Why anyone would opt for that irritating twat's version
when the original is such a great record, I genuinely cannot understand at all. Florence's is at best a passable pastiche. I saw her on 'Jools' (sic) Holland once and she oversings almost as badly as Foghorn Leghorn-alike and male impersonator Heather Small.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 11:21, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

I'm about to make myself look even gayer than normal
but I saw Mika cover that song live at Glastonbury and he actually did a belting job of it
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 11:24, Reply)

I'll be that backstage after the show
he did a belting job on you too. In a 'Mark Oaten' way.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 11:28, Reply)

WELL I LIKE HER VERSION TOO.
*blows raspberry*
( girlinthehole, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 11:25, Reply)

I've seen her perform several times live
and she doesn't, she sings beautifully.

I say again, the fact that you don't like it doesn't make it bad.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 11:31, Reply)

But we're saying that it's pointless
it's a good song, covered by a reasonably good singer, but it's not as good as the original. What makes it pointless is taking a song and covering it identically, but not as well.

If you are going to cover a song then you really have two choices. Do what she did, but don't release it as a single and go around singing it on every single fucking stage at Glastonbury, and accept that you are merely paying tribute to a better version, or do something really different with it.

As I've said, I think her own songs are good and if "You got the love" was just a song she liked chucking into her live set, then fine, but the fact that she whored it around the radio as if she had brought something new and different made me want to punch her face.

She is a good singer, but she is not as good a singer as Candi Staton, she has too much vibrato and it's distracting.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 11:40, Reply)

I still think it's different.
Because my opinion is that the lyrics of the song suggest it is meant to be sadder than the original, and I think she conveys that. And all of what you have said above is completely fair, but it is your opinion, not fact. It wouldn't matter if you were the world's most respected record producer, it would still be opinion, because once you're past technical ability (and I presume you aren't suggesting the woman can't hold a tune?) everything in music is subjective.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 11:52, Reply)