in disliking the "John Lewis-ing' of otherwise good songs

[BrendaandEddie]

I am not interested in Xmas adverts AT ALL, but I hate the breathy slow boring rendition of songs ( also in the x factor) which IMO generally ruins the original

Yanbu! We call it the simperizing at chez Wilkerson.

Oh god YANBU!!!!

YANBU. I don't mind them, but they send DH apoplectic

I live not far from the jl call centre, I see lots of rocker/emo types trudging in there, always makes me smile

YANBU.

I fucking hate it. It's the vocal equivalent of bagpipes.

DH went batshit when he heard it last week, and spent the evening twitching every time he thought of it.

I've bought it. Because simpery shite is my thing.

Yes there's another one just now, think it's for Aldi. Faux cockney breathy girl sings classic song and kills it for fans.

Can't remember what the song is. Probably the Buzzcocks or something.

And they all sound like lily Allen.

at one of my bodybalance classes they play a weird breathey version of the proclaimers 500 miles. Its terrible. It completely ruins my zen

Probably the Buzzcocks How very dare they!

God I hate this. It loses all the feeling of the song. A couple of years ago there was a breathy version of power of love by frankie goes to Hollywood. Completely lost the passion and emotion of what is a fantastic song.

The aldi one is from the sound of music, I quite like it. Julie Andrews often used to jam with the buzzcocks

My personal favourite is the simperising of 'you better shape up' from grease.

YANBU!! I also hate the way they seem to think that these songs need 'Mummyising' because women over 30 couldn't possibly enjoy a song by people as hardcore, edgy and subversive as bloody Oasis unless they're set to a plinky plonk folksy nursery rhyme style sanitised back track. It makes me want to poke out my eyeballs.

YANBU, I hate it

Yes, yes, yes! I call it sixth-forming. I always think they sound like some wet blanket from the lower sixth at the school christmas concert.

Yes!! Said this to DH last night. Insipid nonsense.

YANBU. Just awful.

YANBU. I loathe that style of singing. I thought I was the only one!

YANBU. It's completely bamboozles me how people generally seem to think that taking a good song and slowing it down/ singing it in a breathy voice is something wonderful - time and time again. It makes me seethe

Yanbu, its not just the breathy voice either, its when some of them dont do bloody pronunciation.

I am so sad breathes breathily and so i will sing la la la a happy upbeat song lala lala in a sad way to make it seem meaningful

lalalalal

Although not Christmas ad, the Premier Inn ad with Katie Melua murdering Wonderful Life pisses me off big time, and then Lenny fucking Henry walks out ofthe door.

That song was also the theme to the Royle family.

Yes, wonderful life upsets me more because the original brings back lots of memories. I actually don't understand the JL ad. The song says half a world away yet he is clearly on another planet. And why is he there at all?

i refuse to watch them or even engage in talking about their shitness