If emerging pop sensation du jour Marié Digby (as in Mary-ay, as I just learned) has taught wannabe artists anything, it's that covering billboard hits and broadcasting them on YouTube can actually launch a professional singing career. Sure, Marié might've been signed to Hollywood Records even before she became a DIY video star, but her real-life fairytale gave anyone with a keyboard and a camera hope—perhaps, even, too much.
Take Tiffany Jo Allen, a world class yodeler from Arizona who recorded a twangy cover of "Apologize" by OneRepublic last December. Interestingly, her video has gotten seven times the hits than the winner of the Myspace"Apologize" Cover Contest (chosen and announced by OneRepublic themselves). One can only hope Tiffany Jo will be performing her dipthong-heavy rendition during this summer's state fair circuit.
Or Britney Nicole, a Green Day-loving teen who belted a heartfelt acapella version of Leona Lewis's "Bleeding Love." What I want to know is why she didn't just come up with the stage name Britney Nicole Paris Lindsay. I think it's rather catchy...and very SEO friendly.
And then there's Chris Comisso, an aspiring Christian pop impresario who covered Sara Bareilles's "Love Song," not because you asked for it, not because you needed it, but because he thought it was about Jesus.
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