Feel Good Inc. - Vintage Ella Fitzgerald Style Gorillaz Cover ft. Thia Megia

You may remember Thia Megia as the youngest American Idol finalist in history - she's all grown up now, and is making her PMJ debut on this swingin' version of Gorillaz's "Feel Good Inc." - from our new album!

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Follow The Musicians:
Thia Megia - vocals

Danny Janklow - sax

Lasim Richards - trombone

Ian Solomon - bass

Aaron McLendon - drums

Scott Bradlee - piano

[andy]

Bro I was waiting for the rap verse and not a single part of me expected for her to pull it off that well this cover is so sick

[TheAmorable]

The rapping portion gives me a scatting kinda vibe and that’s gorgeous, because it matches the later scatting that occurs—

[radioactive_baby]

There are so many comments talking about people not liking this video, but I haven't seen a comment that says anything negative about the video

[MoiraRussell]

Y'all are nuts, this is a fantastic version with some incredible scatting.

[velvert]

This is a cover.
Not only that, but its a cover purposely done in a fairly different style.
I can understand what people are coming from in what they're saying about the vibrato and all that, and how its not good for Goriallz and all that, or that Robyn Adele Anderson could have done it better but heres the thing-
This is a stylizied cover, in the style of Vintage Ella Fitzgerald, a singer back in 1950s-1960s, around that, but I'm not 100% sure on the exact era. I've listened to a few of her songs briefly (note how I said briefly- I havent listened to an entire album or something like that. I skipped around a few songs and listened just enough to get what her style was because I wanted to see how the singer of this cover did in replicating it.) and Thia has done a wonderful job at executing the style. From what ive heard, a lot of Ella's songs have a lot of vibrato. Thia had quite a bit of emphasis on it, yes, but it works just fine.
This isnt supposed to be as trippy or eccentric as the original song, since that wouldn't genuinely go with the genre this cover is performed in. Yes, its not a match made in heaven, but they chose a different style and you can hear that its indeed a cover.
And of course, you're allowed to simply not enjoy the style, that's perfectly fine. You're allowed to still completely disagree with me, I'm not gonna be a pissbaby and screech at you. Opinions are opinions, so I thought I'd share mine

[hmogblin]

Jazz is my favorite genre.

Gorillaz is my favorite band.

Put the two together=



*H A P P I N E S S*

[coSocks]

That moment when you’re only seeing comments talking about other comments that don’t like this video, but you don’t see any comments about not liking this video.

[franklagunas]

its not a cover anymore, its a work of art this song

[MatterinoTV]

This is actually very well done. People who don't understand the lyrics obviously don't appreciate the song enough to know them in the original. It's not Postmodern Jukebox's fault.

[ashleystone]

we still haven't unlocked the drummer yet

[Kayla-rswr]

Can we just take a moment to address the perfect vintage style of the cover? It just gives the song a whole new level of beauty and her voice is ASTONISHING

[MetalDiamondtake]

I feel kinda bad for the drummer in these videos since most of the time he's hidden behind the singer :/

[cherrycandygina]

She nailed the lyrics, the tune, voice, pitch, and even the outfit. This is perfect.

[samsveryniceaccount]

The original Feels good inc. has such a unique sound i was curious to see how they would translate it to this style but they did an incredible job, this is now one of my fav covers.

[StelmariaonE]

This channel is like Pringles, once you pop (one video) you just can't stop.

[vasco]

2:32 - 2:54
Her voice is soo hypnotizing. 😍

[snide]

"A melancholy town were we never smile" When she sang that part I got Just a Girl by No Doubt vibes lol

[MimiBrokkoli]

I don't know why everyone says that they don't understand her, I understand everything perfectly fine.

[ridermendeke]

I could listen that first chorus, with just the piano, the bass, a little back beat and her voice, over and over again.

[jmrshh]

I ran out of cigarettes and illegal liquor, so I can't listen to this anymore.