Last night, for whatever reason, I was jamming out to Rihanna's Disturbia - one of my top jams of life - and suddenly had the thought; "I bet an acoustic version of this song would be fabulous, I wonder if it exists"

The resounding answer to that question was yes. I was overwhelmed by the amount of covers that existed for some random pop song that came out years ago. Of course, a significant portion of them were crap, but there was some amazing talent that existed out there. In a time when youtube sensations are commonplace everyone is jumping on the cover-song-band-wagon. Makes sense. American Idol in all of its grandeur bred a culture of performers who crawled out of obscurity into international fame by beautifully covering hit songs week after week.  I even watched a clip of Ellen's talk show a couple of days ago which featured Greyson Chance - the 12 year who did a cover of Lady Gaga's Paparazzi - who got a FREAKING CALL FROM LADY GAGA HERSELF. It was actually pretty adorable, he called her Miss Gaga. People around the world are recording covers of songs with their own unique spin on it, posting it on youtube, and then sit back and watch their video go viral - Greyson's video of him singing Paparazzi has over 20 million hits already.

So I thought I do a new segment for the blog: Ginger's Cover Jams. I decided that every other week that I am going to post some of my favorite cover songs that are on youtube. I decided that Tuesday would invariably be the best day because of GLEE who has pioneered and revolutionized the art of covering songs.

So here are my pics for the week:

1. GREYSON CHANCE COVERING LADY GAGA'S PAPRAZZI - as I mentioned earlier, quite a spectacular video. He is an amazing perfomer and I absolutely just love Lady Gaga

2. CHRIS DAUGHTRY COVERING LADY GAGA'S POKER FACE - Ahhhh I can't help it!!! For whatever reason I find Chris Daughtry extremely extremely attractive. There is something about his sexy baldness, aviator sunglasses, and guitar playing that gets me all hot and bothered. Here is a great acoustic version of Poker Face performed by my sexy mens. Really random digression. I had the thought as I was going through photos of Chris Daughtry - he looks like the illegitimate love child between Vin Diesel and Howie Mandel. Observe;

hmmm Vin Diesel :)

3. BOYCE AVENUE COVERING RIHANNA'S DISTURBIA - Last but certainly not least. My roommate found this band called Boyce Avenue that have a number of covers up on youtube. All of them are pretty fantastic. The lead singer is incredibly cute and adorable with a fantastic raspy masculine voice. He also did a cover mash-up of Britney Spears' Circus and Lady Gaga's Just Dance that made me cream in my pants.

Enjoy!!!! Stay tuned next week for some more youtube cover song recommendations. Now I am off to mentally and physically prepare myself for the majesty and wonder that is GLEE