Re-Inventing Old Songs

I noticed this twice today, so I don't know if I can say this is a trend.

Classic songs that we've heard hundreds of times are re-worked to make them sound brand new.  Some people don't like it, but I kind of dig it.

Today I heard Susan Boyle do her rendition of Over the Rainbow

And then I heard Alicia Keyes interpret this classic:

Now they just need to turn the Flash Gordon Theme into a country ballad and I'll have heard it all.