Cassadee Pope‘s “Wasting All These Tears” is getting the Taylor Swift and Demi Lovato re-record treatment. The former Hey Monday singer just released “Wasting All These Tears (Cassadee’s Version),” giving a rock rewrite to her 2013 country track.
Pope traded in twangy acoustic guitar strums for pulsing drums and basslines, though her voice is just as powerful as ever with awe-inducing belts across both versions.
Today, she also released a new music video in tandem with the reinvented solo song. The video sees Pope with strawberry blonde hair, decked out in all black singing in front of a gorgeous moon-beaming nighttime background. The lyrics are effortlessly emo no matter what genre they’re sung in. “I wish I could erase our memory/’Cause you didn’t give a damn about me/Oh, finally I’m through, wasting all these tears on you,” Pope sings during the raw chorus.
Check out the new video below for “Wasting All These Tears (Cassadee’s Version).”
Pope isn’t the only Hey Monday member in this track, as former bandmate and band guitarist Alex Lipshaw also helped produce the track. It’s always thrilling to see alternative artists return to their element.
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“‘Wasting All These Tears’ changed my life when it came out ten years ago. It’s a song I’ll be performing for the rest of my career and one that’s managed to take on many new lives,” Pope says on the new version of her track. “In my move back to my pop-punk roots, I wanted to take WATT with me. I thought who better to produce this with me than my old bandmate, Alex Lipshaw, from Hey Monday? The process was cathartic and sentimental… We truly did have the best time making this new version. ‘Wasting All These Tears (Cassadee’s Version)’ feels like a true depiction of the angst and frustration in the lyrics… it feels like coming home.”
Fortunately, Pope blessed our pop-punk souls with more recent alternative tracks. Basically, you need to add “Coma” with Taylor Acorn, “Almost There,” and “People That I Love Leave” to your playlists ASAP. We hope this is just the start of more pop-punk and modern rock to come.
