One quality that has to apply to many great pop songs is that it simply has to be glorious. in this age of streaming dominating the charts and the fact that there are fewer pop hits there are still great songs being released every month. One of the wonderful things about a new pop song is when you hear it for the first time on the radio or more often nowadays through Youtube or a music streaming site you know whether you like it not and that in a long time to come you will still like it.
One song that I was in awe of when I first heard it was Diamonds by Rihanna. Sia has created many wonderfully powerful songs but Diamonds which she co-wrote for Rihanna with Benjamin Levin, Mikkel S. Eriksen and Tor Erik Hermansen will always be a pop masterpiece. Today I decided to start posting about pop music again and instead of starting again I am continuing my list of 100 Pop Cover versions that I love. While looking on line for a cover of Diamonds I found this version by Kevin, Karla & La Banda who I was not familiar with before. They are a brother and sister pop duo who each were stars initially through television in Chile and then in music and whose cover versions of international pop hits are truly made their own. A great pop song is often given a new quality when performed in another language and Kevin & Karla’s Spanish version of Diamonds is simply glorious. I absolutely love their vocals and the production too is superb. They have many cover versions on line as well as their own original songs and I will post more of the ones I love the most on this list too. Here is a Huffingpost Post article from a few years ago which tells you more about how they first started recording music. Check out their Youtube page on line here. Follow them on Twitter here.