Reinventing the song that brought Miley Cyrus her very first Grammy, creative artist Svain completely reinvents the classic pop single Flowers, with this distorted and barely recognisable rock cover.
Built around a genuine rock soundscape of fast-paced guitars, bass and drums, Flowers utilises a male vocal lead that’s intermittently quiet and expressively bold as the song rolls along.
The style is independent and alternative in its accessible humility, but what really stands out is this fearless reimagining of the song’s melody. You’d be forgiven for not realising what this is a cover of at first, the original verse tune and even the hook have been reworked in a dark-rock kind of fashion – giving the lyrics a whole new kind of eerie uncertainty that’s fascinating to consider.
Only when those chorus lyrics strike does the song’s original essence ignite, and Svain then proceeds to weave in a soaring progressive metal guitar solo, and some backing vocals that help balance the darkness and light in an again emotionally complex fashion.
Svain’s Flowers soon becomes its own catchy beast of a rock track, which seems almost entirely separate from the song it claims to cover. The lyrics remain, but the beating heart of the experience is from a totally different artistic aura and intention, and that’s a huge part of the Svain creative freedom and passion we’ve come to recognise.
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