Katie Melua - The Love I'm Frightened Of (Dramatico
Entertainment)
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| Katie Melua - The Love I'm Frightened Of |
Release Date: 28th October 2013
There are two things you need to
know before I start this review; Firstly, I will review anything I get sent to
review regardless of whether I love it or loathe it. Secondly, anyone who has
talked to me about music will know that I have a particular confusion about why
and how Katie Melua ever became as popular as she is. Nevertheless, my inbox
contains Ms Melua's new single and I fully intended to review it as fairly as possible.....until
at one minute and six seconds I am fed the following lyric "This is the
love that can't be seen, no detailed instructions or Japanese symbols like you
find on a washing machine". What has just happened, in my ears, is that
Katie Melua has compared the complex and logic defying intricacies of the heart
to the Japanese translation of the instructions to a washing machine. The music
itself is a countrified ballad and Melua's voice is a nice, soothing tone but
it's the lyrics that always seem to turn me off her songs. Melua neither
manages to observe well enough to be quirky nor does she perform with enough
lightness to allow you to laugh with her rather than at her. In the age old
parlance of theatre auditioners, "Next!"
More information: http://www.katiemelua.com/default.aspx