Three star

THERE IS nothing fundamentally wrong with this album. Give anyone with half a voice this selection of classics to belt out and you'd have reason to turn off the TV and join in.

What a bunch of singalong favourites! How could Adam go wrong with Elton's Your Song, Van's Have I Told You Lately and show-stoppers Bring Him Home and Tell Me?

Adam has a strong voice but is it different enough to maintain our interest beyond the festive season? At the moment, people will buy this CD on the strength of his winning Scary Spice's TV fame show, but I am beginning to regard these discovery shows rather like Christmas turkey - I've had enough and I don't want to see any more.

What started with Esther Rantzen's Sheena Easton internally combusted with Pop Stars' Hear'say, and has now reached explosion point. The music market is bursting with enough talent without going out to find it just to make compulsive television.

If Adam had made this tuneful CD on the back of being discovered in local pantomime, I would praise it to the hilt, but I feel dragged down by the commercialism that made it possible. So I can't.

SCC