Whoever did this is someone after my own heart...
The fact that Darin's song "Want Ya" has been covered by German boy band Part Six and Japanese boy band W-inds isn't news to me, but the fact that someone put this mash-up video of the three versions together is so cool--it switches back and forth between the three, with each part subtitled. It's a really neat thing, and I can't imagine how must time it must have taken.
The only thing? There's at least one more version out there that I know of: Israeli singer Daniel Zilberstein/Silverstein's version, "Elayich."
Daniel's also covered Darin's "The Anthem" and Danish singer Jon's "Right Here Next To You" (and probably other songs as well).
"Want Ya" is a great song, so I'm not surprised it's been passed around so much; what does surprise me, though, is the lack of covers of "Step Up"--surely there must be some?
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Very interesting post!
Oh and "Step up" has been covered by US 5 ... "In da club" ...but they haven't given any credits
cheers
turnaround
Ha--I thought that when I heard that song for the first time, too! I'd forgotten about it, though--all right, so we've got one ;)
All these versions are utter shite. But I am an enormous Darin fan so I would say that. But really, they are just awful!
and the Japanese one is by far the worst
I really hope the line "let me drown in your chest" sounds better in Japanese than it does in English...
On the plus side, Darin's apparently credited as a writer of the song for the Japanese group at least (and I'd imagine the German one as well--I'm not sure if he just wrote English lyrics, in which case I have no idea what that means for the Israeli singer), so he should be making money off of it.
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