19 Famous Songs You Didn’t Realise Are Actually Covers

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“My Prerogative” - Britney Spears

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Original: Bobby Brown - My Prerogative

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[qween_frostine]

Whenever people don't know about Landslide I get very concerned.

[fenchurchly]

mte

[winterbam]

You should be lol.

[lauren901]

i don't even know about the song landslide

[josiefier]

I'm deeply disturbed at the claim people don't/didn't know about The Monkees.

[winterbam]

Even if you're not a fan, you've heard that shit in passing. Come on.

[justabwaybaby]

Same :/
Then again, I was a Monkees fan as a kid (in the mid-90s...)

[josiefier]

Same. I grew up listening to Oldies radio stations by choice and even recognized how HUGE that Boy Meets World ep. with Davy, Peter, and Mickey was when it aired. I was 10.

[blakegrl]

4/5 of the ones put in this post are obvious covers though. Certainly everyone knows Landslide is a Fleetwood Mac cover, no? And My Prerogative is like a signature song for Bobby Brown.

[zibbydoo324]

I'm confused as to how people think some of these covers are more famous than the original. Like, in what world?

[moddchicc]

Seriously, lol

[hellforheaven]

The only one out of these listed that I know more is Fleetwood Macs Landslide

Like all I know about Bobbi Brown is that he fucked up Whitney Houston

But I guess it just depends on age/what kind of music you listen to

[hypertwink]

I think Torn and It's Oh So Quiet are really the ones that a lot of people thought were originals.

[crucified]

This is one of my fave songs ever. I love all the cover songs The Killers have done, BFlow's voice makes everything sound heavenly and perfect.

[khlassique]

i looooove this cover

[pink_dog]

I just have to make sure you know this is a cover of Dire Straits, not Indigo Girls

'cause I can understand liking this cover better than the Indigo Girls cover

but I will never understand liking this cover more than the original :-)

[lolzerz]

love this song. always makes me wanna cry