Friday OT - Crossing the Streams

[AgronAlum]

 

[CYdTracked]

A few I can think of that entirely or partially crossed genres in their career and had some success:
Taylor Swift - country to pop
Katy Perry- Christian to pop
Darius Rucker - from pop with Hootie to country as a solo artist
Kid Rock - still mostly rock but has done some country-ish music too
Jessica Simpson - pop but recorded a country-ish album

 

[ImJustKCClone]

Sometimes I hate threads like this, because of the power of suggestion.
I'm watching Armageddon now...

 

[NickTheGreat]

I came here to post 99 Red Balloons by Goldfinger. Well played.

 

[NickTheGreat]

Also this one. I can't separate the artist from the man, so I dislike Michael Jackson. But this version is maybe better anyway?

 

[isufrEEk]

I love this different version of a song from my youth.

 

[Nader_uggghhh]

It doesn't really count as crossover but I'm a big fan of the Mac Miller and Post Malone tiny desk concerts.

 

[DarkStar]

This is a fun one for me...

 

[AgronAlum]

It doesn't really count as crossover but I'm a big fan of the Mac Miller and Post Malone tiny desk concerts.

I can’t count how many times I’ve thrown on the Mac Miller tiny desk concert when I’m doing stuff around the house.

 

[MJ29]

Appropriate for this forum, a musician I follow and know a little bit turned "Cyclone" into a slow acoustic jam.

 

[madguy30]

It doesn't really count as crossover but I'm a big fan of the Mac Miller and Post Malone tiny desk concerts.

Those are really great. GWAR did one!

 

[DarkStar]

 

[cyadict]

 

[cyfanatic]

Springsteen covering some of the great folk songs was fun:

 

[BoxsterCy]

A lot of these seem less "crossing genres" and more like taking something from another genre and just doing your genre's spin/cover of it.

 

[WhatchaGonnaDo]

When Foo Fighters decided to become a Bee Gees cover band just for kicks

 

[madguy30]

I didn't care for him earlier but his Nirvana set got my attention and I've seen some really cool interactions with fans etc.

 

[cyfanatic]

When Foo Fighters decided to become a Bee Gees cover band just for kicks

This was awesome! And needed! The Bee Gees deserved to be remembered for their incredible contribution to music (not just the disco era either)! Glad Grohl was onboard with this...feel like Hawkins was the mastermind behind it.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Always amusing me that Kenny Rodgers and the First Edition did this hit psychedelic rock song before he went full country and soft pop. Even weirder is that Rodger and most of the First Edition were from the New Christie Minstrels, a folk music group.

 

[WhatchaGonnaDo]

This was awesome! And needed! The Bee Gees deserved to be remembered for their incredible contribution to music (not just the disco era either)! Glad Grohl was onboard with this...feel like Hawkins was the mastermind behind it.

Dave and Taylor are both known to be big disco fans.

In his latest book, Dave talks about how he was pretty much just ripping off disco beats while he was drumming for Nirvana.