"Grenade" by Within Temptation

 

Dutch symphonic metal band Within Temptation pull the pin and make things go kablooey with their version of "Grenade," the 2010 somber unreciprocated love song from Bruno Mars.

For more Bruno Mars covers, Future Sunsets + Pontea's version of "24K Magic" can be found here, and Jamie Cullum's version of "Uptown Funk" can be found here.

"24K Magic" by Future Sunsets + Pontea

 Peruvian freelance travel photographer Jose Mostajo and multi-instrumentalist and singer David Michael Frank form Future Sunsets, a Los Angeles, California pop duo offering a healthy mix of originals and cover songs.

Here, they team up with fellow LA electropop vocalist (and.... candle merchant?)  Pontea on their interpretation of Bruno Mars's 2016 Grammy award winning "24K Magic," a favorite of cartoon vampires everywhere.

For another Bruno Mars cover, check out this version of "Uptown Funk."

"Uptown Funk" by Jamie Cullum

 

British  jazz musician Jamie Cullum was rocking out on his cover of "Uptown Funk", the 2014 boogie soul collaboration between London record producer Mark Ronson and Honolulu, Hawaii singer/musician Bruno Mars.

At the 2:16 mark.... not sure exactly what happened.  Maybe he has a pet cat that decided to jump from the top of the baby grand onto the lower octaves.  Maybe he was slamming the ivories hard enough to knock over the Venti soy latte that was perilously perched atop the instrument onto the keys below.

Either way, he thought..... "Eh, nobody's going to notice that...."