I like both halves but I think it needed more transition between them. But if I had to pick, I adore Adams’ version, so I’d go with that. (The best thing ever done with Wonderwall, however, was Boulevard of Broken Songs, a mashup that includes exactly what one would think it does.)

As for genre-flipping, one of my favorite covers of the last five years was Solange Knowles’ R&B version of the Dirty Projectors’ Stillness is the Move. Recasting rock songs into other genres can sometimes be more enlightening than the reverse, IMO. I wish audiences would give acts who work in those genres more credit for doing it.