'Just a Dream' Cover by: Sam Tsui, Christina Grimmie, and Ku

'Just a Dream' Cover by: Sam Tsui, Christina Grimmie, and Kurt Hugo Schneider and original song by Nelly

About Nelly

About Sam Tsui

Nelly's real name is Cornell Iral Haynes Jr. He was born on November 2nd, 1974. He's 38 years old. He was born in Austin, Texas. His occupations are rapper, singer-songwriter, invester, and actor. He has been active since 1993. He has 7 studio albums, 3 collaboration albums, 1 remix album, 2 compilation albums, 2 extended plays, and 3 mixtapes.

Differences+Similarities

Sam (Samuel) Tsui was born May 2nd, 1989. He is 24 years old. His occupation is singing, and he plays piano and uses his vocals. He's from Blue Bell Pennslyvania,U.S. His father is from Hong Kong and his mother is from Iwoa, and he has a brother named Kent Kevin. Sam has been on the Ellen DeGeneres and performed a mash up of 'Firework' by Katy Perry and 'Grenade' by Bruno Mars. In November 2010, Sam and his producer, Kurt Hugo Schneider posted a cover of 'Just a Dream' by Nelly, with Christina Grimmie. The video now has 71,017,875 views on Kurt's YouTube channel (KurtHugoSchneider). Currently, Sam has an ablbum out called 'Make It Up' with his own songs, and the album is produced by his good friend Kurt.

The similarities between the two songs are:

1. The lyrics

2. The genre

3. The beat is still the same

4. The Title

5. There's still a guy singing(Sam and Nelly)

The differences between the two songs are:

1. The original song is done as a solo, but with the cover there are 3 people. Sam is singing, Christina is singing, and Kurt is playing intruments.

2. In the cover, they use a piano, a keyboard, vocals, and a electronic percussion drum. In the original they don't use those.

3. The notes in the cover are longer, and in the original Nelly kind of raps/sings.

4.The cover is slower than the original song

cover:4:30

original:3:58

5.the pitch of the instruments are higher in the cover song.

Kurt Hugo Schneider

Which Do We like Better?

And What's the song about?

Christina Grimmie

We both like the cover better because it has better inruments, a better beat, and we like the way Sam and Chritina's voices sound together singing.

The song is about a guy and a girl who just broke up. The guy is heartbroken and wants the girl back but she doesn't want to get back together. He regrets not proposing to her when he had the chance.

Kurt Hugo Scneider was born september 7th, 1988. He was raised in Blue Bell Pensylvania. He's 25 years old. He has a Youtube channel where he and a person (or 2) will make a cover of a popular song. He has over 3 million subscribers, and over 150 videos. He does a lot of videos with Sam Tsui, who he produces. Kurt will normally play instruments, but he does sing. He has been making Youtube videos since 2008. Kurt and Sam began to work together in high school, and continued in college (both went to Yale). His occupations are film director, producer, singer, and songwriter. He can play piano, guitar, vocals, percussion, synthesizer, harp, crockenspiel, recorder, ocarina, bass guitar, and keytar.

Christina Gimmie was born on March 12th, 1994. She's 19 years old. Her occupations are singer, songwriter, pianist. She can play drums, guitar, and piano. She started singing at the age of 4 years old, and began to play piano when she was 10 years old. Her first Youtube video was of her singing 'Don't wanna be torn' by Hannah Montana. In 2009, she reached Youtube stardom with her cover of 'Party in the U.S.A' by Miley Cyrus. Since then, she's had over 375 million views and over 2 million subscribers to her channel since April 28th 2013, making her the 4th most subscribed musician on Youtube.