History Horrible / MusicCovers

Even the best of songs can be [[Horrible/{{Music}} turned horrible]] by a bad cover. Maybe it's a technically demanding song being played by musicians who lack the necessary talent, or maybe it just doesn't fit the artist's style... either way, you're better off just listening to the original version.

'''Important Note''': To ensure that the song is judged with a clear mind and the hatred isn't just a knee-jerk reaction, as well as to allow opinions to properly form, '''[[Administrivia/NoRecentExamplesPlease examples should not be added until at least one month after release]]'''. This includes "sneaking" the entries onto the pages ahead of time by adding them and then just commenting them out.

* ''VideoGame/RockBand'', made by the same people who made the first two main ''VideoGame/GuitarHero'' games and ''Rocks the 80s'', also has some covers in its setlist. Some of them sound just like the real thing, but there are also some awful ones. The covers of Music/{{Rush|Band}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i18OzxaBkh8 "Tom Sawyer"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdN9m1EhCfY "Limelight"]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q7iOlwf4RI "Working Man"]] [[note]]Only "Tom Sawyer" is included in the original game; the other two are DLC[[/note]] The cover singer, Mark Edwards, sounds like he has peanut butter stuck to the roof of his mouth. Thankfully these, along with some of the other cover versions, have since been supplemented by the original versions as DownloadableContent.
* 99% of ''VideoGame/RockRevolution''[='s=] setlist is composed of covers, most of which are awful. For instance, in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqrCotG6E1M their cover]] of Music/SystemOfADown's "Chop Suey", the guitar is completely messed up, and the lead vocals sound ''nothing'' like Serj Tankian's distinctive voice.

* In a similar vein to both The Countdown Singers and Hit Crew, a small record label in the Philippines called Aquarius Records & Tapes is known for having released scores of budget-priced compilation albums by uncredited session musicians in the style of popular hit tunes. The quality of these covers are more often than not hit of miss if not totally grating to one's eardrums, such as this [[https://m.facebook.com/aquariusrecordsphilippines/videos/dont-matter-akon/393475599599188/ cover]] of "Don't Matter" by Music/{{Akon}} and this [[https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1050673672512358 atrocious rendition]] of "Get This Party Started" by Music/{{Pink}}. Said albums are distributed either on cassette, audio CD or on Video CD,[[note]]A video format popular in East Asia and commonly used for karaoke albums[[/note]] and sold at the budget section of record bars in the Philippines, which, like the above mentioned Countdown Singers, serve as SchmuckBait for the impressionable budget consumer.
* Creator/{{RuPaul}} has released multiple albums with several catchy hits... however, he had the bright idea of letting ''[[Series/RuPaulsDragRace Drag Race]]'' contestants cover his music for Seasons 6 and 7, resulting in ''The [=CoverGurlz=]'' and ''The [=CoverGurlz=] 2''. While a handful of queens were able to do the songs justice,[[note]]A few of them have musical careers dating back well before they appeared[[/note]] the rest phoned in their performances and had to be autotuned to hell and back in a doomed effort to produce something half-listenable.

* In 1995, Bono of Music/{{U2}} managed to record a wholly irredeemable cover of Music/LeonardCohen's "Hallelujah" for a Cohen tribute album. Many artists have done different interpretations of the song with varying degrees of success, so Bono, given how powerful his voice is, ought to be able to do a decent cover, right? Nope. Instead, we get a bizarre spoken word version where he mumbles the lyrics inaudibly over an electronic beat that sounds like it's coming from a blown car speaker, occasionally interspersed with him singing the chorus in a ''painfully'' out of key and scratchy sounding falsetto. Said cover is so bad that even Bono himself [[CreatorBacklash ''publicly apologized for it'']] in a December 2012 Mojo interview. It is often considered one of the worst Leonard Cohen covers of all time. Tim and Garrett from "Why I Hate This Album" critique it [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pz4m74-Pdk4 here]], or endure it at your own risk [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQX7C8Oy8w here]].

* Music/DuranDuran's horrendous cover of Music/PublicEnemy's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k_BgzSDQNk "911 is a Joke"]]. This specific cover came off of a critically panned album titled ''Thank You'' which featured covers of varying quality. This was the one that made even hardcore Duran Duran fans feel embarrassed. The tone and delivery of the vocals don't seem to even try to match the tone of the original, which is a ProtestSong of the highest order, and it comes off as cheesy as a result. That's not even mentioning the horrendously dated beat, done on an acoustic guitar.

