By which I mean singers who rather than keeping a single note are more greedy and grab every one in the musical cash register.

It was a thought that struck me in the office while Mariah Carey was destroying Without you on the radio. Okay they have vocal tricks which the masses think is good singing, but that only works on the power ballad.

When it comes down the more delicate songs their sledgehammer approach to singing has the trick of crushing the song to pieces. The masses like it, in a way similar to watching car crashes, it's exciting and memorable but for all the wrong reasons. Take the recent example on X factor, the whole overblown production, the gospel kicking in and reducing the meaning of the song in an instant. It was John Cale that got the true beauty of the song right taking Cohen's original, downsizing it and providing the template for the cover versions to come.

The reason the big overblown singers get it so wrong is the emotion needed for these kinds of songs, normally tales of regret, woe but ultimately self retrospection of things gone wrong. Sadly their vocal talents can't handle the concept of introversion and get it so badly wrong and makes the original fans wince or get really mad and start facebook groups!

See the problem with those covers is you only remember them when you hear on the radio and go really mad for 5 minutes then forget them again. I'm trying to remember others of this ilk. Any suggestions?