Saturday Flashback: Shontelle – Impossible

“Beats listening to a tramp wailing into a microphone.”

Tim: James Arthur, winner of The X Factor 2012, released a cover of this as his winner’s single, but we really needn’t go any further with that one.

Tom: Because of the Curse?

Tim: There is that, but there’s also the fact that it’s just bloody awful. Fortunately, this is quite good instead.

Tim: Isn’t it? Yes, you spend the first chorus hoping it’ll eventually get somewhere, but then when the second chorus comes along and it does get somewhere it’s really quite nice to listen to; it sure as hell beats listening to a tramp wailing into a microphone for three and a half minutes.

Tom: A Cursed Tramp, no less.

Tim: Well, quite.

Tom: You’re right, though: this track takes a while to get there – and there’d be an argument to say that first verse and chorus is a bit superfluous – but when it does finally arrive it’s been worth the journey.

Tim: Outside the UK, where she’s had two hits, she’s largely a one-hit wonder (or, given her first album’s title of Shontelligence, a Shone-hit wonder, HAHAHA), which I suppose isn’t much of a shame, as far as we’re concerned, as there are plenty of people like her, but this is a perfectly decent record and worthy of being listened to at least a couple of times.

And if you’re wondering, yes, I did bring up the success of her career purely to make that Shone-hit wonder ‘joke’.

Tom: I thought you might have.