A song murdered by someone.

I Did it My Way by Sid Vicious. Well, actually it wasn’t too bad.

I may be the only person alive that likes Lou Reed singing "This Magic Moment" from a tribute to Doc Pomus.

Quite recently two members of Metallica murdered Prices’ “When Doves Cry” 
please look it up. Hard to believe they thought it was a good idea... But evidently they cover a song by a local artist for every town they are in. So maybe it was a joke. Cringe worthy.

Sometimes "murdering" a song can be as much about changing it as it is about doing a really bad rendition. In the case of Cohens Hallelujah, you may have seen the video of the little school girl in Ireland (?) who redid it as a Christian song. It went virile. The backlash was the fear that the latest version might eclipse the original. Other times an artist can breath life into a song that was badly needed. Arlo Guthrie put Steve Goodman on the map with the remake of "City of New Orleans". Steve Goodman was grateful for that.

My selection features a great voice/skilled singer who fully "180 degrees" missed the point of the song. The song is "Pretty Women", from Stephen Sondheim’s musical "Sweeney Todd".  It is about lust and the singer’s desire to kill and eat the girls he’s ogling. The original was sung (very effectively) by Len Cariou, who has no voice at all. Here’s how you butcher a song:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=876_HQr4ePE