seven times that has happened.<\/p>\n

Killing me softly – The Fugees (Roberta Flack)<\/h2>\n

\nThe original to this song was performed by famous singer-songwriter Roberta Flack and quickly became a timeless classic. It was eventually covered by Wycleff Jean and the Fugees, adding a new, reggae carribean twist to the song, and sending it to the tops of the charts.
\nThis is also one of the first songs which world class singer and performer Lauryn Hill performed on and helped to secure her reputation as one of the greatest African American female voices.<\/p>\n

The Man who Sold the World – Nirvana (David Bowie)<\/h2>\n

\nWhile David Bowie\u2019s song sounds a bit creepy and out of this world, he pulls it off like only David Bowie can. The guy has a woman playing an instrument called a guiro. We definitely had to look that up. This is Bowie\u2019s signature style, and the song is amazing just the way he wrote it.
\nThen along came Curt Cobain and Nirvana to just blow it out of the water. The song is already depressing, and then Cobain truly came out and made the song everything it could be. Truly both remarkable pieces<\/p>\n

Respect – Aretha Franklin (Otis Redding)<\/h2>\n

\nOtis Redding was the first person to sing this iconic song – without which many people would have no idea how to spell \u201crespect.\u201d However, upon being asked by a young Arethra Franklin to cover the song to send to producers in order to start her career, Otis immediately said yes. He fell in love with her voice and America did too.
\nBecause of the success of this cover, Aretha Franklin rose to become one of the greatest singers in American history.<\/p>\n

Cotton eyed joe – Rednexx (antebellum slaves)<\/h2>\n

\nIf you are at a wedding, you are almost 100% guaranteed to hear this song, no matter where you are in the world. Its fame is completely ubiquitous, and of course you know all the dance moves – that’s not even a question. This song, performed by europop group Rednexx may not have performed any other major hits, but they definitely stole the show with this one.
\nExcept they also stole it from African American slaves in the Antebellum south. The earliest known version of the song came from slaves on plantations in Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas, with all the different plantations having a different style of dance to the song.<\/p>\n

Common People – Ben Folds (Pulp)<\/h2>\n

\nThe British band Pulp wrote this edgy song about rich girls wanted to know what life is like for the average person. Honetsly, the song itself is a weird disco-rock song with a British guy acting very weird, european, and well British.
\nGood thing Ben Folds took the song to greater heights. On an album that writes songs in a beat poet style spoken by William Shatner, the song\u2019s meaning becomes apparent, the words flow smoother, and the actual instrumentals just sound 100 percent better.<\/p>\n

Hurt – Johnny Cash (Nine Inch Nails)<\/h2>\n

\nThats right, it was Johnny Cash who wrote Hurt, but Nine Inch Nails. However, the Nine Inch Nails song was a lot more vulgar and a lot more intense.
\nJohnny Cash then decided to do a cover of the song in the best way that he knew. He turned the lyrics from their original vulgarity and made them a lot more holy – literally. It was to be his last major hit, and it\u2019s almost as if he knew it.<\/p>\n

No One\u2019s Gonna Love You – Cee Lo Green (Band of Horses)<\/h2>\n

\nBand of horses sang this song, and it sounds like a funeral march. It is sad, angsty, depressing, and honestly, quite boring.
\nThank goodness then that Cee Lo Green took the song and took it to new heights. It sounds like it is being sung by a gospel church choir – simply amazing!<\/p>\n

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