ON the plus side, ...Allow Us To Be Frank is handsomely presented.
Westlife scrub up well and fans will cherish the dashing Fifties-style photos. Also, the album is well orchestrated and the entire project has been expertly fashioned. Being horribly patronising, a younger audience not old enough to know better could see this album as a revelation. Moon River, Mack The Knife and The Way You Look Tonight are great songs. Many pop acts have released superlative jazz and swing albums. Natalie Cole, Linda Ronstadt, Sheena Easton, Rod Stewart and Aaron Neville have collections to treasure and Robbie William's did it his way, with panache & style. But Westlife over-stretch themselves outrageously. Fly Me To The Moon, I Left My Heart In San Francisco and Charlie Chaplin's Smile interpreted by Westlife is akin to Eminem playing Shylock. It just shouldn't happen.
Updated: 09:02 Thursday, November 25, 2004
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