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Sweet About Me | 
 enlarge | Artist: Gabriella Cilmi
Label: Warner
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 19936
Format: Single, Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 9325583048777
ASIN: B0015HQFF6
Release Date: March 31, 2008
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 This was Great! July 7, 2008
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*
 Rubbish! June 28, 2008
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
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!!!
 ..paging the real Gabriella... April 19, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
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.
Best song of 2008 thus far March 4, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
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!
 Victim to a pigeon-holing industry she ain't... February 25, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
In the increasingly fickle music business, we are always bombarded with all these "hot tips" from the likes of Edith Bowman or *shudders* Fearne and Reggie as to who will arrive in a cloud of hype and millions of record sales in the new year. BBC News' recent Sound of 2008 poll was a disappointment - the tuneless, po-faced Adele came top, followed by the "new Dusty Springfield" Duffy, suggesting to me that this so called new music had become something of all style and no substance and record companies deciding there and then what the trend was and following it like the sheep that they are.
Thankfully, there's a couple of exceptions to every rule. The exception here being part Antipodean part Greek chanteuse Gabriella Cilmi, who's quietly been beavering away on her forthcoming debut album "Lessons To Be Learned" with Girls Aloud hitmakers Xenomania since 2006.
However, whilst the pigeon holing comparisons to Amy Winehouse will be inevitable (and this next sentence is in no way dismissing Amy Winehouse, because she is an equally talented artist herself) but Cilmi is in a musical field of her own. With a voice that radiates a charm well beyond her 16 years of age, "Sweet About Me" is a sneakily fine effort of a debut single - it's catchy without being too repetitively annoying, and the production is one of the most stripped down but elaborate ever seen in a pop song so far this year. Instinct tells me that this will definitely be one to watch out for in the charts over the next few weeks.
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