Covers and Parodies
- Boyce Avenue covered this song and posted on youtube with the video reaching over 6,300,000 views.
- Staind covered this song.
- Norwegian comedian Kristian Valen recorded a parody of the song, entitled "My Mom's Wide Open." It featured a music video with an elderly woman running around the forest naked.
- Christian comedian Tim Hawkins wrote a parody of the song called "My Arms Are Broken."
- Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters recorded a humorous cover of the song in which he imitates Scott Stapp's distinctive voice.
Read more about this topic: With Arms Wide Open
Famous quotes containing the words covers and/or parodies:
“What art can paint or gild any object in afterlife with the glow which Nature gives to the first baubles of childhood. St. Peter’s cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed. How the imagination cleaves to the warm glories of that tinsel even now! What entertainments make every day bright and short for the fine freshman!”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)