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  • you make it sound so easy

  • I'm playing your cover on my radio show tonight.. I hope you don't mind! You're brilliant!

  • if i didnt have a youtube account i would make one just to tell you that you have an amazing voice this is a wonderful cover great job babe

  • Marry me.

  • @petebj123 Don't marry him, marry me.

    

  • Sublime!

  • i have listened to the original song so many times. this.... is beautiful. say what you may about your sound equipment, but i feel it makes i haunting and beautiful. Amazing job! SUCH a pretty voice :) willl deff show to my friends and rewatch:)

  • I bet the Mozz hit the like button.

  • erinmerle, take me out tonight where there's music and there's people and they're young and alive. :)

  • beautiful :)

  • WOW Beatuiful voice and interpretation! I love it.

  • What a beautiful, soulful interpretation. I envision her version in a movie soundtrack.

    Beautiful young lady as well...

  • beautiful version...

  • i'm fallin' love with you.....

  • wow !

  • your voice is incredible! :D

  • amazing very beautiful fantastic!

  • Will you marry me?

  • beautiful!

    

  • i love your voice. Please do that recording in better quality

  • whoa!

    Great voice and spirit, you made it right away to my favorites!

    I'd love to listen to it again with a proper sound.

  • this is fantastic...there are countless shitty smiths covers that i have been sifting through and this is the first one that is actually good. you should definitely record a version in higher quality

  • you sing like a angel sweetheart,god bless you.

  • oh, I have just been dumped by much loved girl, so be able to listen to music like this as well as knowing that there are girls like you out there makes me confident that everything will turn out alright!

  • brilliant.

  • Smoldering... and tragic... and beautiful.

  • you made me fall in love!! <3

  • wow you are also almost as pretty a girl as morrissey is a boy

  • WOW

    Thats all...

  • I'm really pernickity about covers of this song as i love it so much but this is truly beautiful, well done! And please ignore all the negative comments, they're idiots who are seeing a completely different person than the one in front of them. xx

  • what can i say? just watched this vid and reel around the fountain.

    beautiful covers of beautiful songs. surely beautiful erin.

  • You're very talented, and this is a great interpretation.

  • I have no idea how someone could call you "horse face". That's ridiculous... You're gorgeous! The song is fantastic, too. Keep singing; everyone in their right mind loves it.

  • You just turned my light out! Simply unreal, thank you

  • nice song choice,you did it credit

  • Best cover I have heard of this song. Your voice is beautiful, and you play well. No idea why you get negative comments - ignore them! And keep it up, I love your music taste :)

  • Simply GREAT!

    This is what a real cover is about!

    The very same soul inside of a quite different body!

    Congratulations :-)

  • To die by erin's version, is such a heavenly way to die.

  • Once again here to hear this beautiful version....love you for this!!!

  • this is my favorite cover of any single song in the entire world of music, i found it two years ago in the winter and ive watched it so many times ever since.

  • this is amazing! even morrissey himself would be very impressed. =)

  • Very nice cover. I love the piano. Cheers :)

  • u totally ruined the melody,thanx

  • this is absolutely beautiful, i listen to this version so often. Its compelling. I know the original well, and have heard dozens of covers of it. Yours is in my opinion the most amazing. lovely.

  • @4feetable

    shes good

    agree (=

    but nothing beats down NOELS cover !

  • you are the perfect girl for me (:

    haha beautifull voice, beautifull eyes, you play piano (: and I think you like the smiths

  • Brilliant - Just listened to it 3 times in a row

  • @StuartBroomfield You guys are really kind. Thanks <3

  • Why are you not famous yet? You're gorgeous and have the voice of an angel. Please make a record so I can buy it. Thanks much <3

  • you are a lovely human being

  • wow if that is the face of a horse ........call me a horse fancyer........glad some youth still love the smiths ......voice beautiful ....face beautiful.....well deserving of a sugar cube

  • record this with something that has better sound quality. its amazing

  • You are beautiful

  • I like it, the song is awesome, and your version is very nice, really!

  • This is brilliant! Ignore every prick that says otherwise.

  • Goodness you're beautiful!

  • excellent

  • want on ipod O______o

  • brilliant.

