10 Hard Rock Music Covers You Wish Never Happened
4. One Way Or Another (Teenage Kicks) – One Direction
Including this song in a list of tracks you wish never happened, feels like a bit of a cold move... This 2013 single was released for Comic Relief, and given the popularity of One Direction, it's no surprise it raised roughly £850,000 for charity.
Having said all that, if there was a way to erase this cover from history whilst keeping the charitable contributions it inspired, many rock lovers would jump at that opportunity.
Combining Blondie's One Way or Another with Teenage Kicks, by the Undertones, isn't all that of an unappealing concept, and in the correct hands it might have resulted in something interesting, Pomplamoose do this kind of thing all the time and it's great.
But, the cute boy characteristics of the One Direction lot did nothing for the original tracks, and the whole ordeal just seemed like a tacky melding of two iconic songs, shabbily repackaged and dangled before a doting horde of One Direction fans.
The sentiment might have been sweet enough, but the legacy of the two original songs was ruined for a time, with the two 1970s classics being associated with the image of One Direction hugging the former conservative prime minister David Cameron... It was a dark day for music indeed.