Oceans Ate Alaska Cover Paul Simon’s ’50 Ways’ for Drumeo

THE ANNOUNCEMENT

Oceans Ate Alaska drummer Chris Turner just showed up on Drumeo to cover Paul Simon’s “50 Ways To Leave Your Lover,” and yes, that’s the 1975 soft-rock hit you’re thinking of ^*. Metalcore drummer meets yacht-rock classic — this is either brilliant or completely unhinged, and honestly it’s probably both.

THE DETAILS

• Turner appears in a new Drumeo video tackling the Paul Simon track ^*

• Drumeo’s format typically has drummers learn and perform songs they’ve never heard before

• “50 Ways To Leave Your Lover” originally featured session legend Steve Gadd on drums

• The video is live now on Drumeo’s platform ^*

WHY IT MATTERS

BUCKET LIST — watching a technical metalcore drummer reinterpret one of the most sampled and studied drum performances in pop history is exactly the kind of cross-genre chaos we need more of. The fact that Oceans Ate Alaska’s breakdowns and blast beats are now sharing headspace with Steve Gadd’s pocket groove is the weirdest flex of the week.