    

  • C.O.O.L. i love what you did with this!!! i love covers which do something different and add their own spice/emotion to the song! it's beautiful!! keep doing what you do erin!

  • I thought you put very much feeling into this song! You have thousands of views.. But I feel it! Very well done! Thank you and god bless! :)

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  • Really really beautiful. Have you ever heard David Ford's cover of this song? It's also excellent, although I think I might prefer yours.

  • Amazing cover!!!

  • now THIS is a cover...cheers!

  • Really nice, I'm impressed

  • aw, this is such a great cover. you're lovely!

  • agreed, you are a beauty - not only in voice but in soul I'm sure as well. Good job. Enjoyed this.

  • You've done a really good job on this. Excellent! You'd enjoy music by Tori Amos (I suspect you already do :D )

    Greetz from England

  • i love your voice

  • Wow, again, I'm just drawn to listening to this melody you came up with. You stayed true to the original, but definitely made it your own. I don't think people realize how genious this is. It's going beyond perfection. That is nearly impossible to do. Morrissey is a master craftsmen with vocal melody and you are master class yourself on this one. I also really like the fact you didn't look into the camera. I think you should now cover "I Know Its Over" or "Asleep"

  • Erin - Ireland

    Very nice cover. If anyone doesn't like it - they are a nutter.

  • @er4smiths Thanks! Yes, my Irish great-great auntie named me. I don't mind if someone doesn't like this cover but of course I'm hurt when people attack me personally. Someone called me "horse face" once! Leave me alone I was only singing!

  • @erinmerle i think your beautiful.

  • @erinmerle Horse face? Wow. i was actually about to propose....i think you're a bit beautiful. Also, great cover and a superb voice, it's almost haunting.

    Good job.

  • @erinmerle "Horse Face"? Really!? You're beautiful and so is your voice...I hate how the internet gives scum a voice.

  • @erinmerle Horse face?!?!?!? Really??? You are beautiful and so is your voice. 9 out of 10 you tube comments is from a certified douchebag. Don't take any of it personally. If it gets to you listen to Damien Dempsey's "Negative Vibes". Keep doing what you're doing, it's beautiful.

  • @erinmerle oh c'mon don't listen to to those foolish people

    you are great,you look good and you sing AMAZING !!!!

    i love your voice and your singing, thanks for a very extraordinary cover!

    by the way i first found this because of the movie "500 days of summer"....

  • Absolutely amazing!!!! Ive listened to this about 100 times!

  • ahhh I love this :) x

  • You brought my balls under the desk... but you're nice :P

  • eh it's ok.

  • PEACE AND LOVE

  • fantastica....

  • You have a beautiful voice, dont listen to the wankers with weak criticisms, you created your own thing with this cover. And yes Morrissey was both a genius and totally campy ;)

  • @erinmerle this doesn't matter in this context though, because you clearly are no morrisseyfan, and so you have sloughtered this song. you are like an atheist singin a psalm, it doent matter to you, and therefor you should not violate it the way that you do.

  • Erin, just wonderful.

  • Just an excellent cover.

  • Luv

    

  • UP the volume in your mic, because I'm loving your voice.

  • I've been in love with The Smiths for a few months now, but never looked up any covers until last night. I found yours this morning and I just adore it. You should sing more of them, you can really feel it.

  • Have the lights gone out on your career?

  • I love the tone of this song. I feel it's much darker than the original, and I love how it lights up during the chorus. The way you did the chord progressions ... liked it a lot :)

  • i love your cover its awesome wish i could sing =( like you but in a guy version cause am a guy =) but yes love your cover thanks for sharing your voice =)

  • simply wonderful....ViVa Morrissey....Viva The Smiths~

  • I like your voice. Dont worry about what this guys are saying. You did it fine in my opinion. I really like what u did here. You did this song so sad :(

    Anyways keep at it! :P

  • I do think you should do another version. Your voice is so beautiful and like said before you keep the essence of this song but make it your own. I love it. I've listened to it several times tonight. I would love to hear more from you.

  • If you've recorded a better audio version since you uploaded this, I'd definitely be interested in having a copy. You have a beautiful voice, especially for this song, and I was even more amazed when I noticed that you were playing the piano simultaneously (thought somebody else in the room was playing). Keep it up :) .

