…. a splendid term invented (or at any rate used) by one of our number for the deadly process whereby a jolly and/or raucous pop song gets turned into an oh-so-earnest cover version, usually with authentic acoustic instruments and miserable white-person vocals.
So perhaps this story was always going to happen and has maybe even happened before. I personally don’t feel The Portraits have got a leg to stand on – Electric Dreams is a very well-known song and giving it this kind of treatment and using it in this kind of ad is hardly a game-changing idea.
“You copied my cover version”…. really? This is like John Cale suing Alexandra Burke over Hallelujah.
Thoughts?