Back in 1975 Aerosmith created a song out of luck, and it became a Billboard Top 10 hit. The beat and the guitar riff was heavily used years later in underground rap parties in the Bronx, and Run-DMC had actually already rapped over the song before without realizing it was an Aerosmith's song, or even who the rock band was. The story behind this cover is so unique because at first, the rap group did not want to record it for considering the lyrics "hillbilly gibberish", but when released it became an instant hit and it even peaked higher than the original version. It also catapulted Aerosmith again to mainstream at a time the band wasn't having their best time.Listen to the full episode above and let us know yout thoughts behind this incredible cover.

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In 1990, Madonna released a song that wasn’t supposed to be a single. It was a B-side throwaway, recorded in a basement studio in Manhattan with a $5,000 budget and a vocal booth converted from a closet. It became one of the best-selling singles of the year, hit number one in over 30 countries, and 35 years later, it still soundtracks the most iconic fashion moments on screen — from Andy Sachs’ Paris montage in The Devil Wears Prada to the teaser trailer of its 2026 sequel.

But Vogue isn’t just a Madonna song. It’s the story of a culture. Voguing was invented in Harlem in the 1970s and 1980s by Black and Latino LGBTQ+ kids who had been thrown out of their homes, building chosen families called Houses, competing in underground ballroom competitions, and turning fashion poses into a dance language. Names you may not know — Crystal LaBeija, Willi Ninja, Hector Xtravaganza, Jose Gutierez, Luis Camacho — built the entire visual world that Madonna would later put on MTV.

In this episode of Uncovering the Cover, we trace Vogue’s journey from the ballroom floor to the global pop charts, into Paris Is Burning, onto the Blond Ambition Tour, through Pose, and onto the runway of The Devil Wears Prada 2. We ask the question that has followed the song for three and a half decades: was Madonna an ambassador, or was she an extractor? And we tell the story of the people who built the dance she would make immortal.📱 Follow Uncovering the Cover:Instagram: [@uncoveringthecover]TikTok: [@uncoveringcover.podcast]Website: [pinzondiego.com/podcast]

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Michael Jackson has a complex story, which will be the subject of the very anticipated biopic film, titled "Michael", in theaters everywhere April 26, 2026.In 1983, Michael Jackson debuted the moonwalk on live television in front of forty-seven million people while performing "Billie Jean" — a song Quincy Jones almost cut from the Thriller album. That night, pop music changed forever. But the deeper story is this: "Billie Jean" has never stopped traveling. In 2007, grunge legend Chris Cornell stripped it to its acoustic bones and made it cry. In 2008, David Cook covered Cornell's cover on American Idol and became a star. In 2015, a Peruvian-American musician reimagined Michael Jackson's entire catalog in Latin jazz and salsa — and the world finally caught up to something Latin America had already known for decades: that Michael Jackson's music was never just American. It was always global. In this episode of Uncovering the Cover, we trace the extraordinary journey of "Billie Jean" as the conductive thread through Michael Jackson's legacy — the most covered, most complicated, and most consequential catalog in the history of popular music. We explore the songs he wrote, the barriers he broke, the controversies that still have no resolution, and the artists who felt compelled to reckon with his genius long after his death. This is the story of the songs the world won't stop singing.

This is the story of how "Billie Jean" — and the Legends who dared cover It — reveals the most complicated legacy in Pop History.

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