Writing on his website, Joe Jackson does a monthly “blog” talking about some of the music that he’s listening to.

His current prose covers the latest Adele single “Hello”. Maybe a little surprising coming from Joe Jackson but I think he’s got it bang on….

“ADELE: Hello

By the time you read this, Adele’s new album will have been released, and there will be no escape. There will be no remote Pacific island, no benighted Congo village, no igloo in Greenland, where it won’t be on the radio every hour. The statistics will pile on top of the already staggering ones she amassed the last time around. The number of audiocassettes sold in Indonesia alone, if placed end to end, would stretch all the way to the planet Neptune, etc etc.

More power to her, I say. While one person sneers (on principle!) at popularity and embraces anything obscure, another does the exact opposite – and they’re both wrong. Sometimes an artist comes along who is both popular and really good. What do you say to that, eh, you clever bastards?

I first heard this song in a supermarket in Antwerp and thought, that must be Adele’s new single, it » Continue Reading.