Music Tuesday #060: Under cover episode 1 - Seriously torn

This the first in a series where I will try to show you songs where the cover is way more known or remarkable as the original.  This series attempts to show that much of  the knowledge we have might be wrong.  I've learned this by watching QI on the BBC for many years: what we believe to be a fact today might in the future no longer be.  Hence the retro adjusting of end scores of old shows when facts change.  This is massively important, and I am convinced, that it is a key feature of successful businesses: to be able to change your mind based on new evidence.  I see it as a strength to be able to change your mind when facts are presented rather than doggedly staying with one's story, just because changing feels like losing face.

In this post I'm taking you back to when I was writing my thesis with a friend (whom I fail to keep close in life, a serious character flaw of mine) in 1998.   We had cable tv in my room and had MTV on all the time.  At that time MTV had songs in high rotation.  This meant that songs would be played at least every two hours.  One of them was Torn by Nathalie Imbruglia.  Or so I thought until today.

I started checking some facts...  Turns out this song was written in 1993 and first recorded in Danish by the singer Lis Sørensen.  So you could argue that that song was the original.  Is the original performance the English one by Ednaswap or the Danish version?  Your choice.

Lis Sørensen - Brændt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyuGaU4rXjA

Ednaswap - Torn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OoEdfB7l18

Nathalie Imbruglia - Torn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSZBIs0gs0E