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* "The Metro" by Berlin: A poppy, somewhat sad song about moving on after a bad breakup. "The Metro" by [[System of a Down]]: a rage-filled rant about being abandoned by a loved one.

* [[Looney Tunes|Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck]] once turned [[The Beatles]] "Hello, Goodbye" into a [[Duck Season! Rabbit Season!]] argument.

'''Daffy:''' I say hello! }}

** ''Bugs & Friends Sing the Beatles'' did this to a number of songs.

* The Kid Stuff Repertory Company recorded [http://wayoutjunk.blogspot.com/2009/01/songs-from-your-good-man-charlie-brown.html this album] in which they sang their own version of the songs from ''[[Peanuts|You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown]]''. Among their weird interpretations of the songs, the most notable is that their version of the title song goes from sounding fun and boisterous to something you'd expect to hear at a funeral.

* [[Hong Kong|Hong Kongers]] are actually masters of this trope. Another example: ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOfeGKwaVNI Green Water, Clear Breeze]'', Hong Konger cover for [[Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind]]'s [[Ending Theme]] ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtv3-x5D99M Tori no Hito]'', not only changed the style from a light [[Classical Music|classical]] that resembles ''[[Ludwig Van Beethoven|Ode of Joy]]'' into a majestic [[The Eighties|1980s]] pop [[With Lyrics]] more fit of a [[National Anthem]]:

''together we create the glorious and resounding!'' }}

** Another example: Luis Miguel's ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDssh2VuGJM Culpable o no?]'' cover ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0XBV0_5AQ0 Who hasn't been wrong?]'' were of completely different content. The former is "just tell a lie to me that you haven't cheated" while the latter is mainly "why do my life sucked so hard?"

*** Glee's version is based on the cover from ''[[Across the Universe (film)|Across the Universe]]'', where it's about one girls inability to tell another that she's in love with her.

** They also turned ''[[Fleetwood Mac|Landslide]]'' from a song about a woman questioning wheter she whould break up with her childhood sweetheart into a song about a young woman realizing that she is in love with her (female) best friend. It is utterly insane how the lyrics fits both these scenarios.

** "Only The Good Die Young" goes from a song about wanting to get into a Catholic girl's pants to a song about ignoring religious restrictions and enjoying life.

** [[REM|"Losing My Religion"]] seems to be a song about embarrassment over a public quarrel, possibly between lovers (we're talking about [[The Walrus Was Paul|R.E.M. here]]), and the title comes from the band's home state of Georgia, where it's an expression for losing one's temper and behaving violently. ''Glee'' on the other hand seem to have taken the title literally since they made it into a song about a boy questioning his faith in God.