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Some of the previous Top 10s that The Yorker has featured have resulted from a mix of introspection and weird inspiration. This one started because of an ill-fated night on YouTube. Just watching the figurative dismembering of a beloved childhood favourite was enough to drive anyone to distraction. Thus today we bring you the Top 10 Worst Disney Covers.
10) Anastacia – 'Someday My Prince Will Come'
You would have hoped someone like Anastacia would know exactly what they were doing, but no. The arrangement of this cover sounds rather off, as the mixture of RnB and Snow White was never going to be a match made in heaven. Listen to it here.
9) Michael Bolton – 'A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes'
There is something unsettling about a hard-rock singer with long bedraggled hair singing a classic from Cinderella. The fact this was then accompanied by everyone in Hollywood who owned a string instrument made this song insanely clumpy. Listen to it here.
8) Aaron Carter- 'I Just Can’t Wait To Be King'
It is true that Aaron Carter once had the heart of any girl with the pocket money to buy a Smash Hits magazine that included the life-size poster. But now this bad cover of ‘I Just Can’t Wait to Be King’ forms part of his legacy. How sad. Listen to it here.
7) Ric Ocasek – 'Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah'
‘Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah’ is a nonsense song, we all know that. The fact that Ric Ocasek is able to take even this nonsense just that one step further is rather impressive to say the least. Listen to the horror here.
6) LL Cool J – 'Who’s Afraid of The Big Bad Wolf?'
Like some hideous chimera formed of ‘Billie Jean’, ‘Ice Ice Baby’ and Disney (as well as lyrics that are a giveaway that this was written in the Thirties), there was no way this cover could ever be cool.
5) Jordan & Peter Andre – 'A Whole New World'
This could have been placed higher, for Jordan’s sheer inability to hold a tune unless supremely overproduced, but they have been given a slight reprieve because of the feeling Peter Andre gave in his half, which is sweet in an odd way. Listen to the desperation here.
4) Hilary & Haylie Duff – 'The Siamese Cat Song'
When looking at Disneymania’s track-record it should not have come as a great surprise that this duet would be on the cards. With this they take a song sung by cats in a children’s film and, by the sounds of it, try to sex it up a little bit. Nice(!) Click and be appalled here.
3) Skye Sweetnam – 'Part of Your World'
If you take one beloved song from The Little Mermaid, and give it to an Avril Lavigne wannabe armed with a megaphone, then you have this entry in the Top 10. As a friend of mine said, this is kind of disturbing. Watch the music video here.
2) Bruce & Bongo – 'Hi Ho (Whistle While You Work)'
This is just the right amount of awful to be hilarious. This Eighties electro-pop duo thought that a Snow White medley with elements of ‘The Safety Dance’ would be the best way to score chart success... how about no. Listen to it here.
1) The Jonas Brothers - 'Poor Unfortunate Souls'
This is the song that led to the creation of the list, and nothing has surpassed it in both its cringe-worthiness and the ‘oh god why’ factor. This song, once equated with an evil big-breasted octopus woman, has been turned into a song that is just embarrassing (the lyric changes don’t help it at all).
The lyrics to the Jonas Brothers rewrite don't make any sense!!!
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