Music has the power to tell stories in the form of a ballad. Whether it’s a love story by Taylor Swift or a deep and personal recount by Ed Sheeran, music has the ability to communicate the story and heart behind the original musician. What could covers of songs offer? Quite a bit, actually.
First, it allows a creative outlet for people. When a person creates a cover of a song, the individual allows themselves the opportunity to create and share their own musical talent and aspirations for the world to hear!
But, beyond this, covers of songs have the opportunity to add depth and complexity to the original song. Taking a song with originally high vocals, often associated with a happy moment, and replacing them with lower vocals can add another layer to be explored in the song.
For example, changing traditionally high vocals in a song with lower stress, can help communicate the universal truth that both happy and sad emotions can simultaneously be felt during a person’s life. In showing both the beauty and tragic side of an experience in a song, this can help show and demonstrate how there is pain in beauty, and beauty in pain not conveyed by the original song.
Creating covers of songs does more to provide a creative outlet for people. It also has the opportunity to add depth to the original song that was not previously explored by the original musician. In adding complexity, perspectives are changed, and views are widened to see with new eyes.
