Fiebre de covers indie

While we understand the urge to create this kind of stopgap project, either as a way to keep an artist’s name in the newswire, a chance to make some extra pocket change with minimal work, or an opportunity to promote some musical pals, as an artistic statement these releases almost uniformly fail to creatively re-imagine any of the source material, only serving to fill the market with inferior versions.

–Rob Mitchum, para Pitchfork, en su reseña de Do You Trust Your Friends?, un álbum de remixes/covers de Stars. Buena explicación de la fiebre de covers indie, como la lluvia de covers de “Umbrella” de Rihanna y de “Crazy” de Gnarls Barkley, así como aquel terrible cover de 30 Seconds to Mars de “Stronger” de Kanye West.