Originally Posted by Zack06:
“Not necessarily. Badfinger wrote Without You, but it was nowhere near as emotive as the Mariah cover in the 90s...
Leona's version of Run gets right to the essence of the song imo. Her vocals were stunning, and there's just something indescribable about the whole song...she really really did sing it well. I like the SP version, but I find Gary's voice to be to dreary for me, and whilst it's still a great song to listen to, Leona's voice/emotion just really takes the whole song to another level”
I'm not saying that Leona's version or Mariah's version are not more emotive than the originals, or even better for that matter. All I'm saying is that you can't say that a cover artist understands a song more than the people who wrote it. I guess emotion is subjective anyway as I don't find Mariah's version of without you emotional at all, to me it's just 3 minutes of very good vocal gymnastics. As for snow patrol, I think there is something to the understated performance of run, for me it conveys desperation and a kind of sad resignation of the situation.