No One Can Sing “No One” Like Alicia Keys

With Alicia Key’s single “No One” topping last week’s Billboard charts at No.1, we’re not surprised that her hit song has also become the song to cover. She’s developed quite a fan base—an expressive one at that—and they ain’t afraid to show it. There’s already hundreds of odes to “No One:” acoustic, vocal, and video, and we still don’t know if people are submitting these for the sake of getting mocked or if they actually thought this was a good idea. Whatever their intentions, check out our compilation of the worst “No One” covers YouTube has to offer. From inside studios to backyard productions on a swing, to girly-men with no shirts and everyTHING else in between, it’s all here and in no particular order of terribleness.
Here’s the original song for those of you living under rocks, it’s worth a watch, if not just to see how bad they blow their covers:
There’s even more where those came from. And now that we’ve infected your brain with that vocal melody for the rest of the day, we know you guys are secretly dying to give it a shot. You can’t be any worse then these fools… can ya? Lyrics below:
- Alicia Keys Lyrics

These were really not as bad as I thought they would be…and ironically enough, the white males did it best. I mean, yes, this is an Alicia Keys song and she is a one-in-a-million singer, but this is no “If I Ain’t Got You”. The song is doable.
Comment by Aldawg — November 28, 2007 #
i didn’t watch all these, but some of them were pretty good. i dont know what they’re talking about when they say it’s terrible
Comment by aufootball — November 28, 2007 #
Some of those are REALLY good! And I’m very critical…so this page = happiness. Ernie Halter sounds just lovely! :)
P.S. - Yeah, some of them like Big Lips McScreech up there suck, but at least they all picked a good song. ;)
Comment by McKay — November 29, 2007 #
Okay some of these wernt that bad…but My a Capella group is doing an amazing arangement on the 10th and Ill try to get a video of it cuz our soloist is amazing!
Comment by Tyler Cavanagh — November 29, 2007 #
OK dumbass, those singers are good. On a tight deadline for content? Don’t know how to avoid arrogant sarcasm? Embed some clips and say they’re bad!
The real artistic tragedy here is your writing, and that you tagged your own blog with “funny”. You’re not.
Comment by Joe — January 10, 2008 #