Chris Tong: Great Songs from the 1990's to the present

GREAT SONGS FROM
THE 1990'S TO THE PRESENT

While most of my covers are of songs from before the 1990's, I have done some from 1990 onward, and will be doing more over time. Here they are!

I've arranged the songs so you can play all of them, one after the other, using the YouTube Playlist Player below. Further down the page are summaries for each of the songs, as well as links to full page presentations.

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Just the Way You Are — My cover of Bruno Mars' beautiful 2010 love song, Just the Way You Are, for which he won the Best Male Pop Vocal Performance Grammy Award in 2011.
Fields of Gold — Sting has written many great, often powerful songs. But his 1993 hit, Fields of Gold, is perhaps his most beautiful song. In a 2018 interview at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, Paul McCartney said that Fields of Gold was a song he wished he'd written himself. In my version, I've arranged and sung the song in the manner of a chant — with the intent that, by the end of the song, you've been transported into a different state altogether. I've also added a new verse and a choral accompaniment for the latter part of the song.
APT. — My cover of the incredibly catchy, 2024 K-pop mega-hit, APT., by Rosé and Bruno Mars. At the time of my making this cover (January 27, 2025), it's currently the most popular song in the world (the #1 song on the Billboard Global 200 chart for the last 11 weeks), and it is part of a trend of 80's style songs in current pop music, I'm delighted to say!
Space Girl 2 — The love story of Earth Boy and Space Girl, with exhilarating, orbital hookups, commitment issues, and intense emotions. A complete re-conceptualization of Frances Forever's 2020 indie hit, Space Girl, this 2021 version is a veritable roller coaster of story and music.