Von Smith’s titanium records

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I adore Postmodern Jukebox; I’ve pretty much been in love with their retrofuturist covers since I heard their versions of “Sweet Child o’ Mine” and “Royals,” by Miche Braden and Puddles Pity Party, respectively.

Now they’ve got a titanium singer, or rather a bulletproof cutie singing a cover of David Guetta’s “Titanium,” featuring Sia.

Performer Von Smith became a bit of a YouTube sensation over his octave-jumping Dreamgirls cover of “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going,” enough so that he ended up touring as Lady Gaga’s opener during her Australian tour (where he performed an equally riff-happy cover of “Halo”).

His latest cover with Postmodern Jukebox is an equally joyful bull’s-eye. Here’s hoping we hear more of this crooning cutie.

Michael Lyons is a queer-identified, chaotic neutral writer, activist, misanthrope, sapiosexual, and feline enthusiast. He is a columnist, blogger and regular contributor with Xtra and has contributed to Plenitude Magazine, KAPSULA Magazine, Crew Magazine, Memory Insufficient e-zine, The Ryersonian, Buddies Theatre blog, Toronto Is Awesome blog and Fab Magazine and more.

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