History InTheStyleOf / Music

* Almost every Music/WeirdAlYankovic album[[labelnote:exceptions]][[Music/WeirdAlYankovicAlbum his first album]], ''Music/EvenWorse'' and ''{{Music/Alapalooza}}'' (which had a polka [[CoverVersion cover]] of "[[{{Music/Queen}} Bohemian Rhapsody]]" instead)[[/labelnote]] contains a [[PolkaDork polka]] {{medley}}, doing snippets of these for many contemporary songs. These are basically his equivalent to Creator/JeffFoxworthy's trademark "You Might Be a Redneck" bits; the audience feels cheated if they don't get [[OnceAnEpisode one per album]].

* Every Music/WeirdAlYankovic album (with the exceptions of his [[Music/WeirdAlYankovicAlbum self-titled debut album]], and ''Music/EvenWorse'', his fifth album) contains a polka {{medley}}, doing snippets of these for many contemporary songs. These are basically his equivalent to Creator/JeffFoxworthy's trademark "You Might Be a Redneck" bits; the audience feels cheated if they don't get [[OnceAnEpisode one per album]].
** He also did "Bohemian Polka", the entirety of Music/{{Queen}}'s "[[Music/ANightAtTheOpera Bohemian Rhapsody]]" polka-fied.

* Music/BrunoMars channels Music/ThePolice in his song "Locked Out of Heaven." According to him, the key that he sung in made him sound like Sting, and when he realized this, he decided to make the production a full-on Police track.
* Krillington Zero's take on The Spinto Band's "Oh Mandy": The original is mandolin-based indie-pop, while the cover version is on the heavier end of PostGrunge (with some hints of NuMetal). It was later revealed that Krillington Zero were a FakeBand parodying the post-grunge genre: the actual performers were a band called SW!MS, and The Spinto Band added to the hoax by posting the song to their official blog with a phony ''Alternative Press'' writeup.

** Paul Leary, their guitarist, released two LyricalDissonance-filled "Revisited" versions of songs he wrote with the band - the HardcorePunk spoof "The Shah Sleeps In Lee Harvey's Grave" was remade as a gospel-tinged country shuffle titled "The Shah Revisited" and the GaragePunk "Gary Floyd" became the FolkRock ballad "Gary Floyd Revisited".

* Music/BenFolds has a recurring live song, "Rock This Bitch", where he asks the audience genres or styles to play the same short song.

* The Seattle-born, Los Angeles- based retro band Prom Queen have done many anachronistic '50s and '60s style covers of contemporary pop and rock tunes, such as Music/{{Madonna}}'s "Justify My Love" in the style of Music/PatsyCline, Music/GunsNRoses' "November Rain" in the style of Music/TheEverlyBrothers, and Khia's "My Nevk, My Back (Lick It)" in the style of Music/TheAndrewsSisters.

* The Seattle-born, Los Angeles- based retro band Prom Queen have done many anachronistic '50s and '60s style covers of contemporary pop and rock tunes, such as Music/{{Madonna}}'s "Justify My Love" in the style of Music/PatsyCline, and Khia's "My Nevk, My Back (Lick It)" in the style of Music/TheAndrewsSisters.

* YBZ's "Now That I Found You" was originally a Eurodance floor filler, but the Pop 'n Groove mix completely reworks it into a late '80s NewJackSwing throwback.

* '80s SynthPop trio Bronski Beat accordingly updated [[Music/GeorgeGershwin the Gershwin brothers]]' "[[Theatre/PorgyAndBess It Ain't Necessarily So]]". In turn, Plastic Noise Experience produced an aggressive {{Industrial}} cover of Bronski Beat's SignatureSong "Smalltown Boy", whilst Paradise Lost did a GothRock version.

* All of Richard Thompson's self-released live album ''1000 Years of Popular Music'' is him doing songs ranging from 11th century ballads to Music/{{Prince}} tunes in his own unique folk-rock style (the concept of the album is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, a sampling of the prior 1000 years of song), but for the coup de grace he introduces "Marry, Ageyn Hic Hev Donne Yt," supposedly a "medieval ballad from [[IncrediblyLamePun Brittany]]" but actually [[spoiler: a medieval-styled version of [[Music/BritneySpears "Oops, I Did It Again"]], complete with lyrics in Old English]].

* As mentioned above, Music/PaulAndStorm, formerly part of the a cappella quartet [=DaVinci's Notebook=], did a medley of various hip-hop songs in barbershop style. They called it [[IncrediblyLamePun Hip-Shop]].

* Music/RayStevens has done this many times: a country/bluegrass version of the jazz standard "Misty"; Sammi Smith's "Help Me Make It Through the Night" in the style of Music/SpikeJones; and Music/MichaelJackson's "[[Music/{{Bad}}" also as a bluegrass song.