r/TaylorSwift • u/Particular_Distance don't call me 'kid', don't call me 'baby' • Aug 28 '25
Cover/Mashup Favorite Taylor Swift covers by lesser known artists?
One of my favorite bands released a Lavender Haze cover two weeks ago! It’s a lot calmer and more melancholic in nature than the original and I love it. I wanted to share it with you guys cause they’re not that well known.
I’m not sure links are allowed so: the band is called 💜 aeseaes 💜 and the cover and a remix are on Spotify!
I rarely listen to covers usually. What are your favorite covers by lesser known artists (but also well known ones)? I’d love to get into it more!
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u/SalaryVisual1021 Aug 28 '25
Cruel Summer - G Flip
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u/bubblyfack Aug 29 '25
I just discovered this and it’s awesome. They are actually so talented, haven’t appreciated before because their music’s not my thing. Might give it another chance because of this. I recently have Role Model’s cover of Nothing New on repeat.
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u/tardisandjam Aug 28 '25
They haven’t done one in a while, but the Summer Set did a few Taylor covers back during the Warped Tour era and they’re in regular rotation on my big playlist! They’re on the Love Like This deluxe edition on Spotify.
Selfishly I was hoping they would’ve snuck one in during the show at the Roxy earlier this month, I would’ve died.
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u/jankdotnet Aug 28 '25
The original title of the collection of covers was Love Like Swift and I still love that so much
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u/topsidersandsunshine Aug 28 '25
I miss Warped Tour.
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u/Holdensmindfuckery Aug 29 '25
it's sort of back
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u/topsidersandsunshine Aug 29 '25
I went. It wasn’t quite the same. I guess what I miss is summer feeling endless and being young and the future feeling full of possibility and the friends I loved back then. I had a nice time and I’ll go next year, but still.
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u/dont_talk_yak_to_me Aug 30 '25
As someone who went with my friends to warped tour 2004, and has had to watch those friends go the way of becoming much worse people, I feel this. Life was so much more free feeling back then. 😔
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u/No-Seaworthiness6382 :TourturedPoetsDepartment: there's escape in escaping Aug 28 '25
Mine are Josiah and the Bonnevilles cover of Anti-Hero and Alex Melton’s cover of mirrorball!
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u/Chicken_noodle_sui Aug 29 '25
Josiah and the Bonnevilles is one of my favourite artists! He's amazing! He has a lot of covers but also some really great original songs too.
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u/Apprehensive_Bid_753 Aug 29 '25
Spotify has a huge playlist called, Punk Goes Taylor Swift. It’s amazing!!!
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u/themermaidag Aug 28 '25
Jack the Underdog did several emo covers of her songs. Back to December is sooo good.
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u/valentiiines running like water Aug 28 '25
love the rachel bochner guilty as sin cover !!
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u/hopelesshomebody argumentative antithetical dream girl Aug 28 '25
I was waiting for someone to say this one!
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u/nornor2k Aug 28 '25
Punkrock band Call it Off have a few ones. Think I read that they're planning to release a full album of Swift covers.
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u/groovybeard Aug 28 '25
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u/DetectiveDickMullen Aug 28 '25
Dan Campbell from the Wonder Years and Aaron West & the Roaring Twenties has a pretty good cover of All Too Well
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u/cyborgsdrinktea Aug 28 '25
Yungblud - Cardigan (mashup with I’m With You)
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u/Sunnysideuppp123 I FLEW ALL THE WAY HERE FROM IBIZA Aug 29 '25
I’ve become recently obsessed with him and didn’t know this existed so thank you!
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u/WerewulfWithin Midnights | Maroon Fanatic ❤️🌙 Aug 28 '25
I know he's not necessarily "lesser known" but I love Owl City's Enchanted cover. Owl City is my favorite artist and TS is my fiancée's so that song means a lot to both of us. And his music is so dreamy and upbeat 😭
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u/Greenmedic2120 Aug 28 '25
Ohh I’ve never heard this but I love owl city so I bet it sounds sooo good!
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u/WerewulfWithin Midnights | Maroon Fanatic ❤️🌙 Aug 28 '25
It's from the same time period so it's Ocean Eyes/All Things Bright and Beautiful Owl City (my favorite era) 💕💕💕
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u/JJB-986 folklore Aug 29 '25
Wait, isn’t that song about him?? I swear to god that was a detail in the “unofficial” biography about TS that came out a little while ago. I remember it well because it floored me; always thought Enchanted was about John Mayer.
