<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[The Dish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://dish.andrewsullivan.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/author/sullydish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Time For A&nbsp;Contest!]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s been a while since we had a full-fledged Dish reader bonanza, and, if you&#8217;re like me, one mental health break a day is not quite hacking it this July, given the depressing news out of Gaza and Ukraine. So here&#8217;s an idea: nominate your favorite ever cover version of a previous hit song. The cover should supplant the original in its arrangement or performance or ingenuity. And it shouldn&#8217;t be too obscure. Bodenner offered up the following as a starter:</p>
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<p>I&#8217;m pondering mine .. and trying mightily <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX3Zpks05Ns&amp;list=RDYX3Zpks05Ns#t=1" target="_blank">not to be a self-parody. </a> You can all do much better &#8211; email your Youtubes with &#8220;Cover Contest&#8221; in the header to this address: <b>contest@andrewsullivan.com</b></p>
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