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The Great White Hype: Adele's 19

Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, March 2008

SOME DAYS it feels like we've time-traveled back to the early Eighties, when every other month coughed up a new BEST WHITE SOUL VOICE YOU'VE NEVER HEARD, a boy or girl who'd in due course turn out to be JUST ANOTHER CRAVENLY AMBITIOUS POP STAR YOU WISHED WOULD GO AWAY.

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