i've been hearing sooooo much about this girl adele...

...i suppose its not that i've been hearing about her as much as it is actually hearing her that has finally gotten to me.

i love bob dylan. i love his time out of mind record more than any of his other records. i love the song to make you feel my love when he sings it better than when anyone else does - kind of in the nick cave/shane macgowan singing its a wonderful world sort of way - and adele covered it, but i'll forgive her for that - however, there is something i cannot forgive her for, and that is the song chasing pavements.

i heard it once and i thought it was catchy. i don't think the lyrics are magnificent, but i don't think they are terrible. but then, this adele character is taking down all these grammy awards and is on the tip of every tongue in manhattan - also on every xm radio station, every website, every open window in the lower east side, and its getting a bit excessive.

after hearing it once, as i said, i thought it was catchy, then i kept hearing it and there was something about it that i just couldn't stand so i did my research and i put it all together and i realized the problem - adele, i know you're not sure if you should give up or if you should just keep chasing pavements, but every believable ounce, all the weight of each of the words and everything catchy and melodic about line is completely lost when you repeat it 15 times in a 3 minute song. thats once every 12 seconds.

now as i mentioned before, i love bob dylan but part of that love is that his lyrics carry so much weight by both the placement and sparse nature of his great lines. so, in like a rolling stone when he sings, "when you ain't got nothing you got nothing to lose", this great line is said only once in the middle of an already great song. i could argue that the entire song is based around that line, but then if you counter argued we could at least likely settle that the line is perfectly set up through the entire song and when he sings it only once... it's perfect.

dylan also has these songs where he repeats a certain line at the end of each turn around - a great example would be the song to make you feel my love that was already mentioned here. in that tune he keeps saying, "to make you feel my love", but when he does this in songs, and he does it a lot, (listen to love and theft - or more specifically this song - ) every time whatever the line is drops it seems to get heavier and heavier. selah.

i don't love adele, i'm not going to lie. and its not that i hate her, but if i buy a copy of this record its likely for a christian cd burning (not to be mistaken for a christian cd burning*) but she's doing a good thing, and i think aspiring to be bob dylan is too lofty for nearly all songwriters, so maybe she should just do an investigation of why angels by robbie williams is sooooooooooooooo good.


* arrested development forever.