FRIDAY FEEDBACK: PAUL POTTS
Apparently, beautiful voices don't require beautiful teeth
This week's Friday Feedback track is:
I thought I was too jaded to be truly moved by any talent discovered on reality television.
During the last season of American Idol, for example, winner Jordin Sparks had a spectacular voice. But I am looking forward to her new CD in the same way that I look forward to the security at TJ Maxx handcuffing me while they remove from my colon the plastic colander that I tried to sneak out the store.
However, I have to confess that when I watched the video below, I was nearly moved to tears. No lie.
Paul Potts is a cell phone salesman in the UK. He looks like he could be Britain's version of William Hung. But then he sings ...
... and I'm suddenly a few seconds from buying his new album. Keep in mind that I'm hardly an opera fan.
The divShare track I uploaded is from his debut CD. It's his cover of R.E.M.'s "Everybody Hurts," sung in a language that is one of the romance languages: probably Latin or Italian, or maybe Balsamic, and possibly Thousand Island.
The US version of his album also contains two Christmas tunes because apparently opera singers can't move discs here without singing about Jesus Christ Round yon Virgins, which still sounds blasphemous to me.
Anyway, what do you think? Do I need to up my meds for even suggesting that Paul Potts sings better than Pavarotti?
(Credit: Banamrs)
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