The Emperors new clothes

[Paul]

Anyone remember this story? The one where the Emperor is convinced that he is getting a great new suit of clothes in the finest silks only to find that in the great procession he is actually naked but no one will speak out for fear of looking foolish or unsupportive? Then one young child shouts out in the crowd "The King hasn't got any clothes on!"

Lets not kid ourselves any longer. SLG is a C...O...V...E...R. It's not some great re-interpretation, some wonderful vision seen through the eyes of an imaginary girl in the song. It's a nice sounding cover of an old Stranglers song. I'm betting that the rest of the songs will be pretty much the same.

I've read too many threads in here today that are spouting all kinds of pseudo intellectual crap about what a wonderful concept this is, how she "owns" the song, how she is so wonderfully insightful and takes on the "role" of the character blah, blah, blah.... It sounds like a lot of desperate attempts to find something that really is not there but because you've been told that it's there you have to see it. Take the blinkers off and accept that this is going to be an album of nice covers of songs written by men. Enjoy them for what they are and quit trying to superimpose some higher artistic conceptual image over it because, quite frankly, on the evidence of this song it's just not there.

For the record, I like the song, but I prefer the original by far.