Music : Sweet About Me

Rating: - Love, love, love this song!
Barcode: 0602517644724

Take a cute Aussie singer with an amazing voice and pair her with the masters of pop, production house Xenomania of Girls Aloud fame (and also boasting impressive work with Dannii Minogue and of course Cher's 'Believe' in the past too) and you have the perfect package.

Sweet About Me is a genuine gem of a track. Of course Gabriella Cilmi's soulful vocals will draw comparison with the likes of Amy Winehouse but that's really where any similarity ends. In terms of the music, despite being penned by Xenomania, aside from the feisty, flirty ambiguity of the lyrics, it doesn't bare much resemblance to their work with Girls Aloud either.

So, what we have here is something new, fresh, carefree and insanely catchy. From it's subtle twirling of strings and touches of synths in the background to the lovely little guitar breakdown halfway through the song, it's full to the brim with charm and you can't help but fall completely in love with this song and Gabriella herself.

On this CD we get two extra tracks in the form of a snappy cover of Martha & The Muffins' 'Echo Beach' and the beat heavy punch of This Game. Both are fantastic and showcase Gabriella's versatility over a range of styles. A brilliant single all in all and well worth getting your hands on.

[This is CD 1 of a 2 CD set - part 1 being released in March with CD 2 coming out June]

Track Listing:

1. Sweet About Me
2. Echo Beach
3. This Game

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Rating: - This was Great!
Just stumbled on Garbriella Cilmi on itunes and when I heard this song, it just made me want to ing along! Cilmi has a really good voice, strong, perhaps comparable to that of Duffy, but all the more original.
This is a great feel good song, and even without hearing any of her other material, I am contemplating buying her album.

Five Stars *Claps*

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Rating: - Rubbish!
They call this singing??? I call it crap!!! I take it this woman isn`t used to alcohol...just wondering how much she had when she attempted to sing this, probably far too much of whatever. I suppose this actually sounds ok after a night of heavy drinking for anyone to listen to, or maybe dance to before collapsing after throwing up! This IS crap!!!

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Rating: - ..paging the real Gabriella...
The fresh faced Oztralian was signed by Warner Brothers aged 13, and recorded this aged 15. Now, virtually past it at 16, Ms Cilmi is ready to take on the big, bad world of pop. With the help of Xenomania, purveyors of all things Girls Aloud.

Granted, they've lost the plot a bit over the last 18 months or so, but credit where it's due, they've had their finger in some of the finest pop songs of the last few years. This isn't that good, but it's certainly good enough. And if I'd only heard 'Sweet About Me', I'd probably be a lot happier.

Because her cover version of 'Echo Beach' by Martha & The Muffins (recorded for the UK TV show of the same name - Echo Beach that is, not Martha & The Muffins - although why no-one has ever found a baker called Martha and given her a cookery show is beyond me - so called creative types - thick as mince) takes a dreadful song and actually makes it worse. Which is trickier than it sounds.

Ms Cilmi does have a mighty fine voice but as the third track 'This Game' demonstrates, she doesn't seem to have one of her own yet. This could easily be a sampler of three different singers, so varied is her vocal sound. Not surprising given her age, here's hoping she's around long enough to decide who she is.

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Rating: - Best song of 2008 thus far
Just to say this is easily the best new song I have heard this year-sensual,sublime and slightly quirky-not heard any other material by this young lady but this is fantastic!