Hi! ...and welcome to the RMF!
I'd never heard of her, so I just watched the video for
Sweet About Me from that link you posted.
Here's my official RMF review of Gabriella Cilmi, just for you...
I've got to say, compared to a lot of pop music, it's not too bad... there's certainly a lot of potential there, but it appears to me that the label and producer had too much say in her "sound" for my liking. They seem to have placed the emphasis on making her fit in with modern pop trends and ignored her
actual strengths.
Voice: This is a case-in-point for me. She's reasonable enough in the bits where she stops putting on
The Whinehouse Effect - you can hear that under the neuveau-pop surface she can probably actually belt them out with the best of them. It's a shame that her label / producer have made her to sing in that Winehouse-esque pseudo-Anastasia post-Gabrielle half-throaty-and-half-nasally style, because it's certainly not her natural voice - you can tell in the bridge sections where she almost lets herself sing properly. Macy Gray opened a door a few years ago, showing the labels that this kind of voice had a market, and since then every other "alternative pop" vocalist seems to have this same croaky edge. The majors are doing the same thing to this sound that they did do indie music in the mid-90's - taking a tiny part of what makes it "good" and exploiting it by papering over the cracks of bad pop music with this new sound to market the same tired old crap with a new wrapper. Such a shame. Such is the modern pop industry. And they wonder why there's so many music pirates out there.
The band: Real instruments played by decent session musicians, but the whole thing's just a bit too... "poptastic" for my liking. With the wealth of talent at her fingertips, having a band full of session musicians of obvious skill, and yet the song is a formulaic 4-chord stumbler. She probably has to kick them during performances to keep them awake.
Hit / Miss? Miss for now, but a definite "wait and see".... if she gets enough limelight from this album, she will have more sway with the label for her "sound" for the 2nd album, and hopefully she'll let her musicians have more input for the song structures and start singing with her real voice, and who knows, maybe, just maybe she'll fulfill her Real Music potential and leave the mindless pop thing behind.
Thanks for the recommendation, anyway. I hope you're not offended by my opinion, but if you are, feel free to stick around and tell me why... or to recommend more music or request recommendations from other posters.
I can't help thinking you're just an SEO spammer from either her label or VH1 though.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
It's opinions that will make the RMF great - not just my opinion, but the opinions of all posters, yours included.
Best regards, and I hope you stick around,
Muso
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If i find new music, i'll be sure to let you know 
I also like Journey. Have you heard the new singer of Journey? He sounds so much like Steve Perry.