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* In 2022, the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard University [[https://americanrepertorytheater.org/shows-events/1776-revival/?gclid=CjwKCAjwu5yYBhAjEiwAKXk_eHEdHoHUSE4lxv1dIOnYErLKnfUYry2yVF016YWrIcr6QgZexH8SJhoCvkAQAvD_BwE produced a new version]] of ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix'', which [[GenderFlip gender-flips]] nearly every role to either female or non-binary; since the original production only had [[ChromosomeCasting two female characters]], all of the songs take on a new tone, although none of the lyrics are changed. This version was later mounted as a revival on Broadway. Particular highlights include:
** "The Egg", originally a rather silly but hopeful song about Benjamin Franklin arguing for using a turkey as the United States's national bird, becomes a hard-rocking anthem (complete with Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams playing instruments) about the brilliant future that the country will have. It's paired with a rapid montage of protests and equal rights movements from across American history to connect the idea of revolution with the present day.
** "Mama, Look Sharp", already a [[TearJerker tear-jerking]] song about a young man [[IWantMyMommy crying for his mother]] as he dies on the battlefield, is given an added dimension in the face of the BlackLivesMatter movement. In addition to the tune being rewritten in a more gospel style, the son in this case is a young Black man killed by an authority figure, and the staging shows his grieving mother finding his corpse and screaming in rage and pain over it.
** In the original production, "But Mr. Adams" seems to be more sincere, with each member of the Committee of Five genuinely trying to get out of writing the Declaration of Independence. In the new version, the whole thing feels more like a set-up to get Thomas Jefferson to write the Declaration through a lighthearted trick, with every other member of the Committee being in on the joke.
** "Molasses to Rum," originally a scathing NotSoDifferentRemark in song form about how the North benefits from the American South's slave trade, has its tempo increased and adds hard rock elements. That, plus a staging of a slave auction performed by the Black cast members, gives the entire thing a hellish, nightmarish quality.
** "The Egg", originally a rather silly but hopeful song about Benjamin Franklin arguing for using a turkey as the United States's national bird, becomes a hard-rocking anthem (complete with Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams playing instruments) about the brilliant future that the country will have. It's paired with a rapid montage of protests and equal rights movements from across American history to connect the idea of revolution with the present day.
** "Mama, Look Sharp", already a [[TearJerker tear-jerking]] song about a young man [[IWantMyMommy crying for his mother]] as he dies on the battlefield, is given an added dimension in the face of the BlackLivesMatter movement. In addition to the tune being rewritten in a more gospel style, the son in this case is a young Black man killed by an authority figure, and the staging shows his grieving mother finding his corpse and screaming in rage and pain over it.
** In the original production, "But Mr. Adams" seems to be more sincere, with each member of the Committee of Five genuinely trying to get out of writing the Declaration of Independence. In the new version, the whole thing feels more like a set-up to get Thomas Jefferson to write the Declaration through a lighthearted trick, with every other member of the Committee being in on the joke.
** "Molasses to Rum," originally a scathing NotSoDifferentRemark in song form about how the North benefits from the American South's slave trade, has its tempo increased and adds hard rock elements. That, plus a staging of a slave auction performed by the Black cast members, gives the entire thing a hellish, nightmarish quality.
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* "Crazy In Love" by Music/{{Beyonce}} is a SillyLoveSong. Sofia Karlberg's cover is HotterAndSexier, changing it into a more sensual song.
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* "Crazy In Love" by Music/{{Beyonce}} is a SillyLoveSong. strange example, since ''Beyonce herself'' did the cover in question. The original is a SillyLoveSong about how great it is to be in love, and the "crazy" refers to being punch-drunk with happiness. When the film adaptation of ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' came out, Beyonce re-recorded the song at a much slower tempo and using deeper vocals, making it HotterAndSexier. The "crazy" in this case sounds more like someone dangerously obsessed with their lover. Sofia Karlberg's Karlberg would later cover is HotterAndSexier, changing this cover in the same vein, albeit with a few edits that make it into a more sensual song.sound slightly less creepy, but just as sexy.
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%%* "Gin and Juice": The Gourds' [[MisattributedSong commonly misattributed]] cover.
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81FszKwDi7c Lo Spirit's version]] is a scene/rock-song InTheStyleOf Music/MyChemicalRomance, as fans have noticed that [[IdenticalStranger Lo sounds a lot like Gerard Way.]] The cover's frantic pace and the constant vocalizing/screaming sounds like the singer is having a FreakOut and rocketing past the DespairEventHorizon.