* Music/{{Jesse McCartney}} covered Music/PanicAtTheDisco's "I Write Sins, Not Tragedies" as part of a radio program... that didn't ask him to cover the song. The cover was so bad that the radio station [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lokS5G5hr20 called Brendon Urie himself to hear it]], and its sheer lack of melody, incorrect lyrics and general awfulness led them to only playing just a sample of it.
* Ex-gay porn actor Colton Ford did a shamelessly awful cover of "Lithium" by Music/{{Nirvana}} in 2009. He transformed a tongue-in-cheek humorous tune into an emotionless, almost borderline-depressing dance tune. If you [[DrinkingGame took a shot every time he strains his vocals]], you'd die from alcohol poisoning, and the electric guitar in the chorus can barely keep up with the already butchered tempo. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4WuA0up3NU Approach with caution.]]
* Rosegun Vibe's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gso_36c2MPg cover]] of Music/{{Deftones}}' "My Own Summer (Shove It)". Even with the instrumentation tuned lower than the original, it would have been fine... if the singer wasn't horrendously off-key. And as for the iconic [[CarefulWithThatAxe shrieks]] of the original, they've been replaced by [[DullSurprise some of the most utterly dull and lifeless... "yells"]] this side of ''[[VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead House of the Dead 2]]''.
%%* Deathcore band Dr. Acula's cover of Music/WizKhalifa's "No Sleep". It takes everything that was fun about the original and kills it. Listen to the abomination [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDaRf26srXU here.]]
* The Doc G lineup of Music/{{PM Dawn}}, featuring none of the founding members, did [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9kSJuHQgGlI two]] [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhk1LpeHcAc re-recordings]] of sole #1 hit "[[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5lByFc7HiM Set Adrift on Memory Bliss]]." Doc G's voice is lifeless and off-tempo, especially compared to Prince Be's. On the first re-recording he couldn't clear the original sample of Music/SpandauBallet's "True". WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows tweeted [[https://mobile.twitter.com/ShadowTodd/status/1287537947986874368 that the re-recordings sounded like ass]]. In partnership with Genius, Spotify had a "Behind The Lyrics" feature on certain songs, and since the original recording wasn't available to stream, the text that appeared on-screen as you listened to "Set Adrift On Memory Bliss" on the app actually started out by acknowledging the fact that what you were hearing was an inferior remake. After a while, the "Behind The Lyrics" feature on that particular song mysteriously disappeared, but the remakes remained the only streaming versions.

* Like many foreign dubs, the Turkish dub of ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' usually leaves the songs undubbed. However, when "Jail Break" aired [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofaBpSMn0Nw they tried to dub "Stronger Than You"]]. Anything that could have gone wrong did go wrong: the translation itself is questionable, [[note]]"English is hard to translate to Turkish!" is not an excuse since the Japanese dub translated the song and avoided lines like "I am the love kid."[[/note]] it is frequently and painfully inconsistent from the get-go, the singer is so monotone that you wonder if they tried and failed to turn it into a rap, and for the final nail in the coffin the laziness of the show's dubbing seeps into the song. [[note]]In every other language, when Garnet warns the other Crystal Gems that the ship is falling, the singing continues in the background; in Turkish, the singing stops as Garnet goes into the control room.[[/note]]

* Polish pop duo Blog 27 did a cover of Italian singer Alexia's 1997 Europop hit "Uh La La La". It sounds like an entire bag of cats being strangled, and the rhythm of the original is completely lost. Seeing seemingly underage dancers [[note]]The two singers were only 13 at the time[[/note]] in their miniskirts baring their midriffs is also hard to watch. Compare [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95m5cdG4x6o Alexia's original]] to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca8Um4KXamU Blog 27's abomination]].

* What happens when the GiftedlyBad Music/TheShaggs do a cover? You get [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BkUFmjz-Ek this]] cover of the Music/{{Carpenters}}' "Yesterday Once More". While The Shaggs's music normally falls on [[SoBadItsGood the opposite end of the spectrum]], listening to them struggle to follow the original tune will make even the most tolerant listener shake their head.
* While Music/KidzBop as a whole is spared since there are people who actually enjoy it, there are a few covers not even their fans can defend.

