to shout at Adele.......

I think it's a hard syllable to sing, particularly for a Londoner. The "l" sound kind of stops in the mouth.

Tony Hadley used to do it on "Gold" - indestructable came out as indestrucabooooo....his accent, I suppose. Irritated the hell out of me, for some reason.

Regional accent, I mean - Totteham.

No. I think it's just her accent.

I must listen to that song again, for the tumboos bit, does she maybe have a speech impediment?

I think Adele is very talented . she lives me goose bumps with her haunting voice. I don't think it would suit happy, poppy songs. I often listen to the last album. Good to hear her back for a while.

Yes, it was OK, except for the 'when it tumbles' line sounding like 'when it tumboos'. It really irritated me, you'd think that for such a high-profile song someone would have made sure she got it right!

Really don't know much about her, but didn't she sing the title song for the Bond movie Skyfall? which I thought was brilliant.

I quite like some of her songs too but there seems to be little light and shade in her delivery of them. I have heard more subtle and moving renditions of some of her well known songs.

I went off her anyway when she complained about paying tax.

Marmark1. Awful woman? You know her personally?

I love her voice and her individual style. As Iam says it's good she's not from the usual mould.
But I commented to DH that that green and gold brocade dress she's worn a couple of times looks like her grannies curtains.

I have only one favourite "set fire to the rain" the remix version....although I like her voice I do find her songs quite depressing.....she reminds me of Alison Moyet and I cannot stand Hello the latest it has to be turned off until it has finished

I quite like some of Adele's songs and I think she will get better BUT I was in a hairdressers once who played the one I call her 'miserable' album on a loop - I felt depressed when I got out of there.

Mmmm....I'd put her above the likes of Rihanna, Britney et al, but perhaps below Amy W, who in my view had originality and an edge that made her stand out. To my mind, Adele's songs are too formulaic to be considered great, and her voice, whilst ok, is not great either. I like her look but I don't think that's important anyway as a musician. Her songs are bland but well-produced. I'd put her on my "perhaps later" pile of cds, but I can kind of understand her popularity. She has a kind of mass appeal, and perhaps that's enough. She writes her own songs and sings them from the heart. She has a personality that appeals.

Great though? No, not in my view anyway.

That's a dismissive way to describe Adele, who is a real talent. One of the things to admire about her is the fact she has her own look and doesn't follow the over made up, skinny, big bottomed/big breasts look that so many young women seem driven to aspire towards. Go Adele

I don't get her at all. Nice enough voice but nothing special and her hair, make up and clothes always look so middle aged,

I like Adele. Great girl, very funny and she has written and sung some brilliant songs. Her album is on my Christmas list.

She can do anything she likes. She's great. I can still remember the first time I saw her in 2008.

Great voiceimo

Never mind I'll find someone like you, was her last 'hit'

Never mind what?

Never Mind !

Did she used to do the song about "chasing pavements"? I always associated it with debt collectors as I thought she was singing about "chasing payments" [confuse]

(in her songs, I mean, I don't care how she talks in real life!)

I do like some of her songs, and admire her as a songwriter, but it really irritates me the way she pronounces words such as 'table' as 'tayboo'...

Not my cup of tea,far too depressing