By Nolan Feeney
Five days into 2016, we may have already found the year’s Most Thematically On Point Cover Song: Marina and the Diamonds, whose vivid 2015 album Froot featured song titles like “Blue” and “Gold,” recorded a cover of Cyndi Lauper’s “True Colors” that just surfaced. 1980s synth-pop is having a pretty big moment thanks to Taylor Swift’s 1989 and Carly Rae Jepsen’s E•MO•TION—probably the closest we’ve come to a modern She’s So Unusual in some time—but Marina keeps it simple with a gorgeous piano arrangement.
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