>>82797057
I actually find this very grating, and I feel similarly about the cover of this that they use in that one petsmart ad. It's not a melody that translates very well to the absence of accompaniment. The original track in Oliver was very upbeat, and the rests are filled in by all kinds of music and sounds from the set. To have it turned almost into a lullaby wherein those little gaps are filled in either with the vocal sustenance of what was initially a clipped and chirpy sound, or with juuust~ a little silence, honestly makes my skin crawl a bit. That damned petsmart ad was already a bastardization of it, but at least having it on-beat with the obnoxiously upbeat corporate claps and guitar strumming contained some element of "oomph." This is even further removed from that warmth and liveliness. You turned it into melted molasses.
Too breathy ,too sweet, too lilting, too airy, too light. Ech.
To be fair, though, smooth is not my vibe at all. I'm not even a fan of that crooning Frank Sinatra-esque stuff everybody gets hard over for some reason, either. The notes somehow don't even feel like they follow from one another and it feels like the whole thing is just a showcase for bro's voice that they added a string accompaniment to afterward.
