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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWatching all these singing contests, I'm noticing that everybody is being compared to Adele.
"You had that Adele thing, going" or "we know you can hit the Adele notes."
Just what did they call it before Adele came around?
rocktivity
(44,577 posts)British white women who sound a little like American black ones.
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undeterred
(34,658 posts)well, no they never called it that
nolabear
(41,987 posts)marmar
(77,084 posts)I think she's a good singer, but I don't get the hype.
Orrex
(63,216 posts)jmowreader
(50,560 posts)Got news for y'all: I don't care how beautiful your voice is, if all you use it for is singing songs about your shitty love life I am not going to buy your records or listen to them on the radio.
Keystone Writer
(65 posts)It was about making love in weird places, with weird people. Like the telephone man, or in the afternoon.
It was about imagining a world without hate.
I do hear throw-backs that hit all the elements, sometimes. But not often.
mikeytherat
(6,829 posts)no wonder she loses her voice all the time.
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Myrina
(12,296 posts)Alison Moyet, 1985 .... precursor to Adele.
Too bad it took us 25 years to accept a less-than-praying-mantis-thin woman as a 'star'.
Keystone Writer
(65 posts)That was a treat.