It's been awhile since I've personally listened to Travis Garland, and I picked the right time to pay his music a visit. It's not necessarily his song, but he did cover No Doubt's new single "Settle Down" (see video below). In all honesty, I saw No Doubt perform this live at the Teen Choice Awards, and I wasn't impressed. Though I'm glad to see that they're coming back to the music scene and I hear hints of their old sound in the song, it just didn't work for me. I can't quite elaborate why - it simply didn't click with me.
However, I had been seeing a lot of my Twitter feed being consumed of retweets of Travis's rendition of it, and people said that they loved his version better. Out of curiosity I checked it out. Now, it seemed like to me that No Doubt was going for a Jamaican sound which I was debating whether it worked for them or not. The Jamaican sound isn't quite as obvious in Travis's cover - it just sounds like a happy go-lucky song that easily gets stuck into your head plus his voice is magnifique. I swear, anything that Travis sings is heaven to my ears.
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