** Their cover of Music/Blink182's [[https://youtu.be/nNrSISR8o2E "All The Small Things"]] is even worse. The instruments are not mixed right, which causes the song to sound like something you'd hear at a cheap department store. Worse, the lead singer is ''not a child'', but rather Tom Scharpling, who defies RetroactiveRecognition by singing like he lives off of cigarette smoke. The kids themselves are only in the chorus, and they sound like a bunch of monotonous Lisa Simpson clones.
* Music/FallingInReverse's cover of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7DUB-zLvw8 "Gangsta's Paradise"]], for the compilation album ''Punk Goes 90s, Vol. 2'', is quite possibly the worst reimagining of a song in history. Ronnie Radke spends the song yelling the lyrics, which end up losing all credibility when you remember that they were written about the life of an African-American youth and not a middle-class white guy in his 30s. To make matters worse, there's a breakdown in the middle of the song where Radke abruptly switches to [[HarshVocals tough-guy growling]], which will make fans of Music/{{Coolio}}'s original bang their heads against the wall. One really has to wonder why Coolio's label (he appears ''in the music video'') would take issue with Music/WeirdAlYankovic's AffectionateParody of this song "Amish Paradise" and yet be completely fine with this straight-up insult of a cover.
* When Music/ChrisCornell died in May 2017, many were quick to pay tribute to him by covering some of his most well-known tunes. Among the absolute worst of the lot was Music/DreamTheater's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy1ezqxuT9I wholly irredeemable cover]] of Music/{{Soundgarden}}'s "Black Hole Sun" at their show in Bucharest, Romania. The band were already facing criticism during the tour due to James [=LaBrie=]'s rapidly deteriorating voice, Mike Mangini's lifeless and robotic drumming, and downtuning the entire ''Images and Words'' album, but this half-assed tribute is often seen as the pinnacle of the tour's terrible quality. [=LaBrie=] is off key for the ''entire'' song and forgets the words halfway through the first verse, remarking "I forgot the fucking words" and making an already terrible and forced-sounding tribute downright disrespectful. The band caught a lot of flak on social media for the performance and not even the most staunch defenders of [=LaBrie=], who's an [[BrokenBase extremely polarizing singer]], could find anything nice to say about it.
* [[https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1487775 This painfully bad cover]] of Music/{{Nirvana}}'s "[[Music/NevermindAlbum Smells Like Teen Spirit]]" certainly qualifies. The singer-songwriter, J-Rock artist Kirito, has an accent so thick it makes the lyrics (which are [[GratuitousEnglish still sung in English]]) [[TheUnintelligible nigh-incomprehensible]], the drummer is playing far too slowly & completely out of tune, and the guitar solo near the end is entirely off-melody. Unsurprisingly, it's the most watched Nirvana-related video on Nico Nico Douga due to sheer BileFascination.

