Elena Jane covers Elton John

Ellie Goulding has covered an Elton John song. Your Song, to be precise. And it's the soundtrack to John Lewis's Christmas advertising campaign.


Awwww, brings a tear to the eye, doesn't it?

Now, I'm not a marketing executive with a fancy degree but I'd say that the audience for Ellie Goulding and John Lewis cross over by 100%. That's 110% in X Factor money.

To prove it, I just wrote down five phrases off the top of my head to describe both institutions (it's a laugh a minute round here). Here's what I came up with:

JOHN	ELLIE
Guaranteed quality	Guaranteed quality
A bit posh	A bit posh
Reassuring presence on the high street	Reassuring presence in the charts
Slightly stuffy	Slightly stuffy nose
Never knowingly undersold	Hot in an older sister kind of way

See what I mean? I bet Ellie would even let you sleep at her house during a blizzard, like one branch of John Lewis did last year. You wouldn't get that sort of Christmas spirit from Eliza "Scrooge" Doolittle or Cheryl "lump of" Cole. Tinie Tempah might give you some eggnog, though.

Anyway, Ellie has done a proper video for her single. There's not much to it - just some faded Super 8 scenes of the Hereford singer and her mates mucking about near a waterfall - but it's quite sweet. Here you go:

Ellie Goulding - Your Song

Anyone who's heard the vastly superior acoustic version of Ellie's album track Wish I'd Stayed must be hoping that her second album takes the same path as the above Elton cover. I wouldn't object myself, to be quite honest.

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Dwight and Germanotta

It might sound like a gardening company, but it's actually the combustive combination of Sir Elton and Lady G, performing together at the Grammys.

Advice: Skip Poker Face and the irritating ringmaster twerp and head straight for the good bit at 3'20".



Is it just me, or at 4'30" does GaGa look directly at Sir Elton and sing "Oh, Fred, you've left me speechless"?

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Mouthing Off

The Chinese Government are taking Elton John's tirade against lip-synching to heart.

Government advisers will meet in Beijing this week to decide whether to criminalise the act of miming to a backing track.

A penalty for the crime has yet to be decided, but given China's human rights record let's hope they don't take Elton's advice that "anyone who lip-synchs on stage when you pay £75 to see them should be shot," too literally.

Boston.com: Chinese adviser urges lip synching ban

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