Introducing Adele

I am a huge fan of music, especially female singer-songwriters. As I begin to roll out the interviews with the people that inspire me creatively, I'll just warn you right now that a lot of them are girls with guitars. I make no apologies for that.
I'm also a big fan of discovering new music. I rarely listen to the radio and it because of services like www.pandora.com that my Amazon wish list is 11 pages long for CDs alone. If you're not familiar with Pandora and you love you music, you need to acquaint yourself. Basically, you log in, you type in the name of a favorite song or artist and then a free radio station is generated that matches that style or artist. And each song they play has a hyperlink to the album on Amazon and iTunes. This would be why I get in trouble.
This is a bit of a sidebar because I discovered Adele in a much different way. I had read that you could hear the entirety of Alanis Morrissette's new album on VH1.com before it was released in stores. Going back to my love of female singer-songwriters, I, of course, wanted to hear it. Yes, in fact, it was there. Yes, in fact, I bought it. But it didn't stop there.
Among the videos of artists You Outta Know was a woman named Adele with a song called Chasing Pavement. Curious enough title. So I played the video. Instantly blown away.
A smoky voice with gut wrenching delivery and a video with a brilliantly told story. Add to that a comment I read by Adele when I researched her more. Of course, I cannot find the comment again in order to quote her correctly but, essentially she was talking about being stressed out and eating to deal with it. When asked if she was nervous about her weight in the entertainment industry, she responded (paraphrasing) "I'm here to sing, not to look pretty for you." She's only 19 years old. If she can hold on to that attitude, she's gonna be just fine.
It goes without saying, Alanis wasn't the only album I bought that day. And, honestly, I fear the Alanis album will discover the beauty of dust long before Adele's record will.