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Jahméne Douglas: Love Never Fails – review
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/jul/18/jahmene-douglas-love-never-fails-review
Jul 18th 2013, 21:37
(RCA)Say what you like about this thoroughly dispiriting corporate commodity, you cannot deny its production values. It may be entirely comprised of covers, from the predictable (Emeli Sandé's Next to Me) to the dull (Beyoncé's Halo) to the sacrilegious (Bob Dylan's Forever Young). Douglas, the runner-up on last year's X Factor, may deliver each number in the technically proficient, emotionally vapid style that only highlights the gap between copy and original. The mood may be one of religious ecstacy, something not only inauthentic but unconvincing when repeated consistently across an album. There may be harps, harpsichords, and even – which hurts most of all – a hack piece of harmonica from Stevie Wonder, which is so pointed a reminder of what this album is entirely not that it almost feels compulsory to laugh. This album may be all of these things, but seeing as someone has stumped up the requisite dosh to get a proper engineer in, it all sounds very expensive.Rating: 1/5Pop and rockUrban musicThe X FactorTelevisionEntertainmentPaul MacInnes
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