Rihanna should be proud now, because I’ve been seeing covers of her song “Umbrella” all over YouTube. The most famous of those “cover-ers” is Marie Digby, who even got herself presented in the “Last Call with Darson Daly”. Here is her phenomenal video.

I personally like her cover of Maroon 5’s “Makes Me Wonder.” Somehow, this song “makes me wonder” where “wonderwoman” is (*sigh*).

Although she’s *that* cute, her being “amature” wasn’t. Apparently, she made herself look like an amateur singer in YouTube, but in fact, she already got a contract with Hollywood Records even before all these whirlwind fame of hers happened. I still like her, ‘coz she’s cute (and part-Asian).

Anyway, I did a “Rihanna’s Umbrella Cover Contest” on my own (of course no prizes), and the rule was to disqualify the already famous Chris Brown and Marie Digby. I searched the entire YouTube pile of videos, some of them not-so-good, some of them so much forgettable, but this one stood up. Pretty weird that the winner is a guy:

Before I flood this post with YouTube videos, lemme say that my category for judging was for the cover to sound a little more, if not totally, different than that of Marie’s or Rihanna’s. I still think that the original sounds the best.

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