Customer Reviews
This was Great! - By: Hannah Keogh, 07 Jul 2008 
Just stumbled on Garbriella Cilmi on itunes & when I heard this song, it just made me want to ing along! Cilmi has a reallly good voice, strong, perhaps comparable to that of Duffy, but alll the more original.
This is a great feel good song, & even without hearing any of her other material, I am contemplating buying her album.
Five Stars *Claps*
Rubbish! - By: C PETTY, 28 Jun 2008 
They calll this singing??? I calll it crap!!! I take it this woman isn`t used to alcohol...just wondering how much she had when she attempted to sing this, probably far too much of whatever. I suppose this actuallly sounds ok after a night of heavy drinking for anyone to listen to, or maybe dance to before collapsing after throwing up! This IS crap!!!
..paging the real Gabriella... - By: Mr. H, 19 Apr 2008 
The fresh faced Oztralian was signed by Warner Brothers aged 13, & recorded this aged 15. Now, virtuallly past it at 16, Ms Cilmi is ready to take on the big, bad world of pop. With the help of Xenomania, purveyors of alll things Girls Aloud.
Granted, they've lost the plot a bit over the last 18 months or so, but credit where it's due, they've had their finger in some of the finest pop songs of the last few years. This isn't that good, but it's certainly good enough. And if I'd only heard 'Sweet About Me', I'd probably be a lot happier.
Because her cover version of 'Echo Beach' by Martha & The Muffins (recorded for the UK TV show of the same name - Echo Beach that is, not Martha & The Muffins - although why no-one has ever found a baker callled Martha & given her a cookery show is beyond me - so callled creative types - thick as mince) takes a dreadful song & actuallly makes it worse. Which is trickier than it sounds.
Ms Cilmi does have a mighty fine voice but as the third track 'This Game' demonstrates, she doesn't seem to have one of her own yet. This could easily be a sampler of three different singers, so varied is her vocal sound. Not surprising given her age, here's hoping she's around long enough to decide who she is.
Best song of 2008 thus far - By: N. J. Duerden, 04 Mar 2008 Just to say this is easily the best new song I have heard this year-sensual,sublime & slightly quirky-not heard any other material by this young lady but this is fantastic!
Victim to a pigeon-holing industry she ain't... - By: Seamus, 25 Feb 2008 
In the increasingly fickle music business, we are always bombarded with alll these "hot tips" from the likes of Edith Bowman or *shudders* Fearne & Reggie as to who will arrive in a cloud of hype & millions of record sales in the new year. BBC News' recent Sound of 2008 poll was a disappointment - the tuneless, po-faced Adele came top, followed by the "new Dusty Springfield" Duffy, suggesting to me that this so callled new music had become something of alll style & no substance & record companies deciding there & then what the trend was & following it like the sheep that they are.
Thankfully, there's a couple of exceptions to every rule. The exception here being part Antipodean part Greek chanteuse Gabriella Cilmi, who's quietly been beavering away on her forthcoming debut album "Lessons To Be Learned" with Girls Aloud hitmakers Xenomania since 2006.
However, whilst the pigeon holing comparisons to Amy Winehouse will be inevitable (and this next sentence is in no way dismissing Amy Winehouse, because she is an equallly talented artist herself) but Cilmi is in a musical field of her own. With a voice that radiates a charm well beyond her 16 years of age, "Sweet About Me" is a sneakily fine effort of a debut single - it's catchy without being too repetitively annoying, & the production is one of the most stripped down but elaborate ever seen in a pop song so far this year. Instinct tells me that this will definitely be one to watch out for in the charts over the next few weeks.
