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Who MEMI covers, counted

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Published 2026.09.09 · 4 min read

The cover archive on this site holds 523 clips. The oldest went up on 16 May 2017 and the newest on 27 August 2026.

Counted by the year each clip was posted:

Year Covers
2017 4
2018 5
2019 2
2020 5
2021 71
2022 205
2023 128
2024 49
2025 38
2026 16

Sixteen clips across the first four years, 71 in 2021, then 205 in 2022, which is 39 per cent of the archive on its own. It falls in every year after that.

2022 is also the year the solo career starts. "Hate U" came out on 4 May 2022 and "I don't give a" that August. The covers peak and the records begin in the same twelve months, and the two move opposite ways from there. 2022 had two live dates and 205 covers. 2026 has eight live dates and sixteen.

The artists she named

Of the 523 clips, 58 carry a hashtag naming whose song it is:

Artist tagged Clips
Deftones 7
Korn 7
Radiohead 7
willow 7
Nirvana 6
Paramore 5
BTS 5
Coldplay 3
Metallica 3
papooz 2
Slipknot 2
wisp 2

Disturbed, BLACKPINK, Taylor Swift and nickthereal have one each.

Two rows mislead. The seventh Deftones clip is her own emo arrangement of Cafuné's "Tek It", tagged for the tone rather than the song. Two of the three Coldplay clips are wisp's version of "Yellow" rather than Coldplay's own, which is also why wisp appears at all.

More is missing than is wrong. Limp Bizkit, The Warning, Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Arctic Monkeys, Royal Blood, Twenty One Pilots, Pierce the Veil, Yungblud, boy pablo, RADWIMPS, Good Charlotte, Woodz, sombr, The xx and ZEP all have clips in the archive, and none of them appear above, because the list of artist names the count runs against does not hold theirs. The real totals run higher than the table.

The songs, by year

  • 2017. Papooz twice, the second played in on a new Fender. Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Pride and Joy", captioned as the first blues she had touched in ages. RADWIMPS.
  • 2018. Rage Against the Machine's "Bombtrack", posted in January after a day of listening to nothing else because it was too cold to leave the house. Royal Blood's "Figure It Out". Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Give It Away" on a Fender Strat. Bring Me The Horizon's "Mantra", a fortnight after it came out.
  • 2019 and 2020. Arctic Monkeys' "Fluorescent Adolescent", filmed in London in spring 2018 and posted the following January. Yungblud's "King Charles" on a mini guitar. boy pablo's "Feeling Lonely". Twenty One Pilots' "Level of Concern". Two 24Hours songs, one of them her adding a second guitar part over her own band's track.
  • 2021 and 2022. willow's "Transparent Soul" in September 2021, then "It's Not My Fault". Metallica's "Enter Sandman". j-hope's "Arson" in a grunge version. BLACKPINK's "Pink Venom". Paramore's "This Is Why" on the day it arrived. Korn's "Blind". Taylor Swift's "Lavender Haze". Deftones' "My Own Summer (Shove It)".
  • 2023. Deftones' "Be Quiet and Drive". Korn's "Freak on a Leash", then "Y'all Want a Single". Radiohead's "Creep", then "Paranoid Android" filmed on a morning in New York.
  • 2024. Radiohead's "Just". Nirvana's "All Apologies" and "Come as You Are".
  • 2025. Paramore's "All I Wanted". Limp Bizkit's "Rollin'". A Doechii and Fred again remix. Pierce the Veil's "So Far So Fake". sombr's "back to friends". The Kill Bill cue. wisp's "Yellow". Cafuné's "Tek It". And "Last Shot", the Valorant Champions 2025 anthem, rearranged as a rock song.
  • 2026. "Paranoid Android" again, this time for the solo. ZEP's "Don't Break". Woodz's "Amnesia", rearranged and sung rather than played. The xx. Slipknot's "Psychosocial". The Warning's "Ego".

Three of them went somewhere

Bring Me The Horizon's "Mantra", August 2018, posted with a caption about the new song being too good not to play along to. Six years later Oli Sykes was one of the musicians her SXSW press notes listed as having shared her playing, next to Fred Durst, Phoenix and Good Charlotte.

The Warning's "Ego", 9 July 2026. Five weeks later, on 12 August, she opened for The Warning at Yes24 Live Hall on their first Korean show.

Cafuné's "Tek It", February 2025. She posted the arrangement, put a full version on YouTube that July, and had it on Spotify by 21 August 2025. It is the only cover in the archive that turned into a release.

The nu-metal label

Korn at seven, Deftones at six once the Cafuné clip comes out, plus Slipknot, Metallica, Disturbed and Limp Bizkit. That cluster is the one the press coverage reaches for, and it is really there.

Others sit next to it. Radiohead is level with Korn. So is willow, a current artist rather than an inheritance from the 1990s. Paramore is ahead of Metallica. BTS, BLACKPINK, Taylor Swift, Woodz and a tournament anthem are in the same archive, posted in the same months as the Slipknot and the Deftones.

How the counting works

The artist comes from her own hashtags. Nothing here is identified by ear, so a clip counts toward an artist only where she tagged it.

A post counts as a cover on her cover hashtags specifically, not on the word "cover" appearing anywhere in the tags. albumcover is a post about artwork and undercovermartyn is a Two Door Cinema Club song title. Anything ambiguous is left uncategorised.

Figures counted in September 2026. Corrections go to the contact page.

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