Melanie Fiona, sick and stuck in her apartment, does a cover of Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” — the same song Rihanna sung on the “Hope for Haiti” Telethon that aired this past Friday night on a lot of major channels.

While I love Melanie’s voice, I think this is a song that is simple and really doesn’t call for a lot of inflections and rearrangement, but her voice is definitely strong and she shines. While Rihanna is well, Rihanna, I think her version was a bit more true to the original. Clearly, ya’ll know who my vote goes for for Best Female Vocalist betwixt the two of them!

However, ole girl sounds like this when she is sick? LOLOL, clearly there is a disturbance in the Force my children!

There were moments in this acoustic version of “Knocks You Down” when Keri Hilson’s sexiness level increased slightly! Real talk. Keri’s not the worst singer at all, and this song acoustic is MUCH more palatable. And of course, the subtraction of Ne-Yo shoots the comfortability level of my eardrums up 100x fold.

There are some people who don’t like Keri particular, but this was a nice change of pace without all the ghetto/urban posturing, breathless dancing and stage pandering.