Time To Believe The Hype
Seemingly coming out of nowhere, Adele is the latest music darling that everyone and their grandmother is claiming to have been in love with and known about when she was a nobody playing gigs in pub bathrooms, before she had won a Brit award and been touted as this year’s Amy Winehouse minus the tattoos, drink problems, police dramas … oh you get the idea. Remove the hype though and what we have is a 19 year old Tottenham born girl with a voice that is huskily thick that oozes a sweet soulful essence that sounds so much older than her years as ‘Chasing Pavements’ reveals relationship sorrows sweeping past with grand string accompaniment to give it that extra touch of broken hearted clout. Striving for epic status, ‘Chasing Pavements’ perfectly displays the softness of Adele’s voice mingled amongst her soulful core to create a breathtaking single that is unapologetically absorbing. As uplifting as it is heart wrenching, ‘Chasing Pavements’ proves that sometimes there is truth behind all that hype.