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** Then, going the other direction, there's the various versions that cast Jolene as an EldrichHorror who consumes men's souls with her terrifying beauty. (Originally, it was a [[MemeticMutation viral tumblr post]], but so many people found the concept sufficiently interesting/amusing that at least a dozen distinct covers going this direction exist on youtube alone.)

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** Then, going the other direction, there's the various versions that cast Jolene as an EldrichHorror EldritchAbomination who consumes men's souls with her terrifying beauty. (Originally, it was a [[MemeticMutation viral tumblr post]], but so many people found the concept sufficiently interesting/amusing that at least a dozen distinct covers going this direction exist on youtube alone.)
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** Then, going the other direction, there's the various versions that cast Jolene as an EldrichHorror who consumes men's souls with her terrifying beauty. (Originally, it was a [[MemeticMutation viral tumblr post]], but so many people found the concept sufficiently interesting/amusing that at least a dozen distinct covers going this direction exist on youtube alone.)
--> He screams about you in his sleep
--> And when he wakes does naught but weep
--> In terror of the one they call Jolene

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* Dolly Parton's "Jolene" is already about one person in a deteriorating part of a LoveTriangle begging the other competitor to not take her man away, but Music/LilNasX's version feels every bit like a tragic BisexualLoveTriangle. With the context that the singer is a man, the song now sounds like the singer's begging Jolene not to take away one of the very few men he can find, or that he's futilely denying that the man's already lost.

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* Dolly Parton's "Jolene" is already about one person in a deteriorating part of a LoveTriangle begging the other competitor to not take her man away, but but...
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Music/LilNasX's version feels every bit like a tragic BisexualLoveTriangle. With the context that the singer is a man, the song now sounds like the singer's begging Jolene not to take away one of the very few men he can find, or that he's futilely denying that the man's already lost.lost.
** In Music/{{Beyonce}}'s version from ''Music/CowboyCarter'', the singer is warning Jolene of violence that might come to her if she tries to break up the singer's marriage.
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* The theme from ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' got a metal treatment via [[http://armcannon.com Armcannon]], and the Drummer dressed up as a pizza just for this song during a rehearsal. Pure. Awesome. They also did a slooooooooow version in "Black Hole Enlightenment".

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* %%* The theme from ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' got a metal treatment via [[http://armcannon.com Armcannon]], and the Drummer dressed up as a pizza just for this song during a rehearsal. Pure. Awesome. They also did a slooooooooow version in "Black Hole Enlightenment". (Does not say how the cover changes the meaning)
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* "Heigh Ho" from Disney's ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'': Music/TomWaits' [[http://www.coveringthemouse.com/2007/10/heigh-ho-tom-waits.html cover]], recorded for the multi-artist Franchise/{{Disney|AnimatedCanon}} CoverAlbum ''Music/StayAwake'' and later made available on his own release ''Music/OrphansBrawlersBawlersAndBastards'', turns it from a chipper work song into something decidedly more depressing, if not {{nightmar|eFuel}}ish. The tempo is slowed to a crawl, and the arrangement features the clanking percussion and minimal, dissonant instrumentation his later material is known for, along with some ominous subterranean reverb. Kind of puts the idea of dwarves putting in hours of back-breaking potentially deadly labor in a mine for no clear reason in a different light. At least one reviewer commented that it sounded like "noises from Gacy's basement."

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* "Heigh Ho" from Disney's ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'': Music/TomWaits' [[http://www.coveringthemouse.com/2007/10/heigh-ho-tom-waits.html cover]], recorded for the multi-artist Franchise/{{Disney|AnimatedCanon}} CoverAlbum ''Music/StayAwake'' and later made available on his own release ''Music/OrphansBrawlersBawlersAndBastards'', turns it from a chipper work song into something decidedly more depressing, if not {{nightmar|eFuel}}ish. The tempo is slowed to a crawl, and the arrangement features the clanking percussion and minimal, dissonant instrumentation his later material is known for, along with some ominous subterranean reverb. Kind of puts the idea of dwarves putting in hours of back-breaking potentially deadly labor in a mine for no clear reason in a different light. At least one reviewer commented that it sounded like "noises from [[TortureCellar Gacy's basement.basement]]."
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** Tsui later released another version in 2016 that is meant to be a GriefSong
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** Music/EllaFitzgerald sang it (in the style of Louis Armstrong and Bobby Darrin) for the first time on her live album ''Mack the Knife: Ella in Berlin''. Three verses or so into the song, she ''forgot the rest of the lyrics'' and improvised her own. Ella's version went metafictional, as she poked fun at herself for botching the song and at the label executives who suggested she cover it in the first place. The track won a [[UsefulNotes/GrammyAward Grammy]].

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** Music/EllaFitzgerald sang it (in the style of Louis Armstrong and Bobby Darrin) for the first time on her live album ''Mack the Knife: Ella in Berlin''. Three verses or so into the song, she ''forgot the rest of the lyrics'' and improvised her own. Ella's version went metafictional, as she poked fun at herself for botching the song and at the label executives who suggested she cover it in the first place. The track won a [[UsefulNotes/GrammyAward [[MediaNotes/GrammyAward Grammy]].
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* "If I Had A Hammer" is a fun ditty about a man saying he wants to use a hammer, a bell, and a song to spread happiness. The Italian version [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGIXrziSLCQ "Datemi Un Martello"]] is a fun ditty about a woman [[LyricalDissonance wanting to]] DropTheHammer [[MurderBallad on the head of people she doesn't like]] (plus the telephone before her parents tell her to go home).

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* "If I Had A Hammer" is a fun ditty about a man saying he wants to use a hammer, a bell, and a song to spread happiness. The Italian version [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGIXrziSLCQ "Datemi Un Martello"]] is a fun ditty about a woman [[LyricalDissonance wanting to]] DropTheHammer wanting]] to take her hammer and {{bludgeon|edToDeath}} the [[MurderBallad on the head of people she doesn't like]] (plus the telephone before her parents tell her to go home).

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