I find her really boring, not my cup of tea at all.

Alison Moyet all over again

I'm not a fan, but at least Adele doesn't really do that 'why sing one note, when you can use twelve' approach so beloved of most contemporary female singers. I do agree that her default volume setting is 'loud', rising to 'really belting it out' during a chorus crescendo.

But I've heard both albums and I'd say your assertion that "Everything is full on, belted out at maximum volume" doesn't stand up to close scrutiny.

Exhibit A: Her almost ubiquitous single Someone Like You - a modern classic.

but prefer this version

You are absolutely right. Lovely person and all that but there's nothing interesting there, just nothing...

More connected to her heritage...Adele obviously knows her way around a melody but it doesn't send shivers up my spine..Unlike this..

..in comparing Adele with Sandy Denny.

The really great singers are timeless. Ladies & Gentlemen I give you Miss Sarah Vaughan.

She's no Michelle McManus, is she?

A somewhere between a good and great voice upon which to build a career. Needs to move around a bit on stage and put a bit more personality into her act.

With the right material could become a respected artist over the coming years. Unless I've missed it she doesn't get herself into many scrapes with the media and consequently doesn't have the "character" that the public like to see their stars covered with.

She may never again have the massive chart success that she has inexplicably enjoyed to date, but there is something about her that could mean she is still a topic of conversation in three years time.

I see little or no resemblance to Alison Mo.

... to Ella or Sarah Vaughan sing any day of the week - but I'm an old fart. What Adele's achieved this last year has been remarkable - cracked America, No.1 album, writes her own songs, she can sing, fair play to her I say. She's young and appeals to young people (and old) many of whom have never heard of Sarah, Ella and Sandy?.
I can be shallow with the best of them but comparing her to Alison Moyet - come on.

with a modicum of talent in this country. As soon as you get recognised as a potential major star you are fucked. What is it with us? Give me Adele over Mariah fucking Carey any day. Yes there are loads of female singers I like better but you can't deny her talent and she seems like a decent grounded person as opposed to one of the many stick insect barbie doll look alikes out there.

I don't think she's anything like Alison Moyet. Nor do I think she's a pox on the nation or needs to move around more.

She quite simply leaves me cold.

I've heard a dozen or so tunes and none of them have excited me, simple as that. Admittedly, I'm not much of a pop fan, but I can appreciate a well crafted gem of a tune from time to time (most recently: Video Games) in between the generous lashings of melody free guitar noodlings and squelchy bleepings which form the bedrock of my usual listening.

I don't hate her. But nor do I have any particular desire to hear any more of her stuff. I certainly wouldn't raise my view unless asked: she sits alongside a hundred other artists who ignite in me neither love or loathing.

I do wonder, however, about some of the "why must we build them up only to knock them down" stuff that appears above. Are people not allowed to be indifferent to her, or even possibly dislike her music a little, without there being some sort of agenda at play?

listening to Dylan - so she can't be all bad.

some of my favourite musical acts (Oasis for example), if she is over-rated, it's by the people, not music journalists or their readers. She's obviously striking a chord with millions of people arond the planet, which means there's no agenda. Her popularity is a genuine word of mouth thing, with very little hype, except perhaps the self perpetuatng success story. She speaks to people in a way that Kate Bush, Bjork, Lana De Rey or Robyn never will.

Somehow I've managed to not hear the album. I loved 'Rolling in the Deep' though.

pretty much sums up Adele's appeal in his Word 108 review of her Albert Hall DVD.
My sister's tribe (and therefore me also) were watching this at Xmas on TV.
Not my kind of stuff at all really but she's no flash in the pan. Her talent is obvious and she'll be assured of a good living from her singing as long as she wants it.

I quite liked Hometown Glory, but little else she has done has grabbed me. Was aware of her a few years ago but I'm not clear at what point she suddenly became so popular.

I don't really listen to much "big voice" stuff though, and she's a far better singer than most of those troubling the charts.