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Adele vs Duffy: who's best?

  • January 10, 2008
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These brilliant, made-for-Jools singer song­writers with one name are both hotly tipped by people whose tips for 2008 are based entirely on which press releases they've received for records coming out in the next few months.

But who's best?

  ADELE DUFFY
One word name Adele Duffy
Best song 'Chasing Pavements'  'Warwick Avenue'
What they say "As soon as I got a micro­phone in my hand, when I was about 14, I realised I wanted to do this." "I don't think I can remember life without singing so I don't know how I started."
Influences Jill Scott, Etta James, Billy Bragg, Peggy Lee, Jeff Buckley and The Cure. Patsy Cline: amazing.
Can you dance to her music? No No
Boringness 22% 68%
Welshness 0% 100%
Ability to win pub brawl 81% 12%
Vocal ability A+ B-
Hair C- C+
Capacity for booze 89% 56%
Tendency towards black and white pho­to­graphy   61% 98% 
Tendency towards carefully lit pho­to­graphy  91%  42% 
Are they going to release any amazing poppers o'clock remixes
of
their songs? 
Probably not. Highly unlikely.
Are they better than Foals?  Maybe No
Chances of going totally off the
rails and pissing everything up
the wall
 67%  1%
Will their second album be better than their first?  Yes No
Would they have been signed if
Amy Winehouse hadn't broken through? 
Yes, but would have been a harder sell Yes, artists like this are signed about 80 times a year
Likelihood of being mean about Girls Aloud 50% 22%
Likelihood of saying anything inter­est­ing at all in entire album campaign 100% 19%
Largely irrel­ev­ant elephants in
room not expli­citly acknow­ledged
by media coverage
Not slim Fit
Chance of million-selling greatest hits in six years 49% 12%
Do they own a dog? Unknown Unknown


And the winner is…

Who cares — when's the bloody Ashlee Simpson single being released in the UK?


httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5UoVKV1VsY

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