Having just heard Adele’s ‘Someone Like You’ for the first time just now (on the news I might add) I would make the following comments:

1. She sings with simple clarity which I think is refreshing and probably the source of her appeal

2. She sings with a bizarre American accent for some reason, which sometimes lapses even into a Deep South drawl

3. The lyrics seem to betray a rather unhealthy approach to processing feelings after a break-up IMHO

4. Adele addresses the ex-partner in the song with impressively believable sentiment,  convincing me he is a real person

5. It would have been better comedically, though perhaps not musically or financially, to write a song to him entitled: ‘I am now rich as Croesus and you are still working in JD Sports in Tottenham, you fuck” or just simply: “Some Fuck Like You”