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Working Title: The Cover Changes The Meaning: From YKTTW
Rissa: Is this the same as In the Style of? They share examples.
Trouser Wearing Barbarian: No, In the Style of just is a genre change, this is a meaning change, i.e. a love song performed as a stalker song.
However, I removed this example because it's In the Style of rather than this trope.
- Me First and the Gimme-Gimmes have turned genre-crossing punk-rock covers into their entire schtick.
I also removed this because it doesn't specify any meaning change, it's just complaining about covers you don't like.
- The Scissor Sisters cover of "Comfortably Numb". Sorry, this troper can't say any more than that or she'll have to hurt someone.
And I've edited these examples because Elvis Costello (and Nick Lowe, who did the song originally) also intended for "Peace, Love, And Understanding" to be sarcastic, and "Sweet Dreams" was already uneasy and creepy-sounding when the Eurythmics did it. The covers didn't change the meaning, they just made the meaning Anvilicious.
- A Perfect Circle has turned both John Lennon's "Imagine" and Elvis Costello's "Peace, Love, and Understanding" from upbeat odes to idealism to mourning dirges of crushed idealism.
- Marilyn Manson's version of "Sweet Dreams" gives the song an extremely bitter and scathing tone. The words now have a ironic yet menacing edge that gives off an uneasy feeling.
Trouser Wearing Barbarian: Removed this picture
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The following text quoted from the bottom of the page doesn't seem to fit the general tone of tvtropes. Someone more confident in editing like to take a look?
- White people from Alanis Morissette to Obadiah Parker have covered popular black people songs from Gin and Juice to Bitches Ain't Shit, and white people have without fail felt very, very edgy for enjoying the result.
Twin Bird: Um...yeah. Someone took out all the examples of white artists covering "black people songs" and replaced them with this note, with the summary "white people ruin everything." How "edgy." How do you do a revert?
Slatz Grobnik: Cut the following, because taking a joke song and making it a joke song isn't a change.
- The very moral ballad ''Cigarettes and whiskey and wild, wild women'' is also well known in Denmark, where the Danish lyrics learn us that they are the secret to a long, happy life and world peace.
