I can't understand dem' British peeps lol.
She has a pretty damned good voice. Paired with the fact that she didn't sing some stupid-ass pop song makes me happy. Some of those show tunes are really good music, tbh. Back in the day where it actually had to be good music to get really famous.
Why is that? Because there was no music video, there was no MTV, there was just the music. That's all people judged it on. That's why.