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Trent Harmon, "You Got 'Em All"
A power ballad with all the blockbuster bluster of an American Idol coronation song, "You Got 'Em All" finds Idol champ Trent Harmon swinging for the country-pop fences. The song starts off quietly, building from a stripped-down, piano-led arrangement into a colossal production. All the usual hallmarks of a radio hit are here, but it's Harmon's voice – a genuinely emotive, elastic instrument – that gives "You Got 'Em All" its human heart. R.C.