Baba Sehgal Arrives Late to the Ed Sheeran Cover Party! But Is He Welcome, We Ask?

Some people love Baba Sehgal – simply because he is one-of-a-kind and has displayed such tremendous staying power. Others with more delicate sensibilities cringe at the quality of the ‘music’ he produces. Baba Sehgal is known to create some strange new sounds and is also known to make songs that are copies of copies (I’ll explain). He has also joined the lets-make-a-spoof-of-shape-of-you bandwagon – rather belatedly. We look at his latest and some of his worst best from the past.  

Shape of You cover

He's made the whole thing using just the keys of a laptop – he speaks of having the tape of some woman who did ‘jhol’ with him and who has also not paid ‘toll’ (clearly he couldn’t find anything else to rhyme with jhol). Just for the 'record', he has made covers of Despacito and Sia’s huge hit Cheap Thrills as well

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