Can background music make and break a song?

[Scarlett.]

I am wondering cause, I recently listened to the song below of Leona Lewis singing "Bleeding Love" along to the background music of Robbie's "Feel" and it made me like the song, however I hated the original....:shrug:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DLgObn7e7JQ

[Matt]

You just like it more because it involves a Robbie Williams song :tongue::laugh:

[Scarlett.]

Nah, honestly, its only the tune of Robbie, and not him singing

[xDramatick]

I do agree.
Sometimes I hear a good vocal in a song, and then hate the backing track.
Take 'Bittersweet World' by Ashlee Simpson for example, love the song anyway, the vocal's great but the backing track is waay too beat-based/urban [almost jokey] for my liking.