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By now, everyone has been exposed to the viral infection that is "Friday." It's auto-tuned, catchy, sophorific, and a bunch of other terrible adjectives. So obviously, the covers have been abundant.

Who knew Claymation and Sting mashed so well?

I've decided to not only feature covers, but also mash-ups as well, because if they're done as well as this viral charmer, they're just as fantastic as covers. So when I heard that someone made a Christmas mash of "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" and "Roxanne," I was...pretty scared of how terrible it would be.

While you may not understand everything in rap hit "Like a G6" — like, for example, what it means to get "slizzered" — no one can deny that the Far East Movement's jam is s a club hit with a great beat and an infectious hook that will get even the biggest wallflower away from the bar and on the dance floor.

There seem to be a lot of people lately covering Cee-Lo Green. First Eliza Doolittle covering "F*** You" in a post I put up a few weeks ago, and then Gwynnie Paltrow on Glee sang the radio-friendly version of "Forget You." Guitar freak Do Ross decided to take a little more old school with his rendition of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy." Done completely on an acoustic guitar.

Yo, Beyonce, I'm really happy for you, and I'ma let you finish. But Reba McEntire has the best cover of your song of all time.