La Roux vs. Skream - In for the Kill

This couldn't be a more perfect time for a blog post about song covers. If you take a look at music today, especially from the music blog scene, you will find hundreds of 'singles' posted every week for free download of essentially a cover of a song but in a different genre and style completely. I'm so so so addicted to finding these 'singles' everyday and usually fall in love with a new song every day. With the help of music blog sites like Consequence of Sound and Dirty Mexican Lemonade (more of a college frat music scene) I discover these new songs daily. (Recently I started visiting Hype Machine which aggregates all music blogs by the songs they contain and the internet popularity.)

Anywho, I decided to take a look at both La Roux and Skream's versions of "In for the Kill", originally composed by La Roux. I found this on the internets a while back but it still kills me every time.

So here's La Roux and their new music video (they rule)

And here's Skream (they rule more... maybe)

Seriously, these are two different but incredibly awesome approaches to "In for the Kill". Notice the lyrics, or should I say the acapella track, stayed the same but the instrumentals had a drastic difference.

Let's talk speed. Being a droopy dubstep song, the speed is very slow in Skream's version compared to the original's. La Roux is a very upbeat electropop/synthpop duo and their music works like a pulley on your body in a discotheque trance. Skream is known to scramble brains with their magical, magical bass drops. Using only a Drum & Bass kit and high pads (pads being the same melody from the original), they have a smaller arrangement of instrumentation as well.

I'm pretty sure Skream's version is more intense because of the massive bass, high notes, increased volume in vocals, and not to mention the huge D&B drop towards the end....

The timbre of Skream's version is far different because of the added echo in the vocals, giving a lingering effect of Eleanor Jackson's voice (love it, need it).


Well you can probably tell which song I'm leaning towards here, but in case you didn't know..

Skream's version just melts me. I usually enjoy a healthy serving of electropop, especially La Roux, but Skream hit the nail on the head in between dubstep and ... I don't even know, like some kind of empty void with you and the vocals. Ya feel me?