about covers

there's something about covers (of songs, that is) which i don't like. i am not against people doing their own versions of such and such songs on the videoke machine. however, when i hear them being played on the radio, especially those senti/mellow love songs, i am quite irked. i mean there's the knowledge that those songs have been sung before, by their original artists. you're stuck with the feel of the original version, the inflections, the emotion imparted by the original interpreter of the song. so it feels like these singers doing the covers only wish to imitate what the song had been like but they will never live up to the original one. i mean if you sing One Last Cry in the same way that it was sung before, what's the merit of doing it? if the cover entailed a change in the style, the arrangement, imbibing a feel that is altogether new to the listener, kind of recreating the old one but adding something else for the listener, now that would be a worthwhile listen, a reasonable investment of recording funds and promotional materials. i'm sorry for fans of these "revivals." unless the revival was the first version of the song that i'vve heard, i may not mind or be irked as much. well, i'm not really a fan of senti songs. but as a fan of sound, i do not really want to subject my ears to such kind of listening fare.