Covers That Expressed Something Very Different From the Original

Bon Iver’s original recording of “Skinny Love” was a raw, acoustic folk confession marked by strained falsetto and ragged guitar strumming. English singer Birdy reimagined the track as an intimate, piano-led ballad when she was just fourteen years old. Her delicate, pristine vocal delivery transformed Justin Vernon’s jagged, chaotic relationship breakdown into a fragile, universally heartbreaking lamentation.