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Gaying up the greatest song of all time

  • November 6, 2007
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'What Hurts The Most' is quite obviously one of the greatest songs of the past ten years. In fact, it's is one of the greatest songs of all time, no matter who sings it — ludicrous country and western boybands, ropey girl groups or that bloke who used to fix the van in S Club 7.

Therefore it should come as no surprise that Cascada's gaying up of 'What Hurts The Most' is totally, 100% a‑fucking-mazing.

Here is a little bit of it.

[audio:whathurtsthemost.mp3]

Well it's basically shit but you get the idea.

Here is a brief history of 'What Hurts The Most', a song so incred­ible that even Bellefire couldn't fuck it up.

The original but not the best: here is the Mark Wills version set to all sorts of exciting videogame bits.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KavVrIagnA

If you are going to use a micro­phone you should at least turn it on. This lady looks a bit distracted.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po-Q_9mZg4A

Not the original, but Jo O'Meara's may be the best, in spite of all that funny business with that lady from another country.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgc0UkM3Pnc


Bellefire
, then. Even some YouTube vigilante setting the Bellefire version to 'Charmed' (the worst Sunday afternoon tele­vi­sion programme of all time) does not make it rubbish.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtNVnBf54ec

Here is a young lady singing it on YouTube. Despite initial impres­sions she does not remove her top before the end of the song, although she might if you ask nicely.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXPi52UczNI

The Rascal Flatts version was a big hit in America. The video has the most overblown, ridicu­lous intro­duc­tion of all time – the howling was thank­fully cut from the radio edit.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJEs1TyzL_A

The defin­it­ive reading.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qbGXA_7omo

IF YOU ARE NOT WEEPING YOUR GUTS OUT RIGHT NOW YOU HAVE NO SOUL.

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