Covering Justin Timberlake is not for the faint of heart. But Hunter Hayes, who released today a video of him and his band covering Timberlake’s hit “Mirrors,” knocks it out of the park, garnering the attention of JT himself.
Nice job, @HunterHayes !! You guys sound GOOD. 🏆http://t.co/XpiLpbNsbm
— Justin Timberlake (@jtimberlake) August 6, 2015
“This song stood so strongly as a lyric and melody that it could be re-arranged any way possible and still be so strong as a message,” Hayes told Rolling Stone Country. “I thought it would be cool to transform it into a bluegrass record. . . of sorts. I love rearranging things into acoustic songs. I’ve spoken a million times on my obsession with bluegrass instrumentation and my dream to explore what we can do with these sounds in a modern soundscape. I love dreaming about what you can do with that beautiful, familiar sound to create something new and radical that still feels like home.”