  • i wanna bust a nut on your face

  • This is fantastic.

  • This is beautiful.

  • This is how I want to hear this song at times.....Thank you for the rendition. I got it! ;o)

  • this is so good!

  • @american11asshole And you far surpass the claims of your moniker. I honestly didn't know the full extent of the stigma attached to my gender, my choice of instrument and my competence as a singer until I made this video.

    If you think there's nothing "cheesy" or "emo like" (tragicomic or camp) about Morrissey then I wonder what it is you think he's doing.

  • @erinmerle I had a few drinks before posting that. Point was there's better covers on here, and you made it bland and depressing.

  • @erinmerle nice comeback. great cover, by the way

  • @erinmerle and yet again "If you think there's nothing "cheesy" or "emo like" (tragicomic or camp) about Morrissey then I wonder what it is you think he's doing." . = you are no fan. the fact that he is world famous and you are not is the fine line between being "cheezy and emo" and being a god. call uss brainwached but only if you call all people with belife so to. besides, if you think they are brainwached, why cover a morrissey-song. you state you have no insight in morrissey what so ever.

  • @IStehSHIT I've been a Smiths fan for 12 years. I think Moz is an outstanding writer and very honest. Few songwriters capture the human condition like he does. In a moment we are both self depreciating and vain, gorgeously tragic and clownishly ridiculous.

    I don't think I called anyone here brainwashed. That said, you do not need to profess a pseudo-religious devotion to Morrissey in order to enjoy his music or to have an opinion about this cover. It makes you sound like a bit of a nutter.

  • @erinmerle Big ups on top comment homey.

  • Just a gorgeous cover. I love the way you retain the basic essence and mood of the original, but still give it your own spin, somehow making it more sweet and melodic. A double-decker bus crash never seemed more appealing !

  • very good mega!

  • wow sei bellissima

  • Nice cover! Had you checked my out yet?

  • I love your voice

  • Beautiful playing beautiful voice brilliant

  • There's a tear running towards my eye...thank you.

  • Beautiful. I'm going to have to cover you covering the Smiths.

  • I have just come across your video and I think its fantastic. I am a massive smiths fan and have heard many covers but this is haunting. Why haven't you been discovered the sound is beautiful.

  • Hey Erin, do you have a boyfriend??? I'd do anything for you! I mean it.

  • You are so lovely. This song is literally a beautiful fusion of my love of minimal electric sounds like portishead and The Smiths.

    I would pay to see and hear you play.

  • How could anyone honestly dislike this? Like I get that there are Smiths purists, but this beautiful. Much better than Noel Gallagher's. And The Smiths are my favorite band, and even I KNOW that this is perfection, just like the original.

  • I love the piano to this..Oh and you sing great too.

  • amazing face

  • marry me right now

  • I never get tired of this. So good!

  • Beautiful. When are you recording a better quality version?

  • class an ur fit

  • this is so good

  • You're absolutely beautiful, and this cover is amazing.!(:

  • This is amazing. By the way, we're getting married! ~lol~ J/k

  • marry me. this week end!!

  • I've spent the last hour surfing many versions of this song. I'm so enchanted by your voice... Please play my funeral - I'd love to have my friends hear this song as I'm lowered into the ground; (it'll be a closed casket affair I'm sure... IED's have a way of doing that) Alas,  I don't know when my funeral will be, but hopefully you'll be around when it happens... I'll promise some Guiness and air fare..... (P.S. can you cover New Order, Depeche Mode, Ramstein, and some Talking heads?)

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  • beautiful :O

    that pretty much sums it up in one word. <3

  • you have such a beautyful voice i love it Thank You

  • you have such a beautyful voice i love it Thank You

  • You Have Such A Beautyful Voice It's Amazing Thanks upload more please

  • Your vibrato is so unique and lovely to me.

  • snore.

  • This version completely captured my mind. I needed to turn off my monitor and just listen!

  • Well...If I wouldn´t view Morrissey as a god, I would say that this is the best version I´ve heard of this song. xD But it sure is the second best. You really seem to put yourself into it.