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81FszKwDi7c Lo Spirit's version]] is a scene/rock-song InTheStyleOf Music/MyChemicalRomance, as fans have noticed that [[IdenticalStranger Lo sounds a lot like Gerard Way.]] The cover's frantic pace and the constant vocalizing/screaming sounds like the singer is having a FreakOut and rocketing past the DespairEventHorizon.
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* "Come Little Children" from ''Film/HocusPocus'' is sung by a witch who is trying to lure children in order to suck their life-forces. A popular [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW5n3k2VgZE fan-animation]] for ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', ''WebAnimation/ChildrenOfTheNight'', instead changes the meaning so that it's about Princess Luna taking away orphaned foals to a better place in the night, similarly to ''Literature/{{The Pied Piper|OfHamelin}}''.
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* "Come Little Children" from ''Film/HocusPocus'' is sung by a witch who is trying to lure children in order to suck their life-forces. A popular [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW5n3k2VgZE fan-animation]] for ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', ''WebAnimation/ChildrenOfTheNight'', ''WebAnimation/ChildrenOfTheNightDuoCartoonist'', instead changes the meaning so that it's about Princess Luna taking away orphaned foals to a better place in the night, similarly to ''Literature/{{The Pied Piper|OfHamelin}}''.
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** And there is a version popular in Latin-American catholic areas, where the lyrics are changet to an adaptation of the Lord's Prayer and used in singing masses.
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* The holiday standard "Blue Christmas" is traditionally a romantic love song, where the singer is sad that their lover/ex won't be spending Christmas with them. In ''WesternAnimation/TheYearWithoutASantaClaus'', it's sung by a little girl to Santa Claus, expressing her sadness that he won't be coming to deliver presents this year.
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* The holiday standard "Blue Christmas" is traditionally a romantic love song, where the singer is sad that their lover/ex won't be spending Christmas with them. In ''WesternAnimation/TheYearWithoutASantaClaus'', it's sung by a little girl to Santa Claus, expressing her sadness that he won't be coming to deliver presents this year.
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* The holiday standard "Blue Christmas" is traditionally a romantic love song, where the singer is sad that their lover/ex won't be spending Christmas with them. In ''WesternAnimation/TheYearWithoutASantaClaus'', it's sung by a little girl to Santa Claus, expressing her sadness that he won't be coming to deliver presents this year.
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* "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina" from ''Music/{{Evita}}'' is, in its original context, a song sung by Eva Péron to her followers, about her relationship with them. The version by Music/SineadOConnor is almost identical in sound and production to every other version (which is kind of what you'd expect, given that it was produced by Phil Ramone) but it comes across as a song sung by Sinéad O'Connor to ''her'' fans, and indeed everyone else, about ''her'' relationship with ''them''.
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** The version by Music/RichardThompson makes the listener realise that the original song is basically a traditional murder ballad.
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* "Too Drunk to Fuck" by the Music/DeadKennedys. The original is a scathingly satirical portrait of a guy who drank so much beer that he made a complete fool of himself. The Nouvelle Vague version is more like a semi-delirious, sweaty, boozy, exhilarated young woman affirming that she's too drunk to fuck, but that's not going to stop her having a go. Which is arguably more worrying.
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* "The Blacksmith" is a traditional English folk song, sung from the point of view of a young woman who's been courted by the eponymous blacksmith, who's then gone off and married someone else. Music/SteeleyeSpan did a fairly conventional version of it on their first album, making it a bittersweet folk-rock song, but then did a far more skeletal and desolate version of it on their second album, with just clanging electric guitars and bass and voice.
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* "Heroes" by Music/DavidBowie: The original was mildly disinterested and cynical about the world and its capacity for heroism. When Music/PeterGabriel gets ahold of it, it's a TheRuinsICaused shot in lyrical form.
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* "Heroes" "'Heroes'" by Music/DavidBowie: The original was mildly disinterested and cynical about the world and its capacity for heroism. When Music/PeterGabriel gets ahold of it, it's a TheRuinsICaused shot in lyrical form.
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* "It's The End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" by Music/{{REM}} is a song whose humor is extremely subdued. It was put in the hands of upbeat Canadian East Coast folksters Music/GreatBigSea, sped up (requiring MotorMouth lyrics, given the sheer obtuseness of them), and turned into a great happy tune about meeting the end of the world with a smile on your face.
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* "It's The End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" by Music/{{REM}} is a song whose humor is extremely subdued.subdued, being allegorical for the band's views on the UsefulNotes/ColdWar. It was put in the hands of upbeat Canadian East Coast folksters Music/GreatBigSea, sped up (requiring MotorMouth lyrics, given the sheer obtuseness of them), and turned into a great happy tune about meeting the end of the world with a smile on your face.
