Something’s Got a Hold On Me was originally recorded by Etta James for her 1962 album, Etta James, and was also released as a single. It is a song about being in love for the first time. This is a great, rocking solo performance from Alisa Trifonova where she blasts out the song, hitting some
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Back to Black was originally released by Amy Winehouse on her 2007 album Back to Black and as a single. It is about the breakup of a relationship where the singer’s lover has gone back to a previous girlfriend and the singer returns to Black, a slang term for heroin. This is a unique
Dirty Dirty was originally released by Charlotte Cardin on her 2016 EP Main Girl and as a single. It is about having fantasies about someone who loves someone else but trying to move on. This is an incredible version from Lizi, showing a level of maturity greater than her years. She has taken this
Wicked Way was originally released on the 2019 EP Wicked Ways. It is about moving on from a relationship where you have been treated badly. It is a beautiful, soulful track that starts off laid-back but build in intensity through the song, reaching a peak after the instrumental section. This is the performance that
Bad For Me is the new single from Anna. It is about a destructive relationship where neither partner is suitable for the other but they try very hard to keep the relationship going. It is a soulful pop song that Anna delivers with great emotion that works in harmony with the lyrics and music
Ain’t No Way was originally released by Aretha Franklin on her 1968 album Lady Soul and as the B-Side to the (Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You’ve Been Gone single. It is a love song to someone who is acting hard, cold, and cruel and the singer is saying that there ain’t no way she
Playing Pretend is the new single from Anna. It is about the differences between the real you and the persona that we show to the world, and deciding to show the world the real person. It is a powerful performance from Anna where she manages the difficult task of expressing the reserved public face
She Used to Be Mine was originally released by Sara Bareilles on her 2015 album What’s Inside: Songs from Waitress, as a single, and by Jessie Mueller on the cast recording of the soundtrack for the stage musical Waitress in 2016. It is about looking back on your life and regretting the changes that
Purple Rain was originally released by Prince and the Revolution on their 1984 album Purple Rain, on the soundtrack for the 1984 movie Purple Rain, and as a single. It is a love song where the singer doesn’t want to cause sorrow and pain but just wants to be a friend. For this version
Time for some comedy. Music Parodies with Musicians is a medley of songs from the cast and children of Sesame Street performed with famous singers who are parodying their own songs. The songs and performers in this medley are: Superstition by Stevie Wonder; Don’t Know Y by Norah Jones; Just The Way You