Aussie Band Faces Backlash Over Usher Comments

Anhas been slammed globally after their shocking comments about a popular Usher song. 

 punk band Radio Free Alice were appearing on Triple J's Like A Version program, where music acts are invited into the station's studio and asked to play one of their own compositions as well as a song they love by someone else.

The group sparked the controversy when they revealed the reason they were covering the hit 2010 Usher song, DJs Got Us Fallin' In Love.

'We have always felt that good songs don't need good covers. Bad songs need good covers,' they began.

'This song is the ugliest duckling of bad songs! So, we thought it was a fun challenge to see if we could turn it into a good song, if that was physically possible.'

The band's blunt remarks about the hit dance song quickly enraged listeners, who took to social media to eviscerate them.

'It's not too late to apologise for at best the clearly thoughtless comments,' one person wrote. 

'Are they calling……. DJs got us falling in love again by THE USHER…… a bad song? Who tf are they WHAT???!!' a second added. 

'Just watched the cover... They DO NOT have the talent to back these remarks,' a third person chimed in. 

'The Usher song is a product of the time, but it was WILDLY successful and went multi-platinum in a dozen countries. Their cover is awful, they took an “ugly duckling” and turned it into a dead duck, another said, while one raged. 'The audacity to disrespect USHER and I don't even like Usher.'

'Their next song should be how to destroy your music career in one sentence,' one simply added, while several said they had 'never heard' of the band. 

Triple J's Like A Version program is one of the station's most popular and long-running segments.

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