"CREEP" - PMJ studio version with HALEY

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Oh my Lord, Haley Reinhart can sing. The hair is walking up my arms here. Bravo, bravo! This girl ranks with Amy Winehouse or Janis Joplin.

Haley can do no wrong! This was flawless and just stunning.

That's just amazing, Haley is awesome

The Voice totally ripped off your arrangement. She's NO Haley

THIS IS SO AMAZING ALL I CAN SAY IS WOW WOW WOW!!!!!!!!!! Love this Haley!!!

You're so much more awesome than that lady on The Voice!!!!

OMG <333 By far the best cover ive heard :')

So...hauntingly wonderful. Thanks for the soul fiving cover.

Please let Haley sing every song .

Shame on #TheVoice for ripping off #ScottBradleeLovesYa & #PostModernJukebox 's arrangement of "Creep." Hopefully enough people have seen this one so that The Voice will at least have to give him some credit.

Ummm someone on the Voice just completely copied this and no credit was given!!! Someone better pay you guys!!!! Haley you were much better than Kimberly Nicole, actually.....straight up copied this, she was great but like this is better

I think she IS SO VERY SPECIAL!!!! Best creepy, wirdo voice I've EVER heard!!!!! Spectacular!!!!!!!!!!!!

In love! Beautiful voice!!

150% Perfect

This made me cry.... omg, i love this song!♥

This video is just amazing! I love Creep and Haley Reinhart nails this performance. So much passion in her voice!

You killed it. WOW.

God, she sounds so much like Sia. Love it!

WOW. I'm addicted. Very good music.

instrumentation is on point! stunning vocals!!

She has a great voice. Loved the ending.

Brilliant.

[kaypea]

Honestly that version did nothing for me.And its not just that Haley set such a high bar for it.The girl can sing but I thought everything about it was overdone-the production,definitely the arrangement and the vocal as well.It sounded to me too much like a Las Vegas production number or something that they brought in the wrong producer for.

[dswim2]

drama, drama, drama...Haley still has an incredible voice and we celebrate that.

The world is full of people ripping off others to make money...isn't NBC the home of Brian Williams? When people get caught they come up with all sorts of excuses...this is why we like Haley so much...she's an original Slayer!

Well put. I don't think she's ever done something that didn't come from her creativity. She failed or succeeded on her own merits.

[XAtlantic]

Honestly that version did nothing for me.

Same for me - I was expecting this killer rip-off version, but to my ears, it doesn't fly very much.

I agree that giving credit is key in the world of arts (though we've also had the discussion here somewhere about creativity and inspiration and references - this here is different), but other than that I also take it as a sign that what Scott is doing, in this case with Haley's choices to add a lot to it, is working and becoming known - success. I'm sure Haley would tend to take the high road in that vein, while fighting the battle behind the scenes for any rights issues, because of course it is not ok to rip off too much.

And of course Radiohead's Creep itself was the topic of a plagiarism issue back in the day, it supposedly being similar to The Hollies' "The air that I breathe", which is why the writers of that song now share full co-writing credits on Creep even though they never actually co-wrote it in the straight way. Good for them. So Scott should be co-credited on the download versions of these songs and benefit (we don't know what arrangement Scott then has with his singers). Though he says he doesn't want money, just the credit - also taking the high road, and understanding that fame is about being famous. (Just follow the link in this recent post of George RR Martin's blog: http://grrm.livejournal.com/423623.html). But it would be a move.

Mercfan, thanks for your thoughts! I agree with you. Nonetheless, thanks Tusk for helping setting things straight quickly (which takes passion and emotion), though we Haley fans are indeed mostly known and should be known for being positive and friendly and witty.

[Miguel]

"social media mogul" and "judge on #abdc" (America's Best Dance Crew) that has over 1 million followers:

Frankie James Grande @FrankieJGrande · 2h

shhhhhhh.... I need to tell you something... I really really really really really like @KimNicky. #thevoice #creep

Frankie James Grande @FrankieJGrande · 2h

wow. I'm pretty sure that was the greatest performance I've ever seen on #thevoice. Damn. Wow. @NBCTheVoice @KimNicky #creep

[Tusk]

I just think it's funny out of the thousands of tweets she must have had that she blocked me for a handful, a couple of which I lobbed at The Voice too.

Oh well, It's another opportunity for Scott to roll out Haley's PMJ cover front and center again, even though hers was two (?) covers ago

(A little controversy never hurts to raise your profile a bit.... I imagine that because Kim Tweeted AND Instagramed credit (eventually), it would pretty much guarantee that it was PMJ's arrangement will be discussed among reality media services )

[XAtlantic]

I just think it's funny out of the thousands of tweets she must have had that she blocked me for a handful, a couple of which I lobbed at The Voice too.

Well, at least you know she read it! Which is something. (If it was her, who knows.) It surely must have been part of the moment when it dawned on her that she was into something different than what she thought. Maybe also shows that she's human, perhaps not taking negative stuff easily and then reacting in shutting it off (as if one could).

Not an easy life, being in the eye of the public. Which reminds us all the more of how well Haley's handled it all up to now, really very well.

Yes, let's hope in the end Haley is entering slowly the next level of being known. What counts is not the fleeting youtube encounters on the wave of the most present hype, but coming up again and again, in first a dozen, then hundreds, then even more references and allusions and mentions and influences over a longer time. In the end, in my mind, it is not really about Creep, either, it is about Haley's original music (though there's nothing wrong at all with great singers singing the great songs of their time, not at all!) - but I am still less certain about the exact size of market and general appeal for that. We've all been waiting for some song breaking through somehow eventually, but that is EP territory, different thread ... Lol, somehow we're all under tension ready to go as the ground shifts and things happen ... waiting what goes off, or if it will just settle down in a lull once more. (My worst nightmare: the EP coming out, being acclaimed by inside music lovers, but not rippling anything elsewhere. Could happen. Though ole should count for something. In that sense any recognition is good.)

[dswim2]

The real shame in this is that her rendition was really good, but it was soured by her/christina/production not giving PMJ credit; this would have probably peaked the interest of some PMJ viewers--enough to where they might have even voted for her-- if they gave them credit. But instead she is getting a lot backlash.

[john]

24.5 hours ago the view count was 4,077,243.

Creep now has 4,151,322 views.

Works out to about 74K views in just over 24 hours.

24 hours later...

4,213,284 views
About 62K views today

Probably a small uptick in view rate in the past few hours (after Creep performed on The Voice). Tomorrow's numbers should tell that tale.

BTW Kimberly's Creep is now at #13 on the overall iTunes chart.

[dswim2]

From TVLine:

When Xtina announced that Kimberly was covering “Creep” with some jazzy inflections, my stomach sank: Was nobody going to mention American Idol standout Haley Reinhart’s delectable new “Creep” cover with Postmodern Jukebox, the one that’s sitting at No. 2 on the iTunes jazz charts? No shock, the hat tip to a competing reality show didn’t happen on air — though Kimberly later tweeted her version was inspired by Haley’s. Still, while the arrangements had some similarities — despite a slightly creepier music-box tilt to Kimberly’s piano accompaniment, and a sexier horn vibe to Haley/PMJ’s — the vocal approaches didn’t overlap all that much. Kimberly’s approach felt less slinky, didn’t betray as much longing as Haley’s; the Voice diva instead amped up the theatricality of the melody, her tight growl crumbling with loneliness on the verses, then exploding with a howl as she went into a full backbend on the word “ruuuuunnnnn.” And now that she’s learned the art of gratitude-face during judges’ comments, Kimberly’s more of a threat to make the finale than ever before — and deservedly so