* Actress Creator/GalGadot's cover of [[https://www.instagram.com/tv/B95M4kNhbzz/?utm_source=ig_embed "Imagine"]], featuring over 20 other celebrities,[[labelnote:specifically...]]Creator/KristenWiig, Creator/JamieDornan, Creator/JamesMarsden, Creator/SarahSilverman, Eddie Benjamin, Creator/JimmyFallon, Creator/NataliePortman, Creator/ZoeKravitz, Music/{{Sia}}, Creator/LyndaCarter, Creator/AmyAdams, Creator/LeslieOdomJr, Creator/PedroPascal, Creator/ChrisODowd, Labrinth, Creator/WillFerrell, Creator/MarkRuffalo, Norah Jones, Creator/AshleyBenson, Kaia Gerber, Creator/CaraDelevingne, Annie Mumolo, and Creator/MayaRudolph.[[/labelnote]] was meant to raise spirits during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, but instead made everyone involved look out-of-touch. For each of the few tolerable appearances, there were several apathetic (Pedro Pascal), unfunny (Kristen Wiig, Sarah Silverman), gratuitous (Eddie Benjamin), embarrassing (Ashley Benson with Kaia Gerber and Cara Delevigne), inept (Chris O'Dowd, Will Ferrell, Natalie Portman), or just plain lousy ones. It has since gone down as a prime example of celebrity slacktivism: Heather Schwedel of Slate [[https://slate.com/culture/2020/03/celebrities-singing-imagine-video-explained.html lists everyone's segments]] in order from least to most annoying, [[CreatorBacklash Gadot herself had nothing kind to say about it in retrospect]], and Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "Eat It" was used as a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYGCpqAvoCs parodic rebuttal]] in the exact [[StylisticSuck same]] [[SoBadItsGood style]], also featuring Silverman among its contributors. Avant-garde musician Music/LinguaIgnota rebutted with "Above Us Only Sky," which sampled a snippet from the cover before [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FOeyZ7EiCU turning into a wall of harsh noise]], as she felt [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments three minutes of that would be just as inspiring]]. WebVideo/{{Rocked}} also noted it as one of the worst cover songs ever in his video on [[https://youtu.be/MDqU4r2_8ak?t=634 his 10 worst political songs.]]
* While Music/SixFeetUnder's ''Graveyard Classics'' albums are very polarizing, they at least are often enjoyed as SoBadItsGood due to Chris Barnes' terrible death growling over admittedly badass renditions of rock-n-roll classics (often christened "Death N Roll"). The worst received of the lot is ''Graveyard Classics IV'', which is half Music/JudasPriest covers and half Music/IronMaiden covers; however, even defenders of this album won't defend their cover of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=J_7gtFNWM-A The Evil That Men Do]]". Whereas the other covers on the album at least try as hard as they can to stay faithful, Chris does not even ''try'' to stay on beat (especially in the verses), and even the music, which is often considered the one saving grace of these covers, sound lethargic and dry (especially unforgivable on a song lauded for its fast pace and energy). Endure it, if you dare.
* Music/PuddleOfMudd's cover of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKv2Ve-yL1o About A Girl]]". Wes Scantlin does a terrible job transitioning between registers, sounding like, as one comment put it, "[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Krusty the Clown]] trying to pass a kidney stone," as well as being grossly out of key. You can even see the three guys performing with him trying not to laugh at his atrocious singing. The sad part is that things were actually looking up for the band before this performance; Scantlin had gotten his life back together after a decade of erratic behavior and brushes with the law. Then this video was released and any chance of them ever becoming respected again was shot down.

* Music/MachineGunKelly's cover of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm-ThTebKZw Aerials]]" by Music/SystemOfADown when he was on ''Radio/TheHowardSternShow''. The end result was a disaster. While his backing band tries to do a serviceable job, Kelly himself brings the whole this down by sounding monotone and off-key as well as looking disinterested and smoking a joint throughout the performance. Despite Stern saying he should "do that in concert", the performance was widely mocked on the internet.

* Music/MachineGunKelly's cover of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm-ThTebKZw Aerials]]" by Music/SystemOfADown when he was on ''Radio/TheHowardSternShow. The end result was a disaster. While his backing band tries to do a serviceable job, Kelly himself brings the whole this down by sounding monotone and off-key as well as looking disinterested and smoking a joint throughout the performance. Despite Stern saying he should "do that in concert", the performance was widely mocked on the internet.

* Actress Creator/GalGadot's cover of [[https://www.instagram.com/tv/B95M4kNhbzz/?utm_source=ig_embed "Imagine"]], featuring over 20 other celebrities,[[labelnote:specifically...]]Creator/KristenWiig, Creator/JamieDornan, Creator/JamesMarsden, Creator/SarahSilverman, Eddie Benjamin, Creator/JimmyFallon, Creator/NataliePortman, Creator/ZoeKravitz, Music/{{Sia}}, Creator/LyndaCarter, Creator/AmyAdams, Creator/LeslieOdomJr, Creator/PedroPascal, Creator/ChrisODowd, Labrinth, Creator/WillFerrell, Creator/MarkRuffalo, Norah Jones, Creator/AshleyBenson, Kaia Gerber, Creator/CaraDelevingne, Annie Mumolo, and Creator/MayaRudolph.[[/labelnote]] was meant to raise spirits during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, but instead made everyone involved look out-of-touch. For each of the few tolerable appearances, there were several apathetic (Pedro Pascal), unfunny (Kristen Wiig, Sarah Silverman), gratuitous (Eddie Benjamin), embarrassing (Ashley Benson, Kaia Gerber, and Cara Delevigne), inept (Chris O'Dowd, Will Ferrell, Natalie Portman), or just plain lousy ones. It has since gone down as a prime example of celebrity slacktivism: Heather Schwedel of Slate [[https://slate.com/culture/2020/03/celebrities-singing-imagine-video-explained.html lists everyone's segments]] in order from least to most annoying, [[CreatorBacklash Gadot herself had nothing kind to say about it in retrospect]], and Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "Eat It" was used as a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYGCpqAvoCs parodic rebuttal]] in the exact [[StylisticSuck same]] [[SoBadItsGood style]], also featuring Silverman among its contributors. Avant-garde musician Music/LinguaIgnota rebutted with "Above Us Only Sky," which sampled a snippet from the cover before [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FOeyZ7EiCU turning into a wall of harsh noise]], as she felt [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments three minutes of that would be just as inspiring]]. WebVideo/{{Rocked}} also noted it as one of the worst cover songs ever in his video on [[https://youtu.be/MDqU4r2_8ak?t=634 his 10 worst political songs.]]

'''Important Note''': To ensure that the song is judged with a clear mind and the hatred isn't just a knee-jerk reaction, as well as to allow opinions to properly form, '''[[Administrivia/NoRecentExamplesPlease examples should not be added until at least one month after release]]'''.

* [=Nichole337=] is a Website/YouTube star who is best known for doing tone-deaf covers of pop songs. She does have a genuine fandom, but she also has a large hatedom, and the one video her detractors will bring up that not even her fans can defend is her cover of Music/MileyCyrus' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yswQLTH4KE Party in the USA]]". In most of Nichole's videos, she's at least understandable and able to sing the words at the same speed as the original, but in this video she can't even do ''one of them''.

* [=ConicTeamTV=]'s cover of Music/MichaelJackson's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBjh2TXtcMo Smooth Criminal]]", consisting of a single, amateurish bass track and multiple even more amateurish vocal takes, none of which keep in time, tune, or even key. On another level of embarrassment, the "background singers" are allegedly supposed to be Franchise/{{Sonic|TheHedgehog}} and company.

* While the majority of Music/KanyeWest's performance at UsefulNotes/{{Glastonbury|Festival}} 2015 got a mixed-to-positive reaction, even its most staunch defenders will not, in any way, defend his shameless butchery of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehVMflY2tI0 Bohemian Rhapsody]]". He only covers the first two minutes of the song, does it to a ''playback track'' of the original song, skips about 60% of the lyrics, and the lyrics he ''does'' sing sound out of tune and like he has problems with his throat. Watch the horror at your own risk.

** The UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}} version of ''Guitar Hero 2'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma3bNNnOLnU this cover of "The Trooper"]], where the guitars are in severe miscommunication with each other and the fun feel of the Maiden tune has been sucked out, making it feel almost depressing. The singer sounds like he has a severe vowel pronouncing problem in addition to sounding like he has peanut butter stuck to the roof of his mouth.

** The version of Music/LambOfGod's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP2Fb64HGyU "Laid to Rest"]] in ''Guitar Hero 2''. The singer, Marcus Henderson, tries to imitate Randy Blythe's unique vocal style, but instead he sounds like someone yelling through cupped hands while straining on the toilet, making the song unlistenable.

** There's a collection of songs released in this group focused specifically on the ''Anime/PrettyCure'' franchise. If a song title has "Precure" listed, it's spelled [[SpellMyNameWithAnS "Purecure"]]. The most painful of the bunch are Cao's rendition of [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar "Makasete! Splash Star"]] and Mami's rendition of [[Anime/HeartCatchPrettyCure "Tomorrow Song ~Ashita no Uta~"]].

** The version of Music/LambOfGod's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP2Fb64HGyU "Laid to Rest"]] in ''Guitar Hero 2''. The singer tries to imitate Randy Blythe's unique vocal style, but instead he sounds like someone yelling through cupped hands while straining on the toilet, making the song unlistenable.

