And who says doing covers won’t get you anywhere?
Alex Melton, who’s known for performing pop-punk covers of country songs and vice versa on YouTube, has signed with Pure Noise Records (Devon Kay & The Solutions, Like Pacific, The Seafloor Cinema). The Florence, S.C. musician/producer/YouTuber has over 236,000 subscribers and has accumulated over 22,690,677 views as of this article’s publication. You’ve probably seen some of his videos before, including his bro-country take of Machine Gun Kelly’s “forget me too“, reimagining Third Eye Blind’s “Semi-Charmed Life” in the style of Blink-182, and his pop-punk version of Dan + Shay’s “I Should Probably Go To Bed“.
To celebrate his signing, Melton dropped two new covers: a pop-punk take on Tim McGraw’s classic “Something Like That” featuring Ryan Scott Graham of State Champs and Speak Low If You Speak Love and a country version of State Champs’s “Secrets”. Check out the latter below.
Melton started his covers career during a warmup where he put double time drums over Taylor Swift’s “We Are Never Getting Back Together” and falling in love with the idea. Since then he’s released hundreds of videos to YouTube, five of them reaching over a million views. He even got covered by Loudwire and Nerdist due to his interesting covers.
“It’s endlessly fascinating to me to be able to take chords and a melody from a song, and change certain parameters and get a different feeling from the end product,” Melton said in a press release. “I’ll sometimes re-harmonise a chorus, or change the key or tempo or meter, or even sometimes just put a fresh guitar part on the existing structure. It’s fun to distill the song to its truest form and then build it back up in a different way. The context of the lyrics can even shift depending on the accompaniment style.”
His most recent video answers the question of what The Killers classic hit “Mr. Brightside” would sound like with half-time drums. Check that out below.
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