Still as fun, albeit with a touch more skunk mania involved. Initially a throwaway cheese-pop frippery of a duet with Kiki Dee from 1976, Q-Tip and Lovato retain the playful pop tone while transposing it into hazy reggae funk. Q-Tip featuring Demi Lovato вЂ“ вЂDonвЂ™t Go Breaking My HeartвЂ™ More famously known as вЂfeaturing Mary J BligeвЂ™, the queen of soul-hop sounds like sheвЂ™s turned up assuming sheвЂ™s just featuring on someone elseвЂ™s cover of EltonвЂ™s 1976 big ballad and dutifully adds all the backing trills and filler beats, presumably expecting someone else to be providing the actual song bit. Mary J Blige вЂ“ вЂSorry Seems To Be The Hardest WordвЂ™ Do yourself a favour, skip straight to the mildly psychedelic last 45 seconds. In the end it seemed, as usual, they had a listen to what Coldplay were doing on вЂWe All Fall In Love SometimesвЂ™ and then did a more farmery version. Stonking hoedown or yokel folk Coldplay, there isnвЂ™t a good result here for EltonвЂ™s 1975 ballad.

Mumford & Sons вЂ“ вЂSomeone Saved My Life TonightвЂ™Д¬hrist on a posh blokeвЂ™s tractor, this has got to be the worst idea since Brexit. Bolstered by operatic backing vocals rather than any of FlorenceвЂ™s trademark jugular gymnastics вЂ“ at least until its predictably over-wrought finale вЂ“ вЂTiny DancerвЂ™ lives to twirl another day. Honestly, you go into this track wincing like a nervous dental patient, waiting for the whole thing to be mashed up and warbled into an incoherent mush by FloвЂ™s titanic tonsils. вЂњUm,вЂќ stuttered a flustered workie, вЂњFlorence Welsh?вЂќ said a flustered workie. вЂњWho can we trust to sensitively handle one of EltonвЂ™s most delicate melodies with moderation and grace?вЂќ someone must have asked. And my, does he bollock it up, turning this fundamentally tragic Marilyn Monroe tribute into a semi-jaunty country folk nonentity that contains about as much pathos as a tub of soggy Pringles. Being signed to EltonвЂ™s management company, no doubt Sheeran was front of the queue when they were handing out Elton classics, and nabbed the Big One.

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