Claire Sweeney is a very popular young lady, and it's easy enough to see why. After spending several thankless years ago as the long-suffering Lindsey from Brookside, the bubbly Liverpudlian is now a West End singer, bra model and officially the only person ever to leave the Big Brother house with their dignity intact. What she is not, however is a pop star and, on the evidence of this fairly dreadful album of covers, she shouldn't even bother trying. The sad truth is that while her voice is pleasant, if unremarkable, the choice of material here is little short of disastrous - old standards as The Doors' 'Light My Fire' and Noel Coward's 'Someday I'll Find You' really cry out for the full-blown diva treatment, and Sweeney is essentially a girl-next-door type who sounds way out of her depth here. A woefully misguided project - best, and easily, forgotten.

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