Song Analysis: Florence And The Machine – You’ve Got The Love
By any chance, do you have access to something called a TV or a radio? The former is something that allows you to watch moving pictures and the latter allows you to hear sound. Either way, if you have either or both of these objects, you’ll have probably heard Florence And The Machine‘s cover You Got The Love of The Source & Candi Station about a million times already (and Channel 4 aren’t helping by playing Dog Days Are Over to an advert for a showing of Slumdog Millionaire…every fifteen minutes). Florence also decided to be a grammar policewoman to correct the title to what it actually should be on her version, the clever clogs.
Whenever a song gets this treatment, you immediately forget all of its good traits and start to wish that you’d never heard of the song in the first place. Recent examples include Shut Up And Let Me Go by The Ting Tings and Use Somebody by Kings Of Leon. This is different though, because this just isn’t a good cover. It’s actually something that borders on repulsive. When you choose to cover a song, it is only ever going to be worthwhile if you make it your own and put your own stamp on it. This fails to do that in every single department – it’s essentially Florence singing over a song that sounds, musically, exactly the same as the original. It’s like Florence singing over the top of one of those terrible pop karaoke CDs you used to buy in Woolworths.
That’s not to say she is a terrible singer – she has proved to me last year at Hyde Park and at Patrick Wolf’s Palladium extravangaza that she can sing – but her songs lack the punch to go with her vocal chords. The media may have the love for Florence’s cover version, but I hate it.
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Posted on January 13th, 2010 by Max
Filed under: Song Analysis, Tracks
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