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Thursday, August 6, 2020

Bardcore Macarena Medieval Cover, and others

 I stumbled across this on youtube this morning:


 
 

And quite a few others, for example:


Popcorn (Medieval Cover)
Y.M.C.A. (Medieval Cover)
Ievan Polkka (Medieval Cover) 
Dragostea Din Tei (Numa Numa) (Medieval Cover) 

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardcore "Bardcore (from the Celtic word “bard” meaning ‘poet’ or ‘storyteller’)[1] or tavernwave is a 2020 internet phenomenon consisting of medievalised remakes of hit pop songs.[2]

Here's an article about it: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jun/24/never-mind-the-ballads-how-bardcore-took-over-pop-music 

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