Who Covered Sam Smith’s ‘Stay With Me’ The Best?
Watch five covers here and commence crying.
Music
September 10, 2014

Remember when Beyonce’s ‘Drunk In Love’ dropped? Everybody was yelling ‘WATERMELON’ and ‘SURFBORT’, and artists tried to capitalise on the hype: The single was covered by everyone including Future, The Weeknd and local lads Jackie Onassis & Joyride for Triple J’s famed ‘Like A Version’. Now, it seems that there’s been a resurgence of a similar trend with Sam Smith’s ‘Stay With Me’.

He smashed it at Splendour In The Grass, he’s coming back in April 2015, and the world is still spinning his debut album In The Lonely Hour: The world is in love with Sam Smith. His single ‘Stay With Me’ has got us tearing up right now, and here’s five formidable covers of the track that we scoured. Listen & get contemplative:

FKA TWIGS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLjiArIJsLc

Super down-tempo, moody cover from the Brit breakthrough star.

CHARLI XCX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUPBRCyWjlw

This is good, her hook on ‘Fancy’ was better.

HANNAH TRIGWELL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGs2f1ncMgA

Acoustic guitar + Black & white video + Sam Smith lyrics = Tears.

ED SHEERAN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48qwvBkpw1g

Ed Sheeran consistently looks homeless, but he has a nice voice.

VIN DIESEL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-O9Q6XeLsc

This takes the gold medal. Seven thumbs up for the heart that Vin poured into this one. Sensitive tough guys, take note.

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