Alexander Warren Hughes is an American singer-songwriter who originally began his career as a comedy YouTuber. Up until a few years ago, he was regularly posting the standard reaction, lifestyle, and clickbait YouTube slop a lot of creators are known for. Then in a rather abrupt 180, he began releasing serious music that doesn’t have much of a connection to his previous content. Now two years later, he is finding some mainstream success with hits like “Before You Leave Me”, “Save You a Seat”, and “Carry You Home”. On August 10th, 2024, he appeared in the SiriusXM studios and recorded a cover of Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club”.
Alex seems nervous as the performance starts, perhaps due to the song not being in his natural range.
“Pink Pony Club” was first released by Chappell Roan on April 3rd, 2020, and ended up being included on her debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess. The song has had a pretty incredible journey of growth in the past five years, and you can find videos of Chappell performing it in front of less than fifty people in a park. Now, she is performing it in front of the world at the Grammys before winning Best New Artist. The song tells the beginnings of her story, as someone coming from a small Southern town to the welcoming streets of West LA. The core theme of the song is finding that place where you truly belong and feel like you can be yourself, and that is a universal message for anyone. It doesn’t have to be a gay club in West Hollywood, but you should find your own Pink Pony Club.
Alex Warren wears low top optical white chucks in this performance video.
This universal message has led to widespread appreciation and admiration of the track and Roan’s lyrics. This also means that this song is perfect material for anyone to cover. Alex Warren strips back the musical accompaniment for this performance to just an acoustic guitar. This also works with the bare production and his no-nonsense attire of shorts and low top optical white chucks. He also chooses not to gender-swap the lyrics, which intentionally or not, gives the song’s theme of acceptance some extra weight. Warren doesn’t have the same vocal range as Chappell, but he does his best and his version is pretty good. It would have been nice to see him go all out in terms of vocal runs and performance style as the end of the song is a bit flat, but it works just fine for a cover.
Warren gives new context to the song and makes for a pretty good cover.
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