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Adele is an award winning British artist who has seemingly come from nowhere to be one of the new wave of female artists achieving worldwide success. I’ve had a bit of a love/hate relationship with her, adoring some songs and disliking others. And now she’s covering Bob Dylan. Wow, those are some big boots to fill.
Having said that, the Dylan song Adele is covering is Make You Feel My Love, a song already covered an inordinate amount of time, including by the likes of Garth Brooks, Billy Joel, and Neil Diamond. So even if she had messed it up, it’s not like she’d have been the first to have done so.
Luckily, the opposite is true, and she has actually done a fantastic job. She’s kept the basic feeling and tone of the song true to the original, but at the same time made it her own. Which is a tough job to do when covering an artist as brilliant as Bob Dylan.
Both the song and video exude simplicity, as you can see after the cut.
Apart from a few odd additions, the song is basically made up of Adele’s voice and a simple piano accompaniment. This allows Adele’s voice to shine through spectacularly. It also allows the words, their meaning and thoughtful tone, to not get lost in the muddle.
The video is also a very simple affair, showing Adele in a hotel room, clearly lonely and pining after a loved one. She texts someone and then spends the rest of the video awaiting a reply. Despite some extreme close-ups, even Adele’s patented turned up face look doesn’t annoy me in this particular video.
Make You Feel My Love may not have been Adele’s song originally, but she has made it her own with this release. It’s one of the best covers, especially of a Dylan song, that I’ve ever heard. It’s out on October 27th in the UK and deserves a high chart placing.
Song: 9/10
Video: 7/10
[Photo Source: Amazon.co.uk]
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