Herewith, for no other reason than page views lists are fun, are fifteen covers of “Use Somebody” by a surprisingly diverse array of professional recording artists (I’m including American Idol finalists in that definition). But boy did she open some miserable floodgates. Late last summer Hayley Williams performed an inspired, stripped-down version that we never posted because you can go to other sites for Haley Williams news. But while we scoffed at the band’s royal status in the UK, the lackluster Only By The Night quietly went platinum in the States on the back of the Grammy winning “Use Somebody,” a pretty decent sounding pop/rock single the first three to four hundred times I heard it. Comment below with facts and trivia about the song and we may include it in our song facts Comments. KoL has become an increasingly hot button act on this site as we’ve witnessed the Followills become a parody of themselves (see: the hipster clothing line, drunken interviews, “Sex On Fire”). Use Somebody was the 17 song in 2009 in the Pop charts. Kings Of Leon released a new single and video this week and dozens (dozens!) of you lurkers stepped up to discuss it. Use Somebody Ive been roamin around, always lookin down at all I see Painted faces fill the places I cant reach Someone like you and all you know and how.
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