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* Music/TheCure's version of "Purple Haze" sounds less like Music/JimiHendrx's exuberant ode to hallucinogens and more as if, like in so many other Cure songs, the singer is descending into another deep funk.[[note]]Which was actually what the song was originally intended as[[/note]]
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* Music/TheCure's Music/{{The Cure|Band}}'s version of "Purple Haze" sounds less like Music/JimiHendrx's exuberant ode to hallucinogens and more as if, like in so many other Cure songs, the singer is descending into another deep funk.[[note]]Which was actually what the song was originally intended as[[/note]]
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* "[[Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera All I Ask of You]]": [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crs5A0Qu8wk This cover]] by Raf Scrap and Lacey, (also being a case of TheCoverChangesTheGender) removes the [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe implied threat]] of the original. Not only is this Christine ''chosing'' her Phantom, she is chosing someone who ''wanted'' her to have the choice.
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* "[[Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera All I Ask of You]]": [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crs5A0Qu8wk This cover]] by Raf Scrap and Lacey, (also being a case of TheCoverChangesTheGender) removes the [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe implied threat]] of the original. Not only is this Christine ''chosing'' ''choosing'' her Phantom, she is chosing choosing someone who ''wanted'' her to have the choice.
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* "Here Comes the Sun" by Music/TheBeatles: ''{{Music/Ghost}}'''s cover changes the key from major to minor and the meaning from a happy celebration of spring to a song about the coming of TheAntichrist ("Here comes the Son").
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* "Here Comes the Sun" by Music/TheBeatles: ''{{Music/Ghost}}'''s ''[[Music/GhostBand Ghost's]]'' cover changes the key from major to minor and the meaning from a happy celebration of spring to a song about the coming of TheAntichrist ("Here comes the Son").
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* "Maps" by Maroon 5 is an upbeat song with somewhat sad lyrics and an [[LyricsVideoMismatch infamously depressing music video]]. Madilyn Bailey's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnwA8ekQKtQ cover]] is much more emotional and sorrowful, and actually fits what happens in the video better than the original does.
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* "Maps" by Maroon 5 is an upbeat song with somewhat sad lyrics and an [[SoundtrackDissonance infamously depressing]] [[LyricsVideoMismatch infamously depressing music video]]. Madilyn Bailey's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnwA8ekQKtQ cover]] is much more emotional and sorrowful, and actually fits what happens in the video better than the original does.
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* "Maps" by Maroon 5 is an upbeat song with somewhat sad lyrics and an [[SoundtrackDissonance infamously depressing music video]]. Madilyn Bailey's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnwA8ekQKtQ cover]] is much more emotional and sorrowful, and actually fits what happens in the video better than the original does.
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* "Maps" by Maroon 5 is an upbeat song with somewhat sad lyrics and an [[SoundtrackDissonance [[LyricsVideoMismatch infamously depressing music video]]. Madilyn Bailey's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnwA8ekQKtQ cover]] is much more emotional and sorrowful, and actually fits what happens in the video better than the original does.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut's'' "Blame Canada" presents itself as a gathering of troubled parents coming together and collectively deciding to organize and scapegoat all their bad parenting on Canada as a whole. The cover done by Creator/RobinWilliams for the song's Academy Awards nomination, however, puts the lyrics into the mouth of ''one'' person rather than three separate mothers. Take note that the second singer has no personal stake in the matter (i.e. "Don't blame me/For my son Stan" to "Don't blame ''yourself''/for ''your'' son Stan"), giving it an air of the singer putting the idea to organize into their heads and thereby centering the organization's formation on himself.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut's'' "Blame Canada" presents itself as a gathering of troubled parents coming together and collectively deciding to organize and scapegoat all their bad parenting on Canada as a whole. The cover done by Creator/RobinWilliams for the song's Academy Awards nomination, however, puts the lyrics into the mouth of ''one'' person rather than three separate mothers. Take note that the second singer has no personal stake in the matter (i.e. "Don't blame me/For my son Stan" to "Don't blame ''yourself''/for ''your'' son Stan"), and ''he's'' the one who sings most of the lines dissing Canada too ("They're not even a real country anyway", "And that bitch Anne Murray too"), giving it an air of the singer putting the idea to organize into their heads and thereby centering the organization's formation on himself.his own unspoken vendetta against the country.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut's'' "Blame Canada" presents itself as a gathering of troubled parents coming together and collectively deciding to organize and scapegoat all their bad parenting on Canada as a whole. The cover done by Creator/RobinWilliams for the song's Academy Awards nomination, however, puts the lyrics into the mouth of ''one'' person rather than three separate mothers, giving it an air of the singer putting the idea to organize into their heads and thereby centering the conflict on himself.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut's'' "Blame Canada" presents itself as a gathering of troubled parents coming together and collectively deciding to organize and scapegoat all their bad parenting on Canada as a whole. The cover done by Creator/RobinWilliams for the song's Academy Awards nomination, however, puts the lyrics into the mouth of ''one'' person rather than three separate mothers, giving it an air of the singer putting the idea to organize into their heads and thereby centering the conflict on himself.
