Music

by

Michael Ball

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Sugar, no spice, just pathetic. Ball is no doubt a 'competent', even 'talented' singer but displays no soul whatsoever on these songs. Great interpretative singers make other people's songs their own, but not Michael Ball. You just think as the CD plays that the originals are so far and away superior that this you wonder why you're wasting your time. Sad to say, but this attempt is nothing more than a money-trawl through the crowds of middle-aged women or those seduced by those oh-so-artistic west end musicals. It has nothing to do with real music or real art. Even if you accept that and insist on the merits of easy-lstenting, there's a load of alternatives out there than wipe the floor with this rubbish. Buy, then bin. Better still, don't buy.