SARAH HARVEY-SMART. Apparently she’s already quite famous cause she’s been on the telly, as well as being in a couple of West End musicals. I imagine a lot of people would probably baulk at the mention of West End musicals, and I’m certainly one of them. They gave us Michael Ball for one thing.
I can’t describe how horrible this single is. I think it’s made entirely of syrup, all man-made and synthetic. It’s not quite karaoke fodder, but it’s of the genre that fills the airwaves on boring MOR stations. You can tell that she’s sung in a few musicals because the sentiments in her voice are completely exaggerated, with no subtlety whatsoever - “Think Ms Harvery-Smart, this is your ‘Happy Face’.”
And just to rub salt in the wound, Ms Harvey-Smart then takes it upon herself to massacre Emylou Harris’s “Boulder to Birmingham”. Her version is truly, truly hideous. Words fail me (actually, they don’t).
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This version has been stripped of all soul and meaning, and replaced with a banal backing track, inappropriate warbling, and cheesy backing vocals, giving the overall impression that she’s singing about Friday night at the bingo, rather than anything with a modicum of gravitas.
Bearing all this in mind, it’s likely she’d be a strong contender to
represent Britain in the Eurovision Song Contest, because even this tripe wouldn’t get through to the sorry likes of Pop Idol.
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