This kinda sounded like a copypasta tbh hahaha, had to do a double take! They are absolutely bops, its kinda crazy how music from our past has aged so well and seems even better now like a fine wine or so! Even just casual pop music and such!
The Abba song Lay All Your Love On Me song got a RADICAL remake on The Voice UK along with Kylie Minogue's Can't Get You Out of My Head song (which this guy's cover sounded like her Confide In Me song and era which I LOVE) and their versions, these covers of those songs are so beautifully, tragically, emotionally haunting! Completely transforms such seemingly simple pop songs into something much more intense and profound!
There's also this operatic/classical cover of David Guetta's and Sia's Titanium song that I also LOVE too:
I completely relate to the last line you said there too. That's exactly the issue many of us despite being such a minority in the community still are facing. In a way, the story feels like how
@solis described the Scabbards, dead inside but living on as empty shells or "ghosts of war". Ironically we have so much focus on "souls" in OP now but OP itself has felt very soulless for a long time imo.