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Oct 31, 2011Three albums in, Boyle sounds like she's finally arriving.
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Nov 2, 2011Someone 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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Nov 3, 2011Her 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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Oct 31, 2011Boyle 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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Entertainment WeeklyNov 11, 2011She sounds like a showbiz bet marking time. [11 Nov 2011, p.75]
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Oct 31, 2011Cut by cut, Someone to Watch Over Me is not as strong as its forerunners.
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Nov 7, 2011Boyle's versions are professionally executed but phenomenally dreary.
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Nov 7, 2011Boyle 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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