Best Covers: Måneskin ‘Beggin’

The Italian rockers’ cover of the Four Seasons song has been one of the biggest rock hits of 2021 — it’s this year’s longest-running number-one single on Billboard‘s Alternative Airplay chart, having led the ranking for 10 weeks and counting.

Divus Julius presents: Måneskin

With their raw, energetic and distorted sound, Måneskin are bringing rock’n’roll back to the top of international charts with a contemporary twist.

Måneskin is an almost unnervingly lithe band of 20-somethings who can squeeze into ’70s David Bowie bodysuits (or, as is often the case at photo shoots, squeeze out of them). It emerged victorious at 2021’s Eurovision Song. But Måneskin is an anomaly in a rap- and pop-driven era: a guitar/bass/drums combo indebted to Queen and T. Rex that performs largely in Italian and whose breakout U.S. single was a cover of the Four Seasons’ oldies staple “Beggin’.”