Hi, we're Something For Kate and we've just covered
Cardigan by Taylor Swift for Like A Version.
We chose to cover Cardigan
because we're all Taylor Swift fans and we all think this is a an excellent song.
This song came out during 2020 and when we were all isolating
at home and so we really gave the folklore album a really good listen
and that song really stood out with every listen it's just a beautiful song.
The process then was sort of how to deconstruct it and put it back together in our own way
and just give it a fresh approach rather than just trying to emulate the original
song. We Something For Kateified it and I guess that in this context means
heavier guitars and organic drums. Nice big lush sounds but a bit more unhinged I guess.
One of my favorite things about the original is these very subtle
chord changes. Sort of from chorus to chorus.
It's just kind of one chord that shifts unexpectedly but it gives it a really
different feel and then sort of move towards the bridge and then from the bridge onwards it
just seems to sort of swell you know the words are just really rolling out and it
becomes quite intense and we tried to sort of stay true to that but we also tried to
I guess make it swell even more in in a way that I guess we're more used to with our own music and
we inserted at one point this kind of stop on a line that to me feels kind of like the key line of
the song. Sort of pulled the rug out entirely and let that line sort of really bust through. We've
almost kind of turned the whole second half of the song into just this building swelling crescendo.
We've lost count of how many Like A Versions we've done. I know that we've done
Rock the Casbah, The Clash.
We've done Cheap Trick. Bad For Lashes. Lawrence Welsh and Calvin Harris.
Middle Kids. You know now it's like really grown into this amazing thing where you have
an opportunity to set up the whole band and and really, really do something with a song.
I think great words make a great Like A Version cover and a great melody. Taylor Swift is a great
songwriter and she's actually a really great artist like we could have played this so many
different ways but it would still be a great song. Like A Version is great because you know we're a
band that always kind of drops a cover into our sets anyway. We love taking other people's songs
and just having some fun with them and it's got to be something that you feel like you can
sing with as much honesty and conviction as the you know original as the person who wrote it,
something you can identify with and kind of sing honestly. You just want people to hear something
differently and you know see how great it is when a really well-written song can be interpreted
in a different way and still stand up. That's something that Like A Version really reveals
of all the covers is just how well written so many songs are
and doesn't really matter what genre and what sort of band, what style plays them
if it's a great song it just really stands up and it's just really exciting to watch that.
I think we enjoy kind of pushing things to their most intense
unhinged state. It feels like a natural place for us to be. Naturally unhinged.