We’re living through a time when global pandemic Covid-19 has ushered the world towards a new reality. During this time, as people work from home and digital content continues to grow at an unfathomable rate, choosing what to listen and/or watch can be daunting. It is also impossible and unfeasible even to watch everything that surfaces online.

Like cricket and TV dramas, music, too has been a strong part of our cultural diet. Given that, heading over to BBC 1 and watching artists ranging from superstars to indie artists performing an original song along with a cover would be a great start.

Take Tame Impala’s cover of Nelly Furtado’s globally famous song, ‘Say it Right’; taking the original and converting it - in jaw-breaking fashion - as a purely electronic song before your very eyes with Kevin Parker, the lead vocalist of group also singing, is a marvelous experience. It’s also a reminder that covers have existed since time immemorial; from Bob Dylan covering Woody Guthrie to Kurt Cobain covering David Bowie, covering songs is an old phenomenon. It’s not the cover that’s the problem; it’s how the cover is performed by the artist.

Tame Impala covering Nelly Furtado is just one thundering example. On BBC Radio 1 Lounge (that can be viewed on YouTube), you can find several other beautiful concoctions. The set is also usually very intimate and features just the artist and the band. Besides Tame Impala (who are nominated for a Grammy this year), you can find artists as eclectic as Sam Smith, Shawn Mendes, London Grammar, Miley Cyrus, Alicia Keys, Harry Styles, Mark Ronson, Lana Del Rey, Taylor Swift, Vampire Weekend, Mumford & Sons, Hozier and several others. Everyone does a fabulous, unpredictable cover song and an original one as well so it’s a decent digital music project to invest your time in.

Watching two songs also from an artist also means conserving time. It’s not a concert but a quick flight. A person can skip what they don’t like and move on to another artist. All in all, it’s a therapeutic musical experience.