* Actress Creator/GalGadot's cover of [[https://www.instagram.com/tv/B95M4kNhbzz/?utm_source=ig_embed "Imagine"]], featuring over 20 other celebrities,[[labelnote:specifically...]]Creator/KristenWiig, Creator/JamieDornan, Creator/JamesMarsden, Creator/SarahSilverman, Eddie Benjamin, Creator/JimmyFallon, Creator/NataliePortman, Creator/ZoeKravitz, Music/{{Sia}}, Creator/LyndaCarter, Creator/AmyAdams, Creator/LeslieOdomJr, Creator/PedroPascal, Creator/ChrisODowd, Labrinth, Creator/WillFerrell, Creator/MarkRuffalo, Norah Jones, Creator/AshleyBenson, Kaia Gerber, Creator/CaraDelevingne, Annie Mumolo, and Creator/MayaRudolph.[[/labelnote]] was meant to raise spirits during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, but instead made everyone involved look out-of-touch. For each of the few tolerable appearances, there were several apathetic (Pedro Pascal), unfunny (Kristen Wiig, Sarah Silverman), gratuitous (Eddie Benjamin), embarrassing (Ashley Benson, Kaia Gerber, and Cara Delevigne), inept (Chris O'Dowd, Will Ferrell), or just plain lousy ones. It has since gone down as a prime example of celebrity slacktivism: Heather Schwedel of Slate [[https://slate.com/culture/2020/03/celebrities-singing-imagine-video-explained.html lists everyone's segments]] in order from least to most annoying, [[CreatorBacklash Gadot herself had nothing kind to say about it in retrospect]], and Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "Eat It" was used as a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYGCpqAvoCs parodic rebuttal]] in the exact [[StylisticSuck same]] [[SoBadItsGood style]], also featuring Silverman among its contributors. Avant-garde musician Music/LinguaIgnota rebutted with "Above Us Only Sky," which sampled a snippet from the cover before [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FOeyZ7EiCU turning into a wall of harsh noise]], as she felt [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments three minutes of that would be just as inspiring]]. WebVideo/{{Rocked}} also noted it as one of the worst cover songs ever in his video on [[https://youtu.be/MDqU4r2_8ak?t=634 his 10 worst political songs.]]

* Actress Creator/GalGadot's cover of [[https://www.instagram.com/tv/B95M4kNhbzz/?utm_source=ig_embed "Imagine"]], featuring over 20 other celebrities,[[labelnote:specifically...]]Creator/KristenWiig, Creator/JamieDornan, Creator/JamesMarsden, Creator/SarahSilverman, Eddie Benjamin, Creator/JimmyFallon, Creator/NataliePortman, Creator/ZoeKravitz, Music/{{Sia}}, Creator/LyndaCarter, Creator/AmyAdams, Creator/LeslieOdomJr, Creator/PedroPascal, Creator/ChrisODowd, Labrinth, Creator/WillFerrell, Creator/MarkRuffalo, Norah Jones, Creator/AshleyBenson, Kaia Gerber, Creator/CaraDelevingne, Annie Mumolo, and Creator/MayaRudolph.[[/labelnote]] was meant to raise spirits during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, but instead made everyone involved look out-of-touch. For what few tolerable appearances there were, there were several apathetic (Pedro Pascal), unfunny (Kristen Wiig, Sarah Silverman), gratuitous (Eddie Benjamin), embarrassing (Ashley Benson, Kaia Gerber, and Cara Delevigne), inept (Chris O'Dowd, Will Ferrell), or just plain lousy ones. Ithas since gone down as a prime example of celebrity slacktivism. Heather Schwedel of Slate [[https://slate.com/culture/2020/03/celebrities-singing-imagine-video-explained.html lists everyone's segments]] in order from least to most annoying, [[CreatorBacklash Gadot herself had nothing kind to say about it in retrospect]], and Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "Eat It" was used as a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYGCpqAvoCs parodic rebuttal]] in the exact [[StylisticSuck same]] [[SoBadItsGood style]], also featuring Silverman among its contributors. Avant-garde musician Music/LinguaIgnota rebutted with "Above Us Only Sky," which sampled a snippet from the cover before [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FOeyZ7EiCU turning into a wall of harsh noise]], as she felt [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments three minutes of that would be just as inspiring]]. WebVideo/{{Rocked}} also noted it as one of the worst cover songs ever in his video on [[https://youtu.be/MDqU4r2_8ak?t=634 his 10 worst political songs.]]

