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Joshua Lanes - U Remind Me (Usher cover)
I’m really feeling this FRIENDS cover of “My Boo” and a lot of the critical talk around it is about how the hipster love affair with Hip Hop / R&B has now come full circle. We now live in a era when a Brooklyn scene band can earnestly cover an R&B classic without the veneer of irony. Forget Razorlight’s cover of “Hey Ya,” or Dynamite Hack doing “Boyz in tha Hood,” or even The Gourds countrified version of “Gin n’ Juice.” We’re in the age of the unironic R&B cover now.
That being said, I still think Joshua Lanes’ apathetic indie rock cover of “U Remind Me” is better than the original. And I like Usher.
