That is very irritating. I agree. It's one of those songs that many people might think "Ooh, it's acoustic and yet sort of rockin and catchy and she's foreign so this is breaking new ground" but then you realize that it's really irritating and was probably written to be used in commercials, which it is. Lots of them. Wal-Mart or Target, I think.
It's the Four Non-Blondes' "What's Going On" of it's day.
Is the guy who takes over from the child on Kars 4 Kids trying to sound like Johnny Cash? I sincerely hope not. He's making an almighty pig's ear of it if he is.
It's nowhere near as annoying as this KT Tunstall song, which makes me want to punch a wall every time I hear it. But generally KT Tunstall can piss off, she's awful.
Deep Blue Something - Breakfast At Tiffany's
I heard this on the radio this morning. I thought I had erased it from my mind but all the bad feeling came back like a bitter lump of vomit into your mouth.
Proof that time can heal old wounds, though, is that songs from the 70s that had my teenage head smashing against walls to drive them out, now have the tang of nostalgia about them:
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