"If It Makes You Happy" by Screaming Females

 

Kennett, Missouri heartland rocker Sheryl Crow's 1996 top ten single "If It Makes You Happy" was done over by New Brunswick, New Jersey indie punk band Screaming Females.

One thing I can say about Screaming Females... their band name is in no way misleading.

For another Sheryl Crow cover, Judah and the Lion's version of "Soak Up the Sun" can be found here.

"Soak Up The Sun" by Judah & The Lion

 

What in the "Rainbow Connection" is this?

I don't know what I was expecting from Nashville rock band Judah & The Lion, but a banjo intensive remodel of Sheryl Crow's song of happiness through hardship wasn't it.  

It's good, though!  Just... surprising for a band that draws comparisons to Jimmy Eat World and Twenty One Pilots. 

I didn't look up the lyrics, but the second half of the chorus sounds like they're crooning "Every time I fellate my lucky dog."

Which makes me look at Sheryl in a whole new and entirely disturbing light.  

And you KNOW that those are the words I'm singing every time I hear this.  Maybe you will, too!  Maybe something's wrong with you, to sing this song the way I do!