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Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0
This is a perfect single !!! My brother played me this a couple of weeks ago and I was blown away! I am amazed at the other reviewers of this single who complain it doesn't go anywhere. Where exactly do you want it to go? For me it goes where it has to go, which for me is the land of the perfectly constructed pop single, where things are powerful, emotive, uplifting, poignant. In my ever so humble opinion the perfect single is the art of the distillation of beauty in a song and I think that this is a perfect example of... more info
'Monotonous' The biggest problem with 'Hometown Glory', is that it just doesn't progress. From the initially interesting piano intro, the song quickly goes nowhere and though Adele does an admirable job to try and inject some feeling into the lyrics, the song swiftly becomes monotonous. I guess this was meant to be a plaintive ballad anyway but, rather like 'Tracy Chapman's guitar riff on 'Fast Car' you soon find yourself getting frustrated that musically the song fails to develop. 'Fast Car' DID eventually break into a... more info
Help!!! Is it really this woman again? What is she up to now? Another attempt at singing? This will go the same way as her last single, it will bomb! I walked into Zavvi last week and whilst gazing at the new releases I suddenly focused on this and I thought to myself...what the flaming hell is this `face` staring at me...I ran a mile and was sooo relieved I didn`t purchase it. I did manage to buy a couple of other `quality` singles and they were...Ting Tings and Sara Bareilles but had to edge round this... more info