* Creator/GalGadot may be a talented actress who brought the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse [[GrowingTheBeard some degree of respectability]] with ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}'', but singing is definitely not one of her stronger points. Just listen to her cover of [[https://www.instagram.com/tv/B95M4kNhbzz/?utm_source=ig_embed "Imagine"]], featuring over 20 other celebrities.[[labelnote:specifically...]]Creator/KristenWiig, Creator/JamieDornan, Creator/JamesMarsden, Creator/SarahSilverman, Eddie Benjamin, Creator/JimmyFallon, Creator/NataliePortman, Creator/ZoeKravitz, Music/{{Sia}}, Creator/LyndaCarter, Creator/AmyAdams, Creator/LeslieOdomJr, Creator/PedroPascal, Creator/ChrisODowd, Labrinth, Creator/WillFerrell, Creator/MarkRuffalo, Norah Jones, Creator/AshleyBenson, Kaia Gerber, Creator/CaraDelevingne, Annie Mumolo, and Creator/MayaRudolph.[[/labelnote]] The cover was intended to raise people's spirits during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic of 2020, but instead managed to bring the Internet together in bashing their performance for being horribly cringeworthy and out-of-touch. While some of the celebrities managed to be tolerable in their clips, the ones who were annoying were ''gratingly'' annoying. Pedro Pascal barely put in any effort at all, Kristen Wiig and Sarah Silverman came across as completely unfunny (though Silverman was at least aware of it), Chris O'Dowd had to bring in his wife, Dawn O'Porter, for assistance (he later said he'd assumed it would just be some silly thing for kids), Eddie Benjamin threw in gratuitous ad-libbed "yeah"s during his portion, Ashley Benson quarantined with Kaia Gerber and Cara Delevingne just for some embarrassing dance moves, and Will Ferrell's performance was so awful that it made ''Film/HolmesAndWatson'' look like ''Series/{{Sherlock}}''. All said, the negatives of this performance ''far'' outweigh the positives, and it quickly became both universally hated and a prime example of the sheer inaction of most celebrities during the pandemic. Heather Schwedel of Slate [[https://slate.com/culture/2020/03/celebrities-singing-imagine-video-explained.html lists everyone's segments]] in order from least to most annoying, [[CreatorBacklash Gadot herself had nothing kind to say about it in retrospect]], and Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "Eat It" was used as a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYGCpqAvoCs parodic rebuttal]] in the exact [[StylisticSuck same]] [[SoBadItsGood style]], also featuring Silverman among its contributors. The parody by avant-garde musician Music/LinguaIgnota might be the most scathing: her single "Above Us Only Sky" plays a few distorted lines from the cover before [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FOeyZ7EiCU turning into a wall of harsh noise]], because [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments three minutes of horrible noise would've been just as inspiring]]. WebVideo/{{Rocked}} also noted it as one of the worst cover songs ever in his video on [[https://youtu.be/MDqU4r2_8ak?t=634 his 10 worst political songs.]] Oddly enough, a number of websites initially remarked on the cover neutrally, without reviewing it, before the cover attained such widespread notoriety, at which point several websites acted like they had said the cover was bad from the start, when that was obviously not the case.

* Creator/GalGadot may be a talented actress who brought the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse [[GrowingTheBeard some degree of respectability]] with ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}'', but singing is definitely not one of her stronger points. Just listen to her cover of [[https://www.instagram.com/tv/B95M4kNhbzz/?utm_source=ig_embed "Imagine"]], featuring over 20 other celebrities.[[labelnote:specifically...]]Creator/KristenWiig, Creator/JamieDornan, Creator/JamesMarsden, Creator/SarahSilverman, Eddie Benjamin, Creator/JimmyFallon, Creator/NataliePortman, Creator/ZoeKravitz, Music/{{Sia}}, Creator/LyndaCarter, Creator/AmyAdams, Creator/LeslieOdomJr, Creator/PedroPascal, Creator/ChrisODowd, Labrinth, Creator/WillFerrell, Creator/MarkRuffalo, Norah Jones, Creator/AshleyBenson, Kaia Gerber, Creator/CaraDelevingne, Annie Mumolo, and Creator/MayaRudolph.[[/labelnote]] The cover was intended to raise people's spirits during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic of 2020, but instead managed to bring the Internet together in bashing their performance for being horribly cringeworthy and out-of-touch. While some of the celebrities managed to be tolerable in their clips, the ones who were annoying were ''gratingly'' annoying. Pedro Pascal barely put in any effort at all, Kristen Wiig and Sarah Silverman came across as completely unfunny (though Silverman was at least aware of it), Chris O'Dowd had to bring in his wife, Dawn O'Porter, for assistance (he later said he'd assumed it would just be some silly thing for kids), Eddie Benjamin threw in gratuitous ad-libbed "yeah"s during his portion, Ashley Benson quarantined with Kaia Gerber and Cara Delevingne just for some embarrassing dance moves, and Will Ferrell's performance was so awful that it made ''Film/HolmesAndWatson'' look like ''Series/{{Sherlock}}''. All said, the negatives of this performance ''far'' outweigh the positives, and it quickly became both universally hated and a prime example of the sheer inaction of most celebrities during the pandemic. Heather Schwedel of Slate [[https://slate.com/culture/2020/03/celebrities-singing-imagine-video-explained.html lists everyone's segments]] in order from least to most annoying, [[CreatorBacklash Gadot herself had nothing kind to say about it in retrospect]], and Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "Eat It" was used as a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYGCpqAvoCs parodic rebuttal]] in the exact [[StylisticSuck same]] [[SoBadItsGood style]], also featuring Silverman among its contributors. The parody by avant-garde musician Music/LinguaIgnota might be the most scathing: her single "Above Us Only Sky" plays a few distorted lines from the cover before [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FOeyZ7EiCU turning into a wall of harsh noise]], because [[FunnyMoments three minutes of horrible noise would've been just as inspiring]]. WebVideo/{{Rocked}} also noted it as one of the worst cover songs ever in his video on [[https://youtu.be/MDqU4r2_8ak?t=634 his 10 worst political songs.]] Oddly enough, a number of websites initially remarked on the cover neutrally, without reviewing it, before the cover attained such widespread notoriety, at which point several websites acted like they had said the cover was bad from the start, when that was obviously not the case.

