Yungblud has taken to BBC‘s Live Lounge to deliver a string-backed medley cover of Taylor Swift‘s most recent single ‘Cardigan’ and Avril Lavigne‘s 2002 smash ‘I’m With You’.
On paper, these three entities are worlds apart, but Yungblud mashes it all together by toning down his usually wild and chaotic self into something a little softer and more vulnerable.
Sharing the cover, Yungblud took to social media to say that he covered his “favourite girls”.
CARDIGAN x IM WITH YOU … covered my favourite girls @taylorswift13 n @AvrilLavigne for the @BBCR1 live lounge! go watch full vid on youtube and run up the coms with “???s” show em you’re bhc! #yungbludscardigan https://t.co/x9DKivFhU0 pic.twitter.com/SYlYLhnFxJ
— YUNGBLUD is a lowlife (@yungblud) September 29, 2020
Swift caught wind of the cover, and expressed her love and gratitude for it.
“WELL this took my breath away and I’m honored to hear Cardigan intertwined with the wonderful @AvrilLavigne‘s masterpiece ‘I’m with you’,” she said.
“Bravo and thanks @yungblud!!”
WELL this took my breath away and I’m honored to hear Cardigan intertwined with the wonderful @AvrilLavigne’s masterpiece ‘I’m with you’. Bravo and thanks @yungblud!! ???? https://t.co/uN69AADh4f
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) September 29, 2020
Watch the cover in full below.
