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Delilah's new single “Love You So” follows soon after the release of her moderately successful debut single “Go”. Although marketed as a single, the CD is much closer to an EP, with a total of five tracks including remixes.
Sounding a bit like the Sucker Punch soundtrack would if it was a bit cheerier, and not all done to haunting melody, Delilah's new single is unfortunately a bit of a let down. Although she has a very good voice, the lyrics lack a lot of meaning, and the song feels very repetitive. This is especially noticeable at the chorus, which is simply a relentless repetition of “you know I love you so”. Although the track isn't bad, nor is it very good, and in instances other than reviewing it, I would likely skip it as soon as I recognised it.
The second track is a classic b-side – a bit of a nothing, merely thrown-in to try and fill up the CD. Totally forget-worthy. However, I was very pleasantly surprised by the third track, “Mean to Me.” Sounding for all the world like an Adele-inspired track, it features Delilah singing to a piano backing, which emphasises the lovely tilt in her voice. Although the lyrics leave a little to be desired, they are not especially lacking, and the brilliant vocals make up for this. I cannot possibly understand why this track would be a b-side, as it much better than the preceding tracks.
The remixes of “Love You So” share much of the same problems as the original. However, they also have totally changed the song, removing the melody and managing to make it worse. This is especially noticeable in the Lenzman remix, which speeds up a very slow song, and throws in a large amount of unnecessary drum machine.
I think it's somewhat telling, that before hearing the third track on the EP, I had already decided that this CD was a two-out-of-five. However, that one track was able to pull it up a full rating. Upon hearing the remixes, I was hard pressed not to pull it down again, but instead decided to grade the albums in parts. It's unfortunate, that the albums sound changes so much I need to do this, and is a major deterrent to one such as I.
Kyle Martin
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