Wow, what a disappointment.
Anyone who heard Susan Boyle on "Britain's Got Talent" when she shocked the world and caused many a tear to fall with her incredible voice was undoubtedly looking forward to her debut CD. Sad to say, and through no fault of her own, there wasn't much to look forward to in the end.
This CD would be better suited as music to snooze with, not revel at. On songs like "Cry Me a River" and "How Great Thou Art" when you would expect to be shaken out of your shoes with some rafter-reaching vocals, Boyle barely extends her diaphragm above a whisper. With "You'll See", a Madonna tune, Boyle didn't bring anything new to her rendition. It's a pretty cover but a boring one, which appears to be the theme of this album. A voice worthy of long-standing Broadway showtunes was subjected to the sort of treatment that a manufactured pop star would receive.
"Who I Was Born to Be" is a nice tune, probably the best on the album, although her consistent vibrato here, (as well as on the rest of the album), is so overdone that you can't appreciate it. Other classics such as "The End of the World" and "Daydream Believer" are not done any justice by what could have been some of the best cover versions performed. Plus, they chose to end the album with "Silent Night". A Christmas track? Really? How random. That's fine for this time of year but are you really going to want to listen to that in June? At least they made it the last track for easier skipping. And something seems really wrong with a priviledged white woman singing "Amazing Grace", especially when she's not singing it with gusto. The beauty of this song is to express an appreciation of relief from a long-standing suffering. It's supposed to be sung with passion and fire and again, we get barely more than a whisper.
It's a shame that someone as seemingly deserving as Boyle of letting her talents be showcased to the world was short-changed on such a lackluster collection of what could have been some beautiful music.Get more detail about I Dreamed A Dream.
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