SONG REQUEST 50% HP Challenge Week 6! - Winner: @edwardstobia Runner-up: @sirenahippie

Hello everybody on HIVE, and especially the Music Community. My name is Jasper and I'm writing (and singing) to you from Cape Town, South Africa!

I have decided to start a challenging series of posts! BUT I Need your Help!

This is the challenge I'm setting myself every week: I ask for cover song requests on the MUSIC community, and then pick a favourite song to learn and post a live video of me attempting it. The person who asked for the winning song then gets 50% of the post rewards in HP!

I received some excellent requests this week! If I didn't get around to your request this week, please keep asking for it and there is a good chance it will win in the weeks to come! Please keep trying with either the same request, or a different one, in the comments of this post?

There were also some songs that I would love to tackle with my singing and writing friend @clairemobey. When I see her again we will do some duets, or songs where she should sing lead, and share the posts and reward the people who requested those songs as well! This request challenge seems to be (hopefully) taking off!

Let's get to this week's winner!

This week's winner is @edwardstobia who asked for something I thought was quite terrifying... Asaf Avidan puts down his guitar, and distorts his voice for an absolutely amazing loop pedal performance of his brilliant song "Her Lies". I knew I couldn't hope to sound anything like that, but that I have a loop pedal lying around that I want to get more comfortable with... so I thought I would learn a lot just by trying to do some elements of the song!

I don't have any device that distorts vocals like Asaf did, so I thought I would try think out the box and sing into a fan! Haha - I'm not sure the microphone picked it up like my ears did! I still sound "pretty normal"?

Here is Asaf's amazing performance that I used as inspiration:

Well done @edwardstobia - you will be getting 50% of this post's rewards in HP!

Well that should be it, but I just can't help but try another song as well. I should accept that this is going to happen every time I get a couple of good requests? And so @sirenahippie, from Venezuela, you will be getting 20% of this post's rewards in HP for requesting "Baby Can I hold You" by Tracy Chapman, who I adore!

Here is the original:

NOW READER, perhaps next week is your turn? Please give me some suggestions of cover songs you would like me to try next week, and maybe you'll be the winner next time!

See you Next Week!

Lyrics for "Her Lies" by Asaf Avidan

She said "baby, get down on your knees"
I said "babe if you insist"
She said "why do you keep seeing things you know that don't exist"
I said "baby, I love you, now what can I do,
I'll probably love you till the day I die"
She said "well pretty honey, if that's true than give me both them, pretty eyes"
I said "baby, you can have them - you can have my eyes"
See I was thinking if she took them I won't see her lies
But my baby – I can taste her lies.
She said "baby, get into this sack"
I said "baby, I don't know what's there"
She said "all I want to do with you
Is take you with me everywhere"
I said "okay, baby take me everywhere,
Take me through the day, through the night"
She said "oh silly babe, don't you kid with me,
You know I really don't have the time".
Still I said "baby, you can take me" – and I got right in
See, I was thinking if she took me, I could taste her skin
But my baby, all I taste is her lies.
Oh my baby, all I taste is her lies,
Oh my honey, all I taste is her lies.
I said "baby, you can have them - you can have my eyes"
See I was thinking if she took them I won't see her lies
But my baby – I can taste her lies.
Oh my baby,
Oh my honey,
Oh my baby
Oh my baby,
I can taste…
Her lies.
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Asaf Avidan / Hadas Kleinman / Ori Winokur / Ran Nir / Roi Peled / Yoni Sheleg
Her Lies lyrics © BMG Rights Management

Lyrics for "Baby Can I Hold You" by Tracy Chapman

Sorry
Is all that you can't say
Years gone by and still
Words don't come easily
Like sorry, like sorry
Forgive me
Is all that you can't say
Years gone by and still
Words don't come easily
Like forgive me, forgive me
But you can say baby
Baby, can I hold you tonight?
Maybe if I told you the right words
Ooh, at the right time you'd be mine
I love you
Is all that you can't say
Years gone by and still
Words don't come easily
Like I love you, I love you
But you can say baby
Baby, can I hold you tonight?
Maybe if I told you the right words
Ooh, at the right time you'd be mine
Baby, can I hold you tonight?
Maybe if I told you the right words
Ooh, at the right time you'd be mine
You'd be mine
You'd be mine
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Tracy Chapman
Baby Can I Hold You lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC