@NaraMoore 2/2 #JCovers #JMusicFriday for the second question, still!

 Kalafina covering See-Saw's Anna ni Issho Datta No Ni, at Animax Music Fall 2010. Might be a cheat since both are Kajiura-related, but Kalafina's cover is already unique due to being a cover by a group, plus they are a vocal harmony group. The bridge is particularly fabulous. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4gwQfAppj8&t

**EXTRA**: The Youtube mashup has long been deleted, it seems, but I still have a copy of the song itself--a mashup with Chiaki Ishikawa's animelo performance of the song and Kalafina's performance of the above. This is the one that lives in my head, so not really a cover but something very cool regardless. You'll have to download it though, I couldn't make it play in-browser, sorry: https://file.garden/ZRpLQD_G0TetIeS8/Kalafina%20X%20Chiaki%20Ishikawa%20-%20Anna%20ni%20issho%20datta%20no%20ni.mp3

 HIMEKA singing Yuzurenai Negai. This one is one of my favorite covers of one of my absolute favorite songs, from an amazing singer. Even now playing it while I type this is giving me goosebumps, as it always does. IMO another hard song to cover properly, and HIMEKA's version succeeds where so many others fail. It even takes a chance in changing it up by singing the chorus first--and to me, some of the best covers are the ones where they change the song to their styles and strengths. Nowadays though, I just get sad due to how HIMEKA and her career ended and get sadder whenever I listen to her songs, to the point where sometimes I can't listen to them. I hope she's okay constantly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TIoFF_X6sk

@NaraMoore Most of my #JCovers answers are more anime than anything  But I have one or two #JDance picks.

Answering the second question for #JMusicFriday ! 1/2

 angela x Chiaki Ishikawa, singing A Cruel Angel's Thesis. From Animelo Summer Live 2009. It was in that year I discovered it and it's stuck with me. IMO a very hard song to cover because it needs a certain voice to do so, and both these ladies have the lungs to do it in their own way. Being from 2009, the video's long gone from YT and I can't find my own copy (I still have the mp3 and a ripped to CD version lol), so this VK link will have to do, it's the only one I've found: https://vk.com/video-33431674_161526477

 The song "You are the one," which has been sung by Namie Amuro and globe. I had no idea which one came first until looking it up right now for this question and turns out neither! Originally a charity song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF8sMYBD6IU) where Amuro and KCO from globe both appeared, and then globe covered it in 1998. Then Amuro did her own cover in 1999.

(source here: https://amuro.fr/v5/releases/singles/something-bout-the-kiss/you-are-the-one/)

globe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9bV-CRn650

Amuro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo18HrG2awk (I could only find the live version)

Both have lived in my head for many years, and both are very good within each performer's strengths. I am eternally biased towards globe's version though.

#JMusicFriday: / #JCovers: Turns out I have a whole album of covers. "Sentimental Jukebox."

The most recent release by Nantyara-Idol / なんちゃらアイドル are covers they have been compiling for the last seven years. I am sure there must be something on it that fits the theme for #jukeboxfridaynight #Covers

I give you "Sentimental Jukebox"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOs0B454FNc&list=OLAK5uy_kiqNaJCUjCwg6pGVRY3-wtYZ_Ne7MCwWw
https://open.spotify.com/album/0PCiHe3iC2jktjhCRyeasv?si=qn_QIe5FRSqlH7lEbNIR8A

#あおはる #yokuwakan_nai
#御茶海マミ #みさみまみ #samami27
#なんちゃらアイドル #NantyaraIdol
#地下アイドル #アイドルル #Idol #JIdol
#JPop #JRock #Pop #Rock #JMusic

#JMusicFriday

The theme is #JCovers #Covers

What cover have you listened to recently that caught your attention or maybe it's a cover that you heard and has stuck with you.

Let hear your pick.
#JapaneseMusic #JMusic