However, you'd be better served by admiring this piece of art for what it is: original, melodic and catchy.
I agree with you on your assessment of the other 3, though. Worse than that, though, was the duet of Natalie Cole with her deceased father. That was kitschy, exploitive and stupidly sentimental, IMHO. Uggh!
I call those kinds of duets, "Musical Necrophilia."