Song of the Day #509: ‘Apologies’ – Grace Potter & the Nocturnals

I’m sticking with the talent show today and featuring a song I’d never heard by a band I didn’t know existed. That probably applies to half the songs I heard in the talent show, but in this case I was moved to seek out the original track.

The singers were definitely the shakiest group of performers. As anybody who’s seen five minutes of American Idol knows, there are far more people who think they can sing than people who actually can. It takes some combination of guts and delusion to walk out on stage and perform a tuneless version of some recent radio hit.

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