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Objective opinions? I'm would base this on vocals since that's what a pop artist brings and don't read this as a cover versus original poll. It's not! Just chime in what side of the coin the cover comes up on!
Isn't "Babe I'm going to leave you" an old folk song rather than a "Led Zeppelin song"?
(Her version is clearly based on Jimmy Page's arrangement though, so I guess I just wanted to point that out needlessly.)
None of the 3 options really quite fits for me. I think that she did a good job, but I'm not surprised by it. Miley was and still is a good singer (when she wants to be), she just happens to catch mainstream limelight as a goofball both with her on-stage antics as well as her drastic change in appearance and some of the really off-the-wall comments she happens to make. But, yeah, she CAN sing.
To me, I don't think it could possibly be called sacrilege because she stayed very true to the Zeppelin version of the song. Had she gone off on some weird pop-oriented banter in the song, then yeah, I'd go that route, but she didn't. She stayed VERY true to the Zeppelin recording.