umbrella1. Mechanical Bride

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2. Scott Simons

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3. Passenger

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4. Manic Street Preachers

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5. McFly

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6. Mandy Moore

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7. Plain White T’s

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8. Biffy Clyro

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9. All Time Low

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10. The Veer Union

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11. Vanilla Sky

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12. Marie Digby

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13. Lillasyster

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14. Alejandro Manzano (Boyce Avenue)

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15. ElectronicMESS

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And, outside of the studio, this and this and so on and so on.

In conclusion, if you’re thinking of covering Umbrella because it’s a good song then that’s fine, but if you’re doing it because you think it’s funny then you should be aware that the well’s pretty much run dry on that one.

Also: juxtaposing genres for artistic effect requires that little extra something these days.

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