SUPERSEDING ALL REGGAE COVERS OF NON-REGGAE TOP-40 SONGS: The country version of "Tainted Love"* that I heard in Starbucks this morning** is [Chris Traeger voice] lit-rally*** the worst thing that I have ever heard in my life or in any of the prior lives that some religions believe that I have had.
*Not that a country version has to be terrible. See, e.g., this Ali Dee**** country-bluegrass version.*****
**For all I know, the version I heard was Ali Dee. It was not, however, the Ali Dee version linked above.
***Not literally.
****Country artist Ali Dee, not rap artist Ali Dee.
*****And I feel like I need to say that this isn't really my style, except that I like the little bit of rockabilly sprinkled in in the middle, when the band comes in with the chanting and stuff.
Do you mean the Imelda May version?
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I don't think so. It was pretty straight country.
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