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If I hear “Hello” one more time...... I just can’t take it. Adele doesn’t sing; she wails. I can think of any number of female vocalists that I prefer. Someone like Karen Carpenter comes to mind immediately.

I'll give Adele her due, she's an awesome vocalist. I try not to let an artist's political beliefs affect my appreciation of their art but I do draw the line somewhere around Barbara Streisand and Dixie Chicks. So there is a point where an artists politics, or rather their insistence to ram it down our throats, is so detestable to me that I remove their catalog from my iTunes folder.

Good case of this is with Bruce Springsteen who is one of the best songwriter/performers this nation has ever produced. And I think you needed to have been to one of his four-hour concerts in the 1970s and 80s to really understand that. Unfortunately he started polluting his concert performances with political statements in between songs (Bono from U2 did that also) and I never had a desire to buy a Springsteen concert ticket again.

However, if not for the politics, I think Springsteen would be a favorite here on FR because his songs speak to Americana and the quality of his songwriting and performances are unassailable.