Review - Godwin (Korede Bello) - Clay

Title: Godwin (Korede Bello Cover)

Artiste: Clay

Duration: 3:43

Release Date: 15 July, 2015

                Before I state my views on this “rock” cover of Godwin by Clay, I’m a huge fan of Clay’s style of music; the way she manages to fuse Igbo language and rock music, originality doesn’t get any better than that. Listening to the track yesterday, I couldn’t help but wonder, I thought nothing could be worse than the original version. I’ve always been under the impression that rock music can take the shittiest song and turn it into something badass. I probably had my hopes up at the sight of the tag “rock cover”. “Guitar cover” or “Jam Session” would have been a more appropriate description.

                The song begins with an acoustic guitar progression along with what sounded to me like bagpipes (Bagpipes!). Most, if not all rock covers I’ve heard were designed to get your adrenaline pumping, and sometimes thrash the original version. (a sharp contrast of her cover of Jailer by Asa) If a rock cover of a song goes this way, then the original version must have been Enya or Enigma kind of mellow.

                She shouldn’t have performed the song as written, that did not give room for much creativity and experimentation. There is almost zero distinction between the cover and the original song, except maybe for the guitar riff hanging somewhere in the song.  And if that was the original plan, then a cover was totally unnecessary.

                A big thank you to Mr. Coldflames for turning the auto-tune down a few notches this time, and we all could hear the magic in her voice as we did in Turn Around with Parking Lot Grass. I guess that was the cue, but wetin be my own? I think Godwin was a poor choice for a cover; she didn’t slay it this time. Popular doesn’t always mean spectacular. Doesn’t sound like so much effort was put into making this cover

Rating: 4.1/10

Link To the Song - clayrocksu.com/download/1626/

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