Look, if you had one shot, one opportunity to seize everything you ever wanted...

[koganbot]

Look, if you had one shot, one opportunity to seize everything you ever wanted, one moment...

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[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

no, i don't want to hear some country music! i want more eminem!!

i wonder if there is a good audio versh of this, will fill that tricky "midweek number one" slot for next week's lollards ;)

[koganbot]

I don't think so; these were the best two I could find on YouTube (there were a couple others with sound as good (or as not awful), but she didn't perform it as well). There's a live set of hers on iTunes that includes her version of "Umbrella"; I haven't heard the iTunes one, though a YouTube search found these OK fan videos:

This one she's having pitch problems, but I like it; she's making the song sound sad and fragile, which doesn't really fit the lyrics but is nice.

This one has the best sound quality, though I don't think she's doing it as well:

She sometimes covers John Waite's "Missing You" but I couldn't find a vid for it I liked.

[dickmalone.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's probably the best non-rap cover of a rap song I've ever heard. I hope she records a studio version.

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

so glad you posted this. i spent a few months in the fall catching up/reviewing all the UK #1 hits (so I could appreciate FT's popular posts better), and "Lose Yourself" was one of the songs that really jumped out at me. Not that I didn't like it or know it was good, but hearing it out of the context of "current release" hype it became obviously what a BRILLIANT world-beating song it was. And this cover is just kind of further proof. (Although it's a shame she has to kind of renounce the song at the end with the "do you want to hear some country music?" comment.