* Creator/GalGadot may be a talented actress who brought the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse [[GrowingTheBeard some degree of respectability]] with ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}'', but singing is definitely not one of her stronger points. Just listen to her cover of [[https://www.instagram.com/tv/B95M4kNhbzz/?utm_source=ig_embed "Imagine"]], featuring over 20 other celebrities.[[labelnote:specifically...]]Creator/KristenWiig, Creator/JamieDornan, Creator/JamesMarsden, Creator/SarahSilverman, Eddie Benjamin, Creator/JimmyFallon, Creator/NataliePortman, Creator/ZoeKravitz, Music/{{Sia}}, Creator/LyndaCarter, Creator/AmyAdams, Creator/LeslieOdomJr, Creator/PedroPascal, Creator/ChrisODowd, Labrinth, Creator/WillFerrell, Creator/MarkRuffalo, Norah Jones, Creator/AshleyBenson, Kaia Gerber, Creator/CaraDelevingne, Annie Mumolo, and Creator/MayaRudolph.[[/labelnote]] The cover was intended to raise people's spirits during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic of 2020, but instead managed to bring the Internet together in bashing their performance for being horribly cringeworthy and out-of-touch. While some of the celebrities managed to be tolerable in their clips, the ones who were annoying were ''gratingly'' annoying. Pedro Pascal barely put in any effort at all, Kristen Wiig and Sarah Silverman came across as completely unfunny (though Silverman was at least aware of it), Chris O'Dowd had to bring in his wife, Dawn O'Porter, for assistance (he later said he'd assumed it would just be some silly thing for kids), Eddie Benjamin threw in gratuitous ad-libbed "yeah"s during his portion, Ashley Benson quarantined with Kaia Gerber and Cara Delevingne just for some embarrassing dance moves, and Will Ferrell's performance was so awful that it made ''Film/HolmesAndWatson'' look like ''Series/{{Sherlock}}''. All said, the negatives of this performance ''far'' outweigh the positives, and it quickly became both universally hated and a prime example of the sheer inaction of most celebrities during the pandemic. Heather Schwedel of Slate [[https://slate.com/culture/2020/03/celebrities-singing-imagine-video-explained.html lists everyone's segments]] in order from least to most annoying, [[CreatorBacklash Gadot herself had nothing kind to say about it in retrospect]], and Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "Eat It" was used as a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYGCpqAvoCs parodic rebuttal]] in the exact [[StylisticSuck same]] [[SoBadItsGood style]], also featuring Silverman among its contributors. WebVideo/{{Rocked}} also noted it as one of the worst cover songs ever in his video on [[https://youtu.be/MDqU4r2_8ak?t=634 his 10 worst political songs.]] Oddly enough, a number of websites initially remarked on the cover neutrally, without reviewing it, before the cover attained such widespread notoriety, at which point several websites acted like they had said the cover was bad from the start, when that was obviously not the case.

** The cover of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odcxvXL3nI0 "Police Truck"]] by Music/DeadKennedys in ''Rocks the 80s'' is censored so much that it ruins the song, destroys its original meaning, and gives it more painful rhymes than the original. For instance, the word "ass" is changed to "butt" in the line "Pull down your dress/It's a kick in the ass", even though other songs in the series had no issue with the word.