Ellie
Goulding
Your Song
Polydor Records
The latest single from singer/songwriter Ellie Goulding is a
reworking of Elton John’s classic 1970s hit, Your Song. It comes from her latest album Bright Lights, which is a special
edition version of her chart topping debut, Lights.
The beauty is in the simplicity of this song, with Ellie’s
soft and sultry vocals tunefully accompanying the backing piano and strings. She manages to make this classic song her own,
Ellie portrays so much emotion through her voice, and along with Elton John’s
lyrics it manages to both raise a smile and pull the heart strings.
Your Song is being
by the department store John Lewis as the backing music for their 2010
Christmas Adverts. The last time John Lewis used a famous British singer to
cover an old song for an emotive advert was Billy Joel's She's Always A Women, covered by Fyfe Dangerfield. That reached
No.7 in the charts, while the advert was viewed over 570,000 times on Youtube.
Therefore it’s not surprising that, with the combination of
Ellie’s beautiful voice and the regular TV airtime, Your
Song has already been tipped for
Christmas number 1 by the UK Press. That’s obviously ignoring who-ever wins the
X Factor and their “Winner’s song” but its miles better than any auto-tuned X
Factor reject anyway. Because by
covering this moving rendition of a classic, Ellie has struck Gould...Superb.
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