Album Review: Various - The Best Man Holiday Original Soundtrack

8 December 2013 | 1:35 pm | Lorin Reid

O Holy Night doesn’t quite hit hard enough, sung in unsteady strains by youngsters Jayda Brown and Jasmine Watkins, but Emeli Sandé’s humble Winter Wonderland is near on perfect and Mary J. Blige can sing the crap out of anything.

Despite the pop-R&B cheese of Jordin Sparks, this soulful Christmas compilation features some impressive gems like John Legend's Shelter and a beautiful version of Stevie Wonder's As sung in a slow duet by Marsha Ambrosius and Anthony Hamilton. R. Kelly's Christmas I'll Be Steppin' is a hilarious stab at an original club carol and O Holy Night doesn't quite hit hard enough, sung in unsteady strains by youngsters Jayda Brown and Jasmine Watkins, but Emeli Sandé's humble Winter Wonderland is near on perfect and Mary J. Blige can sing the crap out of anything.