It turns out that once you get past the unmistakable stink of Right Guard and Wild Turkey that Kings of Leon leave behind on everything they touch, the group's mega-hit "Use Somebody" is actually a pretty great song; the track is quickly emerging as a new standard. Here are a handful of the cover versions floating around the net.
Paramore de-dudes the song with this lovely cover:
As does Bat for Lashes, with this typically funereal take:
More uplifting is a bloopy, Friendly Fires-esque cover from, who else, Friendly Fires:
And Kelly Clarkson now belts out a shiny version of the song live... (literally) working it into an Alanis Morissette song:
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