Gloria Gaynor meets Dusty Sprigfield, soulful british white girl, bringing empowerment and strength to a failed relationship. Adele has one of the best, sexiest, saddest, most powerful and soulful voices in music today. She was rewarded for that fact when he debut album, 19, was commercially successful, with grammy awards and a performance on Saturday Night Live. Indie lovers and soccer moms could both find something to love in Adele, that voice crosses boundaries. Adele’s sophomore release, 21, will only bring her a larger fan base with a diverse but fitting group of producers and songwriters helping Adele share her heartbreak and soul. Rick Rubin, Ryan Tedder, and Greg Wells are some of the writers/producers on the LP, and the mix of mainstream ballad pop, country, soul, and hints of Motown all complement her voice warmly. The album can be played in full, not always the case in today’s music industry, especially with breakup/ballad driven albums, but this album can be, the use of various writers and producers working alongside Adele allow the album to feel diverse but still a whole, an album. It could be up there on my break up album list too, alongside the best such as Fiona Apple’s Extraordinary Machine and Joni Mitchell’s ultimate break up album, Blue. (