#TrapCover Makes Up For Every Bad, White, Acoustic Rap Cover You've Ever Heard
“I did spend a while translating the lyrics before I could sing it! [3 cryface emoji],” wrote Samantha Harvey on her Facebook page when she posted the above video, an (1) acoustic (2) piano (3) cover of (4) Rihanna’s (5) “Work,” in a comment that now seems to be deleted. It’s an extremely smooth yet extremely difficult listening experience, well within the tenacious, widely practiced tradition of white people melting rap and other genres of black pop music into something you could sing with your dorm friends around a campfire, a la Ben Folds, who is arguably the Contagion Gwyneth of the current, horribly YouTube-enabled wave.