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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