http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzAof7HjaxU
Band of Horses remains mostly unknown to me. This happens, more than I'd like — I'll tangentially know about a band, but there won't be that little kick of incentive for me to research them; and, with no reason, it'll sit in my blind spot for months, years. I heard Is There A Ghost in Fringe a few months back, and (oh god, the spoilers) it fit perfectly: so perfectly that I went and found that I even had some Band of Horses in my library, and it still wasn't enough to get into them properly.
So there's the original No One's Gonna Love You by Band of Horses, and then there's the cover. And he brings out a strange, dramatic, vindictive twist in the song which — well, listen to it for yourself.
But it also loses some subtlety. But Cee-Lo can't help it. If whiny emotional folk is the undercurrent of Band of Horses, then outright glee and cruelty are the undercurrents of this cover. It takes a note from Fuck You. It'd be hard not to, with context. Still, the song was about being complacent and resigned in a relationship; it becomes something much more intentioned. I like it, but it's very different.
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