  • I cry every time I hear you sing this song. I got the song tattooed years ago and i always get asked about it. :)

  • Lovely

  • Wow...usually when I hear a cover, I can't help but make comparisons to the original. But all I could think about when watching you perform this was what an amazing song it is, and how powerful the lyrics are. Thank you for the amazing interpretation.

    Oh, and I love the reverb. Sounds very lush. I think I have a new crush :)

  • NICE!

  • you are amazing, definitely on of a kind!!!! this sent chill down my spine!!

    a dialog with you would be awesome!

    thank you for sharing!

    much Light and love to you!

  • Hi i love the smiths, i was born in the same hospital as morrissey and know all the places he connected to his songs. i usually hate any covers of their songs. you did a good job. and you have a lovely tone to your voice. well done.

  • awesome cover, haunting and beautiful. really shows how emotional this song is. plus, you're hot.

  • nice cover...nice voice :)

  • This is amazing like you :)

  • by far the best cover i've heard of this song. i love your piano playing and you voice is heavenly

  • This may sound strange, but after the song was finished it was like I could still hear you singing, very very softly. It was very strange to experience, but your cover was superb !

  • Wow, I've heard many versions and covers of this song but you seem to have some connection with it that I generally don't see.

    If I may be so bold, may I ask what that connection might be?

  • @phillyblizzard Thanks! That's a very interesting question. Partly it's that I found the Smiths through Jeff Buckley who I admired very much, especially when I was quite young. Buckley seemed to have a knack for covering really good songs of all genres and bringing something new to them (Hallelujah is the famous example). I try to do that when I do covers. I try. Not everyone likes the liberties I take. Some people think covers are lame. I play the songs that mean so much to me because I can.

  • @erinmerle Jeff Buckley would be probably be the best artist out there if he'd be alive ! Good cover btw!

  • @erinmerle what morrissey did, and what did him great is that he mixed philosofy and aestetics.. but might it be so that you dont lable yourself a thinker and this is why you just dont care?

  • @IStehSHIT Your vague and improperly used abstract language has me shaking in my boots! FYI aesthetics is a branch of philosophy. There is a difference between "aesthetics" and being an "aesthete" in the Oscar Wilde sense.

  • cantas bien ..pero aqui tienes que tener la actitud de que alguien te ha hecho enojar mucho y eso se tiene que notar en tus ojos....no le dejes todo el trabajo a tu voz.....

  • wow this is soo soooo good i like it soo much who ever you are where ever you are - youre just great!!!

  • best cover of this song on all of youtubes

  • in your voice, I fell lonelyness, emptyness, so cold inside, so blue, in a long and cold winter of heart...

    Very beauty interpretation, thank you.

  • You're voice is something else!

    You seriously need to get out there and get noticed. You have the voice and talent to go far!

  • erinmerie,despite the sound quality this is an excellent cover!

  • very beautiful 

  • great motely crue cover... simply beatiful . 

  • great cover of a grat motley crue song... beautiful. simply sttunning.

  • @haaaarvey Motley Crue? It's the SMITHS.

  • LOVED it (:

  • I first heard you on YouTube last night having decided to check out your cover of Reel Around The Fountain. Erin, I put you in the same league as Katie Melua, Karen Carpenter, etc. Never-the-less, you still can stand alone as a wonderful singer/musician, and, I presume, songwriter. You've knocked me out! I'll be working my way through the rest of your videos. Thanks also to YouTube which has led me down many musical paths during the last few months.

  • marry me?

  • such an amazing job, liked

  • great song... u are amazing... u are too nice... are u so far from italy?

  • Yes, I don´t know if I´ve ever heard a better cover of that song! So beautiful...

  • Woh, great. That has potential to be more intimate and sublime. Definitely don't hide your voice inside so much reverb. I've had a weird fascination about the synaesthesia for a few years now. Interesting and complex stuff, and oddly beautiful too. Keep posting music.

  • oh my god. love it.

  • You know girl... this is really Beautiful ^^

    The best cover of this song ^^

  • esta version creo que nadie la puede mejorar .GRANDISIMA VOZ.

  • ABSOLUTETLY BRILLIANT...

    Absolut Brilliant....ich bin hin und weg, erinmerle, deine Stimme erzeugt eine Gänsehaut bei mir.