A festive survivor to determine the best and worst singles for John Lewis ads over the years.

The previous round has seen the following song eliminated;

2013: Lily Allen – Somewhere Only We Know

Set to a cover of Keane's "Somewhere Only We Know" by British singer Lily Allen, the 2013 campaign featured an array of woodland animals in a classical Disney style and setting. The full advert lasted 2 minutes, and was made with 2D animation. It told the story of a bear hibernating before Christmas, before being persuaded to wake up by the titular hare to see Christmas in all its splendour. The accompanying music quickly rose to the top of the UK Singles Chart, doing so twice more in later weeks. A portion of the song's sales earnings were donated to Save the Children's Philippine Typhoon Appeal campaign.

2009: Taken By Trees – Sweet Child o' Mine
2010: Ellie Goulding – Your Song
2011: Slow Moving Millie – Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want
2012: Gabrielle Aplin – The Power Of Love
2013: Lily Allen – Somewhere Only We Know
2014: Tom Odell – Real Love
2015: Aurora – Half The World Away
2016: Vaults – One Day I'll Fly Away
2017: Elbow – Golden Slumbers
2018: Elton John – Your Song
2019: Bastille – Can't Fight This Feeling
2020: Celeste – A Little Love
2021: Lola Young – Together In Electric Dreams
2022: Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox feat. Puddles Pity Party – All The Small Things
2023: Andrea Bocelli – Festa
2024: Richard Ashcroft – Sonnet

Here is a Spotify playlist to assist you;



You have around 48 hours for this round before the next round begins. One more song will be eliminated. Please select your least favourite song from the list above. ^_^

Sorry for the delays in getting this next round up.

Celeste.

Daphne & Celeste

Ughhhh, I really don't like any of these :lol:

 

It's like choosing which blunt instrument to be hit round the head with.

Probably Ellie Goulding now, it's definitely the one I'm least likely to listen to.

Celeste

Also gone for Celeste.

 

Also just want to say that though the thread said 48 hours, I will actually be putting up the next round at the end of the day tomorrow so that we can complete this by Christmas as I missed a few days this week of updating this.

Switching to Ellie G

Aurora.

Pleased Lily and Tom didn't win this, not sure what makes people think these are better than the others, both awfully bland and the former particularly so when you have the original.

 

Aurora to go next x

Welp this has started to go terribly - Lily should not be out yet. Celeste must go

A Little Love

Ughhhh, I really don't like any of these :lol:

 

It's like choosing which blunt instrument to be hit round the head with.

Agreed. It’s a real shame one of them has to win. :lol:

 

Went for Gabrielle though - I must have missed the memo about that apparently being well regarded.

Gabrielle's is my clear fave here so happy for it to win and I also much prefer it to the original too :ph34r: (am a fan of the other two Frankie hits though).

Gabrielle