cover song
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3.4
- noun
- /ˈkʌvər sɔŋ/
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versión de una canción
- During the open mic night, several artists chose to showcase their favorite cover songs from popular bands.
- perform cover song
Yeah, that was a cover song, not mine.
- Yeah, that was a cover song, not mine.
Examples
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I love this so much: a cross-referenceable database of cover songs, searchable by song or artist.
Blog text (30) -
I'll be bringing new band coverage, and of course our beloved cover song series (what up Axl!) back soon, but today I wanted to put together a little Spotify playlist for the city I love, NYC.
Blog text (32) -
Yeah, that was a cover song, not mine.
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Most of the music on and around Bourbon Street is really just bad cover songs.
Blog text (12) -
The GOP Convention was a pathetic set of cover songs by a second-rate bar band.
Blog text (15) -
She sang, "Don't Make Me Over," one of the cover songs they used to play.
Fiction book (1990) -
It's like a Navy-themed karaoke cover song of Michael Bay's Transformers.
Blog text (21) -
Groups such as the Jaguar Jokers began to dress in sequined jumpsuits and covered songs like James Brown's "I'm Black and I'm Proud."
Academic text (2009) -
When rock groups record cover songs, whether they perform straight recreations or reinvent them to make the tunes distinctively their own, they indicate who matters to them, who played a part in their musical development, how they respond to their predecessors or to the conventions of their genre, and the extent to which they look to other genres for ideas.
Academic text (2008) -
The band performed a series of cover songs that the audience instantly recognized.
Synonyms
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4.1
A new recording of a song first made by another artist
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3.5
A new recording of a song that another artist made popular
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4.2
A new version of a song originally sung by another artist
How Faithful
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward noun–noun composition: 'cover' (a performance of another artist's work) modifies 'song', so the meaning 'a song that is a cover' is directly derivable from the parts. This compositional pattern is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent senses will readily understand it.
Etymology
Cover song comes from the idea of cover — like putting a new coat over something — and song. One popular image is an artist taking an existing tune and giving it their own voice, so a cover song means 'a new recording or performance of a song first made famous by another artist'.