Taylor Swift - ‘Potential Breakup Song’ Alice Fortt Aly & AJ’s ‘Potential Breakup Song’ is already a tune by itself; play that anywhere and you’ll get everyone dancing along. It’s the perfect ‘screw you’ song to all those terrible exes the majority of us have. That’s why I think it would be the PERFECT song for breakup song queen, Taylor Swift. Can you imagine the power of Taylor singing this song, especially in a concert setting? Unbeatable. It fits in perfectly with her already great roster of breakup songs, from ‘We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together’, to ‘Bad Blood’, to ‘I Knew You Were Trouble’... the list goes on. Not to mention, its blatancy also feels in a way like a bit of a screw you to the media for their own fixation on Swift’s relationships, with them often taking centre stage over Swift’s actual music, at least in the Red and 1989 eras. For a covers section of a concert, ‘Potential Breakup Song’ is just the perfect fit for Swift, and I can tell that she’d absolutely kill it.
HAIM - ‘Untouched’ Jo Lisney The Veronicas’ hit ‘Untouched’ was one of the
biggest songs around in 2007 and boy, it still hits 14 years later! From the combination of strings with that of the heavy guitar riff and synth-pop beat, it is so late 2000s it is definitely cringe-worthy. With that being said, the angst it gives off is of course valid. I’d love to see the lovely ladies of HAIM cover it in another Triple J performance. They would strip away a lot of what makes it distinct to that era in music and start again from almost scratch. HAIM are also indie, so adding that into the mix will make the song their own. I imagine it would top their Shania Twain ‘That Don’t Impress Me Much’ cover because they are not only doing an acoustic version, but the genre change creates a more complex problem that I know the band can overcome with ease!
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