Karmin Covers

Youtube is loaded with talented singers doing covers of popular songs, there are tons of girls doing Taylor Swift covers that look just like Taylor Swift and sound better than her, just like there are plenty of men and women doing Lady Gaga covers as well. So the idea of people doing covers of pop hits isn't the least bit new.

But then there is Boston duo Karmin, made up of singer Amy Heidemann and keyboard player/singer Nick Noonan. They take an idea that shouldn't work, two white folks doing covers of predominately Rap songs, and make it work. There is a tendency especially when white girls do covers of Hip-Hop songs on Youtube that no matter how seriously they are taking themselves, it comes across as a joke more than anything else.

The difference here I think is actually two things, first Amy Heidemann is actually very talented, that much is obvious, the other is that instead of doing a straight covers of these songs Heidemann and Noonan add their own spin to these hits. There are some people, myself included, that prefer their cover of Chris Brown's "Look at Me Now" over the original, when Heidemann takes on the challenge of Busta Rhymes' fast rap verse and succeeds with flying colors.

There Youtube Page is loaded with videos, covering artists like Lady Gaga, Pink, Adele, B.O.B. Katy Perry, just to name a few. Its definitely worth checking it out, but a fair warning, with Karmin's style and the infectious vocal styling of Amy Heidemann you may end up looking at their page for quite a while.