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* "Highwayman," originally by Jimmy Webb and covered often, is about the four reincarnations of the same man: first hanged for being the titular highwayman, then dying doing dangerous work as a sailor and building the Hoover Dam, and finally swearing that he will return as a starship captain someday, or "perhaps I may become a highwayman again, or I will simply be a single drop of rain."
** Covered by Music/JohnnyCash, Music/WaylonJennings, Music/WillieNelson, and Music/KrisKristofferson (who called their supergroup The Highwaymen after the song), it becomes a song about four different men throughout history, and the different dangerous, adventerous lives they lead.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D-6nklMMbM "Highwomen"]] reworks the Highwaymen's version about the life and death of four different [[TheCoverChangesTheGender women]] throughout history: a mother who died trying to get her children over the US border from Honduras, a woman ("a healer") hanged at the Salem Witch Trials, a Freedom Rider killed in a Ku Klux Clan attack, and a preacher-woman martyred near the Colorado River.
** Covered by Music/JohnnyCash, Music/WaylonJennings, Music/WillieNelson, and Music/KrisKristofferson (who called their supergroup The Highwaymen after the song), it becomes a song about four different men throughout history, and the different dangerous, adventerous lives they lead.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D-6nklMMbM "Highwomen"]] reworks the Highwaymen's version about the life and death of four different [[TheCoverChangesTheGender women]] throughout history: a mother who died trying to get her children over the US border from Honduras, a woman ("a healer") hanged at the Salem Witch Trials, a Freedom Rider killed in a Ku Klux Clan attack, and a preacher-woman martyred near the Colorado River.
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* The Greatest Showman: Reimagined is an album where the soundtrack of the The Greatest Showman is sung by different artists sometimes changing the original intent of the songs.
** "Rewrite the Stars" by Anna Marie and James Arthur is turned from a song about an interracial couple who are pressured by society not to date, to a song by two white people with no such restrictions.
** "The Other Side" by MAX and Ty Dollar $ign comes off as a someone in the music industry trying to convince a rapper to make pop music
** "This is Me" by Kesha, Missy Elliot and original singer Keala Settle changes from a song about loving oneself, to a song about loving oneself while also being about inclusion as if the listener is part of the lyric "we are glorious"
** "Rewrite the Stars" by Anna Marie and James Arthur is turned from a song about an interracial couple who are pressured by society not to date, to a song by two white people with no such restrictions.
** "The Other Side" by MAX and Ty Dollar $ign comes off as a someone in the music industry trying to convince a rapper to make pop music
** "This is Me" by Kesha, Missy Elliot and original singer Keala Settle changes from a song about loving oneself, to a song about loving oneself while also being about inclusion as if the listener is part of the lyric "we are glorious"
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* "Better Man" by Taylor Swift is sung with what feels like a sense of relief the relationship is over while the more popular (and first released) cover by Little Big Town has a feeling of regret that things didn't turn out better.
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* [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=3COQNuFLe_U "Posmotri v Glaza" ("Look Into My Eyes")]] by Natalya Vetlitskaya is an upbeat-sounding song about a woman moving on from a relationship after (presumably) being cheated on. Lera Bonaker's [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=l_lFoTvs3fA&t=33s cover]] is much more emotional. While Natalya's version sounds as if she's ready to leave the relationship behind, Lera's version sounds much more forlorn and heartbroken, as if she's genuinely grief-stricken about the betrayal.
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* "Zombie": Music/TheCranberries's original was a ProtestSong against UsefulNotes/TheTroubles in Northern Ireland; Bad Wolves' cover keeps the anti-war tone but changes a few lyrics (notably "with their bombs" becomes "with their ''drones''") to make the focus UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror. Dolores O'Riordan [[ApprovalOfGod approved]] of the cover and was even set to do a re-recording with Bad Wolves, but it was [[DiedDuringProduction sadly not meant to be]].
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** Likewise, their cover of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzPIzVtIi3Q&list=PLEmSVuaLWE73kHsrhYgIVHr7FOGIlceA7&index=3 "Point Of No Return"]] has Raf's Phantom offering herself to be Lacey's Christine's ClosetKey.
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