<Li> A cover of this song was used on the TV series Timeless . </Li> <Li> In 2016, the movie Trolls featured a cover in its entirety by Anna Kendrick . </Li> <Li> In 2017, Jew in the City released a music video covering "The Sound of Silence" featuring The Maccabeats with visuals drawn from a reinterpretation of the lyrics, such as "People talking without speaking" and "the people bowed and prayed / To the neon god they made," to refer to modern communications technology and mobile phone overuse . </Li> <Li> In February 2017, Todd Hoffman from Gold Rush released his own cover version on social media recorded by Black Diamond Recording Studios . The cover version went viral later on in the year and as of October 2018 had received over 8 million views . </Li>

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