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What any music lover needs to do before listening to this very familiar track, written by Leonard Cohen and made famous by Jeff Buckley, is put their X-Factor prejudices on hold. After all, it's about the music, talent and voice, right? In any case is it such a bad thing that we have a popular talent show to find good singers? The only reason it polarizes people is the love-hate relationship that the populace seem to have with the the rather clever, opinionated and vocal Mr Cowell. This, however, should not detract us from the fact that Miss Burke deserves her place in the limelight and with a lot of work her talent is bound to flourish. She is undoubtedly a great singer - her comparisons with Leona are totally unfounded, as she has a completely different personality & style and the tone to her voice is more Braxton than Mariah. In any case, doesn't the UK have room for 2 extremely likeable, young divas? As far as the song is concerned, she sings it with passion, sounding great on the radio, especially towards the end of the 3 minute 33 second running time, where she warbles her way effortlessly through some of the high notes of the chorus. We should ignore the fact that the team behind the production have changed the arrangement of the song in order to shorten it for broadcast (by leaving out some of the verses) making it incomprehensible lyrically and just enjoy its ability to make the hairs on the back of your stand on end. A deserved UK number one record.
Stuart A. Copyright © Shazam Entertainment Limited 2009. All rights reserved.
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