hyperballad

If you're going to release a cover version, it should deliver something that is unique and marks it as an alternative offering to the original song. It brings me no joy to say that I think this song falls very short of that mark.

The instrumental is the first thing I want to talk about and the instrumental of this track is an absolute banger... because it's the exact instrumental track from the original version from the Post album. I'd rather hear a cover with a dodgily approximated FL Studio instrumental than just directly lifting the original.

Then there's the vocals. When the microphone isn't peaking and the singer isn't off-time or off-key, she is just delivering a painfully poor vocal performance. This is like listening to the original if Bjork, instead of having a lilting angelic voice, had just woken up with a throat infection.

Hyperballad is one of my favourite songs ever released - this version is absolutely nowhere near that. It's a travesty this was released in this state.