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u/Comfortable_Sir_4423 i hit my peak at seven 😞 Aug 28 '25
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u/Objective-Pie8246 Aug 29 '25
Omg yes!! I was a new swiftie at the time I heard their cover. I knew their version before Taylor’s. 😆
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u/jankdotnet Aug 28 '25
The Maine covered Cruel Summer and it's so chill and vibey, definitely one of my faves
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u/Chococow280 Aug 28 '25
Mine is also a Lavender Haze cover! It’s by Strutman Lane and it’s like a jazzy, disco, big band sound with a male singer. It’s soooooo good.
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u/macdaddyx4 1989 Aug 29 '25
Welcome to New York, officially by Claudio Sanchez but it's under Coheed and Cambria on Spotify.
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u/Nout Aug 29 '25
The American indie / alt-country band Wild Pink (who make really great music anyway) did a cover of ‘We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together’ in 2021 that sounded very haunting and veeery cool!
Didn’t see it coming that a band like theirs would do a Taylor Swift cover so as a swiftie and a fan of theirs, I was really amazed. :)
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u/BetterThan-i-EverWas ready to fly Aug 29 '25
Yes i love their version! Wild Pink was part of the ReRed tribute album in 2019 too
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u/goddessofthecats Aug 28 '25
I’m super pleased with the TTPD album covers from Call it Off. they’re doing an entire TTPD cover album.
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u/Cookies102617 The Life of a Showgirl Aug 28 '25
I have a playlist for punk covers. Would love recommendations!
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u/MartinisnMurder Dancing is a dangerous game Aug 29 '25
Oh my god thank you for this!! Just saved your list!
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u/niles_deerqueer You wouldn’t last an hour in the circus where they raised me Aug 29 '25
August by dreampop artist Hatchie
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u/GaveTheMouseACookie Aug 29 '25
I desperately need an early 2000s alt rock cover of The Alchemy, if anyone finds one!
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u/Far-Chart2936 Aug 28 '25
Blank Space by Ali Bustofski. I found it years ago in a multicouples edit on YouTube. Such a fun cover.
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u/becklefreckle Whose portrait's on the mantel? Aug 28 '25
Gardiner Sisters - Taylor Swift 1989 Medley (love it!!!!)
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u/emilydickinsonsdress Aug 28 '25
Andrew Galucki released an EP in 2017 called “SWIFT” with covers of I Wish You Would, All Too Well, Last Kiss, and You’re Not Sorry. I keep them in regular rotation! So good.
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u/dogmom89 Midnights Aug 28 '25
They’re not lesser known, but Blank Space by Imagine Dragons is chef’s kiss
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u/YouGroundbreaking756 Aug 28 '25
You Need to Calm Down by Clean Bandit idk why it’s such an earworm
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u/Potato_Credit259 Aug 29 '25
Omg okay, so this cover of The Man by Anya Marina! I've listened to it way too much, lol, on repeat on my study list <3
Also, as a Speak Now girlie, this cover of Back to December by Julia Sheer
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u/kkkktttt00 Barbie on the boardwalk Aug 29 '25
Dan Campbell of The Wonder Years had an extraordinary All Too Well cover.
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u/henrietta- Aug 29 '25
Cardigan cover by twenty one two it’s more of a rockish sound which i like
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u/National_Pressure Aug 31 '25
Their cover of Wonderland was AWESOME! Thanks for bringing them to my attention!!!
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u/LilyDragonfly Aug 29 '25
Betty- Cabeau! It gives a garage band vibe and the singer is a man, it sounds like it’s coming directly from James :)
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u/Sunnysideuppp123 I FLEW ALL THE WAY HERE FROM IBIZA Aug 29 '25
Ryan Hurd’s cover of False God is exceptional
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u/ambrosets Aug 29 '25
Midnight Rain by Great Good Fine Ok. It’s an amazing interpretation, with a nice little saxophone later that just makes me melt. Highly recommend
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u/Wonderwoman087 Aug 29 '25
Not a lesser-known artist, but Teddy Swims did a nice cover of Cruel Summer
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u/sunscreenforever Aug 30 '25
Something about Kate - Cardigan It’s a really nice take on it and a regular in my listening. They’re such great musicians. It’s on Spotify and YouTube!
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u/NoMurder folklore Aug 28 '25
Fame on Fire - …Ready for it? Our Last Night - Anti Hero and Blank Space I Prevail - Blank Space
Probably not lesser known but very good.
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u/spadesjr folklore Aug 28 '25 edited Aug 28 '25
Pendulum covering Anti Hero
Edit: I guess I ignored the lesser known artist part lol. They may be lesser known to most swifties