Someone To Watch over Me
- Susan Boyle
- Band Name: Susan Boyle
- Record Label: Sony Music
- Release Date: Nov 1, 2011
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Nov 7, 201140Boyle's versions are professionally executed but phenomenally dreary.
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Nov 7, 201140Boyle has proven herself capable of doing one thing and one thing only, and Someone to Watch Over Me simply doesn't change that.
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Nov 3, 201160Her overemphasised enunciation puts Boyle firmly in the Julie Andrews stage show tradition but, at her best, she rises above inoffensive background music to gently brush the emotions.
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Nov 2, 201170Someone To Watch Over Me has the makings of a perfectly solid mopey-piano-girl album, largely eschewing chest-beating for a coarser-grained approach that serves the singer rather well.
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Oct 31, 201173Three albums in, Boyle sounds like she's finally arriving.
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Oct 31, 201160Boyle isn't an interpreter, necessarily, finding new meanings of songs; instead, the songs are pitched toward her specific skills, so there's an inevitable sameness to her albums, as they all consist of slow, pretty versions of songs you know by heart.
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Oct 31, 201150Cut by cut, Someone to Watch Over Me is not as strong as its forerunners.
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Nov 11, 201150She sounds like a showbiz bet marking time. [11 Nov 2011, p.75]