Hello everybody on HIVE, and especially the Music Community. My name is Jasper and I'm writing (and singing) to you from Cape Town, South Africa!
Last week I decided to start a challenging series of posts! BUT I Need your Help!
This is the challenge I'm setting myself every week: I ask for cover song requests on the MUSIC community, and then pick a favourite song to learn and post a live video of me attempting it. The person who asked for the winning song then gets 50% of the post rewards in HP!
This week's winner is @naradamoon with his request of "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley. You can view the original video here, with lyrics at the bottom of the post:
Perhaps it is because @naradamoon is a talented singer, guitarist and writer of original songs himself that he was able to see that this would be a fun song for somebody like me to learn? Readers, please give him a FOLLOW and check out the original music he is posting on HIVE!
My good friend @clairemobey also asked for a beautiful emotional song, "Acoustic No 3" by the Goo Goo Dolls. Here is the original, with lyrics at the bottom of the post:
Now @clairemobey is the talented friend who I play on stage with in a collaboration called Mobey-Dick, so it would have been pure nepotism for her to win outright... but it was a lovely song that I think suits me nicely, so she can get 20% of this post's rewards in HP as well (I'm not going to do this every week Claire - hahaha)!
NOW READER, perhaps next week is your turn? Please give me some suggestions of cover songs you would like me to try next week, and maybe you'll be the winner next time!
See you Next Week!
Lyrics for "Crazy"
I remember when
I remember, I remember when I lost my mind
There was something so pleasant about that place
Even your emotions have an echo in so much space
And when you're out there without care
Yeah, I was out of touch
But it wasn't because I didn't know enough
I just knew too much
Does that make me crazy?
Does that make me crazy?
Does that make me crazy?
Possibly
And I hope that you are having the time of your life
But think twice, that's my only advice
Come on now, who do you, who do you, who do you
Who do you think you are
Ha ha ha, bless your soul
You really think you're in control
I think you're crazy
I think you're crazy
I think you're crazy
Just like me
My heroes had the heart to lose their lives out on the limb
And all I remember is thinking I want to be like them
Ever since I was little
Ever since I was little it looked like fun
And it's no coincidence I've come
And I can die when I'm done
But maybe I'm crazy
Maybe you're crazy
Maybe we're crazy
Probably
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Gian Piero Reverberi / Thomas Callaway / Brian Burton / Gianfranco Reverberi
Crazy lyrics © Sweet Science, Universal Music Publishing Ricordi Srl., Chrysalis Music Ltd, Warner/chappell Music Publishing Ltd
Lyrics for "Acoustic No 3" by the Goo Goo Dolls
They painted up your secrets
With the lies they told to you
And the least they ever gave you
Was the most you ever knew
And I wonder where these dreams go
When the world gets in your way
What's the point in all this screaming
No one's listening anyway
Your voice is small and fading
And you hide in here unknown
And your mother loves your father
'Cause she's got nowhere to go
And she wonders where these dreams go
'Cause the world got in her way
What's the point in ever trying
Nothing's changing anyway
They press their lips against you
And you love the lies they say
And I tried so hard to reach you
But you're falling anyway
And you know I see right through you
'Cause the world gets in your way
What's the point in all this screaming
You're not listening anyway
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: John T Rzeznik
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